Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carl Honore

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

Nnedi Okorafor

I think speculative fiction has fewer unspoken prerequisites than literary fiction for writers of color.

Joe Glenn

We're not going to reinvent the wheel. We just have to make fewer errors.

We were trying to do less media and fewer big things. We could have done as much as the first album, but we just turned some down on purpose.

Whether or not wolves had been introduced, you'd have seen fewer elk anyway.

We're making good progress, but we have a ways to go. We are making fewer mistakes, the guys are really hustling and we are getting more confidence.

We're spending more and more money with fewer results.

Robert Reich

As we segregate by income into different communities, schools in lower-income areas have fewer resources than ever.

John Madden

It's been the video game ever since I got out of coaching. Even when I was an announcer, fewer and fewer people remembered me as 'Coach,' and as the years went on, people just started knowing me from the game.

Ray Mabus

On 9/11, 2001, the Navy stood at 316 ships. By 2008, after one of the great military buildups in American history, we were at 278 ships and had 49,000 fewer sailors.

This program is all about giving our kids a healthy start in life. We hope that, by pursuing this option, we'll be able to insure more kids for fewer dollars.

Our country's growing obsession with organized sports isn't just hurting our children, but also our communities. As play is siphoned off to gyms and fields, fewer kids are playing in our streets, parks, and playgrounds.

We are not losing production. We have highly productive operations with fewer employees.

Nancy Gibbs

In sub-Saharan Africa, fewer than 1 in 5 girls make it to secondary school.

Cynthia Kenyon

Just living longer and being sick is the worst. But the idea that you could have fewer diseases, and just have a healthy life and then turn out the lights, that's a good vision to have. And I think what we know about some of these pathways suggests that might be possible.

The man who trusts men will make fewer mistakes than he who distrusts them.

We are seeing on one side fewer layoffs, and on the other side we are seeing a pickup in hiring.

Robert M. Parker, Jr.

Back in 1990, there were fewer than 20 wineries in and around Paso Robles, a farming community midway between San Francisco and Los Angeles. Most of the wines produced there were rustic, highly tannic and alcoholic, with little charm or finesse.

If you have fewer teenagers having children, they could focus more on their vocational development.

Wolfgang Puck

You see fewer and fewer chefs who are really big - most stay in shape.

Didier Drogba

No goals conceded is the most important thing for us. If we want to do the same thing as last year we have to do better than last year and concede fewer goals. I think we can do better than last season.

My understanding is Carroll worked fewer than 1,000 hours and got a watch. There is a security staff of several hundred who are not full-time.

There are fewer seats out there today. There were too many seats in 2004 and 2005.

There are fewer parades, but not greatly fewer.

Alfonso Cuaron

There are fewer established rules in the way you tell a story for commercials than in features. It's a great little short story you get to play with.

More of the same nightmare scenario of fewer orders and fewer sales, but no different to other sectors,

Morale is at an all-time low. Fewer young people are going into teaching.

Naturally, with fewer people, we can't follow up as effectively as we'd like to.

I feel that recording a song already compromises the magical music one can create in the mind, so the fewer people watering down this process the better.

Teju Cole

I'd like to meet fewer people who say 'Oh, I want to write a book, here are 10 pages I've written,' and more 'Oh, I want to write a book, here are 300 pages I've written.'

Michelle Fairley

There are fewer and fewer new roles for actresses as they get older. And that's not right.

Terry Jones

Well, there are getting to be fewer and fewer farms.

Jack is taking fewer shots because of the double-teams. He's doing a good job of finding the open man.