Nothing has prepared sharks, squid, krill and other sea creatures for industrial-scale extraction that destroys entire ecosystems while targeting a few species.
There are not a lot of places for an actor to explore what it's like to be a woman in her 60s. There aren't any films about it and there very few TV series about it.
I need to be thinking about a few things at once. I think it actually helps because you're cross-fertilizing yourself.
A lot of people desire to go to their next level but only a few are determined to grow to their next level
There must be quite a few things that a hot bath won't cure, but I don't know many of them.
A few heart-whole, sincere, and energetic men and women can do more in a year than a mob in a century.
There are a few very small incompatible changes - I really doubt most people will ever run into them.
I agree with Sophocles: the greatest luck is not to have been born - but, as the joke goes on, very few people succeed in it.
A shocking crime was committed on the unscrupulous initiative of few individuals, with the blessing of more, and amid the passive acquiescence of all.
I've worked in a few sort of 'institutional' theaters - the Royal Shakespeare, the National Theater in England - and they're hopelessly top-heavy with bureaucracy.
Theory is like a book. It's full of meaningless words, a few want to read it and where stays the movie.
Few things are brought to a successful issue by impetuous desire, but most by calm and prudent forethought.
That liberty [is pure] which is to go to all, and not to the few or the rich alone. (to Horatio Gates, 1798)
When I started writing, the first thing that came out was in English. I liked a few French things, but they were very overwhelming.
A playwright must be his own audience. A novelist may lose his readers for a few pages; a playwright never dares lose his audience for a minute.
Unfortunately, very few governments think about youth unemployment when they are drawing up their national plans.
There weren't a lot of action roles growing up - there were a few, maybe, like Wonder Woman, but then it wasn't real action.
I wrote lyrics that were intensely personal to me a few years ago. Maybe people know me better now.
The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them.
I'm enormously proud of the fact that Star Trek has really not just sparked an interest, but encouraged, a few generations of people to go into the sciences.
Growing up in eastern Kentucky like I did, I'm used to having a few guns around to protect me.
