#few

The business, task or object of the scientific study of languages will if possible be 1) to trace the history of all known languages. Naturally this is possible only to a very limited extent and for very few languages. ↗

— Ferdinand de Saussure

#extent #few #history #known #languages

Sometimes I'll go by and there are a couple of swans, the next day it's a few ducks. I'd like to stop there every day for a year and capture how it changes, then put it all together to create an incredible image of a traditional English scene. ↗

— Graeme Le Saux

#changes #couple #create #day #ducks

He that leaveth nothing to chance will do few things ill, but he will do very few things. ↗

— George Savile

#few #few things #ill #nothing #things

Start in a small TV station so you can make all of your embarrassing mistakes early and in front of fewer people! ↗

— Diane Sawyer

#embarrassing #fewer #fewer people #front #make

I've been going to Granada for many years and 12 years ago bought a house a few miles outside the city. ↗

— Alexei Sayle

#been #bought #city #few #going

I avoided nudity unless a film couldn't be told without those scenes. If you look at my films, few of them have that element, yet nudity and male fantasies have become emblematic of my work. ↗

— Greta Scacchi

#become #element #fantasies #few #film

I have invested some money and I have a home, but people don't realise that you might only be working for a few weeks of the year and remain unemployed the rest of the time. ↗

— Greta Scacchi

#home #i #invested #might #money

There is nothing new in the realization that the Constitution sometimes insulates the criminality of a few in order to protect the privacy of us all. ↗

— Antonin Scalia

#criminality #few #new #nothing #nothing new

The impressionists, Debussy, Faure, in France, did take a few steps forward. ↗

— Pierre Schaeffer

#did #few #forward #france #impressionists

Like Leibniz's possible worlds, most men are only equally entitled pretenders to existence. There are few existences. ↗

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

#equally #existence #existences #few #leibniz