Fewer Quotes

Much better to do fewer things and have time to make the most of them.

I always say to women, 'Take advantage of the fact that you're in the minority, don't see it as a disadvantage. You're that much more unique when there's fewer of you.

What women look for in a man: Breathing, IQ over 80, weight under 550 pounds, fewer than six ex-wives. What men look for in a woman: Pia Zadora as she was ten years ago.

I smile a lot. I heard someone say once that it takes fewer muscles to smile than to frown, so i'm trying it out.

The higher you go, the fewer women there are.

It is easier for a rich person to act on their principles than it is for someone with fewer choices (which is why it is all the more disappointing when a wealthy person plays to the crowd).

Fewer people working means permanently lower tax revenues.

Men who cannot exploit the co-operative benefits derived from institutions in modern knowledge economies are discriminated against by girls and so have fewer children

The money is in television. Books are not the dominant medium of our time, so fewer people will create them. In a sad way, books have become a form of "comfort food" we expect to lull us to sleep.

There are fewer and fewer Jews in Ireland, but we still have one of the most famous Jewish characters in literary history, of course, in Leopold Bloom.

It can be difficult to run your own firm, but the trade off is fewer conflicts and more control.

The U.S. states that allow for citizens' initiatives tend to have fewer laws and lower taxes than the ones that don't. But the beauty of the system is that it encourages the spread of best practice.

If there was a blog with five listeners or viewers, I had to be on it. Now I have to be on fewer media, but more substantive media.

Actors don’t retire. They just get offered fewer roles.

Live with fewer things that have greater meaning.

In the old days people had far fewer channels in which to place their imaginative time. There's definitely more competition for time . . . and yet people seem to be reading [books] as much.

The great thing about having a small family is that there are fewer people to disappoint.

Somewhere like Russia or China, decision-makers have far fewer constraints on acting than in more open systems.

Terrorism kills far fewer people than cigarettes, or alcohol, or car accidents. But we don't see ourselves restructuring society and lives in order to make those threats go away.

When you get back on the field and do things, any doubts you've developed leave. The more consistent you become, the fewer doubts you have.

Great souls are not those who have fewer passions and more virtues than others, but only those who have greater designs.

We need fewer philosophies and more philosophers.

The limitations that we can see of the sexual description of reality are very apparent. Very few men attain enlightenment, even fewer women.

Singles are your safest songs on the records. Ones that piss fewer people off, that appeal more to the masses.

[Behavioral tracking] is an area today that has very few regulations and even fewer rules.

We all know the huge problem there is with entertainment in general leaving out women. Especially as actors, we know there are fewer great parts for women.

It turned out that Democrats did not come out in the numbers they came out for, for Barack Obama. Five million fewer voters than went for Barack Obama back in 2012. So, what went wrong?

I had fewer female clients. I don't know why. It was always the men who chose me. And the ones whose secrets I had to hold. I represented Sophia Loren. She was jailed in Caserta for 17 days.

We have to broaden our appeal to more customers than simply high-end customers. We have to understand that, in the aggregate, there are fewer customers out there, so we have to appeal to them all.

As difficult as it is to eliminate the risk of nuclear warfare, it requires fewer changes to the global economy than does averting or reversing climate change.

Today, American women bear an average of 2.2 children that live to adulthood. Across most of Europe, women bear even fewer young.

The less a tourist knows, the fewer mistakes he need make, for he will not expect himself to explain ignorance.

While there are few problems in today's world that the United States can solve alone, there are even fewer that can be solved without the United States.

Does it make any sense at all that the chair of a national party would want fewer voters to see our candidates?

The number of people who can copulate properly may be few; the number who can write well are infinitely fewer.

Of course men play roles, but women play roles too, blanker ones. They have, in the play of life, fewer good lines.

As I get older, the things I'm sure of become fewer.

The higher the wages the fewer the jobs; the lower the wages the more the jobs.

It's been hard in entertainment as a 45-year-old woman to find jobs. They get fewer and far between if you're older, unless you're one of the few lucky ones who work constantly, like Meryl Streep.

You might be a redneck if a full-grown ostrich has fewer feathers than your cowboy hat.

There are plenty of quacks in the field. Fewer than you'd expect, though still plenty (in alternative medicine).

The movies have got more corporate, they're making fewer movies in general, and those they are making are all $200-$300m tent-pole releases that eat up all the oxygen.

Organization makes a system of many appear fewer.

I will have failed in this if in five years there are not many more people using public transport and far fewer journeys by car. It is a tall order but I want you to hold me to it.

People like head trauma. They love knockouts. The crowd is silent, silent, silent... and then a knockout happens, and everyone goes native. There would be far fewer knockouts without the gloves.

People who want to find a place of rest, want to find an integrated personality, sense of self, want fewer fractures in their lives.

Remember likewise there are persons who love fewer words, an inoffensive sort of people, and who deserve some regard, though of too still and composed tempers for you.

I think that both Bernie [Sanders] and Hillary [Hillary] have highlighted how much, over the last few decades, we have seen the concentration of wealth in fewer and fewer hands.

Kyle had to give her credit; it took skill—plus no heart and a serious abuse of the English language— to break up with someone in fewer than 140 characters.

If the law imposed the death penalty for parking tickets, we'd not only have fewer parking tickets, we'd also have much less driving.