Very Quotes

I spend a great deal of time with the President. We have a very close, personal, loyal relationship. I'm not, as they say, a potted plant in these meetings.

When I'm not working, I get very down, but when I am working, I get very immersed in it.

The world is governed by very different personages from what is imagined by those who are not behind the scenes.

It is very certain that the desire of life prolongs it.

Of course I've already taken a very modest position on the monetary system, I do take the position that we should just end the Fed.

I don't really get shaken very much. People could heckle me, a spotlight could go out, I could forget a lyric... I'm not operating on somebody's brain, you know what I mean? So I just think it's all funny.

I was very pushed to look a certain way and act a certain way, and it wasn't me, but I played by their rules to get my foot in the door.

My career suffered massively because I had a reputation for being a very tabloid person.

We should often blush for our very best actions, if the world did but see all the motives upon which they were done.

I think cinema, movies, and magic have always been closely associated. The very earliest people who made film were magicians.

My father had died, and very swiftly, too, of cancer of the esophagus. He was 79. I am 61. In whatever kind of a 'race' life may be, I have very abruptly become a finalist.

I'm thinking of doing more theatre. It makes me very happy.

The Devil, can sometimes do a very gentlemanly thing.

Statistics show that of those who contract the habit of eating, very few survive.

You see another side of Draco when he's with his dad. When Draco is with his dad, he doesn't say anything. He keeps his mouth shut. He's sort of bullied by his dad, so he acts very different.

I sit astride life like a bad rider on a horse. I only owe it to the horse's good nature that I am not thrown off at this very moment.

I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs.

What influenced me was Tori Amos, who was unapologetic about expressing anger through music, and Sinead O'Connor. Those two in particular were really moving for me, and very inspiring, before I wrote 'Jagged Little Pill.'

It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and shut one eye, and my thumb blotted out the planet Earth. I didn't feel like a giant. I felt very, very small.

I saw a human pyramid once. It was very unnecessary.

Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute! Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. Only engage, and then the mind grows heated. Begin, and then the work will be completed.

The great thing with film is that it doesn't have an ego. It's just a film. Everybody that makes them has an ego, and the problem with awards and stuff like that is that it always affects the egos, and everyone gets stained by it in some way. And that can be fine and very innocent, but it can be horrible as well.

My concerts are about me being very private in public, but I'm very protective.

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

A drunk driver is very dangerous. So is a drunk backseat driver if he's persuasive.

People are very open-minded about new things - as long as they're exactly like the old ones.

I think today women are very scared to celebrate themselves, because then they just get labeled.

Use what talents you possess; the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best.

Whether or not we believe in survival of consciousness after death, reincarnation, and karma, it has very serious implications for our behavior.

I have done many movies that people hadn't seen. 'The Fountain,' I spent a year on that. 'The Prestige' with Chris Nolan, and 'Australia.' From my perspective it's very satisfying. Some movies people see and other movies they don't. 'Wolverine,' 'X Men,' I know that in some level people know me just for that and it's fine for me.