Vera Quotes

#1. It's when you have friends that you can afford to be lonely. When you know a lot of people, loneliness becomes a luxury. It's only when you're forced to be lonely that it's bad.

Vera Caspary

#2. A fine glass vase goes from treasure to trash, the moment it is broken. Fortunately, something else happens to you and me. Pick up your pieces. Then, help me gather mine.

Vera Nazarian

#3. I've always tried to push myself technically and to push myself visually. That's been part of the journey.

Vera Wang

#4. It's a delicate thing for me, with how involved I am in social media and being a part of people's lives in a way that they want me to.

Vera Farmiga

#5. I'm loving the ingredients that are in Pantene, and it smells so good, and that's important to me. It has cassia and aloe vera. The cassia flower is really good for strengthening hair strands and the aloe is wonderful for moisturizing.

Sanaa Lathan

#6. My plan was to never get married. I was going to be an art monster instead. Women almost never become art monsters because art monsters only concern themselves with art, never mundane things. Nabokov didn't even fold his own umbrella. Vera licked his stamps for him.

Jenny Offill

#7. There's no wrong way to experience a film.

Vera Farmiga

#8. Impressing a bunch of snooty teenagers is a pretty lame life goal to have.

Vera Brosgol

#9. Whenever you go on a trip to visit foreign lands or distant places, remember that they are all someone's home and backyard.

Vera Nazarian

#10. Sometimes," Father Dibue said, "though everything is in the Lord's Hands, undoubtedly, there's the urgent need to administer the Holy Sacrament of the Last Rites. Otherwise, the humble servant of the Lord lingers, such as now, waiting for grace, for absolution.

Vera Nazarian

#11. You keep saying words like crazy and insane and risky, but Vera, the best things in life are all of those things. You can't reap big rewards if you don't take big risks.

Rachel Higginson

#12. As an actor, you're sort of the court-appointed lawyer for the character.

Vera Farmiga

#13. A woman is human. She is not better, wiser, stronger, more intelligent, more creative, or more responsible than a man. Likewise, she is never less. Equality is a given. A woman is human.

Vera Nazarian

#14. When tough times come, it is particularly important to offset them with much gentle softness. Be a pillow.

Vera Nazarian

#15. I think that films about faith made for faith-based communities have a certain tactic.

Vera Farmiga

#16. We should never be at the mercy of Providence if only we understood that we ourselves are Providence.

Vera Brittain

#17. You may look normal like everyone else, but you're not. Not on the inside.

Vera Brosgol

#18. Herbs and Seasonings Considered Safe For Dogs: Alfalfa Aloe Vera Anise Burdock Basil Calendula Catnip Caraway Seed Chamomile Cinnamon Cilantro Coriander

Elizabeth A. Patterson

#19. A boomerang returns back to the person who throws it.
But first, while moving in a circle, it hits its target.
So does gossip.

Vera Nazarian

#20. I started at the very highest level so the upper end is something I know very well. I know it instinctively. But all the years I was designing, it frustrated me that I could reach so few women.

Vera Wang

#21. However deep our devotion may be to parents or to children, it is our contemporaries alone with whom understanding is instinctive and entire.

Vera Brittain

#22. Stick around long enough to be someone's friend. Because true friendship, once recognized, in its essence is effortless.

Vera Nazarian

#23. She was imperfectly perfect.

Vera Roberts

#24. Dropped
and falling
from such
heights
for so
long
that
maybe
I will have
enough time
to learn
flying

Vera Pavlova

#25. I am less blindly confident than I once was, for I have been learning a truer estimate of myself, my failings and limitations, in these dark days. I have learnt to hope that if there be a Judgment Day of some kind, God will not see us with our own eyes, nor judge us as we judge ourselves.

Vera Brittain

#26. No role is more challenging, rewarding and inspiring than my real-life role as a mom and a wife.

Vera Farmiga

#27. Poetry should be written the way adultery is committed: on the run, on the sly, during the time not accounted for. And then you come home, as if nothing ever happened,

Vera Pavlova

#28. Love is eternal. It has been the strongest motivation for human actions throughout history. Love is stronger than life. It reaches beyond the dark shadow of death.

Vera Caspary

#29. Ruminants are a perfectly normal thing to possess when you live in upstate New York. It's just moving scenery. It's kind of like the equivalent of Great Danes. It's the way you keep your grass mowed. It's the way you keep your weed-whacking to a minimum.

Vera Farmiga

#30. There's just a deeper level of sophistication in the writing of female characters on TV.

Vera Farmiga

#31. I chase after inspiring stories.

Vera Farmiga

#32. Generative ideas emerge from joint thinking, from significant conversations, and from sustained, shared struggles to achieve new insights from partners in thought.

Vera John-Steiner

#33. I don't have a caustic sense of humor. What I find funny, that humor comes from a much gentler place.

