Very Selective Quotes

#1. Couldn't you see me and you stretched out in a bikini on the beach in Tahiti?
See, me, I'm very selective even though I could be greedy;
My main objective is to write our names together in graffiti.

Pharoahe Monch

#2. A grateful heart is not one that is very selective and choosy about what to be grateful for.

Radhanath Swami

#3. There are so many different things out there trying to hook our attention, we writers have to be very selective and make certain that it is coming from inside out, not outside in.

Sue Monk Kidd

#4. I'm not a big shopper. I'm very very picky about what it is that I buy, I prefer to buy vintage and then I prefer to be very selective.

Jaime King

#5. One has to be very selective about what is essential for driving the story and what isn't. You leave out some things that are lovely, but unfortunately it is necessary.

David Barron

#6. I'm very closed off when it comes to working with people, I'm very selective.

Charli XCX

#7. I'm a painfully slow reader. And to this day, I mean, I love reading, and I'm very careful - very selective about what I read because I don't read very fast and, therefore, not a great deal.

Philip Schultz

#8. My daughter hasn't seen me with anybody in five years. I'm very, very selective when it comes to that because I want to make sure that it's real. I don't want her to see me with just anybody because she means everything to me.

Brandy Norwood

#9. I have really good managers and agents who are very selective in what they send me.

Michael Pena

#10. I don't taste and tell. Don't worry though. I'm very selective

Kallypso Masters

#11. I wanna be selective ... very selective. Right now, hip-hop's very boring to me. It's no excitement.

Timbaland

#12. We're developing a new citizenry. One that will be very selective about cereals and automobiles, but won't be able to think.

Rod Serling

#13. Not everyone can be trusted. I think we all have to be very selective about the people we trust.

Shelley Long

#14. A mind that is very selective to forms ... is apt to use its images metaphorically, to exploit their possible significance for the conception of remote or intangible ideas.

Susanne Katherina Langer

#15. Whatever the occasion, do not neglect alcohol. No other refreshment will do. Yes, alcohol kills brain cells, but it's very selective. It only kills the brain cells that contain good sense, shame, embarrassment, and restraint.

P. J. O'Rourke

#16. We as Americans and as humans have very selective hearing and very selective memory. We only hear what we want to hear and disregard the rest.

Frank Luntz

#17. Even though these days I'm very selective about what roles I want to do, I will do Stargate anytime they call.

Ronny Cox

#18. Power is domination, control, and therefore a very selective form of truth which is a lie.

Wole Soyinka

#19. Seth rolled his eyes. "Because you're such a ladies man."
"I can be. I just have standards, is all. I'm very selective about who I choose to spend time with, whereas you'll fuck anything that moves. And several things that don't.

Elle Parker

#20. Stanley Kubrick was very selective when he went into a close-up. Every director has his taste in a performance, but Stanley would explore a scene to find what was most interesting for him.

Tom Cruise

#21. Some on the Left can be very selective about the kinds of violence they oppose. For some of them, gun violence is a crime to be decried - unless it is committed by an 'aggrieved' victim against what they consider a corrupt institution.

Gary Bauer

#22. It is most critical for a woman, or for a man who is very sensitive and opens up his heart, to be very selective about the people they have sex with.

Frederick Lenz

#23. When they come to Europe, they are confronted by still closed borders. Thus, the concept of open borders is a very selective concept, one that is not taken seriously at all in the experience of non-Europeans.

Ulrich Beck

#24. We are being super selective on who we bring in and really just trying to hire the very best.

Brendan Iribe

#25. Everything you do, every thought you have, every word you say creates a memory that you will hold in your body. It's imprinted on you and affects you in subtle ways - ways you are not always aware of. With that in mind, be very conscious and selective.

Phylicia Rashad

#26. I've had a wonderful career and I'm very happy to have had all of the opportunities that I've had to tell stories and work for as long as I have. I'm sure there'll be a few more films but I'm happy that I'm able to be selective.

Angelina Jolie

#27. It's funny how you can intensely investigate one very particular thing, and then it can lead you to other things through links and stuff like that. It's like you're going on this selective, very precise detour. But then it is strange because with it being so quick, there must be a difference.

Jarvis Cocker

#28. Life is about choices. Choose your influences carefully. Be selective of everything you see, hear, read, and say. The very things we constantly surround ourselves with... we become. Reevaluate your influences your very life depends on it." ~Jason Versey

Jason Versey

#29. Memoir isn't the summary of a life; it's a window into a life, very much like a photograph in its selective composition. It may look like a casual and even random calling up of bygone events. It's not; it's a deliberate construction.

William Zinsser

#30. Selective literalism' is another attempt in a very long line of techniques designed and intended to shape God into our own image".

~R. Alan Woods [2012]

R. Alan Woods