Top 100 Very Few Quotes
#1. The best books are not read even by those who are called good readers. What does our Concord culture amount to? There is in this town, with a very few exceptions, no taste for the best or for very good books even in English literature, whose words all can read and spell.
Henry David Thoreau
#2. Very few designers today design - it's very important to be able to do your own sketch on paper and then explain [your vision] to the fabric cutters. Instead, lots of designers drape - it's the new way.
Valentino Garavani
#3. In American math classes, we teach a lot of concepts poorly over many years. In the Asian systems they teach you very few concepts very well over a few years.
Bill Gates
#4. Hank Cochran was a man of very few words, but certainly the words that he chose were the right ones to use.
Jamey Johnson
#5. My personal feelings are my personal feelings. I don't want to express them with anyone except for a very few people. It doesn't do any good. It really doesn't.
Tom Brady
#6. Very few people can communicate with one another. The only language that's not subject to interpretation is mathematics, chemistry, basic science, engineering principles, and applied agriculture. But other than that, many systems today are subject to interpretation.
Jacque Fresco
#7. We don't love each other; we love the idea we have of each other. Very few humans understand this or can bear to contemplate it. They have blind faith in their own powers of creation. All love, ultimately, is self-love.
Robert Galbraith
#8. Almost everybody considers himself capable of thinking and, to a certain degree, whether right or wrong, really does think. Very few, on the contrary, can fancy themselves poets or artists in words. But from the moment when thought won out over style, the mob invaded the novel.
Albert Camus
#9. I have very few friends. I have a handful of close friends, and I have my family, and I haven't known life to be any happier.
Brad Pitt
#10. Very few people are acquainted with death. They undergo it, commonly, not so much out of resolution as custom and insensitivity; and most men die because they cannot help it.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
#11. Of all the communities available to us, there is not one I would want to devote myself to except for the society of the true seekers, which has very few living members at any one time.
Albert Einstein
#13. It's the hardest thing for an actor not to speak because you take away their main tool. So for an actor, it's very frustrating and very challenging, and very few people can pull it off. Some actors can say a thousand words with just a look, and it's a unique gift.
Nicolas Winding Refn
#14. There are very few ethnic LGBT characters on television, so I am honored to represent them. I love supporting this cause, but it's a big responsibility, and sometimes it's a lot of pressure on me.
Naya Rivera
#15. Very few people in prison have voices that go beyond the wall. It's my job to do the work for them because they have no one.
Mumia Abu-Jamal
#16. Intellectualism came very late to America. That's why Americans are so proud of it. I found very few real intellectuals in America. But there are so many pseudo-intellectuals.
Douglas Sirk
#17. If colleges are going to justify themselves, they are going to have to thrive at those things that require physical proximity. That includes moral and spiritual development. Very few of us cultivate our souls as hermits. We do it through small groups and relationships and in social contexts.
David Brooks
#18. If you have very few experiences in your life, romantically, or whatever you're doing, then of course you're going to talk about those, because there were only a few of them - as opposed to the people who repeat patterns, always at the bar, always with someone, always blah blah blah.
Marnie Stern
#19. In every woman's life there is one real and consuming love. But very few women guess which one it is.
H.L. Mencken
#20. She was accustomed in London to associate only with first-rate people who liked first-rate things, and she knew that there were very, very few first-rate things in the world, and that those were mostly French.
Aldous Huxley
#21. I have, of course, been called many other things. Most of them uncouth, although very few were unearned
Patrick Rothfuss
#22. Very few of the early Italian humanists were really humane.
Irving Babbitt
#23. Variety of men and women here, but very few of them are humans.I am just striving to be a human being in real. !!
Zuhair
#24. None but a people advanced to a high state of moral and intellectual excellence are capable in a civilized condition of forming and maintaining free governments, and among those who are so far advanced, very few indeed have had the good fortune to form constitutions capable of endurance.
John C. Calhoun
#25. How many artists subscribe to the notion that creative success depends on input from the fickle muse or her modern avatar, mental illness? Probably very few.
Kathryn Harrison
#26. Every society needs a cry like that, but only in a very few do they come out with the complete, unvarnished version, which is "Remember-The-Atrocity-Committed-Against-Us-Last-Time-That-Will-Excuse-The-Atrocity-That-We're-About-To-Commit-Today! And So On! Hurrah!
Terry Pratchett
#27. Over a period of time, if you have a successful show, then you have a devoted audience. I feel you owe something to them. That goes for everybody - writers, camera operators, actors, studio executives, etc. Sadly, I've realized it's a responsibility that very few people live up to.
Raymond Burr
#28. I always wanted to direct. Directing is a lot more of a commitment though, a lot more time. I like directors who do very few takes, they know what they want.
Robert De Niro
#29. Very few spiritual or religious masters know that the student is sometimes a teacher because they haven't acquired such level.
Daniel Marques
#30. Cash is the lifeblood of your business. There are very few things in business that will kill you, but running our of cash is one of those things. You can recover from almost any other mistake, but if you run out of cash you're dead.
