Very Quotes

Actor's life is very long.

I like the discipline of well-cut, impeccable clothes. I think it's a very healthy discipline.

A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.

Sitting down to eat in our house is about sharing, you know, talking about the day you've had, be it in school or work or whatever, so that's very important to us.

We would very much like to see Iran take a position as a responsible leader that doesn't intimidate or threaten or scare its neighbors and others. But the choice is really up to Iran and we're going to keep working to try to come out with the right decision.

Although I'm living in California, I'm very proud to be British.

All in all, Kirk's character is something I am very proud of.

I think I did very well against everyone who tried to defend me.

I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.

But I also want to have a family with children one day, which is very important to me.

Deep breaths are very helpful at shallow parties.

Life expectancy in many parts of Africa can be something around the age of thirty five to thirty eight. I mean you're very fortunate if you live to that age. In fact when I went to Uganda for the first time one of the things that occurred to me was that I saw very few elderly people.

Falling out of love is very enlightening. For a short while you see the world with new eyes.

You've got to be very careful if you don't know where you are going, because you might not get there.

If you're holding out for universal popularity, I'm afraid you will be in this cabin for a very long time.

Maturity is often more absurd than youth and very frequently is most unjust to youth.

Unfortunately, after Sept. 11, there was an outburst in America of intense suffering and patriotism, and the Bush administration was very shrewd and effective in painting anyone who disagreed with the policies as unpatriotic or even traitorous.

Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from both sides.

The idea of the state is, or should be, a very limited, prescribed idea. The state looks after the defense of the realm, and other matters - raising revenue to pay for things which are for all of us, and so on. That idea has turned turtle now. The state isn't any longer perceived as an institution which exists to serve us.

I was very fortunate to hook up with Jerry in the first place. The network was already committed to doing something with him, so I skipped a couple of hundred steps right there.

If you pretend to be good, the world takes you very seriously. If you pretend to be bad, it doesn't. Such is the astounding stupidity of optimism.

Urdu can not die out because it has very strong roots in Persia. The language itself is not only just the language of the Muslims, but it's also the language of the Hindus.

Hell is an outrage on humanity. When you tell me that your deity made you in his image, I reply that he must have been very ugly.

I don't want to discredit people's individuality, but I think people are pretty much the same. People are very similar.

What if God exists except it turns out he doesn't really like people very much?

The very existence of flame-throwers proves that some time, somewhere, someone said to themselves, You know, I want to set those people over there on fire, but I'm just not close enough to get the job done.

A very Faustian choice is upon us: whether to accept our corrosive and risky behavior as the unavoidable price of population and economic growth, or to take stock of ourselves and search for a new environmental ethic.

I take a very practical view of raising children. I put a sign in each of their rooms: "Checkout Time is 18 years."

A girl didn't get an athletic scholarship until the fall of 1972 for the very first time.

Never invoke the gods unless you really want them to appear. It annoys them very much.