Not Very Quotes

#1. I think it is not very difficult to discern by the duties and converses of Christians, what frames their spirits are under. Take a Christian in a good frame, and how serious, heavenly, and profitable, will his converses and duties be! what a lovely companion is he during the continuance of it!

John Flavel

#2. I would say that the West is very young, it's very corrupt. We're not very wise. And I think we're hopeful that there is a place that is ancient and wise and open and filled with light.

Richard Gere

#3. I have a hard time keeping a story straight when I tell the truth because when you start lying you have to remember what you said, and I'm not very good at that.

Lisa Vanderpump

#4. Most of us will get turned on at night by the very same things that we will demonstrate against during the day - the erotic mind is not very politically correct.

Esther Perel

#5. Whatever the medium, if you have great taste and not very much skill, you can still make something great.

Kemp Muhl

#6. I suppose I have become a sort of living monument in Portugal. But I come from a family with roots all over the world, so the idea of patriotism is not very strong in me. My country is the country of Chekhov, Beethoven, Velasquez - writers I like, painters and artists I admire.

Antonio Lobo Antunes

#7. After a long period of not drawing, you have to, like, relearn how to draw. It's not very fun.

Bryan Lee O'Malley

#8. It's not very hard to be clever. It's far harder to be simple, obvious, and meaningful.

Jake Barton

#9. You know yourself, once you've had the excitement of riding thoroughbreds, it's not very interesting riding anything else. But I still love horses; I just don't have one any more.

Kate Thompson

#10. A team sport is not very good for me, because I can't take losing.

Donovan Bailey

#11. Late one brilliant April afternoon Professor Lucius Wilson stood at the head of Chestnut Street, looking about him with the pleased air of a man of taste who does not very often get to Boston.

Willa Cather

#12. I work a lot and I like to get out and work but the work I do to make the other work work I'm not very good at.

David Cross

#13. Maybe there's some kind of modeling that can be tedious, like catalogue modeling, but there's a kind of modeling, with runways or working with Richard Avedon, that's not very far from acting. Besides the fact that you don't have a partner to react to, the body language is the same.

Isabella Rossellini

#14. I'm not very much of a foodie; I like small amounts of delicious things, but I've never overeaten - I'd much rather have a glass of wine.

Felicity Kendal

#15. The early personal computers were not very powerful so the idea of feeding their program into a small amount of memory requires immense skill.

Bill Gates

#16. This is not very important what I'm doing. I'm just proving something.

Richard P. Feynman

#17. In this whole world, there are actually very few people who study meditation with an enlightened master. This is because there are not very many enlightened masters on the entire earth.

Frederick Lenz

#18. I'm not very good with drink recipes. If I'm entertaining, I like to come up with a house drink for the evening, one thing I'll make for the whole evening of the whole month.

Amy Sedaris

#19. It's not about weight, it's about fitness, and one component of being fit is to have relatively low body fat, because fat is not very efficient, whereas muscle is.

Deborah Bull

#20. It's a big dream for me to go home with two gold medals. It's not very easy as it looks like.

Michaela Dorfmeister

#21. I told my daughter that terrorists would love to attack Washington, but we, unlike the French, are an ocean away from Syria, that lots of smart people are working very hard to stop the terrorists, and that the terrorists are not very sophisticated.

Dana Milbank

#22. I grinned into the phone. "You like to think about a man making sweet love to my mouth? I think you have a problem, Ella bella." "If you don't know by now that I love you long time, Ollie, you are not very observant.

Janelle Stalder

#23. I am not very regimented unless I have to be. I wish I was someone that could just write every day, but I tend to work on specific projects for a specific period of time and then stop.

Adam Schlesinger

#24. At some future period, not very distant as measured by centuries, the civilized races of man will almost certainly exterminate, and replace the savage races throughout the world.

Charles Darwin

#25. The secret of Big Macs is that they're not very good, but every one is not very good in exactly the same way.

Joel Spolsky

#26. The mathematical education of the young physicist [Albert Einstein] was not very solid, which I am in a good position to evaluate since he obtained it from me in Zurich some time ago.

Hermann Minkowski

#27. Goals should be difficult to achieve because those achieved with little effort are seldom appreciated, give little personal satisfaction, and are often not very worthwhile. There is a price to be paid for achieving anything of significance.

John Wooden

#28. However, perhaps the main point is that you are under no obligation to analyse variance into its parts if it does not come apart easily, and its unwillingness to do so naturally indicates that one's line of approach is not very fruitful.

Ronald Fisher

#29. I was still not very experienced with women in spite of Shirl. No sisters, no serious girlfriends, no coed classes until graduate school. Shirl had been a total anomaly, a force of nature.

Jack Walker

#30. It turns out that if you optimize the performance of a car and of an airplane, they are very far away in terms of mechanical features. So you can make a flying car. But they are not very good planes, and they are not very good cars.

Gregory Benford

#31. My beauty secret is ... nothing! I don't drink too much water. I don't eat very well. Sometimes I cheat and grab some chocolate. The best thing is to eat what you want, but not very much.

Yoko Ono

#32. When you do a slasher film, you find yourself repeating the same kind of scene, then it becomes not very challenging and not very interesting.

Alexandre Aja

#33. The holy book he'd spent so much of his life preaching from had one cruel flaw: it was not very good at offering encouragement or hope to those who weren't religious.

Michel Faber

#34. I think we filmed a lot of the recording and it would be nice to do something with it but you know, videos are tricky because we know how to make albums but I'm not very good at video editing .

Jess Margera

#35. You're not very good for my ego".
"I think I'm perfect for your ego." I smile sweetly.

Kasie West

#36. Eating humble pie is not very enjoyable, and it is even less so eating it alone.

Jeffrey Fry

#37. If you cannot worship the Lord in the midst of your responsibilitie s on Monday, it is not very likely that you were worshiping on Sunday!

Aiden Wilson Tozer

#38. I am not very good at expressing myself in a simple way so it can create mis-understandings and I hate that.

Marion Cotillard

#39. It was not very unusual at Washington for a lady to take the arm of a gentleman, who was neither her husband, her father, norher brother. This remarkable relaxation of American decorum has been probably introduced by the foreign legations.

Frances Trollope

#40. What do you think of the criticism that you're not very good?

George Harrison

#41. While I'm not very talented at cooking, I am very talented at eating.

Jens Voigt

#42. I really hate being recognised. I'm quite a shy person, and I'm not very good at talking to strangers. So when people come up to me in the street, I just find it quite awkward. I don't really know what to say to them.

Hannah Murray

#43. Watching TV on your own is not very inspiring. But meeting people is where you get new ideas and get things done.

Richard Rogers

#44. On paper, my history says that my future was not very promising. But through grace, I have the opportunity to prove that where you start is not where you have to end up.

Kelly Price

#45. I was a sickly child, not very strong physically. I wasn't really the greatest in school. I didn't really excel in anything particularly. But I was happy with who I was.

Patti Smith

#46. I guess I haven't really done anything romantic for anyone. I think my boyfriend is more romantic than I am. I think little things like sending unexpected text messages, or when I'm out of town I send postcards. I think that's sweet ... but probably not very romantic.

Emma Roberts

#47. I've got a hangover, okay? So I'm not very ... It's not easy sometimes.

Kirsty Eagar

#48. Competing with other women wastes a lot of time, and I'm just not very good at it.

Sandra Bullock

#49. There are a lot of people in the field [ of horror stories] that I do read. There is a lot of stuff that is written in this field, though, that is not very good. You just have to look for the good stuff.

Stephen King

#50. I was very young when I was in RNBDJ and that journey had enabled me as an actor. I am not very confident of my growth as an actor but I am very confident of my growth as a person.

Anushka Sharma

#51. One of the things the 'Tao of Travel' shows is how unforthcoming most travel writers are, how most travelers are. They don't tell you who they were traveling with, and they're not very reliable about things that happened to them.

Paul Theroux

#52. I'm not very good at sticking at things if I can't be successful at them. I gave up on sport a long time ago.

Laura Wade

#53. I met some fans who said, 'Please start Twittering!' They even walked me through it, but I'm terrible at it. I'm so bad at keeping it up. I forget how to use it. And I'm not very savvy: I try to send a private message, and it goes out to everybody.

Jim Parrack

#54. I've got to be right on top of the action, or else all those people watching the game will say, 'This guy's not very good.'

Chick Hearn

#55. Ross said, "They play even during an attack. Not very good. But inspiring. Have you heard the Rebel yell?" Fremantle nodded. "Godawful sound. I expect they learned it from Indians.

Michael Shaara

#56. I'm not very good at strategizing.

Damian Lewis

#57. I never felt like I had a surface image to rely on that people would like - I always felt like my music would not be very fancy music, my voice is not very fancy, there is nothing hiding me from the audience.

Jeffrey Lewis

#58. It is not very comfortable to have the gift of being amused at one's own absurdity. LXXX

W. Somerset Maugham

#59. I don't find any presidents all that sexy. They're not very rock'n'roll.

Carmen Electra

#60. Let there be nothing within thee that is not very beautiful and very gentle, and there will be nothing without thee that is not beautiful and softened by the spell of thy presence.

James Allen

#61. Home has always been wherever I am. I'm not very attached to walls - or people, for that matter - so I've always loved travelling around. A book in my back pocket, a diary, and a pen is all I need to call any place home.

Lou Doillon

#62. I demo all of my songs on Garage Band, where I pretty much play everything - not very well, but I manage to hammer out a drum beat and a bass idea.

Jenny Lewis

#63. I am not very introspective.

Pierre Salinger

#64. In the music industry, you meet some not very nice people, some very strange characters.

Midge Ure

#65. Women tell men things that men are not very likely to find out for themselves.

Robertson Davies

#66. I've only been making records since 1991. When you look at the long-standing careers of people like Joni, it's not very long!

Sheryl Crow

#67. I'm into old-time music; I'm not very interested in modern, popular music at all. And if I'm really into some particular old-time musician, some fiddler or banjo player, I'm always dying of curiosity to see what they look like. So there's some connection between visual images and music.

Robert Crumb

#68. Never trust people who smile constantly. They're either selling something or not very bright.

Laurell K. Hamilton

#69. I do spend a great deal of time alone. I'm not very gregarious. I don't like parties and miscellaneous gatherings with no particular purpose. I think parties are largely a mistake. The bigger they are the more mistaken they are.

William S. Burroughs

#70. Those who fought know a secret about themselves, and it is not very nice.

Paul Fussell

#71. An awful lot of actors who are considered very good actors are not very good actors. There are people who just strike gold, they have intrinsic talent but the point is that if they did train ... it would only broaden them more.

Martin Landau

#72. Critics I don't understand. They get too intellectual. They're not very well-versed in street talk; it takes them longer to say it. So they have to do it in dictionaries and they take longer to say it.

David Bowie

#73. Can you tell me where to find Tobias'? I ask. When I imagine his face, affection for him bubbles up inside of me and all I want to do is kiss him. 'Four, I mean. He's so handsome, isn't he? I don't really understand why he likes me so much. I'm not very nice, am I?'
-Tris

Veronica Roth

#74. The Greek makes the distinction between petros and petra simply because it is trying to preserve the pun, and in Greek the feminine petra could not very well serve as a masculine name.

Frank E. Gaebelein

#75. Giant Wimbleweather burst into one of those not very intelligent laughs to which the nicer sort of Giants are so liable. He checked himself at once and looked as grace as a turnip by the time Reepicheep discovered where the noise came from.

