All Quotes

A very great Iliad... concerns the creation of a nation.
‐‐ Raymond Queneau

A very large majority of the U.S. population is in favor of establishing diplomatic relations with Cuba and has been for a long time with some fluctuations. And even part of the business world is in favor of it, too. But the government won't allow it.
‐‐ Noam Chomsky

A very large percentage of economic activity is shifting online and it makes sense that there are more services that are going to charge. It also means there are going to be more people willing to pay.
‐‐ Marc Andreessen

A very painful part of being a parent is having really negative feelings about your children when you love them so much.
‐‐ Louis C. K.

A very powerful mechanism to get elected is to play on anger and pick those wedge issues.
‐‐ Justin Trudeau

A very powerful theme in fiction is that of loss.
‐‐ Alexander McCall Smith

A very quiet and tasteful way to be famous is to have a famous relative. Then you can not only be nothing, you can do nothing too.
‐‐ P. J. O'Rourke

A very receptive state of mind... not unlike a sheet of film itself - seemingly inert, yet so sensitive that a fraction of a second's exposure conceives a life in it.
‐‐ Minor White

A very small cause which escapes our notice determines a considerable effect that we cannot fail to see, and then we say that the effect is due to chance.
‐‐ Henri Poincare

A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.
‐‐ Stendhal

A very subtle difference can make the picture or not.
‐‐ Annie Leibovitz

A very successful woman, Palin has the wherewithal to move forward consciously. What she did was move forward thoughtlessly and overconfidently, without considering that her abilities or qualifications would ever be questioned.
‐‐ Rebecca Traister

A very wise author once said that a writer writes for himself, and then publishes for money. I write for myself and publish just for the reader.
‐‐ Guillermo Cabrera Infante

A veteran journalist has never had time to think twice before he writes.
‐‐ George Bernard Shaw

A vibrant civil society can challenge those in power by documenting corruption or uncovering activities like the murder of political enemies. In democracies, this function is mostly performed by the media, NGOs or opposition parties.
‐‐ Evgeny Morozov

A victim is a victim is a victim. We should stop setting up standards that say we will have one standard of law enforcement for one group of victims but not for another.
‐‐ Patrick Leahy

A Victory without danger is a triumph without glory.
‐‐ Pierre Corneille

A video taped stage performance is just - you know, it's never gonna be the same as it is if you're sitting there live in the theatre.
‐‐ Nathan Lane

A view of nature as dense and nonlinear is at the core of our contemporary science. Process and order emerge subtly.
‐‐ Gregory Benford

A viewer who skips the advertising is the moral equivalent of a shoplifter.
‐‐ Nicholas Johnson

A vigorous five-mile walk will do more good for an unhappy but otherwise healthy adult than all the medicine and psychology in the world.
‐‐ Paul Dudley White

A vigorous temper is not altogether an evil. Men who are easy as an old shoe are generally of little worth.
‐‐ Charles Spurgeon

A vile and overbearing temper becomes sometimes, in one long accustomed to the exercise of power, unendurable to those who are subject to its humors.
‐‐ Samuel Freeman Miller

A villain can be stylish, and his actions don't have to be explained. Heroes are boring in comparison, even anti-heroes, as there's always a justification for their bad actions.
‐‐ Dhanush

A villain to me is someone who actively seeks to hurt someone or does things for his own gain.
‐‐ Nikolaj Coster-Waldau

A virtue to be serviceable must, like gold, be alloyed with some commoner, but more durable alloy.
‐‐ Samuel Butler

A virtuous character is likened to an unblemished flower. Piety is a fadeless bud that half opens on earth and expands through eternity. Sweetness of temper is the odor of fresh blooms, and the amaranth flowers of pure affection open but to bloom forever.
‐‐ Dorothea Dix

A virulent, aggressive minority has decided that Americans don't know themselves what it is they should see, and need to be protected by people who are wiser than they are, even if they are only a tiny sliver of the population.
‐‐ Jock Sturges

A virus is not just DNA; a virus is also packaged up, covered over with a series of proteins in a nice, elegant, well-compacted form.
‐‐ Francis Collins

A vision is not just a picture of what could be; it is an appeal to our better selves, a call to become something more.
‐‐ Rosabeth Moss Kanter

A vision of truth which does not call upon us to get out of our armchair - why, this is the desideratum of mankind.
‐‐ John Jay Chapman

A visionary is someone who can see the future, or thinks he sees the future. In my case, I use it and it comes out right. That doesn't come from daydreams or dreams, but it comes from knowing the market and knowing the world and knowing people really well and knowing where they're going to be tomorrow.
‐‐ Leonard Lauder

A visit to a cinema is a little outing in itself. It breaks the monotony of an afternoon or evening; it gives a change from the surroundings of home, however pleasant.
‐‐ Ivor Novello

A visit to Israel is always an experience in cognitive dissonance. The Israel you personally see and hear is so completely different from the Israel you read and hear about in the media.
‐‐ Alan Dershowitz

A visitor from Mars could easily pick out the civilized nations. They have the best implements of war.
‐‐ Herbert V. Prochnow

A visual image in the hand of an artist is merely a tool to trigger a mental image.
‐‐ Roy H. Williams

A visual image is a simple thing, a picture that enters the eyes.
‐‐ Roy H. Williams

A visual sense is something you either have or you don't.
‐‐ Elliott Erwitt

A visual understanding of great composition and how to use a camera and expensive lenses can be learned, but drive and a real hunger for making photos and telling stories... I don't think that part can be learned. You either have that inside, or you don't.
‐‐ Aaron Huey

A vital step for the technology sector is to signpost legitimate search options far more clearly and to delete links to sites that promote illegally sourced content.
‐‐ David Puttnam

A vitamin is a substance that makes you ill if you don't eat it.
‐‐ Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

A voice can also repel, infuriate or actually make a listener ill.
‐‐ Johnny Olson

A voice expressing emotion in a musical way moves on. It's like the finale of the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) - the world turns in on itself, as a universe unto itself, in the shape of one human being.
‐‐ Dwight Yoakam

A voice in my head tells me that I'm at the twilight of an extraordinary life. I say extraordinary because of the people who have loved me. I say twilight because of what people say to me in the supermarket.
‐‐ Charles Nelson Reilly

A voice is a human gift; it should be cherished and used, to utter fully human speech as possible. Powerlessness and silence go together.
‐‐ Margaret Atwood

A voice is such a deep, personal reflection of character.
‐‐ Daniel Day-Lewis

A voice is very intimate. It's something of your own. So there's always this fear, because you feel naked. There's a fear of not reaching up to expectations. As you become more famous, people come and expect to hear something extraordinary, so you don't want to disappoint them. I feel this sense of responsibility.
‐‐ Andrea Bocelli

A volume of stories, bereft of continuity in plot and character, is often unified only by the writer's obsessiveness.
‐‐ Max Apple

A vote for Eric Cantor is a vote for open borders. A vote for Eric Cantor is a vote for amnesty.
‐‐ Dave Brat

A vote for Japan is a vote for the future of rugby. We will do our best to make rugby a global sport.
‐‐ Yoshiro Mori