V Quotes
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“Very active in the label, maybe to a fault sometimes.”
“Very astute, Harry, but the mouth organ was only ever a mouth organ." - Albus Dumbledore”
Source: Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
“Very beautiful situations have developed using chaos as part of the enlightened approach. There is chaos of all kinds developing all the time... If you are trying to stop those situations, you are looking for external means of liberating yourself, another answer. But if we are able to look into the basic situation, then chaos is the inspiration, confusion is the inspiration.”
Source: The Pocket Chögyam Trungpa
“Very beautiful things become harder to like the more we give ourselves over to the spectacular, sexy, shocking, ultra-sensual, fashionable art and ethics of Modernity. So far as acquiring good taste is concerned, balance is a myth. Every blockbuster film a man watches makes the task of reading Paradise Lost and Jane Eyre seem more dull and more pointless.”
Source: Love What Lasts: How to Save Your Soul from Mediocrity
“Very beautiful things become harder to like the more we give ourselves over to the spectacular, sexy, shocking, ultra-sensual, fashionable art and ethics of Modernity. So far as acquiring good taste is concerned, balance is a myth. Every blockbuster film a man watches makes the task of reading Paradise Lost and Jane Eyre seem more dull and more pointless. Every Top 40 song he listens to makes Mozart and Bach more incomprehensible.”
Source: Love What Lasts: How to Save Your Soul from Mediocrity
“Very big business is in bed with very big government in Washington, and has more to do with what the average person sees, hears and reads than most people know.”
“very bright teeth as big and orderly as piano keys.”
Source: Dictation: A Quartet
“Very broadly speaking, you can put directors into two areas: One for whom you work, and the other with whom you work. And I prefer the latter, for obvious reasons.”
“Very broadly, literature concerns itself with the internal, cinema with the external.”
Source: The Rub of Time: Bellow, Nabokov, Hitchens, Travolta, Trump. Essays and Reportage, 1986-2016
“Very chivalrous. Thank you, Mr. Eaton.”
I bite down on the inside of my cheek. Mr. Eaton. That makes me feel like an old perv.
Or like my dad. Which is possibly the same thing.
But I don’t correct her, because the old perv part of me likes it.”
Source: Heartless
“Very clever implementation techniques are required to implement this insanity correctly and usefully, not to mention that code written with this feature used and abused east and west is exceptionally exciting to debug.”
“Very clever people are often very clever at creating rationalisations for insane beliefs.”
“Very close by the CMS shops, hidden about a quarter mile away in the woods, was the prison's rifle range. Correctional officers could spend quality time with their firearms down there, and the hammering of multiple rounds was typical background noise during our workdays. There was something unsettling about toiling away for a prison while listening to your jailers practice shooting you.”
Source: Orange Is the New Black: My Year in a Women's Prison
“Very close cousins like humans and chimps have almost all their genes in common. Slightly less close cousins like humans and monkeys still have recognizably the same genes. You could carry on right on down to humans and bacteria, and you will find continuous compelling evidence for the hierarchical tree of cousinship.”
“Very close, I want to hear your voice; and then I'll lose myself in the maelstrom of your eyes, your lips and your hair - you know it very well, you my beguiling siren and you rob me, mercilessly, of my thinking.”
“Very commonly I get queries. Somebody saw something of mine on YouTube and of course if there is a talk on YouTube, there aren't any footnotes - and they want to know why did you say this. Well if they bothered to look up something in print, they would've seen why I said that. If they ask for evidence, I just say well take a look and mention something they can read and that usually ends the conversation.”
“Very commonly substances are criminalized because they're associated with what's called the dangerous classes, you know, poor people, or working people.... Actually, the peak of marijuana use was as I said, in the seventies, but that was rich kids, so you don't throw them in jail. And then it got seriously criminalized, you know, you really throw people in jail for it, when it was poor people.”
“Very conscious of the fact that an effort was being made to destroy my mind, because I was deprived of books, deprived of any means of writing, deprived of human companionship. You never know how much you need it until you're deprived of it.”
“Very dangerous things, theories.”
“Very dangerous, very difficult, very scary, impossible, not worth trying, these and similar words should never be used by a person who wants to succeed at all costs!”
“Very deep. You should send that in to the Reader's Digest. They've got a page for people like you.”
Source: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Original Radio Scripts
“Very depressed today. Unable to write a thing. Menacing gods. I feel outcast on a cold star, unable to feel anything but an awful helpless numbness.”
