Very Quotes

By not caring too much about what people think, I'm able to think for myself and propagate ideas which are very often unpopular. And I succeed.

The writing is important, but the way you say the line and the pause you give it, the facial expression - all of that is very important.

The world is changing very fast. Big will not beat small anymore. It will be the fast beating the slow.

It means that, in fact, it's - whether fascist is the right word I don't know - more of a plutocracy than anything resembling a democracy; it has become a nation controlled by a very small, very wealthy elite.

I've always felt very English.

The very ink with which history is written is merely fluid prejudice.

America has been very, very good to me.

Well, I think both Russia and China have a very strong aversion to interference in internal affairs.

Anyone can tell the truth, but only very few of us can make epigrams.

This soul, or life within us, by no means agrees with the life outside us. If one has the courage to ask her what she thinks, she is always saying the very opposite to what other people say.

I do the very best I know how - the very best I can; and I mean to keep on doing so until the end.

Quite honestly, if I were doing work related to a living being or historical being where there was visual or audio recordings available, I would find that extremely difficult because I don't know how you would avoid the process of mimicry. And mimicry, to me at any rate, is a very dull prospect.

The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf.

The subject matter is very tricky. It's about the Munich massacre and what Mossad did afterwards with the assassination squads. I think it's a turning point in history, especially for the Palestinians.

Everybody who has ever been snubbed, you know that is very humiliating.

California is a queer place in a way, it has turned its back on the world, and looks into the void Pacific. It is absolutely selfish, very empty, but not false, and at least, not full of false effort.

That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history.

The very aim and end of our institutions is just this: that we may think what we like and say what we think.

To have ego means to believe in your own strength. And to also be open to other people's views. It is to be open, not closed. So, yes, my ego is big, but it's also very small in some areas. My ego is responsible for my doing what I do - bad or good.

There are people who are really good managers, people who can manage a big organization, and then there are people who are very analytic or focused on strategy. Those two types don't usually tend to be in the same person. I would put myself much more in the latter camp.

Memory depends very much on the perspicuity, regularity, and order of our thoughts. Many complain of the want of memory, when the defect is in the judgment; and others, by grasping at all, retain nothing.

There is a very fine line between loving life and being greedy for it.

I have been very happy, very rich, very beautiful, much adulated, very famous and very unhappy.

All cartoon characters and fables must be exaggeration, caricatures. It is the very nature of fantasy and fable.

I think the family movie is very important to everybody right now.

I never drink anything hot; I don't like hot drinks, very strange.

Fantasy love is much better than reality love. Never doing it is very exciting. The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.

A sex symbol? A symbol of sex? I don't think that I am a sex symbol, although it's very flattering. I'm 59, now, so I think I'm possibly past my sell-by date. I think I am.

I'm one of these very focused people when it comes to day-to-day work, and I'm trying not to think about what comes next so that I can stay very focused on what I'm doing now.

I was very fortunate that I saved my money and I still do.