All Quotes

Festive cocktails mean color, lots of color.
‐‐ Danny Meyer

Fettucini alfredo is macaroni and cheese for adults.
‐‐ Mitch Hedberg

Feudal societies don't create great cinema; we have great theatre. The egalitarian societies create great cinema. The Americans, the French. Because equality is sort of what the cinema deals with. It deals with stories which don't fall into 'Everybody in their place and who's who,' and all that. But the theatre's full of that.
‐‐ Brian Cox

Feverishly we cleared away the remaining last scraps of rubbish on the floor of the passage before the doorway, until we had only the clean sealed doorway before us.
‐‐ Howard Carter

Few American presidents are held in higher esteem than Thomas Jefferson. Though historians have scrutinized every phase of his long public career and found him wanting in a number of respects, he holds an unshakable place in the pantheon of American heroes.
‐‐ Robert Dallek

Few American presidents have been unhappier or lonelier in office than Woodrow Wilson.
‐‐ Jill Lepore

Few Americans born after the Civil War know much about war. Real war. War that seeks you out. War that arrives on your doorstep - not once in a blue moon, but once a month or a week or a day.
‐‐ Nick Turse

Few Americans have ever met their Congresspeople. They don't see them at the grocery store; they don't meet them at the bowling alley. They're more likely to see their representatives in photographs from the Daily Grill in Washington, D.C., than at a local town hall.
‐‐ Ben Shapiro

Few Americans realize it, but the United Nations is driving to take control over the Internet. You remember, the folks who want a worldwide income tax and who put Syria and Iran on their Human Rights Committee.
‐‐ Arthur L. Herman

Few and far between are the books you'll cherish, returning to them time and again, to revisit old friends, relive old happiness, and recapture the magic of that first read.
‐‐ Michael A. Stackpole

Few are sufficiently sensible of the importance of that economy in reading which selects, almost exclusively, the very first order of books. Why, except for some special reason, read an inferior book, at the very time you might be reading one of the highest order?
‐‐ John W. Foster

Few are the giants of the soul who actually feel that the human race is their family circle.
‐‐ Freya Stark

Few are there that will leave the secure seclusion of the scholar's life, the peaceful walks of literature and learning, to stand out a target for the criticism of unkind and hostile minds.
‐‐ Felix Adler

Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.
‐‐ Albert Einstein

Few areas which are not publicly owned can boast as many footpaths as the Cuckmere Valley. For a short walk, a footbridge across the river leads back to the little hamlet of Milton Street, where another classic local pub, the Sussex Ox, provides an admirable lunch.
‐‐ David Hewson

Few artists can afford artistic temperament.
‐‐ Mason Cooley

Few bands in hard rock history have been so adept at balancing the awesome and trivial as Van Halen in their prime.
‐‐ Chuck Eddy

Few businessmen are capable of being in politics, they don't understand the democratic process, they have neither the tolerance or the depth it takes. Democracy isn't a business.
‐‐ Malcolm Forbes

Few can believe that suffering, especially by others, is in vain. Anything that is disagreeable must surely have beneficial economic effects.
‐‐ John Kenneth Galbraith

Few can contemplate without a sense of exhilaration the splendid achievements of practical energy and technical skill, which, from the latter part of the seventeenth century, were transforming the face of material civilization, and of which England was the daring, if not too scrupulous, pioneer.
‐‐ E. F. Schumacher

Few characters in history are indispensable.
‐‐ Albert Bushnell Hart

Few companies that installed computers to reduce the employment of clerks have realized their expectations... They now need more, and more expensive clerks even though they call them 'operators' or 'programmers.'
‐‐ Peter Drucker

Few contemporary artists mined the space between the ordinary and the strange better than Orozco did.
‐‐ Jerry Saltz

Few countries have become rich through free-trade, free-market policies, and few ever will.
‐‐ Ha-Joon Chang

Few delights can equal the presence of one whom we trust utterly.
‐‐ George MacDonald

Few developments central to the history of art have been so misrepresented or misunderstood as the brief, brave, glorious, doomed life of the Bauhaus - the epochally influential German art, architecture, crafts, and design school that was founded in Goethe's sleepy hometown of Weimar in 1919.
‐‐ Martin Filler

Few developments in campaigning have been as vilified and misunderstood as independent expenditure PACs, or, as they are colloquially known, super PACs.
‐‐ Bradley A. Smith

Few dramas in American political history remain more riveting than that of Nixon's exit and Mr. Ford's reaction, at first halting and then decisive, to the looming possibility of a former president on criminal trial for months on end.
‐‐ Scott Shane

Few enjoy noisy overcrowded functions. But they are a gesture of goodwill on the part of host or hostess, and also on the part of guests who submit to them.
‐‐ Fannie Hurst

Few enterprises of great labor or hazard would be undertaken if we had not the power of magnifying the advantages we expect from them.
‐‐ Samuel Johnson

Few expected very much of Franklin Roosevelt on Inauguration Day in 1933. Like Barack Obama seventy-six years later, he was succeeding a failed Republican president, and Americans had voted for change. What that change might be Roosevelt never clearly said, probably because he himself didn't know.
‐‐ Russell Baker

Few friendships could survive the moodiness of love affairs.
‐‐ Mason Cooley

Few friendships would survive if each one knew what his friend says of him behind his back.
‐‐ Blaise Pascal

Few girls are as well shaped as a good horse.
‐‐ Hannah Arendt

Few governments in the world, for example, praise human rights more ardently than does the government of France, and few have a worse record of supporting tyrants and killers.
‐‐ Richard Perle

Few great men would have got past personnel.
‐‐ Paul Goodman

Few have been taught to any purpose who have not been their own teachers.
‐‐ Joshua Reynolds

Few ideas work on the first try. Iteration is key to innovation.
‐‐ Sebastian Thrun

Few if any countries understand the growing importance of water as fully as Turkey does.
‐‐ Stephen Kinzer

Few if any teenagers can relate to getting up for school and finding famous comics like Pryor and Williams hanging out in your living room after a hard night of partying. But that's Hollywood.
‐‐ Pauly Shore

Few in the Nineties would have ventured to prophesy that the remote dim singer of the Celtic Twilight would, in a new age, become the leading poet of the English-speaking world. None have disputed the claim of William Butler Yeats to that title.
‐‐ Austin Clarke

Few Indians only had breech cloths, most being wrapped in buffalo robes, otherwise quite naked.
‐‐ Zebulon Pike

Few industries have the ability to transform society like tech, yet too few companies are asking the questions or working on the problems that would create meaningful social change.
‐‐ Mitch Kapor

Few Iranians these days go through the fiction of calling themselves 'Persian.' Calling yourself Persian is a way of distancing themselves from Iran.
‐‐ Reza Aslan

Few learn golf in a lifetime.
‐‐ Grantland Rice

Few living figures could contribute as much as Castro to our understanding of the second half of the 20th century.
‐‐ Stephen Kinzer

Few men are born brave. Many become so through training and force of discipline.
‐‐ Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus

Few men can be said to have inimitable excellencies: let us watch them in their progress from infancy to manhood, and we shall soon be convinced that what they attained was the necessary consequence of the line they pursued, and the means they used.
‐‐ Adam Clarke

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

Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master.
‐‐ Sallust