Many Quotes

I read a lot of scripts and so many are clearly a knockoff of one familiar genre or another.

Men may know many things by seeing; but no prophet can see before the event, nor what end waits for him.

I've never been pigeonholed and I've experienced so many different kinds of skin - what man will do and won't do, what you should do and shouldn't do. This is what's exciting about being an actor; where philosophy majors sit in classrooms or write books about human behavior, we're actually acting them out in front of cameras.

Unemployment in America today is too high. And part of the reason, unfortunately, is that many companies cannot fill the high-skilled jobs increasingly at risk of going overseas.

There are as many pillows of illusion as flakes in a snow-storm. We wake from one dream into another dream.

There are very many people who read simply to prevent themselves from thinking.

So many gods, so many creeds, so many paths that wind and wind while just the art of being kind is all the sad world needs.

I've had many nicknames over the years: V, Nessa, Nessy Poo, Nessy Bear and Van. Only my parents call me Van, though, and I hate it. I get embarrassed.

There are just so many stories that are buried on family trees.

I believe that being successful means having a balance of success stories across the many areas of your life. You can't truly be considered successful in your business life if your home life is in shambles.

Many Tibetans sacrifice their lives.

So many people prefer to live in drama because it's comfortable. It's like someone staying in a bad marriage or relationship - it's actually easier to stay because they know what to expect every day, versus leaving and not knowing what to expect.

Many who have spent a lifetime in it can tell us less of love than the child that lost a dog yesterday.

I think there are many in the Democratic Party that want immigration to be unsolved issue at least for the time being, because it's more useful as a campaign issue than it is as a solved issue.

I usually write for the individual reader -though I would like to have many such readers. There are some poets who write for people assembled in big rooms, so they can live through something collectively. I prefer my reader to take my poem and have a one-on-one relationship with it.

Indeed, I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.

Many a man thinks he is buying pleasure, when he is really selling himself to it.

My fat cells have a memory like Einstein! I'm proof that surgery is not a magic potion. There are many ways to sabotage it.

They made us many promises, more than I can remember, but they never kept but one; they promised to take our land, and they took it.

I've got so many weaknesses.

I've tried many other hairstyles, but it just doesn't work.

Success in almost any field depends more on energy and drive than it does on intelligence. This explains why we have so many stupid leaders.

Many will view the compromises that will be made during your negotiations as painful concessions. But why not view them as peace offerings, ones that will provide in return the priceless gifts of hope, security and freedom for our children and our children's?

Music makes us want to live. You don't know how many times people have told me that they'd been down and depressed and just wanted to die. But then a special song caught their ear and that helped give them renewed strength. That's the power music has.

Why do you think so many actors are only half-developed people? It's very easy when you're a young actor to have these intense, explosive friendships for short periods of time, because you can control what's shown of you. Then you go on to your next job and reinvent yourself again. I think it's important to find something constant.

I've only slept with men I've been married to. How many women can make that claim?

Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it.

Regulating and taxing marijuana would simultaneously save taxpayers billions of dollars in enforcement and incarceration costs, while providing many billions of dollars in revenue annually.

You have to always continue to strive no matter how hard things get, no matter how troubled you feel. No matter how tough things get, no matter how many times you lose, you keep trying to win.

There are many men of principle in both parties in America, but there is no party of principle.