All Quotes

Very few movies remain in public memory as landmark films, and I want to see whether '3 Idiots' will be up there with some of the wonderful films that have come out of this country... Hopefully, we'll come to know in a few years whether it can become one of the great films.
‐‐ Boman Irani

Very few of my books are about who stole the Maltese Falcon.
‐‐ Robert B. Parker

Very few of my characters are based on people I've known. It is too constricting.
‐‐ Julian Barnes

Very few of my characters are totally heroic or totally villainous.
‐‐ Charlaine Harris

Very few of the early Italian humanists were really humane.
‐‐ Irving Babbitt

Very few of the great leaders ever get through their careers without failing, sometimes dramatically.
‐‐ Phil Crosby

Very few of us are what we seem.
‐‐ Agatha Christie

Very few of us have any idea whatsoever of what life is like living in a goldfish bowl, except, of course, for those of us who are goldfish.
‐‐ Graham Taylor

Very few of us have our special listening room where we close off the rest of the world and only hear the music. As musicians or as listeners, we're generally interacting with music wherever we are, whether we're on a train or on the street.
‐‐ Jason Moran

Very few of us playing a murderer will actually have killed someone.
‐‐ Greg Wise

Very few opera singers in history have been able to cross into popular music.
‐‐ Renee Fleming

Very few people are blessed enough to call their father a legend, and an even smaller number are able to share that notion with the rest of the world.
‐‐ Cassidy Gifford

Very few people are fortunate enough to walk through countries like Iran, Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, and Saudi Arabia, and I had seen them all. I had spoken to many on the street.
‐‐ Ashleigh Banfield

Very few people are original. There's very little original anything out there. Because to be original means you have to stand alone.
‐‐ Susan Powter

Very few people can afford to be poor.
‐‐ George Bernard Shaw

Very few people can truly divorce themselves from what they feel emotionally and sexually.
‐‐ Boy George

Very few people could make me fight out of my system. Burley was one.
‐‐ Archie Moore

Very few people deserted me when I went to prison. They stayed loyal.
‐‐ Jeffrey Archer

Very few people do bad things because they're bad. They generally do bad things because they think they're the right thing to do, but they're misplaced.
‐‐ Paul Greengrass

Very few people go into politics to be reviled.
‐‐ Andrew Cuomo

Very few people have actually read Freud, but everyone seems prepared to talk about him in that Woody Allen way. To read Freud is not as much fun.
‐‐ Billy Collins

Very few people have made the transition from animation to live-action; I'm certainly not one.
‐‐ Henry Selick

Very few people have the guts to come up to you and say, 'Hey, are you gay?'
‐‐ Lance Bass

Very few people know anybody like John McCain, someone who suffered and had his body, yet not his spirit, broken for six years as a POW and who has served his nation.
‐‐ Kellyanne Conway

Very few people know this, but I love organizational products and tools. One of my favorite places to shop are container stores where you can get bins, boxes and crates to organize your life.
‐‐ Kimora Lee Simmons

Very few people live in the same house they move into when they're married or the same neighborhood when they're married. Very few people certainly live in the neighborhood they grew up in.
‐‐ Mike Barnicle

Very few people possess true artistic ability. It is therefore both unseemly and unproductive to irritate the situation by making an effort. If you have a burning, restless urge to write or paint, simply eat something sweet and the feeling will pass.
‐‐ Fran Lebowitz

Very few people realize that the U.S. government does not have the power to order the recall of contaminated meat.
‐‐ Eric Schlosser

Very few people run around and get amnesia and have comas and come out of them and do all the silly of people have strokes and have comas and come out of them and do all the silly things we do on soaps.
‐‐ Erika Slezak

Very few people use landline phones for much of anything. So when you talk about things like online chat and social media messages and emails, what you're really talking about is the full extent of human communication.
‐‐ Glenn Greenwald

Very few persons go through life without at least one big chance. The fact that so many do not grasp it is due more often to fear than to any other one thing.
‐‐ Vash Young

Very few pilots even know how to read Morse code anymore. But if a pilot could read Morse code, he could tell which beacon he was approaching by the code that was flashing from it.
‐‐ Mike Ferguson

Very few recognize science as the high adventure it really is, the wildest of all explorations ever taken by human beings, the chance to glimpse things never seen before, the shrewdest maneuver for discovering how the world works.
‐‐ Lewis Thomas

Very few societies on Earth developed science as we know it today. On the other hand, the number is not zero - the Greeks, the Chinese, and the Maya did, among others. Once invented, science proved so useful that it spread like mold on a petri dish.
‐‐ Seth Shostak

Very few species have survived unchanged. There's one called lingula, which is a little shellfish, a little brachiopod about the size of my fingernail, that has survived for 500 million years, but it's survived by being unobtrusive and doing nothing, and you can't accuse human beings of that.
‐‐ David Attenborough

Very few stories embody a human truth so definitively that we cannot think of the truth without remembering the story and cannot imagine how people ever got by without it.
‐‐ Michel Faber

Very few things are totally devoid of any possibility of humor. If you are aware of that possibility and alive to the scene becoming that way, then it just happens naturally. That's what I feel living is like, too. I find a lot of things that make me smile or make me laugh over the course of the day.
‐‐ Tom Drury

Very few things happen at the right time, and the rest do not happen at all. The conscientious historian will correct these defects.
‐‐ Herodotus

Very few women manage to have it all; certainly not all at once.
‐‐ Gail Sheehy

Very first thing in the morning, I spew some rough genius directly on to the laptop. Then I have coffee and rewrite for three hours.
‐‐ Kevin Barry

Very gifted people, they win and they win, and they are told that they win because they are a winner. That seems like a positive thing to tell children, but ultimately, what that means is when they lose, it must make them a loser.
‐‐ Joshua Waitzkin

Very good coaches for ski jumpers stand at the top of the slope and watch the jumpers prepare, rather than standing at the bottom and watching them land.
‐‐ Roland Joffe

Very good cooks who are employed as 'chefs' rarely refer to themselves as 'chefs.' They refer to themselves as 'cooks.'
‐‐ Alton Brown

Very good records exist about the Trail of Tears. Journals and other records kept by Cherokees and non-Indians tell such things as which people were where on which day.
‐‐ Joseph Bruchac

Very hard, very hard to represent a country, or carry out a policy that does not have consensus support.
‐‐ John Negroponte

Very intense first summer out, to be 18 years old and never having gone on a date, never having smoked a cigarette, never had a drink, even a sip of beer, never kissed a girl, all of those things. It made for a fairly intense first year out.
‐‐ Peter Jurasik

Very interesting for an old duffer like me to try his hand at something new. If I don't do that once in a while, I might just turn into a fossil, you know!
‐‐ Norman Rockwell

Very large scale disasters, especially those that have occurred in the developing world, have very long recovery periods.
‐‐ Irwin Redlener

Very learned women are to be found, in the same manner as female warriors; but they are seldom or ever inventors.
‐‐ Voltaire

Very likely education does not make very much difference.
‐‐ Gertrude Stein