Vera Farmiga

#34. We walked in wisdom with our shadows, in search of the dead part of ourselves, which would be our shelter.

Yvonne Vera

#35. I've been using the same thing I've used since I was a teenager, which is Cetaphil. I love Cetaphil's cleansing cream, face cream and aloe vera gel. Those are the three things I always use.

Bianca Lawson

#36. Chekhov, when it's done well and you're ready for it, can actually be quite funny.

Vera Farmiga

#37. Success isn't about the end result, it's about what you learn along the way.

Vera Wang

#38. The ocean is a place of skin, rich outer membranes hiding thick juicy insides, laden with the soup of being.

Vera Nazarian

#39. I adore the challenge of creating truly modern clothes, where a woman's personality and sense of self are revealed. I want people to see the dress, but focus on the woman.

Vera Wang

#40. I see myself as an arbiter of taste.

Vera Wang

#41. My husband is my best friend; he knows my sensibilities.

Vera Farmiga

#42. Tipsy actress Vera Charles (who had 'more changes of costume than facial expression,' according to one critic to whom she never spoke again) ...

Patrick Dennis

#43. Then again, when you were facing the right person? None of the things they talked about on television, no Vera Wang dress, no champagne waterfall, no DJ or place setting or party favor mattered. "'I,

J.R. Ward

#44. I always thought Uncle Vanya could be a stoned masterpiece.

Vera Farmiga

#45. Keep an open mind. Only an open mind is big enough to contain the secrets of the universe.

Vera Stanley Alder

#46. I think all religions can agree on certain definitions of God and concepts of God, like God being the god of love, the great 'I am' energy.

Vera Farmiga

#47. You ought to have a perspective when you're making a film.

Vera Farmiga

#48. Ready-to-wear is what I've wanted to do since the beginning ... I'm not a girl who spends my life in a ballgown

Vera Wang

#49. I was the girl who nobody thought would ever get married. I was going to be a fashion nun the rest of my life. There are generations of them, those fashion nuns, living, eating, breathing clothes.

Vera Wang

#50. I can think of few important movements for reform in which success was won by any method other than that of an energetic minority presenting the indifferent majority with a fait accompli, which was then accepted.

Vera Brittain

#51. There are a lot of people who haven't got the brains for their educations.

Vera Caspary

#52. I hate phones. All businesses are personal businesses, and I always try my best to get back to people, but sometimes the barrage of calls is so enormous that if I just answered calls I would do nothing else.

Vera Wang

#53. Do I pray? Yes. Prayer is very important to me.

Vera Farmiga

#54. Offers come all the time, but I'm pretty particular. I really have to be wowed by a character I encounter in a script, or a storyline. I really do need to feel inspiration, otherwise I'm just happy planting perennials and making goat cheese.

Vera Farmiga

#55. A sage is a former fool who has become tired of himself.
A foolish sage is one who forgets this.
Remember, or come full circle.

Vera Nazarian

#56. My mind was clear and penetrating at the time, for it was midnight, the hour at which I am most brave and most free.

Vera Caspary

#57. Freedom is not a license to act but a license to exercise free choices in any given situation.

Vera Nazarian

#58. Why, I wondered, do people who at one time or another have all been young themselves, who ought therefore to know better, generalize so suavely and so mendaciously about the golden hours of youth? That period of life when every sorrow seems permanent and every setback insuperable.

Vera Brittain

#59. Respect the young and chastise your elders. It's about time the world was set aright.

Vera Nazarian

#60. In the plains the grass grows tall, since there is no one to cut it. There is no one to water it either.

Vera Nazarian

#61. It's hard to balance everything. It's always challenging.

Vera Wang

#62. Not just as an actress, but on a human-being level, I've experienced frustration on many different levels. [With my] career, it would be more the frustration of not always finding challenging material or inspiring material ... [Acting is] therapeutic for me. I'm pretty accommodating.

Vera Farmiga

#63. The desert is a place of bones, where the innards are turned out, to desiccate into dust.

Vera Nazarian

#64. A wise person is like a smoothly polished rock: it takes time to become either.

Vera Nazarian

#65. Every story needs to be worth telling.

Vera Nazarian

#66. It's a very different thing, religion and faith. Religion is man-made, it's man-regulated. And faith, you can define God as you wish. But I think they're two different things.

Vera Farmiga

#67. Don't look for a soul mate.
Make one
out of the complex fabric of the human being already with you.
Instructions are never included. They vary with the strength of your ability to see, the measure of your selective blindness, the limits of your mercy, and the intensity of your desire.

Vera Nazarian

#68. Strange dreams are better than no dreams at all.

Vera Nazarian

#69. A new star has been born and Vera's performance brings alive the desolate life of O'Neil's young heroine in a natural talent that is so fresh and yet so ageless.

Rajiv Kapoor

#70. To me, eyewear goes way beyond being a prescription. It's like makeup. It's the most incredible accessory. The shape of a frame or the color of lenses can change your whole appearance.

Vera Wang

#71. Some women seem so voluptuous in every sense, richly bountiful and fertile with generous gifts of plenty, sensual and confident in their female strength that they are called "earth mothers."
That's how some days feel - when they are bountiful and fertile with the power of our imagination.

Vera Nazarian

#72. One step outside the gate, and we are among the sand-hills that stretch for miles and miles round Vera Cruz.

Edward Burnett Tylor

#73. We should've looked before," Vera says, her voice soft. "We could've saved you the trouble."

"Are you kidding? The trouble was the best part.

Emma Mills

#74. Luis hopes for heaven.
Keller fears hell.
Vera fears only death, and that because he takes such pleasure in life.

Don Winslow

#75. My closet is organized by tops, pants, and outerwear, but not a lot of dresses. Gowns are in another room because I don't often dress formally, even though I design gowns. Like most designers, I have a uniform, and mine is a legging.

Vera Wang

#76. The key is falling in love with something, anything. If your heart's attached to it, then your mind will be attached to it.

Vera Wang

#77. I've read a lot of war writing, even World War I writing, the British war poetry of Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon, Robert Graves's memoir "Goodbye to All That," and a civilian memoir "Testament of Youth" by Vera Brittain .

George Packer

#78. In Vera's presence people were inclined to like themselves, and as a result, to feel better.

I. Grekova

#79. I'm hooked on Polanski's films, his psychological thrillers. I love 'Rosemary's Baby,' I love 'Repulsion.'

Vera Farmiga

#80. A lot of childhood effort, worry, and whispering goes into cracking the codes of adult life. Children have to be accomplished spies.

Vera B. Williams

#81. What Vera doesn't know is: I'd kill to be a pickle on her Big Mac - ground to relish between her perfect white teeth.
I'd kill to be a bug she squishes with her holey Army-issue combat boot.
But she's too good for me. She always was.

A.S. King

#82. Let's be realistic, how many people are buying a $2,000 skirt? I love to design things that people can actually buy. I'm staggered by what a boot costs today.

Vera Wang

#83. There is a strange lack of dignity in conquest; the dull, uncomplaining endurance of defeat appears more worthy of congratulation.

Vera Brittain

#84. If Music is a Place
then Jazz is the City, Folk is the Wilderness, Rock is the Road, Classical is a Temple.

Vera Nazarian

#85. I brought color to bridal. There was one whole season of blush. If you think about the bareness, the illusion (fabric), the corsets that I did in bridal, they were trends in ready-to-wear, too.

Vera Wang

#86. College is a secluded life of scholastic vegetation

Vera Brittain

#87. I make things of my own that aren't that glam, but I'm not known for that, which has always been a bit of a frustration for me.

Vera Wang

#88. ... if necessary, the books shall be divided as follows:
you get the odd, I get the even pages;
"the books" are understood to mean the ones we used to read aloud
together, when we would interrupt our reading for a kiss,
and would get back to the book after half an hour ...

Vera Pavlova

#89. The different tempos and yeah, it's cadence. It's the way she moves through space, it's gestures.

Vera Farmiga

#90. It seems delightfully incongruous,' he wrote from Armentie'res, 'that there should be good shops and fine buildings and comfortable beds less than half an hour's walk from the trenches

Vera Brittain

#91. I love a black wedding dress.

Vera Wang

#92. I am happy.
I have something to accomplish, create, and achieve.
I am happy.

Vera Nazarian

#93. I love sportswear in my own weird way. Fashion is such a personal journey for me. I'm much more of a girl that's a T-shirt, legging, layering kind of thing, and outerwear.

Vera Wang

#94. An author who waits for the right 'mood' will soon find that 'moods' get fewer and fewer until they cease altogether.

Vera Brittain

#95. There seemed to be nothing left in the world, for I felt that Roland had taken with him all my future and Edward all my past.

Vera Brittain

#96. When hope is fleeting, stop for a moment and visualize, in a sky of silver, the crescent of a lavender moon. Imagine it
delicate, slim, precise, like a paper-thin slice from a cabochon jewel.
It may not be very useful, but it is beautiful.
And sometimes it is enough.

Vera Nazarian

#97. I hate being manipulated by song. Don't tell me what I should be feeling. I don't want cellos or violins to be telling me that I should be bawling right now.

Vera Farmiga

#98. The fears and anxieties and obsessions wrapped up in being a parent.

Vera Farmiga

#99. I like the gritty parts of fashion, the design, the studio, the pictures.

Vera Wang

#100. There was no relationship between a wedding dress and fashion. There was no good taste, either. I realized that I could make an impression in terms of changing and readdressing the whole industry of bridal.

Vera Wang