All Quotes

The very definition of 'beauty' is outside.
‐‐ Adam Carolla

The very definition of 'blackness' is as broad as that of 'whiteness,' yet we're seemingly always trying to find a specific, limited definition.
‐‐ Issa Rae

The very definition of the real becomes: that of which it is possible to give an equivalent reproduction. The real is not only what can be reproduced, but that which is always already reproduced. The hyper real.
‐‐ Jean Baudrillard

The very design of neoliberal principles is a direct attack on democracy.
‐‐ Noam Chomsky

The very desire for guarantees that our values are eternal and secure in some objective heaven is perhaps only a craving for the certainties of childhood or the absolute values of our primitive past.
‐‐ Isaiah Berlin

The very effect of the education they were given... was to make men think; and, thinking, they became less and less satisfied with the miserable pays they received.
‐‐ John Grierson

The very elements of what constitutes good nursing are as little understood for the well as for the sick. The same laws of health or of nursing, for they are in reality the same, obtain among the well as among the sick.
‐‐ Florence Nightingale

The very end of me mom's road is the back entrance to Bray Head. Usually climb it when I get home.
‐‐ Tristan MacManus

The very essence of architecture consists of a variety and development reminiscent of natural organic life. This is the only true style in architecture.
‐‐ Alvar Aalto

The very essence of civil liberty certainly consists in the right of every individual to claim the protection of the laws, whenever he receives an injury. One of the first duties of government is to afford that protection.
‐‐ John Marshall

The very essence of instinct is that it's followed independently of reason.
‐‐ Charles Darwin

The very essence of leadership is that you have to have vision. You can't blow an uncertain trumpet.
‐‐ Theodore Hesburgh

The very essence of literature is the war between emotion and intellect, between life and death. When literature becomes too intellectual - when it begins to ignore the passions, the emotions - it becomes sterile, silly, and actually without substance.
‐‐ Isaac Bashevis Singer

The very essence of political philosophy is the carving out of an ethical system - strictly, a subset of ethics dealing with political ethics. Ethics is the one rational discipline that demands the establishment of a rational set of value judgments; political ethics is that subset applying to matters of State.
‐‐ Murray Rothbard

The very essence of rationalism is that it assumes that the reason is the highest faculty in man and the lord of all the rest.
‐‐ Lyman Abbott

The very essence of the creative is its novelty, and hence we have no standard by which to judge it.
‐‐ Carl Rogers

The very exercise of leadership fosters capacity for it.
‐‐ Cyril Falls

The very existence of flame-throwers proves that some time, somewhere, someone said to themselves, You know, I want to set those people over there on fire, but I'm just not close enough to get the job done.
‐‐ George Carlin

The very existence of government at all, infers inequality. The citizen who is preferred to office becomes the superior to those who are not, so long as he is the repository of power, and the child inherits the wealth of the parent as a controlling law of society.
‐‐ James F. Cooper

The very fact that Barack Obama - an African-American - was twice elected to the presidency will always be the lead line in that hard-to-meld, gold-plated paragraph.
‐‐ Douglas Brinkley

The very fact that doctrine is hewn from bitter controversy and tested through time is sufficient reason to make them a focus of theology.
‐‐ Stanley Hauerwas

The very fact that I became mayor in 1977 conveys how you can't figure out what the people will do. Nobody thought I would be elected. When I entered I got four percent of the vote in the first poll, four percent.
‐‐ Ed Koch

The very fact that I've had those established me to continue on to do new music and new projects.
‐‐ Juice Newton

The very fact that we are having a national conversation about what we should eat, that we are struggling with the question about what the best diet is, is symptomatic of how far we have strayed from the natural conditions that gave rise to our species, from the simple act of eating real, whole, fresh food.
‐‐ Mark Hyman

The very fact that we find it hard to conceive of an alternative to limitless economic growth is an indication of our spiritual condition.
‐‐ Stanley Hauerwas

The very fact that women now form about one-fifth of the employes in manufacture and commerce in this country has opened a vast field of industrial legislation directly affecting women as wage-earners.
‐‐ Florence Kelley

The very fact that you are a complainer, shows that you deserve your lot.
‐‐ James Allen

The very first act of the Confederate Government was to send commissioners to Washington to make terms of peace, and to establish relations of amity between the two sections.
‐‐ Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar II

