Precious Little Quotes
27 quotes by 26 authors
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When you are older you will understand how precious little things, seemingly of no value in themselves, can be loved and prized above all price…
— Edwin Booth
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There is precious little hope to be got out of whatever keeps us industrious, but there is a chance for us whenever we cease work…
— H. M. Tomlinson
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Studies have consistently shown that financial hardship is the biggest obstacle to heterosexual marriage, yet the Republican leadership has done precious little to help address…
— Kendrick Meek
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English grammar is so complex and confusing for the one very simple reason that its rules and terminology are based on Latin - a language…
— Bill Bryson
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Translation is a disturbing craft because there is precious little certainty about what we are doing, which makes it so difficult in this age of…
— Gregory Rabassa
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If you want to understand your government, don't begin by reading the Constitution. (It conveys precious little of the flavor of today's statecraft.) Instead, read…
— George Will
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English grammar is so complex and confusing for the one very simple reason that its rules and terminology are based on Latin, a language with…
— Bill Bryson
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Of mystery there is no end. Of clarity, there is precious little.
— Leonard Michaels
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The face of the sun is not without expression, but it tells us precious little of what is in its heart.
— Unknown Author
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The short story, I should point out, is perforce a labor of love in today's literary world; there's precious little economic incentive to write one...
— Lawrence Block
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From the moon, the Earth is so small and so fragile, and such a precious little spot in that Universe, that you can block it…
— Rusty Schweickart
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...Conservatives have excellent credentials to speak about human rights. By our efforts, and with precious little help from self-styled liberals, we were largely responsible for…
— Margaret Thatcher
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You may be sure that in this new international system, the American citizen will count for precious little.
— Pat Buchanan
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Recently I was tenderly hugging one of our precious little five-year-old granddaughters and said to her, "I love you, sweetheart." She responded rather blandly: "I…
— Russell M. Nelson
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There is precious little in civilization to appeal to a yeti.
— Edmund Hillary
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I think in vitro is a miracle and it has given me my precious little baby boy.
— Cindy Margolis
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I wanted to be a poet when I was 20; I had no interest in fiction or biography and precious little interest in history, but…
— Peter Ackroyd
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Soon I'll be old and I've done precious little in this world for lack of time. I am always afraid I'll become senile before I've…
— Paul Gauguin
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Wake up! If you knew for certain you had a terminal illness--if you had little time left to live--you would waste precious little of it!…
— Dan Millman
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And exactly how does a miserable face help the war effort?" he asked sharply, his mood beginning to change. "Will a frown bring back the…
— Stuart Hill
Who Wrote These Precious Little Quotes
26 authors contributed a total of 27 Precious Little Quotes, led by these top contributors: