Very Quotes

Everybody who has ever been snubbed, you know that is very humiliating.

California is a queer place in a way, it has turned its back on the world, and looks into the void Pacific. It is absolutely selfish, very empty, but not false, and at least, not full of false effort.

That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history.

The very aim and end of our institutions is just this: that we may think what we like and say what we think.

To have ego means to believe in your own strength. And to also be open to other people's views. It is to be open, not closed. So, yes, my ego is big, but it's also very small in some areas. My ego is responsible for my doing what I do - bad or good.

There are people who are really good managers, people who can manage a big organization, and then there are people who are very analytic or focused on strategy. Those two types don't usually tend to be in the same person. I would put myself much more in the latter camp.

Memory depends very much on the perspicuity, regularity, and order of our thoughts. Many complain of the want of memory, when the defect is in the judgment; and others, by grasping at all, retain nothing.

There is a very fine line between loving life and being greedy for it.

I have been very happy, very rich, very beautiful, much adulated, very famous and very unhappy.

All cartoon characters and fables must be exaggeration, caricatures. It is the very nature of fantasy and fable.

I think the family movie is very important to everybody right now.

I never drink anything hot; I don't like hot drinks, very strange.

Fantasy love is much better than reality love. Never doing it is very exciting. The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.

A sex symbol? A symbol of sex? I don't think that I am a sex symbol, although it's very flattering. I'm 59, now, so I think I'm possibly past my sell-by date. I think I am.

I'm one of these very focused people when it comes to day-to-day work, and I'm trying not to think about what comes next so that I can stay very focused on what I'm doing now.

I was very fortunate that I saved my money and I still do.

When I did the film Generations, in which the character died, I felt like a guest for the first time. That made me very sad.

The word 'leukemia' is a very frightening word. In many instances, it's a killer and it's something that you have to deal with in a very serious and determined way if you're going to beat it.

He who is void of virtuous attachments in private life is, or very soon will be, void of all regard for his country. There is seldom an instance of a man guilty of betraying his country, who had not before lost the feeling of moral obligations in his private connections.

Children are very addicting. Once they start growing up, you miss when they were little.

There are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake.

The inner world is very potent for me - I don't ascribe to any God or Jesus or Buddha - I just have a sense of it and revere it along with the natural world and human consciousness.

Our intentions may be very good, but, because the intelligence is limited, the action may turn out to be a mistake - a mistake, but not necessarily a sin, for sin comes out of a wrong intention.

Very few of us are what we seem.

I was very studious.

Sometimes even the greatest joys bring challenge, and children with special needs inspire a very, very special love.

I have a very strict gun control policy: if there's a gun around, I want to be in control of it.

Nature scarcely ever gives us the very best; for that we must have recourse to art.

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.

What is ominous is the ease with which some people go from saying that they don't like something to saying that the government should forbid it. When you go down that road, don't expect freedom to survive very long.