Very Quotes

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.

When I did the film Generations, in which the character died, I felt like a guest for the first time. That made me very sad.

The word 'leukemia' is a very frightening word. In many instances, it's a killer and it's something that you have to deal with in a very serious and determined way if you're going to beat it.

He who is void of virtuous attachments in private life is, or very soon will be, void of all regard for his country. There is seldom an instance of a man guilty of betraying his country, who had not before lost the feeling of moral obligations in his private connections.

Children are very addicting. Once they start growing up, you miss when they were little.

There are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake.

The inner world is very potent for me - I don't ascribe to any God or Jesus or Buddha - I just have a sense of it and revere it along with the natural world and human consciousness.

Our intentions may be very good, but, because the intelligence is limited, the action may turn out to be a mistake - a mistake, but not necessarily a sin, for sin comes out of a wrong intention.

Very few of us are what we seem.

I was very studious.

Sometimes even the greatest joys bring challenge, and children with special needs inspire a very, very special love.

Nature scarcely ever gives us the very best; for that we must have recourse to art.

So many times you see beautiful lovemaking scenes with a lot of exposure or an awkward lovemaking scene, but I think it's very rare that you see it private.

What is ominous is the ease with which some people go from saying that they don't like something to saying that the government should forbid it. When you go down that road, don't expect freedom to survive very long.

I mean, there's no arguing. There is no anything. There is no beating around the bush. "You're fired" is a very strong term.

These people are very unskilled in arms... with 50 men they could all be subjected and made to do all that one wished.

I want to be an actor, I am just not very comfortable talking about myself.

Do what you love to do and give it your very best. Whether it's business or baseball, or the theater, or any field. If you don't love what you're doing and you can't give it your best, get out of it. Life is too short. You'll be an old man before you know it.

I decided, very early on, just to accept life unconditionally; I never expected it to do anything special for me, yet I seemed to accomplish far more than I had ever hoped. Most of the time it just happened to me without my ever seeking it.

I find it very hard not to be myself and maybe that does attract attention, but I'd be miserable if I wasn't.

There is nothing wrong with describing Conservatism as protecting the Constitution, protecting all things that limit government. Government is the enemy of liberty. Government should be very restrained.