Very Quotes

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.

It is a revenge the devil sometimes takes upon the virtuous, that he entraps them by the force of the very passion they have suppressed and think themselves superior to.

Even as kids reach adolescence, they need more than ever for us to watch over them. Adolescence is not about letting go. It's about hanging on during a very bumpy ride.

The world is always ready to receive talent with open arms. Very often it does not know what to do with genius.

I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.

Being unemployed is not good for an actor. No, it isn't, no matter how unsuccessful you are. Because you always remember getting fired from all the restaurants. You remember that stuff very, very strongly.

I think they say that when you're breast feeding, you know, your weight kind of slims down. It's a little easier. It's like a workout within itself. It's very tiring actually and you find yourself snacking more often.

It is perfectly possible to live a very moral life without a belief in God, and I think it's perfectly possible to live a life peppered with ill-doing and believe in God.

The wish to acquire more is admittedly a very natural and common thing; and when men succeed in this they are always praised rather than condemned. But when they lack the ability to do so and yet want to acquire more at all costs, they deserve condemnation for their mistakes.

I was very nervous about taking on an empire that was richer and far more powerful than I will ever be. It was very daunting.

People are very reluctant to talk about their private lives but then you go to the internet and they're much more open.

No student ever attains very eminent success by simply doing what is required of him: it is the amount and excellence of what is over and above the required, that determines the greatness of ultimate distinction.

I learned that very often the most intolerant and narrow-minded people are the ones who congratulate themselves on their tolerance and open-mindedness.

Although I don't take myself very seriously, I do take my work extraordinarily seriously.

Alcohol is a very patient drug. It will wait for the alcoholic to pick it up one more time.

1913 wasn't a very good year. 1913 gave us the income tax, the 16th amendment and the IRS.

The people who illegally cross into the country are from countries that have very close ties to al Qaeda, whether it's Yemen or Afghanistan, Pakistan, China. It is an absolute national disgrace.

The very impossibility in which I find myself to prove that God is not, discovers to me his existence.

There are a couple of carp fishing books I've been reading. I'm very interested in that line of books, because I think they write very well, carp anglers, about the general environment.

My father has a pragmatic mind. He marched with Dr. King in the '60s, and he's very much for women's rights.

I'm not feeling very well - I need a doctor immediately. Ring the nearest golf course.

You have a row of dominoes set up; you knock over the first one, and what will happen to the last one is that it will go over very quickly.

When ideas fail, words come in very handy.

I feel very comfortable with the way I look, and I feel very comfortable with the kind of confusion that it creates in people's minds.

When you are in any contest, you should work as if there were - to the very last minute - a chance to lose it. This is battle, this is politics, this is anything.

I care not what others think of what I do, but I care very much about what I think of what I do! That is character!

I certainly wasn't able to get it when I was a kid growing up on the Lower East Side; it was very hard at that time for me to balance what I really believed was the right way to live with the violence I saw all around me - I saw too much of it among the people I knew.