Vera Quotes

Philosophiae servias oportet, ut tibi contingat vera libertas. (Epicurus)
It's for all the women who embrace my aesthetic, but can't afford a Vera Wang dress. If women can get anything out of it - a little bit of me or a lot of me, that's what's important. View quote
Vera Wang
The one good thing is that I get a lot more good scripts coming through my letterbox. 'Vera Drake' raised my profile in one way, and then 'Harry Potter' in another. View quote
Imelda Staunton
Im loving the ingredients that are in Pantene, and it smells so good, and thats 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. View quote
Sanaa Lathan
But the room seemed so poor, pleading for warmth and joy. Vera Rivken's room. She had been nice to Arturo Bandini, and she was poor. I took the small roll from my pocket, peeled off two one dollar bills, and laid them on the table. Then I walked down the stairs, my lungs full of air, elated, my muscles so much stronger than ever before. View quote
John Fante
Far down the street I saw the building where Vera lived. Hanging from the wall, like a man crucified, was the bed. View quote
John Fante
The name on the mailbox was Vera Rivken, and that was her full name. It was down on the Long Beach Pike, across the street from the Ferris Wheel and the Roller Coaster. Downstairs a poolhall, upstairs a few single apartments. No mistaking that flight of stairs; it possessed her odor. The banister was warped and bent, and the grey wallpaint was swollen, with puffed places that cracked open when I pushed them with my thumb. View quote
John Fante
Many in my family were ambivalent about it, but my mother encouraged me to put aside my fears. Vera (my wife) and I finally decided to leave Utah, where we were very happy, take a 40 per cent salary cut and move to the Laboratory of Molecular Biology at Cambridge. View quote
Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
His ancient, trusty, drouthy crony: Tam lo'ed him like a vera brither- They had been fou for weeks thegither. View quote
Robert Burns
As far as I know, Vera Miles had a terrible time with Hitchcock, and she wanted to get out of the contract. He didn't let her. She did 'Psycho,' and I believe, if you look at 'Psycho,' there isn't one close up of Vera, not one. After that, she would never even speak about him to anyone. View quote
Tippi Hedren
One step outside the gate, and we are among the sand-hills that stretch for miles and miles round Vera Cruz. (Edward Burnett Tylor)
Whenever anything disagreeable is happening in the country, Vera Cruz is sure to get its full share. View quote
Edward Burnett Tylor
My dresses are designed to win, so going through it, I think about, what do I want to represent? So, definitely, Vera Wang has been an inspiration for me. View quote
Venus Williams
I always finish off my look with a spritz of Vera Wang Pink Princess. View quote
Bella Thorne
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 . View quote
George Packer
[I]t will not do to act as if the moral question was not the supreme question in public life, and, in a sense, the vera causa of party conflict. View quote
John W. Campbell
Oooh noo, please, it's wicked to mock the afflicted! Well it might be one of your own! Don't laugh at her, she might want paying - I told her this was an audition! She's known to me as Madam Vera Roper, but she's known to everyone else as The English Open! View quote
Frankie Howerd