Virginia Woolf Quotes

Like" and "like" and "like"--but what is the thing that lies beneath the semblance of the thing?

Virginia Woolf

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• I'm not too good at lying still in the sun.

  

  Vince McMahon
  • Good
  • Sun
  • Lying

• It is more from carelessness about truth than from intentionally lying that there is so much falsehood in the world.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • World
  • Truth
  • Lying

• Anyone who says there isn't pressure to look good as an actor in L.A. is lying.

  

  Camilla Luddington
  • Good
  • Lying
  • Pressure

• I'm almost incapable of lying. I'd be a terrible spy.

  

  Gary Oldman
  • Lying
  • Almost
  • Spy

• 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
  • Art
  • Old
  • Rate

• If you had told me I'd be making 62 tomorrow, I'd say you were lying.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Me
  • Lying
  • Say

• 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
  • Language
  • Philosophy
  • Lying

• 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
  • Lying
  • Very
  • Step

• 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
  • People
  • Pretty
  • Day

• 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
  • Up
  • Rule
  • Throw

• I do not have a child and all allegations saying so are false.

  

  Janet Jackson
  • Children
  • Lying
  • Allegations

• 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
  • Men
  • True
  • Sleep

• 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
  • Why
  • Science
  • Lies

• Of course a picture can lie, but only if you are not honest with yourself.

  

  Andre Kertesz
  • Picture
  • Lying
  • Honest

• The power of propaganda is to say something enough times that it becomes the Big Lie.

  

  Andrew Breitbart
  • Power
  • Enough
  • Lying

• The idea that you're not a writer until you're published is a lie.

  

  Andrew Vachss
  • Ideas
  • Lying

• Don't run if you can walk. Don't walk if you can stand. Don't stand if you can sit. Don't sit if you can lie down.

  

  Lou Holtz
  • Running
  • Lying
  • Ifs

• 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
  • Men
  • Lying
  • Scene

• I can say that it's 10 miles from my home to Trinity, when in fact that's not quite right, it's off by about 10%, but nobody would say that I'm telling a lie or making a mistake when I rounded off because that's the way we speak and rounded off terms regularly.

  

  D. A. Carson
  • Home
  • Mistake
  • Lying

• I knew that I couldn't lie beside her, without wanting to touch her. I couldn't have felt her breath come upon my mouth, without wanting to kiss her. And I couldn't have kissed her, without wanting to save her.

  

  Sarah Waters
  • Lying
  • Kissing
  • Felt

• Miracle is the pet child of faith.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Faith
  • Child
  • Miracle

• It is a wonderful thing to see a first-rate philosopher at prayer. Tough-minded thinking and tenderhearted reverence are friends, not enemies. We have for too long separated the head from the heart, and we are the lesser for it. We love God with the mind and we love God with the heart. In reality, we are descending with the mind into the heart and there standing before God in ceaseless wonder and endless praise. As the mind and the heart work in concert, a kind of loving rationality pervades all we say and do. This brings unity to us and glory to God.

  

  Soren Kierkegaard
  • Friends
  • Reality
  • Prayer

• Like" and "like" and "like"--but what is the thing that lies beneath the semblance of the thing?

  

  Virginia Woolf
  • Lying
  • Semblance