Very Quotes

Very notable was his distinction between coarseness and vulgarity, coarseness, revealing something; vulgarity, concealing something.

Honesty is very sexy.

When you're a father in a marriage, you sort of become the mother's assistant. And you sort of get a list from her every day and you run down the list and it feels very much like a chore.

Cricket makes no sense to me. I find it beautiful to watch and I like that they break for tea. That is very cool, but I don't understand. My friends from The Clash tried to explain it years and years ago, but I didn't understand what they were talking about.

I was very much a product of the public-school system. There was only one other kid in my class who had parents not involved in the stock market or law.

Politics are very much like war. We may even have to use poison gas at times.

The British keep employing me, and that makes me like them. It also makes me think they're very intelligent.

A very painful part of being a parent is having really negative feelings about your children when you love them so much.

The husband who decides to surprise his wife is often very much surprised himself.

Well the protester I think is a very powerful thing. It's basically a mechanism of democracy that, along with capitalism, scientific innovation, those things have built the modern world. And it's wonderful that the new tools have empowered that protestor so that state secrets, bad developments are not hidden anymore.

Guilt has very quick ears to an accusation.

I found leaving Manchester United very, very hard.

It is a revenge the devil sometimes takes upon the virtuous, that he entraps them by the force of the very passion they have suppressed and think themselves superior to.

Even as kids reach adolescence, they need more than ever for us to watch over them. Adolescence is not about letting go. It's about hanging on during a very bumpy ride.

The world is always ready to receive talent with open arms. Very often it does not know what to do with genius.

I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.

Being unemployed is not good for an actor. No, it isn't, no matter how unsuccessful you are. Because you always remember getting fired from all the restaurants. You remember that stuff very, very strongly.

I think they say that when you're breast feeding, you know, your weight kind of slims down. It's a little easier. It's like a workout within itself. It's very tiring actually and you find yourself snacking more often.

It is perfectly possible to live a very moral life without a belief in God, and I think it's perfectly possible to live a life peppered with ill-doing and believe in God.

The wish to acquire more is admittedly a very natural and common thing; and when men succeed in this they are always praised rather than condemned. But when they lack the ability to do so and yet want to acquire more at all costs, they deserve condemnation for their mistakes.

I was very nervous about taking on an empire that was richer and far more powerful than I will ever be. It was very daunting.

People are very reluctant to talk about their private lives but then you go to the internet and they're much more open.

No student ever attains very eminent success by simply doing what is required of him: it is the amount and excellence of what is over and above the required, that determines the greatness of ultimate distinction.

I learned that very often the most intolerant and narrow-minded people are the ones who congratulate themselves on their tolerance and open-mindedness.

Although I don't take myself very seriously, I do take my work extraordinarily seriously.

Alcohol is a very patient drug. It will wait for the alcoholic to pick it up one more time.

1913 wasn't a very good year. 1913 gave us the income tax, the 16th amendment and the IRS.

The people who illegally cross into the country are from countries that have very close ties to al Qaeda, whether it's Yemen or Afghanistan, Pakistan, China. It is an absolute national disgrace.

The very impossibility in which I find myself to prove that God is not, discovers to me his existence.

There are a couple of carp fishing books I've been reading. I'm very interested in that line of books, because I think they write very well, carp anglers, about the general environment.