Very Quotes

I was very happy and honored to create the Professor Garfield Foundation with Ball State to make reading fun.

Award shows are really silly. I'm very happy for the people that win the awards, and I can say they're really silly, but I would love to get one. So I also know wasting time on that is pointless.

Further, by acting decisively in Iraq, the United States has sent very strong signals to other nations that have been or could be terrorist sympathizers.

My life and my plan wasn't very good, but at least it was my plan. It got to that point that I just couldn't stand it any more.

Definitely River Phoenix is somebody that I thought, "This guy is very cool." I wanted to be like him when I was a kid.

When I reflect upon my blessings during my very nice lifetime, I am inspired to make sure that I spend the balance of the days of my existence in a productive way.

My esteem in this country has gone up substantially. It is very nice now when people wave at me, they use all their fingers.

We have a really, really great dog. It doesn't bark. My dog almost smiles, which is weird. He's just a very happy dog.

I've always liked to think I could do anything I wished as well as - if not better than - a man. But I wasn't very good at rally driving.

A lot of people do that kind of nostalgia stuff believing that they were very happy in their teenage years, but that's probably just an illusion.

Thank heavens when the first single Bye Bye came off this album work started to pick up, then I'm Alright has taken us across the world. Radio has been very good, it has chosen to be kind to us.

I was a very good girl for a long time, that's what really drew me to acting. The stage was the perfect place to be outrageous, to be sad, to be angry, to be all these different things.

I think the people who cast films tend to think of me in regard to strong women with integrity and a lot of it has been very good.

I really feel now like a native New Yorker. And I'm very happy here.

And the truth is I've always taken very good care of my skin, and always, always worn make-up.

I was very happy being education minister and deputy to John Cain.

I think anyone who's perfectly happy isn't particularly funny. And when you're very, very happy, you're not very funny. You're just happy. I'd rather be damaged and funny.

I think I've lost 3lbs - I'm very, very happy. I thought of it as work and a spa.

From a very young age my mother persuaded me that I could write for fun, but I had to have a proper job - very good advice.

Suddenly, I don't want to be this person anymore. I don't want to pretend I'm fooling the world when I'm not. I want someone else to have a plan for me, because I'm not doing a very good job myself.

I found plain truth very interesting.

The whole thing is just ripe to be a very good thing.

I also acknowledge that prejudice runs very deep in our society. And, in the real world, discrimination rears its ugly head in the shadows, where it's very difficult to root it out.

I grew up in New Jersey and my father was a golf pro, so I was groomed for sports, but I wasn't very good, so my interests lay elsewhere.

The recipe for any character is always very interesting, as far as what doses of certain qualities you want.

I'm never very good with marks. They're always like, 'You're not on your mark'. I was like, 'Oh, it's that thing you put on the ground? Yeah, I don't pay attention to it.'

What I learned from this movie, 40 Days and 40 Nights: Abstinence can be a very good thing. Especially from box offices where this film is playing.

I will always continue to make stupid action films but I think 'V For Vendetta' is a very smart film and I think that people will feel differently about things when they see it.

I'm good at marketing myself through the columns. But compared to other people I know, as far as networking and pushing yourself out there, I'm not very good at that.

I got a very strong sense from my mother, in particular, that we are all equal in the sight of God.

I've got a very deep and abiding passion about education being far more than buildings and textbooks; it's what children bring into school with them.

Ian McEwan is a very good writer; the first half of Atonement alone would ensure him a lasting place in English letters.

I like some of the young guys like Senator Thune. He's a guy that looks good. He's very articulate, he's very smart, and he truly is a public servant.

I had a horrible life habit that I had to change. And I think it's very true, the later we make decisions in life that are important, the harder it is to manage those decisions.

Fears are all psychological. Being afraid of death, loss of a loved one and disfigurement are all powered by your mind, and that's very powerful stuff.

I am now reading Cooper's Naval History which I find very interesting.

I've long ago learned that if an idea will stand on its own, it'll stand having the light shone on it. But if you shine light on it and it kind of withers, then it probably wasn't a very good idea.

Radio is very popular [in Britain], but it doesn't connect us in the same way. It seems to have this community function.

India, to some extent, courses through my blood. My father was brought up there, and my grandfather served there, and so on. We have a very strong family affinity for the place.

The kiss lasted forever as Otto Frank kept talking from behind me. "And my conclusion is," he said, "since I had been in very good terms with Anne, that most parents don't know really their children.

But it is a pipe." "No, it's not," I said. It's a drawing of a pipe. Get it? All representations of a thing are inherently abstract. It's very clever.

Obama is seen as very, very cool. I think a lot of people find him sexy.

My memories of literary agenting are of a very happy time and there are surprising reminders of it coming back now.

If I have any advantage, maybe, as a writer, it is that I don't think I'm very interesting. I mean, beginning a novel with the last sentence is a pretty plodding way to spend your life.

To put all of your eggs in one basket is silly. We did that for a long time and I don't think it's very smart.

I think a shotgun or a handgun that has a six-round clip is a very good, perfectly adequate weapon for self-defense, in the home. You simply can't create that kind of mayhem, if you have to reload.

I'm very happy that the New York Times has spoken well of my stuff; who wouldn't be? But it's not a choice I made.

I like the best of the British press. The best of the British press is very good.

I mean, I’m quite happy. I’m happy in all aspects of my life. I'm very happy in all aspects of my life.

I would be very happy to go to America. America is where I was raised and that's exactly what I want.