The very first audition, you just go in and sing. The second one, they give you this sort of cheapy, Walmart-looking puppet - before they give you the $6,500 'Avenue Q' puppet.
‐‐ Rob McClure

The very first big photo shoot I ever did was with Bruce Weber. I couldn't believe this guy was taking my picture, so when he told me to get in the bathtub, I just did. It's only now, looking back, that I realise, you don't have to do everything people tell you.
‐‐ Matt Damon

The very first concert I ever went to on my own was actually Rory Gallagher. In a one-month period in 1973 or '74, I saw him, Thin Lizzy and the Rolling Stones. I wasn't really a big Rory Gallagher fan, but I thought his guitar playing was fabulous. But Thin Lizzy, they were fabulous.
‐‐ Robert Smith

The very first concert I ever went to was a Green Day concert when I was 12 years old, at the Hershey Centre in Mississauga, Ont., and I remember right after seeing them perform I started a band, and I wanted to get up in front of people and start performing. Ten years later, to be on the Green Day 'American Idiot' tour is really awesome.
‐‐ Jake Epstein

The very first day that Hillary came over, we were working on a song called 'All We'd Ever Need.' But we never even thought about it until we had written 5, 6, 7 songs. Then we played our first show, and we all enjoyed it so much. We felt like it was something a special and different. So from there we decided to do Lady Antebellum.
‐‐ Dave Haywood

The very first film I ever saw was a pirate movie called 'The Black Swan' with Tyrone Power. And I thought that was great stuff. Of course, in those days, Technicolor was really Technicolor; there was no such thing as desaturation. Everybody looked super suntanned.
‐‐ Ridley Scott

The very first idea I ever had about making a film... my first thought about ever being a filmmaker was when I was sixteen years old and I wanted to make a Viking movie. And I wanted to make it in old Norse, which I was studying at the time. It's odd because at that age that's a stupidly ridiculous idea 'cause how will I ever be a filmmaker.
‐‐ Mel Gibson

The very first job I did, a Barbie commercial when I was eight or nine, that was like 'Oh my God.' Because when you're watching things on TV, you think it's like a fantasy. But then to actually do it and then see yourself, it's like 'Oh my God.'
‐‐ Bianca Lawson

The very first law in advertising is to avoid the concrete promise and cultivate the delightfully vague.
‐‐ Stuart Chase

The very first lead work that I made is called 'Land Sea and Air,' and is the enclosure of primal elements within that kind of carapace of lead.
‐‐ Antony Gormley

The very first lesson that I learnt from the Qur'an was the message of unity and peace.
‐‐ Cat Stevens

The very first movie that I ever saw in a theater was 'Snow White and the Seven Dwarves.'
‐‐ James Wan

The very first music I recorded by myself, when I was 17, I said it was by King Tuff.
‐‐ King Tuff

The very first pharmaceutical commercial I ever heard was 15 seconds of the product and 45 seconds of side effects, so I know that this cannot be good for you.
‐‐ Al Jourgensen

The very first proper play I did was 'Godspell,' and I played the guitar for it, and I had a small part in a high school play. And before that, in sixth grade, I wrote a musical about Noah's ark.
‐‐ Oscar Isaac

The very first role I ever played was as a 17-year old South African girl who dreamed of being a star and left home to meet her mother in the big city so that she could pursue that dream. I left South Africa and met my mother in Vancouver and not long after that was given the opportunity to perform on the stage and have people chant my name.
‐‐ Kandyse McClure

The very first schoolbook that was written had God all over it.
‐‐ Dave Mustaine

The very first show I did was 'Fame L.A.' Everyone had talent... it was either dancing or acting or something like that. I was a singer, so I got my first role.
‐‐ Christian Kane

The very first song I ever wrote was a song called 'Crazy' when I was 11 or 12 with my best girlfriends - we had a girl band. It was about loving a guy who everyone else thought you were crazy for being into.
‐‐ Tove Lo

The very first song I wrote was about a boy that I was obsessed with.
‐‐ Ellie Goulding

The very first step to building wealth is to spend less than you make.
‐‐ Brian Koslow

The very first stock I bought right out of college was Berkshire Hathaway.
‐‐ Christie Hefner