Virginia Woolf Quotes

What is this terror? what is this ecstasy? he thought to himself. What is it that fills me with this extraordinary excitement? It is Clarissa, he said. For there she was.

Virginia Woolf

• Terror
• Extraordinary
• Excitement

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• For me, the highest level of sexual excitement is in a monogamous relationship.

  

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• The amount of death terror experienced is closely related to the amount of life unlived.

  

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• I much prefer touring to anything else. Studio work is great, and can be hugely satisfying, but live work has the excitement and the lifestyle that I love.

  

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• The war on terror is the war in Afghanistan.

  

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• I love this life. I feel like I am always catching my breath and saying, 'Oh! Will you look at that?' Photography has been my way of bearing witness to the joy I find in seeing the extraordinary in ordinary life. You don't look for pictures. Your pictures are looking for you.

  

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• You don't talk to terror organizations!

  

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• One of the extraordinary things about human events is that the unthinkable becomes thinkable.

  

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• I just think Josephine Baker life story needs to be done. I think she was an extraordinary woman. To see someone who was basically a showgirl have the kind of lifestyle she had was extraordinary. I really think she made her own lifestyle.

  

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• An hour's terror is better than a lifetime of timidity.

  

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• It gives you hope in salvation and perspective in the life that we live today. It's nice to know there's good out there in a world full of terror and evil.

  

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• Be more splendid, more extraordinary. Use every moment to fill yourself up.

  

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• After much consideration, I am moving onward with a combination of disappointment at leaving behind a character I have loved playing for seven years and excitement of the new opportunities in acting and producing that lie ahead.

  

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• We should fight terror, by all means, but not at the cost of cutting off any chance of talks with the pragmatists.

  

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• I forget what killed it. I think it was her proposing to sacrifice the whole world for me. That is always a dreadful moment. It fills one with the terror of eternity.

  

  Oscar Wilde
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• When our eyes met, I felt that I was growing pale. A curious sensation of terror came over me. I knew that I had come face to face with some one whose mere personality was so fascinating that, if I allowed it to do so, it would absorb my whole nature, my whole soul, my very art itself.

  

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• The overall view of the human genome project has been one of great excitement and positive press, but there are people who have concerns that are quite reasonable, and they are frightened of things they don't understand.

  

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• The War on Terror is one of the most critical national security efforts in our history.

  

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• America's peak years of indigenous innovation ran from the 1820s to the 1960s. There were a few financial panics and two depressions, to be sure. But in this period, a frenzy of creative activity, economic competition and rapid growth in national income provided widening economic inclusion, rising wages for all, and engaging careers for most.

  

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• "Jazz" to begin with, is a really bad word... all the true musicians that really play jazz, jazz is the worst word for it. Jazz is a process. Jazz is a creative process. It's not so much a genre, but a way of expression.

  

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• Either God wants to abolish evil, and cannot; or he can, but does not want to.

  

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• What is this terror? what is this ecstasy? he thought to himself. What is it that fills me with this extraordinary excitement? It is Clarissa, he said. For there she was.

  

  Virginia Woolf
  • Terror
  • Extraordinary
  • Excitement