C.S. Lewis

#76. My English is not very good-looking.

Celia Cruz

#77. I tend to avoid things like award shows and panels and interviews, not remotely because I feel I'm above them or wish to cultivate the image of the intriguing recluse. I'm just not very good at them.

Christopher Lloyd

#78. Age gives you an excuse for not being very good at things that you were not very good at when you were young.

Thomas Sowell

#79. I like very girly, retro inspired, feminine, floral things. I'm not very edgy.

Ariana Grande

#80. I'm not very actorish. I don't play actor 24 hours a day. When the job is done, I go on to be myself, whoever that is.

Raymond Burr

#81. Marriage is the last sacrament available to modern man, and with the terrible destruction of interpersonal relations by capitalism and its war-making State, it is not very available, nor is it surely enduring. But then, vision does not come with guarantees.

Kenneth Rexroth

#82. Chocolate thickens the saliva, which isn't good news if you've gotta recite Shakespeare or sing Iron Man. Having said that, you're not supposed to drink tea either but I still do before gigs. It's not very rock and roll, but it's like a magic potion to me.

Ozzy Osbourne

#83. I'm not a man of many words, I'm not very expressive or emotional, but it comes out in my music.

Kris Allen

#84. Don't you even watch gay porn?"

It was Ryan's turn to blush. "Not really. Sometimes. Not very often, though."

"Why not?"

He shrugged awkwardly. "It doesn't really turn me on."

"You need to watch better porn," Henry muttered.

Anna Martin

#85. The architecture or look fo a line is really important to me, and often ice can add something to the look of the wall. A dry rock wall is often not very dramatic. You add ice and snow and the features stand out in greater relief and it looks much wilder.

Jeff Lowe

#86. If I'm at a party, and there are lots of people running around, you'll most likely find me on the floor, painting ... I want to be at the party, but I want to do something. I'm just not very idle at all.

Alison Mosshart

#87. Peter was not very well during the evening. His mother put him to bed, and made some chamomile tea: One table-spoonful to be taken at bedtime.

Beatrix Potter

#88. 'We need to do more' is not very sophisticated thinking and not good sales management.

Jason Jordan

#89. And I'm not very coordinated, either. Only on ice skates, not in real life.

Julie Benz

#90. In general, Americans are not very good at nation-building and not very good colonialists.

Francis Fukuyama

#91. I'm not very much of a reader really, because I find much of it very bad, very uninteresting, very speculative.

Henning Mankell

#92. I like to play cards. I'm not very good, because I don't want to calculate, I just play by instinct. But I've learned a lot of business philosophy by playing poker.

Jack Ma

#93. The writers we tend to universally admire, like Beckett, or Kafka, or TS Eliot, are not very prolific.

John Updike

#94. Debates go on to this day about what caused the Great Depression. Economics is not very good at explaining swings in economic activity.

Eugene Fama

#95. The only guaranteed way to make something not very funny is to make it vague.

Thomas Lennon

#96. God, what a depressing day that was and what an irony that Britain's first female prime minister had to be Margaret Thatcher. She was the woman who asked, 'What has feminism ever done for me?' Well, dear, if you need to ask that question then you're obviously not very bright

Jo Brand

#97. Every letter was a love letter. Of course, as love letters went, this one could have been better. It was not very promising, for instance, that Madeleine claimed not to want to see him for the next half-century.

Jeffrey Eugenides

#98. I'm sorry my existence is not very noble or sublime.

Keanu Reeves

#99. When there were not very many Internet companies, the supply of Internet companies to the market was small and the appetite for them was large. Therefore, if you were in the business of creating Internet companies in 1996-98, you had a market that provided massive demand for that.

Fred Wilson

#100. I've started doing yoga and meditation, but I'm not very good at that kind of thing and turning my brain off.

Cara Delevingne