Very Quotes

This is the very worst wickedness, that we refuse to acknowledge the passionate evil that is in us. This makes us secret and rotten.

Creative people don't behave very well generally. If you're looking for examples of good relationships in show business, you're gonna be depressed real fast. I don't have time for anything else right now but work and my daughter. She's my first priority.

A brain is a society of very small, simple modules that cannot be said to be thinking, that are not smart in themselves. But when you have a network of them together, out of that arises a kind of smartness.

I always tried to do things by example, even though I was not a very good mother regarding routines and family life.

All very successful commanders are prima donnas and must be so treated.

I feel we live in the kind of culture now where you have to be very smart to navigate the right way, and I just don't have those smarts. I think with age and time it will change, but I can't obsess about it.

The only normal people are the one's you don't know very well.

I have very eclectic tastes.

When we really worship anything, we love not only its clearness but its obscurity. We exult in its very invisibility.

The very first requirement in a hospital is that it should do the sick no harm.

Anyway I feel myself a bit on the edge on the art world, but I don't mind, I'm just pursuing my work in a very excited way. And there isn't really a mainstream anymore, is there?

To wear your heart on your sleeve isn't a very good plan; you should wear it inside, where it functions best.

I'm very much a Christian in ideals and ethics, especially in terms of belief in fairness, a deep set obligation to others, and the virtues of charity, tolerance and generosity that we associate with traditional Christian teaching.

Hip-hop has done so much for racial relations, and I don't think it's given the proper credit. It has changed America immensely. I'm going to make a very bold statement: Hip-hop has done more than any leader, politician, or anyone to improve race relations.

I seem to be getting a lot of things pushed my way that are strong women. It's like people see Hackers and they send me offers to play tough women with guns, the kind who wear no bra and a little tank top. I'd like to play strong women who are also very feminine.

I get irritated, nervous, very tense or stressed, but never bored.

The only thing that could spoil a day was people. People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself.

I suppose it's a very highly developed form of denial, but some part of me completely denies that I'm a performer.

Objects in pictures should so be arranged as by their very position to tell their own story.

He was not a runner, my father, but he was quick. I always remember it was very difficult to escape from him when he was angry. If he wanted to beat us he would always catch us. Even me, he could always catch me.

I'm very free-spirited.

I think age is a very high price to pay for maturity.

I grew up as this very carefree, happy kid then things turned darker for me. Maybe it was because I saw that the world wasn't as happy a place as I had hoped it would be for me.

Around '93, '94, the conventional wisdom about the Internet was that it was a toy for academics and researchers. So it was very, very underestimated for about two years.

We need men with moral courage to speak and write their real thoughts, and to stand by their convictions, even to the very death.

Even while starting out I took things very seriously; I wasn't the sort of kid that would do a doll commercial or do a series for Nickelodeon. They asked me to do silly things, and I wasn't a silly kid.

Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It's perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we've learned something from yesterday.

For someone who's had the level of success I've had, there's been very little critical review of my work, which is pretty fascinating.

I'm not coping very well with all the attention, if I'm honest.

We are very far from always knowing our own wishes.