Many Quotes

I find myself hoping a total end of all the unhappy divisions of mankind by party-spirit, which at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.

I'm a perfectionist. I'm pretty much insatiable. I feel there's so many things I can improve on.

So many times you see beautiful lovemaking scenes with a lot of exposure or an awkward lovemaking scene, but I think it's very rare that you see it private.

I try to give the media as many confusing images as I can to retain my freedom. What's real is for my children and the people I live with.

I've been to Israel many times - I've lost count of how many times.

It is paradoxical that many educators and parents still differentiate between a time for learning and a time for play without seeing the vital connection between them.

Read much, but not many books.

Realistically speaking, I don't know how many more years I will want to be acting or will be invited to be.

In the next decade, I see Spanx going worldwide. Everywhere. No butt left behind. It's going to be all over the world and it's going to be an aspirational brand that transcends categories. There's so many things we can improve upon and make better.

Prejudices are so to speak the mechanical instincts of men: through their prejudices they do without any effort many things they would find too difficult to think through to the point of resolving to do them.

Whoever renders service to many puts himself in line for greatness - great wealth, great return, great satisfaction, great reputation, and great joy.

Happiness is within. It has nothing to do with how much applause you get or how many people praise you. Happiness comes when you believe that you have done something truly meaningful.

If you do not accuse each other, God will not accuse you. If you have no accuser you will enter heaven. What many people call sin is not sin; I do many things to break down superstition, and I will break it down.

I don't want to criticize any other designers, but I have to say that many of the people involved in this industry - directors and producers - are trying to make their games more like movies. They are longing to make movies rather than making videogames.

I've been asked this question so many times, do you feel you need to write a book for adults? No, I don't need to write a book for adults.

The Bible illustrated by Dore occupied many of my hours - and I think probably gave me many nightmares.

The Eskimos had fifty-two names for snow because it was important to them: there ought to be as many for love.

My wardrobe consists of antique clothes, many of my designs, plus shoes and shirts from Brooks Brothers and Paul Stuart.

Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.

I don't have anything saying, 'I'm going to do this many new films, and this many comedies.' But, it's always exciting for me, whenever it is a new character and something I haven't done before, and that's part of what draws me to it.

You have to read scripts and audition and develop relationships. It takes a long time to develop a body of work but over the last 25 years I guess I've done that many movies. In hindsight it may seem effortless, but there's a lot of work that goes into it.

A state arises, as I conceive, out of the needs of mankind; no one is self-sufficing, but all of us have many wants.

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.