All Quotes

Very little changed fundamentally, except that the proud German soldier had turned into a defeated bundle of misery and the great German army had disintegrated.
‐‐ George Grosz

Very little gets offered to me. I have to audition and bawl my eyes out. For 'Broadchurch,' the scene was Danny lying on the mortuary table. I can't remember the last audition I had where I didn't come out drenched in sweat, puffy-eyed.
‐‐ Andrew Buchan

Very little happens in my books.
‐‐ Peter Mayle

Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.
‐‐ Marcus Aurelius

Very little of what America does is actually bad, and I don't think it ever does anything anywhere that is intentionally bad. I mean, sometimes we make mistakes and bad judgments and kind of back the wrong regimes and things, but by and large what America does is really good.
‐‐ Bill Bryson

Very little useful science got done in the space station. NASA never did the experiments needed to develop the technologies required for a genuine interplanetary expedition: centrifugal gravity to avoid bodily harm and a truly closed biosphere.
‐‐ Gregory Benford

Very long ago our ancestors had moral systems. Our current institutions are only a couple of thousand years old, which is really not old in the eyes of a biologist.
‐‐ Frans de Waal

Very many researchers, including the front runners in gallium nitride, abandoned the development of gallium nitride-based devices. I have devoted myself to the study of crystal growth, aiming at the development of the p-n junction of gallium nitride.
‐‐ Isamu Akasaki

Very much alone in my work, I am almost jealous of it.
‐‐ Yves Tanguy

Very much as men project weird fantasies on women, the people in New York project weird fantasies on California.
‐‐ Carolyn See

Very much like that, and very much a loner, do you know and I didn't fit really into sport or all kind of group activities as a kid, I couldn't find a niche. And music was not really part of the kind of village curriculum it would, you know.
‐‐ Eric Clapton

Very much, string theory is simply a work in progress. What we are inching toward every day are predictions that within the realm of current technology we hope to test. It's not like we're working on a theory that is permanently beyond experiment. That would be philosophy.
‐‐ Brian Greene

Very narrow areas of expertise can be very productive. Develop your own profile. Develop your own niche.
‐‐ Leigh Steinberg

Very near Auch, Lectoure, and Mirande, great fire will fall from the sky for three nights. A most stupendous and astonishing event will occur. Very soon afterwards, the earth will tremble.
‐‐ Nostradamus

Very notable was his distinction between coarseness and vulgarity, coarseness, revealing something; vulgarity, concealing something.
‐‐ E. M. Forster

Very often a change of self is needed more than a change of scene.
‐‐ A. C. Benson

Very often a job will come along that speaks to the place you're in as a person at that very moment. And usually once I've done it I feel like that part is over.
‐‐ Martha Plimpton

Very often, actors have to face being rejected time and again, and we must remember that the red carpet lasts just a minute.
‐‐ Rhys Ifans

Very often as a little girl, then as a young woman, I have suffered my lot of discrimination. I was brought up with brothers; I grew up in a boys' world. You have to elbow your way in. When you come with that sentiment of having been in a minority for a long period of time, then you are much more attentive to minorities.
‐‐ Christine Lagarde

Very often, as I wander through life, I'll get that old feeling that I've come back from the future, and I'm living in the past. And it's a really horrible feeling.
‐‐ George M. Church

Very often at the end of 'The Sopranos' you get the feeling that its not under control, you should be very worried, and life is kind of really, really messed up at lot of times. It leaves you feeling very disconcerted. That was kind of the point of it.
‐‐ Terence Winter

Very often, human beings are living like on autopilot, reacting automatically with what happens. What interests me about the life of an explorer is you are in the unknown; you are out of your habits.
‐‐ Bertrand Piccard

Very often, I don't make it through moments of recording because it is genuinely funny and absolutely ridiculous that a 60-year-old grown man is making these noises.
‐‐ David Ogden Stiers

Very often I'll find out at the end of a book what I put in at the beginning. A sort of process of elimination and discovery in one.
‐‐ Jonathan Carroll

