Virginia Woolf Quotes
Like" and "like" and "like"--but what is the thing that lies beneath the semblance of the thing?Virginia Woolf
Quotes to Explore
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I'm not too good at lying still in the sun.
Vince McMahon -
It is more from carelessness about truth than from intentionally lying that there is so much falsehood in the world.
Samuel Johnson -
Anyone who says there isn't pressure to look good as an actor in L.A. is lying.
Camilla Luddington -
I'm almost incapable of lying. I'd be a terrible spy.
Gary Oldman -
What we have to do, what at any rate it is our duty to do, is to revive the old art of Lying.
Oscar Wilde -
If you had told me I'd be making 62 tomorrow, I'd say you were lying.
Aaron Neville
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As a scholar I am interested in the philosophy of language, semiotics, call it what you want, and one of the main features of the human language is the possibility of lying.
Umberto Eco -
Cunning leads to knavery. It is but a step from one to the other, and that very slippery. Only lying makes the difference; add that to cunning, and it is knavery.
Ovid -
You can get through your whole day only around people who will tell you that you're wonderful. But pretty soon they're going to have to be lying about that.
Lara Flynn Boyle -
The only way that you can find any semblance of a rule, or make any semblance of your own rule, is to tear up the rulebook. Throw it out, burn it, throw it away, and make your own rules.
Ben Harper -
I do not have a child and all allegations saying so are false.
Janet Jackson -
The man in between waits between the two, not hearing the lie and not seeing the true. Unknowing what is and denying what seems, and there he will sleep, the man in between.
Neil Diamond
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The chief difference between horror fans and science fiction fans lies in why they won't walk backwards. A horror fan won't walk backwards because he knows he'll be knifed by a madman. A science fiction fan won't walk backwards because he knows he'll step on the cat.
Aaron Allston -
Of course a picture can lie, but only if you are not honest with yourself.
Andre Kertesz -
The power of propaganda is to say something enough times that it becomes the Big Lie.
Andrew Breitbart -
The idea that you're not a writer until you're published is a lie.
Andrew Vachss -
I love doing lesbian love scenes. Before I did my lesbian scenes in Gia, I talked to actresses who said love scenes are easier with another woman than a man. Bound's Gina Gershon and Jennifer Tilly said they'd lie there and discuss the sale at Barney's between takes.
Angelina Jolie -
I wanna read a good paper first thing in the morning. And if I see a lie about myself flash across the front of the cover, I don't think much of the rest of the newspaper.
Angelina Jolie
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I seem to have gathered up a stray lamb in my arms: you wandered out of the fold to seek your shepherd, did you, Jane?
Charlotte Bronte -
Acting like you don’t care is a whole lot easier when you don’t care.
Ally Carter -
I feel like once you go with a band, it's hard to go back. I just don't see myself performing without a band.
Syd -
Like" and "like" and "like"--but what is the thing that lies beneath the semblance of the thing?
Virginia Woolf