Top 272 Few People Quotes

There’s very few people – like Shakespeare – who, no matter what, were gonna do what they did. For the rest of us, there’s a lot of events that have to happen in order for things to end up the way they are.
Oscar Isaac
The beauty of Bumble and this world of online connecting is it gives you access. Going down to the bar, what is your access? What is the access you’re gaining there? Really, only a few people.
Whitney Wolfe Herd
I always wanted so much glamour in my life, so I have always been obsessed with class, and from dating a few people who were from old money and a few from new money in my 20s, I just sort of became obsessed with this idea of clueless rich people.
Natasha Leggero
The Internet is changing what entertainment and sports is. It’s not just a few people authoring an experience for others. It’s really growing out of what everybody does.
Gabe Newell
The difference between a stranger sending you a message that you might be interested in at a very low volume level, no repetition, just sending it to very few people, and that being done as spam – those things get close enough that you want to be careful never to filter out something that’s legitimate.
Bill Gates
You measure a government by how few people need help.
Patricia Schroeder
It is almost impossible to orchestrate the farewell you desire. That is something only a few people manage to do.
Edwin van der Sar
You have to imagine you write a show about a sponge and you think that maybe a few people will think it is funny, some college students, but it takes off. It is truly shocking – to the point where it is bizarre.
Stephen Hillenburg
Some of the greatest works of theater, from Chekov’s work to modern playwrights’, consist of just a few people in a room with no one leaving.
Adam Rapp
There’s always those few people that are like, ‘Why don’t you play any of the material off your first two records?’ And I’m like, ‘For the same reason that I don’t play with G.I. Joe dolls anymore.’ It’s like, ‘I’m a grown-up.’ I wrote that music when I was a kid.
John Rzeznik
Very few people know that I am an avid and passionate traveller.
Zareen Khan
We are closer to the ants than to the butterflies. Very few people can endure much leisure.
Gerald Brenan
When you’re running a company, creating jobs is the last thing you want to. When you’re running a company you want to employ as few people as possible, and yet you inadvertently create jobs.
Robert Metcalfe
Rick Rubin is super intriguing to me because he has become this god producer in completely drastically different genres, which very few people have done.
Ryan Lewis
Whether you reach a lot of people or have a profound impact on a few people, their memories of you are your afterlife.
Greg Graffin
I do send out information about my books. Very few people buy the books that way, but I always feel that if they want to know more about the process, they can get the information from my books.
Richard Curtis
There’s very few people that ever have a chance to become World Heavyweight Champion.
Christian Cage
An individual developer like me cares about writing the new code and making it as interesting and efficient as possible. But very few people want to do the testing.
Linus Torvalds
Marie Curie is my hero. Few people have accomplished something so rare – changing science. And as hard as that is, she had to do it against the tide of the culture at the time – the prejudice against her as a foreigner, because she was born in Poland and worked in France. And the prejudice against her as a woman.
Alan Alda
Few people in contemporary art demonstrate much curiosity. The majority spend their days blathering on, rather than trying to work out why one artist is more interesting than another, or why one picture works and another doesn’t.
Charles Saatchi
There really have only ever been a few people in each generation who step out, are willing to put themselves on the line, and risk everything for their beliefs.
Wynton Marsalis
Election Day outside of big cities is different. For one thing, there are so few people in my town that each individual vote really does matter, and several local races have been decided by as many votes as you can count on one hand.
Susan Orlean
Think about it: If you don’t have any actual, tangible skills, then how can you do anything? You may be laughing and nodding, but do you realize how few people, when asked the basic question, ‘What can you do?’ stumble on the answer and have nothing to say? Most people.
Tucker Max
Only few people have same level as Iron Sheik – the Brock Lesnar and the Kurt Angle. Back in the day, they both be good opponent for me. They know I could break their ankle if I want.
The Iron Sheik
Too few people in my old field of financial services were ever brought to book for their part in the 2008 crash.
