Very Quotes

Something I learned very early on in my career is that there are a lot of things that you do not have any power over.

It's very British to go about to see something unusual and paint it.

Egoism is the very essence of a noble soul.

I have always been fond of recognizing the spiritual side of someone's personality. It's a very lovely concept.

I dote on his very absence.

Most Americans are very cool people.

The vampires have always been metaphors for me. They've always been vehicles through which I can express things I have felt very, very deeply.

Most Italians who came to this country are very patriotic. There was this exciting possibility that if you worked real hard, and you loved something, you could become successful.

I don't think about my previous success. I'm happy that the work I've done has been very successful.

When people get married because they think it's a long-time love affair, they'll be divorced very soon, because all love affairs end in disappointment. But marriage is a recognition of a spiritual identity.

I think women want to take care of themselves, and I think having a voice in how that is done is very important.

Use those talents you have. You will make it. You will give joy to the world. Take this tip from nature: The woods would be a very silent place if no birds sang except those who sang best.

I think romantic comedy, when done right, is my favorite genre. It's just a genre that's very human.

Many books require no thought from those who read them, and for a very simple reason; they made no such demand upon those who wrote them.

It is easy to hate and it is difficult to love. This is how the whole scheme of things works. All good things are difficult to achieve; and bad things are very easy to get.

I don't think you can work on feelings in politics, apart from anything else, political change can come very unexpectedly, sometimes overnight when you least expect it.

We may seem great in an employment below our worth, but we very often look little in one that is too big for us.

I am a very reclusive, private person.

The feeling of not belonging, of not being entirely worthy, of being sometimes hostage to your own sensibilities. Those things speak to me very personally.

To be honest, I am completely natural. I have nothing in my face or anything. I wear sunscreen, and I don't smoke. I take care of myself and I'm very proud to say that.

The lunch in a normal American restaurant is very problematic for me. I don't like to have hot food for lunch.

The present letter is a very long one, simply because I had no leisure to make it shorter.

I don't know why that is, but English politics is just so overly white. It's very much about the class structure.

A lot of very beautiful women can be a pain because all they're thinking about is how they look.

Getting trapped back in the '80s, it's almost like a comic nightmare, which for me is a very real nightmare. Every time I flip through the cable, I have flashbacks.

I definitely did look up to John. We all looked up to John. He was older and he was very much the leader; he was the quickest wit and the smartest.

There are very few human beings who receive the truth, complete and staggering, by instant illumination. Most of them acquire it fragment by fragment, on a small scale, by successive developments, cellularly, like a laborious mosaic.

I'm still a proud Irishman, of course, but I've become an American citizen. I'm very, very proud of that.

I don't think the Egyptian people want to see what is a very clear effort to obtain political and economic rights turn into any kind of new form of oppression or suppression or violence or letting loose criminal elements.

When I say that human beings are just gene machines, one shouldn't put too much emphasis on the word 'just.' There is a very great deal of complication, and indeed beauty in being a gene machine.