Very often, I recognize many, many defects, so I try to improve myself every day. I think my voice is very communicative.
‐‐ Andrea Bocelli

Very often I suspend my musical sensibilities to enjoy music as a fan.
‐‐ Billy Sheehan

Very often I've known people who wouldn't say a word to each other, but they'd go to see movies together and experience life that way.
‐‐ Martin Scorsese

Very often, if I know the orchestra doesn't know a piece or it's a new piece, I have main ideas about it. But then we start to play and I never talk about places where they played so beautiful and so clear in the beginning that there is nothing to say.
‐‐ Kurt Masur

Very often in Chekhov, where he exhibits a little bit of human behavior that you recognize as true, you give a little laugh. It's like a reflex.
‐‐ Tom Stoppard

Very often it's really inconvenient - who you fall in love with. You can't really control it.
‐‐ Jackson Browne

Very often my weekends are spent performing on Saturday, on stage in the afternoon and again in the evening.
‐‐ Simon Callow

Very often, organizations are inflexible because there is too little communication between functions; they are too segregated.
‐‐ Ken Robinson

Very often out of adversity that's when the best work comes.
‐‐ Tom Cochrane

Very often, overweight children have parents who are struggling with weight issues.
‐‐ Lisa Ling

Very often, people are obsessed with what others think of them. It's like if a flower wants to be a cactus or a palm but it's not. A flower is a flower, and that's enough. That's all you have to do is be a flower.
‐‐ Stjepan Hauser

Very often, people talk about mothers, and they think that mother has to lose her sexuality. Mother has to be plain. Mothers cannot be exciting. Mother should not be up on what's going on; she shouldn't know the jargon of the day. And I just find that so old-fashioned!
‐‐ Sheryl Lee Ralph

Very often, people will come out and say, 'Greeks aren't doing things, Greeks aren't making changes, there's no reform,' That is hogwash. We have made a huge effort. The Greek people have made a huge effort.
‐‐ George Papandreou

Very often, say what you will, a knave is only a fool.
‐‐ Voltaire

Very often some of the religious miracle plays you see on television can be very corny, I find. And so simplistic.
‐‐ Robert Duvall

Very often the Group actor is a critic when he's acting and an actor when he's criticizing.
‐‐ Elia Kazan

Very often, the judgments by ordinary citizens may be better than those by professional economists, being more rooted in reality and less narrowly focused.
‐‐ Ha-Joon Chang

Very often the law of extremity demands an attention to irrelevance.
‐‐ Janet Frame

Very often there's this misapprehension about actors being people that need to display themselves, to reveal themselves in public.
‐‐ Daniel Day-Lewis

Very often, things that people may think come from the writer, very often don't. There's a lot of cooks in the kitchen when it comes to making a movie. When you hear a line of dialogue that sounds kind of tinny, it's pretty easy to cite the screenwriter. But there's a lot of stuff that goes into making a movie.
‐‐ Evan Daugherty

Very often we developed a better grasp of the subjects than the over worked teachers.
‐‐ Albert Bandura

Very often we see coaches who have not been successful being recycled, instead of looking to a new face or a new name who has demonstrated the ability to handle the job.
‐‐ Lynn Swann

Very often, we think of leadership being at the very top of an organisation. I think what's unique about ABG is that we have a very strong cadre of leaders across the organisation who are highly empowered and therefore play a very major role in the growth and evolution of the organization.
‐‐ Kumar Mangalam Birla

Very often when a story really holds us, it gets pushed away because it's too close for comfort.
‐‐ Mike Nichols

Very often when I go in to meet for movies or pilots, I'm put on videotape. I hate the notion that that tape is going to sit on a shelf and never get better.
‐‐ David Ogden Stiers

Very often when you see families it's all perfect and neat, and parenting isn't like that. You do have constant negotiations. Things are ever developing and ever changing, and you constantly have to evaluate how you deal with your kids.
‐‐ Clive Owen