All Quotes

I've yet to use a cellphone, and I've never tweeted or entered Facebook. I try not to go online till my day's writing is finished, and I moved from Manhattan to rural Japan in part so I could more easily survive for long stretches entirely on foot, and every trip to the movies would be an event.
‐‐ Pico Iyer

I've yet to write a stand-up show that isn't autobiographical.
‐‐ Mike Birbiglia

I've zeroed in on what you would call action and excellence... Everybody who does anything to try to succeed has to give the best of themselves, and art has made me pull the best out of myself.
‐‐ LeRoy Neiman

I veer away from trying to understand why I act. I just know I need to do it.
‐‐ Ralph Fiennes

I vehemently deny that I was born a cynic and a pessimist.
‐‐ J. Paul Getty

I venture to allude to the impression which seemed generally to prevail among their brethren across the seas, that the Old Country must wake up if she intends to maintain her old position of pre-eminence in her colonial trade against foreign competitors.
‐‐ King George V

I venture to prophesy that there lies before us a bitter and an evil time.
‐‐ Auberon Herbert

I venture to say no war can be long carried on against the will of the people.
‐‐ Edmund Burke

I ventured into fiction in 1988 with 'What Love Sees,' a biographical novel of a woman's unwavering determination to lead a full life despite blindness.
‐‐ Susan Vreeland

I vertically center things in tables a lot, and the fact that there is no way to control vertical positioning in divs affects the way we do things across the board.
‐‐ Mike Davidson

I very deeply appreciate the honour which you have conferred upon me in awarding the Nobel Prize for 1923 to me and Professor J.J.R. Macleod.
‐‐ Frederick Banting

I very much admire Uri Ariel. I think he's a man of principles, and effective, and I love him.
‐‐ Naftali Bennett

I very much believe in teaching young people about philanthropy, and to give back.
‐‐ Lynn Schusterman

I very much believe in values-based leadership and that the values that I believe in and try to govern by are transcendent values.
‐‐ Deval Patrick

I very much believe the Internet is indeed all it is cracked up to be.
‐‐ Jeff Bezos

I very much dislike being interviewed by the kind of journalist who tries to dig into your private life.
‐‐ Patrick O'Brian

I very much dislike the intolerance and moralism of many Christians, and feel more sympathy with Honest Doubters than with them.
‐‐ A. N. Wilson

I very much dislike writing about myself or my work, and when pressed for autobiographical material can only give a bare chronological outline which contains no pertinent facts.
‐‐ Shirley Jackson

I very much enjoyed doing 'Law & Order,' playing a killer - that was fun, and they had a family feel around the set, so it was a happy show to do even though the subject matter was quite the opposite.
‐‐ Carol Burnett

I very much enjoyed my career in science. I didn't leave science because I was disillusioned, but felt I'd done my bit for it after about twenty-five years.
‐‐ John Polkinghorne

I very much faced my mother's death with hard, arduous and time-consuming labor. The more I would do, the less I would feel.
‐‐ Rufus Wainwright

I very much favor democracy, but when there is a contradiction between democratic and Jewish values, the Jewish and Zionist values are more important.
‐‐ Avigdor Lieberman

I very much feel like I'm part of the makeup of 'Once Upon a Time.'
‐‐ Jamie Dornan

I very much feel that marriage is a sacrament and that sacrament should extend... to that legal entity of a union between what traditionally in our Western values has been defined as between a man and a woman.
‐‐ Bill Frist

I very much hope that the United States will finally... realise that they can no longer act as the prosecutor, the judge, and the executioner in every part of the world and that they need to cooperate to resolve issues.
‐‐ Sergei Lavrov

I very much like dance and dancers.
‐‐ Issey Miyake

I very much like Kenya. It's hard to beat the Masai Mara and the idea of ballooning across it. I have a great time at Lewa. There's more rhinos than you'll find anywhere. A great part for the children is you can ride horses with the giraffes and the zebra.
‐‐ Mark Burnett

I very much like writing about homosexual relations. I don't quite know why. Perhaps it's because I feel there's still so much to be said about them.
‐‐ Ruth Rendell

I very much looked up to Janet Evans and Summer Sanders.
‐‐ Natalie Coughlin

I very much own the fact that I'm a misfit. The Internet makes everyone realize they're screwed up.
‐‐ Jenny Lawson

I very much regret, in appearing before you at your request, to address you on the present state of the country, and the prospect before us, that I can bring you no good tidings.
‐‐ Robert Toombs

I very much regret that our administration has pushed the whole issue of Kosovo to the back burner.
‐‐ Eliot Engel

I very much use Bill Willingham's approach on 'Fables,' which is that rather than having an end point to a series, I have an end point for the various story lines.
‐‐ Chris Roberson

I very much want to be in the business of creating content, of doing stories all over the world rather than figuring out what the business model is for 'Newsweek' on the iPad, although that's very important work as well.
‐‐ Fareed Zakaria

I very much want to do things my way, and I want to control the result.
‐‐ Hiam Abbass

I very much wanted to be accepted by my peers, to be considered a serious journalist.
‐‐ Jessica Savitch

I very much wanted to be editor of the 'New Statesman!' But I never wanted to be prime minister, except maybe as a little boy.
‐‐ Paul Johnson

I very much wanted to live in Paris when I was in the army, and I was quite determined to. I could have become a dress designer: Dior was willing to take me on as an assistant, but he did not have an immediate vacancy.
‐‐ Paul Johnson

I very much wished not to be noticed, and to be left alone, and I sort of succeeded.
‐‐ Mary Oliver

I very often compare relations between states to relations with people. Sometimes we are nicer to those we don't know well, who are not our friends, than we are to our friends, because with our friends we don't need to be nice all the time.
‐‐ Jose Manuel Barroso

I very often get that question: 'What is your real profession?' That's because in Sweden, it is 'not allowed' to have more than one profession - there's something suspicious about it! But nowadays it's more accepted that one can do a lot of things.
‐‐ Erland Josephson

I very often have night terrors. Just think of the worst possible situation, and it's a regular thing for me. I've died in my sleep twenty-three different ways.
‐‐ Julian Casablancas

I very often wake up at two in the morning with my stomach going over. Sometimes it's difficult to work out why - it's all the things you've put to one side during the day.
‐‐ Billie Whitelaw

I very rarely came across rude or disrespectful people. I don't know how I slipped by all of them, but I honestly can't think of one experience off the top of my head that was like that. I'm sure they're there, but I'd have to think really hard to recall them.
‐‐ Scott Baio

I very rarely get nervous as an actor. Very rarely.
‐‐ Corin Nemec

I very rarely laugh. I remember I used to have a joy at comedy. I remember going to see Sean Lock for the first time live, just in some comedy club when I was 18, and again, just guttural, pure laughter. I didn't know what he was doing; I couldn't see the tricks.
‐‐ Stephen Merchant

I very rarely listen to music in my car - a lot of people make fun of me for it. But sometimes I listen to music on YouTube. I'm like a teenager.
‐‐ Gillian Jacobs

I very rarely read any fiction. I love biographies; I read about all kinds of people. I love theology and some philosophy.
‐‐ Al Sharpton

I very rarely saw Tom Kite around. I've talked to Tom about it. I don't think Michael Jordan needed to be on the captain's cart with Kite; he needed to be walking in the gallery, supporting them from outside the ropes.
‐‐ Payne Stewart