Very Quotes

You learn very quickly what people are so enamored with, and it's not necessarily me.

A woman can be very beautiful and an ideal model and she will photograph incredibly well, but she'll appear in film and it won't work. What works is some fusion of physical beauty with some mental field or whatever you call it. I don't know.

I was in a queer mood, thinking myself very old: but now I am a woman again - as I always am when I write.

Truth is certainly a branch of morality and a very important one to society.

War is very sad and small life is pathetically fragile at times.

I never met anyone who didn't have a very smart child. What happens to these children, you wonder, when they reach adulthood?

I was brought up by my mother and my two sisters, although they're older than me and fled the nest very young, so I was technically raised as an only child, but I was very much loved.

The thing about the 600 words, I mean some day, you can do a very, very, very hard day's work and not write a word, just revising, or you would scribble a few words.

Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do.

If you look at U.S. history through religious history, there is very much a motif that shows the importance religion has played in the U.S. We're a very religious country and it affects the way we look at various political issues.

An expert is someone who knows some of the worst mistakes, which can be made, in a very narrow field.

Let's call a spade a spade - a lot of times when you are a vegetarian it is a just not very effective eating disorder.

Cunning leads to knavery. It is but a step from one to the other, and that very slippery. Only lying makes the difference; add that to cunning, and it is knavery.

My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.

I think by now I have made it fairly clear that I am not very happy with the word hope. I don't believe in people just hoping.

When a man is in love, he doubts, very often, what he most firmly believes.

Life doesn't offer you promises whatsoever so it's very easy to become, 'Whatever happened to... ?' It's great to be wanted. I spent a few years not being wanted and this is better.

People are not perfect... very often the relationships that are strongest are those where people have worked through big crises, but they've had to work through them. So the challenge to us is to work through that.

It was very natural for me to want to disappear into dark theater, I am really very shy. That is something that people never seem to fully grasp because, when you are an actor, you are meant to be an exhibitionist.

Actually I walk around with the Emmy wherever I go, but I'm very casual about it.

I have read in Plato and Cicero sayings that are wise and very beautiful; but I have never read in either of them: Come unto me all ye that labor and are heavy laden.

I have a very busy personality.

It is seldom very hard to do one's duty when one knows what it is, but it is often exceedingly difficult to find this out.

There's also some element of coming of age during the Reagan administration, which everybody has painted as some glorious time in America, but I remember as being a very, very dark time. There was apocalypse in the air; the punk rock movement made sense.

This is my 25th year of being on stage. A lot of people who I kind of toed up to the starting line with are no longer in this position. I feel very, very lucky.

Sometimes I wonder if we shall ever grow up in our politics and say definite things which mean something, or whether we shall always go on using generalities to which everyone can subscribe, and which mean very little.

Believe me, the intellectual revolution is going on, and that has to come first before you see the political changes. That's where I'm very optimistic.

If you live to be one hundred, you've got it made. Very few people die past that age.

Very few conflicts in the history of the world have been satisfactorily concluded according to a published timetable, because you lose all flexibility in dealing with your opponents.

We are very much what others think of us. The reception our observations meet with gives us courage to proceed, or damps our efforts.