Andrea Leadsom
Advertisers don’t want to put their ads next to the investigative story; it’s extremely difficult to do that. And very few people today actually read those serious news stories on the Web now.
Pierre Omidyar
In my generation, except for a few people who’d gone into banking or nursing or something like that, middle-class women didn’t have careers. You were to marry and have children and be a nice mother. You didn’t go out and do anything. I found that I got restless.
Julia Child
‘The HoneyLine’ is my web site and TV segments that were birthed out of the stark reality that we all need a few people to help navigate this life.
Gabrielle Reece
For so long, I looked at myself as literally a kid who was talented who would go up and down the pool. That’s it. Nothing else. Very few people knew who I really was.
Michael Phelps
Some women are naturally thin. But there needs to be an appreciation for a variety of types of women because we don’t all come in one package. We’re not pre-destined to all be a size six. It’s very hard for a large group of women to maintain a thinness which is, after all, only natural to a few people.
Andie MacDowell
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‘Strictly’ is a bit like scoring the winning goal in the FA Cup Final or sinking the final putt in the Ryder Cup – only a few people get the opportunity to do it, and they have got to be famous.
Anton du Beke
The desire definitely comes from within. There are only a few people who make it to this level and those are the ones who have that innate desire.
Ashton Eaton
After doing the first couple scenes and I got used to being in front of a few people it got easier and easier. In Chasing Amy, I wasn’t nervous at all. And in Dogma, the same.
Jason Mewes
Few people understand the magnitude of the catastrophe that happened late in the 1980s when the Communist Party had failed to modernize the Soviet Union.
Vladimir Putin
In Israel, there is this reduction of the political discourse to something that is very limited. It’s as if you have that pitch that only dogs can hear. Sometimes I feel I speak at such a pitch that very few people around me communicate with what I’m saying.
Etgar Keret
People talk about the pain of writing, but very few people talk about the pleasure and satisfaction.
Paul Theroux
Generally, with films, what tends to happen is that a few people get a lot of momentum out of it, and a lot of people don’t.
Miranda Otto
Yes, the car is still useful – for a few people it’s essential. It would make a good servant. But it has become our master, and it spoils everything it touches.
George Monbiot
Well, user feedback was excellent. Even when the software didn’t work at all, there were few people who were avid users, and there were people who were just sending excellent feedback and excellent ideas.
Shawn Fanning
Very few people took sordid things and made comedies out of them.
Paul Morrissey
Few people think about politics every day. But they are in the market every day.
Margrethe Vestager
There are very few people I would trust to look after my children.
Louise Nurding
There was a time when history was written by a few people, the winners. Now, history is written by all of us all the time… That’s the thing we keep telling our 14-year-olds, you know: anything you do right now, it’s not going anywhere.
Eric McCormack
Meetings should have as few people as possible, but all the right people.
Charles W. Scharf
You must be one of the few people with a copy of that. I don’t think they printed too many.
Chow Yun-Fat
For him to have understood me would have meant reorganizing his thinking… giving up his intellectual ballast, and few people are willing to risk such a radical move.
Edward T. Hall
Very few people live in the same house they move into when they’re married or the same neighborhood when they’re married. Very few people certainly live in the neighborhood they grew up in.
Mike Barnicle
Bobby was one of the few people I had ever known who really wanted to do something for me.
Julie London
I think I’m one of the few people who have experienced New Jersey becoming fashionable twice in a lifetime.
Steven Van Zandt
I probably have taught a few people a lesson when it comes to opening their mouth and maybe thinking before you speak.
Liz Cambage
There is a tendency of people to try to make you believe only a few people are smart. As a brain surgeon, I know better than that.
Ben Carson
Everybody loves animals, but there is this special bond that few people have with animals and with nature.
Abhishek Banerjee
Daniel Bryan is one of the few people in the world I would stand toe-to-toe with in any situation and know that we would do the same for me.
William Regal
You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough! You must take action.
Tony Robbins