Virginia Woolf Quotes
Yet there are moments when the walls of the mind grow thin; when nothing is unabsorbed, and I could fancy that we might blow so vast a bubble that the sun might set and rise in it and we might take the blue of midday and the black of midnight and be cast off and escape from here and now.Virginia Woolf
Quotes to Explore
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This creed of the desert seemed inexpressible in words, and indeed in thought.
T. E. Lawrence -
Ever since I was a kid, I wanted to make films. That's really all I ever wanted to do.
Gavin O'Connor -
I really think it is possible to make a very nice living by writing and not worrying about anything else.
J. A. Konrath -
These activists who support immigrants inadvertently become part of this international human-smuggling network.
Viktor Orban -
There were centuries when civilization had no theater.
Orson Welles -
I like me better naked. I don't mean that in a vain way... When you put clothes on, you immediately put a character on. Clothes are adjectives, they are indicators. When you don't have any clothes on, it's just you, raw, and you can't hide.
Padma Lakshmi
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Without understanding yourself, what is the use of trying to understand the world?
Ramana Maharshi -
It may well be our brains are wired up to be slightly more optimistic than they should be.
Vilayanur S. Ramachandran -
I will only think of settling down after Salman Khan, the other most eligible bachelor, plans to settle down. We are eligible bachelors, but he's the rock star, so let him get married first; then I'll think about myself.
Yuvraj Singh -
Men weren't always happy for me. It was very challenging to watch a woman be so successful.
Lady Gaga -
We were on the cover of Women's Wear Daily, which was hardly rock 'n' roll, but it pleased me.
Gary Kemp Spandau Ballet -
It's the 21st century. It's untenable to suggest that women had no significance and no interest and that just because they didn't vote they had no relevance to the course of our history.
Kate Williams
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I don't want to be liked. I want to be respected.
Jack Ma -
This uprising of 1976-77 was, of course, the historic watershed... Within a short period of time, it propelled into the forefront of our struggle millions of young people.
Oliver Tambo -
Cambridge was a joy. Tediously. People reading books in a posh place. It was my fantasy. I loved it. I miss it still.
Zadie Smith -
Scientific thought and its creation is the common and shared heritage of mankind.
Abdus Salam -
People have tried to corner the market on being offended, corner the market on language and corner the market on opinion. Should I lose my job 'cause I offended somebody? No, of course not. Your life should never be affected by public opinion.
Patrice O'Neal -
I don't wanna be Courtney Love - I wanna be Kurt Cobain.
Taylor Momsen
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My heroes are the camera crew and the electricians. They work such long hours.
Adam Baldwin -
On so many levels, acting in film and TV is so much the sum of its parts, and somewhere in there, there's an alchemical thing that makes something happen or not - that makes something connect or not. Now, of course you want to make work that people see, but the enjoyment I get out of acting is playing characters.
Eddie Redmayne -
I always considered programming as being like modern-day wizardry. You could think of things in your mind and then make them happen.
Jeff Minter -
The music critic, Huneber, could never quite make up his mind about a new symphony until he had seen the composer's mistress.
H. L. Mencken -
I am a big man, but I've allowed my condition to deteriorate by being overweight.
Colin Baker -
Yet there are moments when the walls of the mind grow thin; when nothing is unabsorbed, and I could fancy that we might blow so vast a bubble that the sun might set and rise in it and we might take the blue of midday and the black of midnight and be cast off and escape from here and now.
Virginia Woolf