Source: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath, 1950-1962
“Very devoted religious people are so extroverted, but at the same time, they're so repressed sexually and so conservative. I've never been able to understand that combination, but I'm fascinated by it.”
“Very different from other middle grade of YA stories I've read about slaves running during the 1800s. – Wandering Librarian”
Source: Running Out of Night
“Very difficult to understand American audience, what they like, what they don't like. Some movie I like very much, it doesn't work. Some movie I don't like, it gets big box office. Very difficult.”
“Very early I learned that you have to be true to yourself about what you care about--what you believe in. If you're not, you have nothing at all. You have to listen to that bird inside that tells you what's right. Patrick Swayze”
Source: The Fans' Love Story Encore
“Very early in life I became fascinated with the wonders language can achieve. And I began playing with words.”
“Very early in life, I fell in love with the landscape of the human face, where all the emotional states of life are to be found.”
“Very early in my childhood I associated poverty, toil, unemployment, drunkenness, cruelty, quarreling, fighting, debts, jail with large families.”
Source: The Pivot of Civilization in Historical Perspective: The Birth Control Classic
“Very early in my life I took the question of the relation of art to truth seriously: even now I stand in holy dread in the face of this discordance. My first book was devoted to it. The Birth of Tragedy believes in art on the background of another belief”
“Very early in my life it was already too late.”
“Very early in my life it was too late.”
Source: The Lover
“Very early in our children's lives we will be forced to realize that the "perfect" untroubled life we'd like for them is just a fantasy. In daily living, tears and fights and doing things we don't want to do are all part of our human ways of developing into adults.”
“Very early on, I understood that I secretly and mysteriously belonged to the world of cats.”
Source: Vanished Splendors: A Memoir
“Very early on I was interested in doing political art, but it was not feminist political art.”
“Very early on in this process though I studied acting in high school and college, soon after graduation, I walked away from the craft because I wanted to know that this is what I was supposed to do with my life.”
“Very early on, near the beginning of my writing life, I came to believe that I had to seize on some object outside of literature. Writing as a sylistic exercise seemed barren to me. Poetry as the art of the word made me yawn. I also understood that I couldn't sustain myself very long on the poems of others. I had to go out from myself and literature, look around in the world and lay hold of other spheres of reality.”
Source: The Collected Prose, 1948-1998
“Very early you come to the realization that nothing will ever take you away from yourself.”
Source: The Bascombe Novels: The Sportswriter, Independence Day, The Lay of the Land
“Very early, I knew that the only object in life was to grow.”
Source: The Woman and the Myth: Margaret Fuller's Life and Writings
“Very effective way to do this with a bunch of second graders, is take a picture of The Lion King for instance, and a teacher might say, 'Do you know that the music for this movie was written by a gay man?' The message is: I'm better at what I do, because I'm gay.”
“Very evil people cannot really be imagined dying.”
Source: Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life
“Very fair was her face, and her long hair was like a river of gold. Slender and tall she was in her white robe girt with silver; but strong she seemed and stern as steel, a daughter of kings. Thus Aragon for the first time in the full light of day beheld Eowyn, lady of Rohan, and thought her fair, fair and cold, like a morning of pale spring that is not yet come to womanhood.”
Source: THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING
“Very few [doctors] are men of science in any very serious sense; they're men of technique.”
“Very few alcoholics get into a treatment program until they are at the end of the rope, often when they feel like they are about to lose something that is important to them, namely a wife or their family. The same is true with those who are physically and verbally abusive.”
“Very few American parents give a crap about how they raise their kids. They put minimal effort into it. Who told you it's a good idea to buy a developing mind a video game?”
“Very few among us are noble, or even mature, in all parts of our nature at the same time.”
Source: A Star Danced
“Very few athletes have the chance to be brought into the White House.”
“Very few battles are won under ideal circumstances. You must practice, simulate, and prepare for the unknown, so that the unexpected will not derail you.”
“Very few beings really seek knowledge in this world. Mortal or immortal, few really ask. On the contrary, they try to wring from the unknown the answers they have already shaped in their own minds -- justifications, confirmations, forms of consolation without which they can't go on. To really ask is to open the door to the whirlwind. The answer may annihilate the question and the questioner.”
Source: The vampire Lestat
“Very few beings really seek knowledge in this world. Mortal or immortal, few really ASK. On the contrary, they try to wring from the unknown the answers they have already shaped in their own minds.”