Very Quotes

The world is a very serious and, at times, very sad place - but at other times it is all such a joke.

Although I write screenplays, I don't think I'm a very good writer. I'm very interested in studying cultures and social issues, but as an academic I don't think I would have been too successful.

I thought [first girlfriend] was trying to make a fool out of me. Then I found out that she wasn't, and we went out. That's a very good example of how little confidence I had.

The whole experience of being hit by a bullet is very interesting and I think worth describing in detail.

Top-shelf fiction, a Crown Royal ride into the heart of Night and New York. Con Lehane's work is reminiscent of the best of Lawrence Block, which is to say that this is very good stuff, indeed.

Nothing. My father is very good at doing nothing. He calls it thinking.

I'm very happy - if I can do even a little bit of work to get the short story out more, I'm thrilled.

I was thinking about the legacy of ghosts in fiction, and specifically the moral power of those Dickensian ghosts. Because a ghost can be a very powerful but also manipulative element.

I'm very happy in my law practice and my security firm.

Israel is our ally and in that we've made a very strong commitment to support Israel, we will support Israel if her security is threatened.

How do you measure whether or not a strategy of economic growth that is articulated by a very smart, capable economist actually yields growth? You can't. But you can influence.

Bement was a very good teacher but he was a very poor painter. I guess he wasn't a painter at all. He had no courage and I believe that to create one's own world in any of the arts takes courage.

every smart / Is eased in telling.

The fan support isn't the biggest but they're very loyal and very supportive. It's a very good group of fans and I enjoy playing in front of them.

The England manager job is not for me - I'm very happy wih what I'm doing in French football for now.

I have a lot of very, very powerful women in my life. My mother being the first.

It is amazing that something I did 23 years ago still has an audience that people respond to and I am touched and surprised that people are still very positive about.

All good writers express the state of their souls, even (as occurs in some cases of very good writers) if it is a state of damnation.

It is very good for a man to talk about what he does not understand; as long as he understands that he does not understand it.

I was always bigger than the other girls. My sisters are very, very beautiful and very skinny, and I've always had a more muscular body. So I grew up with a different mentality.

Where I grew up in the North-east, the community there, and the way people relate to one another, goes very deep. But I don't define myself as a Northerner in that I don't live in the North.

Although I felt I was quite good at criticising a philosophical position, I was not very good at defending and making a case for a philosophical position.

I like Italy. I was always at home there, it's a marvelous place to become invisible. Nobody bothers you and nobody is interested in you and I find that very good for work.

I'm not very good at multi-tasking. Most people aren't, but they think they are. The mind is really better when you're really focused on one thing.

Every film takes on its own life. I find it very interesting to show an audience some part of history that maybe they don't know.

You don't want to be hard to look at. Plain very good, hard to look at bad. The plain shall inherit the earth; time is our friend.

An awful lot of female celebrities are very beautiful whereas a lot of male celebrities are not so hot.

Mostly I've never let record companies become involved with my music, which was a very smart thing that my first manager Dave Robinson did, to keep them out of it.

I know it sounds cliche but I believe in an essential way, it's very true that being a Christian is having a relationship with God through Christ.

I think for a classical musician the goal is the same as an electronic musician. A very good professional classical musician must not think about technique.

[Adolf] Hitler had a very strong adolescent side to him, emotionally he was like a boy in certain things, like film stars and gossip.

A very wise author once said that a writer writes for himself, and then publishes for money. I write for myself and publish just for the reader

The biopic also wasn't a form that I necessarily believed in, because you can never really get it right, you know? It's also a form that's very popular - the straight-ahead biopic.

I don't like the idea of agents in a typical form. The idea of agents, to me, brings up the idea of a man in a very boring suit who's not very good looking and doesn't have much attention to style.

If you have a very hot experience then shock yourself with cold water, it's very very good for the nervous system.

There was a very famous musician in our family. He was a great violinist, an internationally known teacher. He was Leopold Auer.

You have to have a very strong cash flow for a film to really stay in theaters. You have to have the advertising capacity to sustain and follow the kind of press coverage.

Shepherd. It's a very beautiful word. It represents peace. And it meant a lot to me because...I come from a life with shepherds and mountains and all that stuff.

I'm very happy I get to keep working - it's an insanely fortunate thing.

If you make your body very strong, really strong, it can fight off anything.

I'm not very happy idle. There's always this voice in my head that says, 'I should be writing.

In the year and a half I was on SNL, I never saw anybody ad lib anything. For a very good reason - the director cut according to the script. So, if you ad libbed, you'd be off mike and off camera.

I have a very strong visual memory of the first time I made him laugh. That was remarkable. I was like, "Oh, God, I just made Jack Benny laugh."

I'm leaving the screen because I don't think I am very good in the pictures and I have this beautiful dream that I'm elegant on the stage.

If you see a tennis player who looks as if he is working hard, that means he isn't very good.

I'm a very good sleeper.

Basically, my musical life is split between raving with drugged-up kids and reading obscure 75-year-old poetry, drinking very nice red wine with aged, graying men.

Women have, commonly, a very positive moral sense; that which they will, is right; that which they reject, is wrong; and their will, in most cases, ends by settling the moral.

A good, very good, not to say admirable schoolmaster, but then he is only a schoolmaster.

I'm not a very good writer. I'm working at it.