Few Things Quotes (page 9)

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• thinking
• bad
• metaphors

There are few things as toxic as a bad metaphor. You can't think without metaphors. Mary Catherine Bateson

• real
• world
• worlds

There are few things as seemingly untouched by the real world as a child asleep. John Irving

• world
• computer
• computers

Well, we didn't have our original drummer on our last record. And most of that album was not played as a band in the studio. It was mostly the world of computers and overdubs. There was very few things played live or worked out as a band. James Iha

• dance
• ballet dancing
• few

One of the few things in dance to match the Royal Ballet's curtain calls is the Royal Ballet's dancing. Clive Barnes

• matter
• very
• much

Nothing matters very much, and few things matter at all. Arthur Balfour

• eyes
• help
• manly

There are few things more dreadful than dealing with a man who knows he is going under, in his own eyes, and in the eyes of others. Nothing can help that man. What is left of that man flees from what is left of human attention. James A. Baldwin

• feeling
• passion
• help

I just feel passionately about a few things and particularly about helping artists get off the ground. Jane Badler

• contentment
• hard
• pure

There are very few things that are purely conceptual without any hard content. Kevin Bacon

• brother
• writing
• arresting

And then we've got Blades of Glory, and we've got Brothers Solomon, and I've got a script in development with this guy Chuck Martin who used to write on Arrested, and, you know, we have a few things in various stages of development. Will Arnett

• manly
• great
• to live

The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he is willing, in great crises, to give even his life - knowing that under certain conditions it is not worthwhile to live. Aristotle

• death
• lies
• thing

On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done as easily lying down . Woody Allen

• lies
• die
• lie

Dying is one of the few things that can be done as easily lying down. Woody Allen

• lost
• classic
• horse

Things duplicate themselves in Tln; they also tend to grow vague or ‘sketchy,’ and to lose detail when they begin to be forgotten. The classic example is the doorway that continued to exist so long as a certain beggar frequented it, but which was lost to sight when he died. Sometimes a few birds, a horse, have saved the ruins of an amphitheater.' - Jorge Luis Borges, 'Tln, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius. Jorge Luis Borges

• motivational
• motivation
• men

Few men could explain why they enlisted, and if they attempted they might only prove that they had done as a politician said the electorate does, the right thing from the wrong motive. Patrick MacGill

• expectation
• men
• believe

Things that I felt absolutely sure of but a few years ago, I do not believe now. This thought makes me see more clearly how foolish it would be to expect all men to agree with me. Jim Rohn