If you can't explain something in a few words, try fewer.
I rewrite a great deal. I'm always fiddling, always changing something. I'll write a few words - then I'll change them. I add. I subtract. I work and fiddle and keep working and fiddling, and I only stop at the deadline.
It takes few words to tell the truth.
The little saying, 'Be still and know that I Am God'. . . contains the entire wisdom of religion in those few words.
My father was a man of few words.
Emphasis must be put on learning: there is no substitute to education. It can be briefly formulated in a few words: always, whatever you do in life, think higher and feel deeper.
The Holy Spirit has a way of His own to say much in few words.
I still understand a few words in life, but I no longer think they make a sentence.
I can look back at my own life and see where a few words of praise have sharply changed my entire future. Can't you say the same thing about your life?
With few words I shall make thee understand my soul.
A wide range of quotations are necessary for the repertoire of a well-rounded speaker. Quotations are able to illustrate in a few words what is difficult to explain in many.
She knew few words and believed in none.
With few words, one can speak the truth.
To be good, and do good, is the whole duty of man comprised in a few words.
Independence is earned by a few words of cheap confidence
Though a man should say but a few words, and his sentences and words be ever so ungrammatical, if he speaks by the power of the Holy Ghost, he will do good.
Once a song and dance man, always a song and dance man. Those few words tell as much about me professionally as there is to tell.
. . . people have founded vast schemes upon a very few words.
The thing about the 600 words, I mean some day, you can do a very, very, very hard day's work and not write a word, just revising, or you would scribble a few words.
My approach is not a scientific approach. For that, we have greater minds than mine. My approach is: I am in the possession of a text, it has survived so many centuries, and it is my task, my pleasure, to try to decipher it and find all the things that have been said about these few words by generations and generations of commentators. That is what I'm doing. I don't innovate anything. I'm just repeating.
