Very Quotes

Some people displease with merit, and others' very faults and defects are pleasing.

I was never very interested in boys - and there were plenty of them - vying with one another to see how many famous women they would get into the hay.

I feel very sorry for the one or two North Korean defectors who were caught by Chinese police while entering South Korean or foreign embassies in Beijing, but their arrest drew the whole attention of the world.

I get mad like anybody else does, but being able to laugh about getting mad is very healthy, and my kids know that.

One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.

The art world can be very intimidating because it's just so vast. You talk to people who are really clued in to all the young artists and coming into it you're never going to be able to catch up immediately, even though there's pressure to.

Mr. Attlee is a very modest man. Indeed he has a lot to be modest about.

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.