Robert Herjavec
#31. Very few things hurt my young ego more than an Asian female openly shaming me for my Asian-ness. If she could not accept me, who could? If even Asian women saw the men of their own blood as less than other men, what was the use in arguing otherwise?
Alex Tizon
#32. I have very, very few friends. I live in a very tight circle and emotionally I'm probably not as generous as I once was. In an average week I probably meet 150 new people and that's uncomfortable sometimes.
Veronica Webb
#33. Very few people are conscious of the deeper strata of eternity. The primary reason is either because they lack purity or they lack motivation.
Frederick Lenz
#34. In fact, very few people on the face of the planet know that the very shape of the M25 forms the sigil *odegra* in the language of the Black Priesthood of Ancient Mu, and means 'Hail the Great Beast, Devourer of Worlds'.
Terry Pratchett
#35. Mathematics is very much like poetry ... what makes a good poem
a great poem
is that there is a large amount of thought expressed in very few words. In this sense formulas like
or are poems.
Lipman Bers
#36. Very few plays would work well with an altar as a fixed centerpiece.
Kurt Vonnegut
#37. There are very few misanthropes, thank goodness!
Ivor Novello
#38. Part of the challenge with leadership is that it's very driven by gut instinct in most cases - and even worse, everyone thinks they're really good at it. The reality is that very few people are.
Laszlo Bock
#39. Very few people changed the world by sitting on their couch.
A. J. Jacobs
#40. Comics creators are generally screwed in life: Most of us who are fortunate enough to do comics full time - which is very few of us - will literally draw until we die because we have no employment structures intact for retirement, much less insurance!
Nate Powell
#41. You know, very few people really want to become individuals," he says. "People claim they do, but they don't. They want to retain the invisibility of childhood anonymity forever. But that's not possible except in a police state. In an ordinary life, you have to become yourself.
Charles Baxter
#42. There are a lot of homes for boys, but very few for girls, that is why I chose to do for girls.
Miriam Makeba
#43. I do very few standards. Hardly any. Other people's tunes that I do are usually obscure tunes, for the most part, although I do a couple of Duke Ellington tunes that are well known.
Mose Allison
#44. Sometimes, when very few know the truth, a single person with only the power of a loud voice will be believed even when they lie.
Marty S. Dalton
#45. For almost anyone who chooses to be a writer, since so very few writers are able to learn a living from their work that is equivalent to the living earned by the average dentist or accountant.
Russell Banks
#46. A very few lonely pioneers make their way to high places never before visited ... they create the living conditions of mankind and the majority are living on their work.
Kristian Birkeland
#47. There are plenty of good people, but only a very, very few are precise and disciplined.
Anton Chekhov
#48. Many men can make a fortune but very few can build a family. - J. S. Bryan
Guy Kawasaki
#49. I usually write very few stage directions. I think a lot of that is a waste of time. The art of screenwriting is in its terseness, saying a lot with a little. I have no patience when I read a script where the writer describes this guy and what he's wearing and his glasses and his hair.
Scott Frank
#50. Film is like a colony and there are very few colonists.
Orson Welles
#51. But Zarathustra made it clear in which direction the answer lay; it is towards the artist-psychologist, the intuitional thinker. There are very few such men in the world's literature; the great artists are not thinkers, the great thinkers are seldom artists.
Colin Wilson
#52. I believe that there is truth to be found inside every person, but that very few people find it because it is dark inside, and deeply hidden, and the trees grow thickly.
Kate Elliott
#53. In the very few interviews I've made, it doesn't matter how long we've talked to each other, the headline is still just about my paycheck.
PewDiePie
#54. There's not much you need to know about the world. Except how to use a sword and trust very few.
Melina Marchetta
#55. The chief secret of comfort lies in not suffering trifles to vex us, and in prudently cultivating our undergrowth of small pleasures, since very few great ones, alas! are let on long leases.
Richard Sharp
#56. Very few charter schools are being created in some of the best school districts in the state. If you're an educational innovator, that isn't where the greatest need is.
John Engler
#57. Who wants to see me as Hamlet? Very few. But millions want to see me as Frankenstein so that's the one I do.
Peter Cushing
#58. Very few people mate for life with the people they fall for at twelve. Doesn't mean is isn't real, doesn't mean it doesn't hurt, doesn't mean it doesn't matter, but basically, we're talking a practice swing in the big game of love.
Jennifer Crusie
#59. Afghan women, as a group, I think their suffering has been equaled by very few other groups in recent world history.
Khaled Hosseini
#60. It was a cheap school, you know, and the teachers weren't very good. They could never answer questions properly."
"Very few teachers can," I{Jerry}said.
"Why not? They ought to."
I agreed.
Agatha Christie
#61. All the children of America, up to age seven or eight or nine or ten - they're really great artists. So here we've got this amazing work that very few people pay any attention to, and it's not valued by the culture.
Chris Martin
#62. I go by the role pretty much. And I think the only genre I haven't gotten to do but I'd love to is a western, but no one has ever asked me to do that. Unfortunately they are very few and far between these days, but that is one type of film I'd love to do.
Sam Neill
#63. I love working with Angel Deradoorian, she's a joy to work with. She's fab at singing and she has a real ... she has an understanding that's both intellectual and emotional about singing, that I think that very few people have.
