Very Quotes

You have to be very rich or very poor to live without a trade.

But when you get music and words together, that can be a very powerful thing.

I'm not religious, but I'm very spiritual.

We soon found that the white men were growing rich very fast, and were greedy.

Single women have a dreadful propensity for being poor. Which is one very strong argument in favor of matrimony.

I live with some of my best friends from high school, very commune-like, in my house. It's my hippie way of life.

Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.

One wouldn't want to have the same dilemmas at 50 as one had at 15. And indeed I don't. I have a very different take on life.

If you have only one passion in life - football - and you pursue it to the exclusion of everything else, it becomes very dangerous. When you stop doing this activity it is as though you are dying. The death of that activity is a death in itself.

One of the great strengths of the United States is... we have a very large Christian population - we do not consider ourselves a Christian nation or a Jewish nation or a Muslim nation. We consider ourselves a nation of citizens who are bound by ideals and a set of values.

I realize I don't do a very good job in keeping up to date, but I try to.

Obscenities... I think a lot of dumb people do it because they can't think of what they want to say and they're frustrated. A lot of smart people do it to pretend they aren't very smart - want to be just one of the boys.

The eyes of the cheerful and of the melancholy man are fixed upon the same creation; but very different are the aspects which it bears to them.

I was called really horrible, profane names very loudly in front of huge crowds of people, and my schoolwork suffered at one point.

Very likely education does not make very much difference.

I have a big gay and lesbian following and they've been very loyal and kind to me.

I'm not overly alarmist about it, but I do think there are some worrying signs, like the growing accumulation of wealth by a very small proportion of the population, plus elections in the US are much more dominated by money than anywhere else calling itself a democracy.

I'm very careful about saying who would and wouldn't go to heaven. I don't know.

So you have to keep waiting and then they give you the script and it's terrible. Then you have to go to the rewrite and they're very upset because you didn't like it. I went through that for seven years.

I love New York... I think it's the best city in the world. As far as cities go, everything's there. I think it's so vibrant. I love the people, I think they're honest, in your face. If they don't like you, they'll say, 'Get out of my way,' if they like you they'll slap you on the back and support you. It's a very intoxicating environment to be in.

This revolution, the information revoultion, is a revolution of free energy as well, but of another kind: free intellectual energy. It's very crude today, yet our Macintosh computer takes less power than a 100-watt bulb to run it and it can save you hours a day. What will it be able to do ten or 20 years from now, or 50 years from now?

People who have tried it, tell me that a clear conscience makes you very happy and contented; but a full stomach does the business quite as well, and is cheaper, and more easily obtained.

I cry very easily. It can be a movie, a phone conversation, a sunset - tears are words waiting to be written.

A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.

The Supreme Court has a very light backlog. They leave a lot of splits among the circuits, a lot of uncertainty. And I think they ought to work a lot harder.

It is very good advice to believe only what an artist does, rather than what he says about his work.

Very often a change of self is needed more than a change of scene.

I don't think that a leader can control, to any great extent, his destiny. Very seldom can he step in and change the situation if the forces of history are running in another direction.

It's a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.

And we've got to ask ourselves some very serious questions as to whether or not certain religious leaders, in terms of raising money - I hate to bring this up - are pushing hot buttons.