Very Quotes · Page 140

There are so many spiders, and their rituals, their mating rituals, their courtship ritual, can be very, very different.

— Isabella Rossellini

When I'm writing the first draft, I'm writing in a very slovenly way: anything to get the outline of the story on…

— Pat Barker

A lot of local food is very tasty. I'm very happy to eat it. I just don't think it's the same thing…

— Tyler Cowen

I consider myself very lucky. I'm known for photographing celebrities, but, in a nutshell, my first love is photography.

— Douglas Kirkland

My deep dark secret is that I was a nerd in school. I liked the theater. I liked to study. I wasn't…

— Rob Lowe

I've been on pilots. I've seen shows come and go. I know that this stuff is all very fleeting, so I try…

— Michael Mosley

Some people say they feel very small when they think about space. I felt more expansive, very connected to the universe.

— Mae Jemison

Working in Washington, trying to make a difference, that was a very meaningful time for me, a period of personal growth.

— Tim Finchem

I found going to school when I was modeling very grounding. It's really kept my perspective on bigger things in my life.

— Lily Cole

I am very interested in theology. In fact, my first degree was in theology, so it's something that interests me greatly.

— Neil Cross

Acting, it's very different. It's obviously very different and a lot more difficult than the modeling world I came from.

— Sarah Roemer

Injuries are a huge thing for skating. I think skating is a very unnatural sport for the body, very tough on the…

— Patrick Chan

I was taught to draw very well when I was in school at Boston. And I grew to enjoy drawing so much…

— Ellsworth Kelly

We've had crooks from the beginning of time... it's always very interesting and troubling why good people do bad things.

— Henry Paulson

My father was a psychiatrist and a social worker but he was a very talented painter and musician and writer on the…

— Anonymous

Chuck Daly was a man and a coach who everyone had great respect for, and to be recognized in his memory is…

— Tom Heinsohn

I studied history when I was at school, at A-level, actually. I wouldn't profess to being very knowledgeable though, no.

— Kit Harington

In Paris we have bistros, then we have fine dining. In London, you have a very contemporary scene with mixed influences.

— Alain Ducasse

The world is a Hobbesian state of nature in which the struggle for domination is the very essence of international life.

— Charles Krauthammer

I began in radio in 1997 on a radio show hosted by a now very famous comic, Jamel Debbouze. I would fake…

— Omar Sy

I think when you've been exposed to the Creator of the universe, then the federal government doesn't seem very powerful.

— Steve Largent

I like elegance. I like art nouveau; a stretched line or curve. These things are very much in the foreground of my…

— H. R. Giger

Already when I was very young, I was a fabulador. I loved to give my own version of stories that everybody already…

— Pedro Almodovar

I'm not entirely comfortable saying I'm an actor, because it seems like a very weird, almost dorky thing to say you are.

— Seth Rogen

I do a devilish borscht, and I'm very good at pickles. I used to make jars and jars of sweet-and-sour pickled cucumbers.

— Steven Berkoff

I have tried very hard as a novelist to say, 'Novels are about individuals and especially larger than life individuals.'

— Bharati Mukherjee

If you're really satisfied with your position on something, you just say, 'Hey;' you just very calmly present something.

— Clint Eastwood

I started painting graffiti in the classic New York style of big letters and characters but I was never very good at…

— Banksy

I had very literal parents and I wanted to survive with metaphor and art, and there was a real sense of shame…

— Amanda Palmer

The Bible is very clear that God has a purpose. But even if I know that purpose, I can't fulfill it if…

— Rick Warren

As for the company, I did all I could from the very outset of this affair to remove Yukos and its employees…

— Mikhail Khodorkovsky

Anyone who lives like a modern aristocracy, the last thing they exhibit is a sense of gratitude. Me, I'm very fortunate.

— James Ransone

What NPR did, I'm very proud of, and what NPR stood for is non-racist, non-bigoted, straightforward telling of the news.

— Ron Schiller

The idea of literalism in the Bible is a very new phenomenon. In many ways, it's a product of the scientific revolution.

— Reza Aslan

There was a different ending to 'New Moon' originally. It was a much quieter book. It was very much all in Bella's…

— Stephenie Meyer

I'm a very law-abiding citizen, and I've never consciously broken any law. I get nervous just jaywalking in Los Angeles!

— Gillian Jacobs

Dick Durbin's a worthy opponent on any debate. He's very intelligent, quick. Knows his facts and puts them forward well.

— Sam Brownback

Our view is that the very best data miners or statisticians can earn as much as the very best golfers or tennis…

— Anthony Goldbloom

That's what film can do in a way that TV and other long-form storytelling can't. It gives you this very immersive moment.

— J. C. Chandor

Free speech has a very small constituency on the modern campus, particularly if the speaker under attack is conservative.

— John Leo