Rostam Batmanglij
#64. A poor spirit is poorer than a poor purse. A very few pounds a year would ease a man of the scandal of avarice.
Jonathan Swift
#65. The key to enlightenment lies in a secret that very few people have ever known, but which Jesus knew well. The way you will experience and feel about yourself is not determined by how other people look at and think about you.
Gary Renard
#66. There were no whys in a person's life, and very few hows. In the end, in search of useful wisdom, you could only come back to the most hackneyed concepts, like kindness, forbearance, infinite self patience.
Chad Harbach
#67. Health brings a freedom very few realise, until they no longer have it
Bronnie Ware
#68. American democracy in the past has always been known for its large middle class and its relatively few very wealthy people and very few very poor people, but that is gone to today and the middle class is shrinking.
Os Guinness
#69. There are too many literati, yet very few are smart; knowledge is acquired far too easily.
Dejan Stojanovic
#70. Belief and faith are great, but very few people have been led astray by thinking for themselves.
Leah Remini
#71. There are very few people on top of life, and the rest of us don't like them very much.
Alan Ayckbourn
#72. Mrs. Postwhistle's theory was that although very few people in this world understood their own business, they understood it better than anyone else could understand it for them. If
Jerome K. Jerome
#73. I love this book! There are very few cookbooks published today that add something truly new and distinctive to the literature of food and cooking. Jennifer McLagan's Fat is a smart, thoughtful book that ultimately asks us to understand our food better.
Michael Ruhlman
#74. Do you ever make silly mistakes? It is one of my very few creative activities.
Len Deighton
#76. Writing really evokes empathy in a way very few things can do.
Erin Gruwell
#77. Very few [doctors] are men of science in any very serious sense; they're men of technique.
Robertson Davies
#78. Girls are important: Remember that very few stories are of great interest without the rustle of a skirt.
Jill Lepore
#79. I see happiness as a by-product. I don't think you can pursue happiness. I think that phrase is one of the very few mistakes the Founding Fathers made.
James Hillman
#80. The joy that compassion brings is one of the best-kept secrets of humanity. It is a secret known only to a very few people, a secret that has to be rediscovered over and over again.
Henri Nouwen
#81. I think, you know, a fellow CEO said to me that the interesting thing about being CEO that's really striking is that you have very few decisions that you need to make, and you need to make them absolutely perfectly.
Marissa Mayer
#82. As an actor, I had noticed very vividly that very few directors know how to direct actors because they haven't done it.
Robin Wright
#83. Chicago has very few public spaces where people are encouraged to get together. It's partly to prevent riots, and also to segregate a city with a history of racial segregation.
Aleksandar Hemon
#84. Acting is a very artistic profession and there are thousands of people out there who think they are actors but there are very few who have real talent.
Wolfgang Puck
#85. There are very few really brilliant men who have not had at least one madman among their ancestors.
Andre Maurois
#86. Broadcasting began, essentially, in the hands of very, very few players - actually two - and when television came along, there were two networks, then three. Rules began to get formulated that essentially protected that concentrated group.
Barry Diller
#87. Very few people change after well say seven or seventeen. Not really. They get more this or more that and of course look a bit different. But inside they are the same.
Jean Rhys
#88. Very few persons go through life without at least one big chance. The fact that so many do not grasp it is due more often to fear than to any other one thing.
Vash Young
#89. There are very few films or plays or anything about really happy people with perfect lives.
Anna Paquin
#90. A great many women can feel and behave like men. Very few of them can behave like gentlemen.
Radclyffe Hall
#91. Very few people have the guts to come up to you and say, 'Hey, are you gay?'
Lance Bass
#92. I still have a lot of faith that there's very few people who are savvy enough to actually produce a good sounding copy of the record.
Jeff Tweedy
#93. France is beautiful. I stood at the bottom of the Eiffel Tower today and looked up at it. There are
very few times in my life I've felt so small. The day I left you was one of them.
I miss you.
Ethan.
Leisa Rayven
#94. To me, the last mile of the Internet that very few people have successfully really done. And this is like micro local. Things that really impact your life. And noone's leveraging that yet.
Sarah Lacy
#95. One of the very few things that I do every single day is put on fragrance. If I'm not wearing make-up, if my hair's not done, if I'm walking around in pyjamas - I still put my fragrance on. I will brush my teeth and put on my perfume.
Blake Lively
#96. It is not possible to be intimate with more than very few, because there are only very few in the world with whom we have practically everything in common.
Thomas Merton
#97. I like very few people nowadays; in fact, the number of persons whom I cordially dislike increases almost hourly.
Georgette Heyer
#98. Bollywood directors are like cricketers where in one match you score a century, and in the next match, you are out for a duck! Moreover, very few directors are consistent in Bollywood.
Sunny Deol
#99. My wife has good taste. She has seen very few of my movies.
Boris Karloff
#100. All Individuals in this world struggle and fight their own battles.Very Few choose to fight the battles worth fighting for.The ones that serve as an instrument of liberation,an instrument of hope and everything that is right with this world.
Mohammad Rafiq Teli
