Virginia Woolf Quotes

Chastity ... has, even now, a religious importance in a woman's life, and has so wrapped itself round with nerves and instincts that to cut it free and bring it to the light of day demands courage of the rarest.

Virginia Woolf

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• The cutting room is where you discover the optimal length of the movie.

  

  Harold Ramis
  • Movie
  • You
  • Cutting

• The Normans came over, lance in hand, burning and trampling down every thing before them, and cutting off the Saxon dynasty and the Saxon nobles at the edge of the sword; but the right of petition remained untouched.

  

  Caleb Cushing
  • Hand
  • Cutting
  • Down

• People place such importance on the external. It's disgusting.

  

  Tab Hunter
  • People
  • Place
  • Importance

• I don't like laziness or cutting corners.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • Like
  • Cutting
  • Corners

• In so far as the government lands can be disposed of, I am in favor of cutting up the wild lands into parcels so that every poor man may have a home.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Up
  • May
  • Home

• I think you can really tell a good actor if you can put a camera on them and they can just talk and emote and react and you don't have to keep cutting away from them, because they are the language and the behavior. It's all a tour-de-force performance.

  

  Sally Kirkland
  • Good
  • Language
  • Cutting

• Notes are tricky in an audition, because I find, more often than not, my instinct is right.

  

  Lance Reddick
  • Find
  • Instinct
  • Notes

• Republicans in Congress boosted the economy by cutting taxes and ending programs that don't work.

  

  Zach Wamp
  • Work
  • Cutting
  • Taxes

• You don't create jobs by passing bills, you create jobs by cutting taxes.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • You
  • Cutting
  • Create

• I thought it was a wonderful line - right on the cutting room floor.

  

  Natalie Wood
  • Thought
  • Cutting
  • Room

• There's an audience out there for all these different types of things. Whether it's comedy, motion-picture drama, family movie or a cool, cutting-edge indie, it's nice to know that I can span all those different genres.

  

  Ralph Macchio
  • Different
  • Family
  • Movie

• We have seven pillars of development. India has a cutting edge information technology industry. We are setting up a technology park. We would like to see technology penetration iin education. Besides, we would like to see cooperation in industries like fashion, filmmaking, ship-building, education, health and energy.

  

  Kamla Persad-Bissessar
  • Up
  • Energy
  • Education

• My role as Ewan McGregor's girlfriend in the film 'Incendiary' ended up on the cutting-room floor, but at least I had two brilliant days of acting with Ewan.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Up
  • Film
  • Acting

• Cutting up fowl to predict the future is, if done honestly and with as little interpretation as possible, a kind of randomization. But chicken guts are hard to read and invite flights of fancy or corruption.

  

  Ian Hacking
  • Up
  • Done
  • Future

• What is now reason was formerly impulse or instinct.

  

  Ovid
  • Reason
  • Now
  • Instinct

• It's quite complicated and sounds circular, but we've worked out a way of calculate a Web site's importance.

  

  Larry Page
  • Way
  • Importance
  • Complicated

• Many of us who have cars have felt some form of extreme anger at other drivers because we feel they have put us in harm's way. We might even envision ramming their cars or cutting them off in return, but do we actually do it? No, because the overwhelming majority of us never want to take another human life.

  

  Taya Kyle
  • Life
  • Want
  • Cutting

• Love is a sickness full of woes, All remedies refusing; A plant that with most cutting grows, Most barren with best using.

  

  Samuel Daniel
  • Love
  • Best
  • Plant

• Three simple words - freedom, justice and honesty. These sum up what the Liberal Democrats stand for.

  

  Charles Kennedy
  • Up
  • Words
  • Freedom

• You can create a good impression on yourself by being right . . . but for creating a good impression on others there's nothing to beat being totally and catastrophically wrong.

  

  Michael Frayn
  • Nothing
  • Create
  • Creating

• When I was on Broadway, people would really just recognize me around the theater. When you're showing up on commercials and posters, the scope of people recognizing you gets a little wider.

  

  Dan Fogler
  • People
  • Theater
  • Broadway

• Tis true among fields and woods I sing, Aloof from cities--that my poor strains Were born, like the simple flowers you bring, In English meadows and English lanes.

  

  Alfred Austin
  • True
  • Simple
  • English

• To me, it is very important to have perfume in which it is hard to recognize a particular flower or scent. That gives a touch of mystery.

  

  Isabella Rossellini
  • Mystery
  • Touch
  • Perfume

• Chastity ... has, even now, a religious importance in a woman's life, and has so wrapped itself round with nerves and instincts that to cut it free and bring it to the light of day demands courage of the rarest.

  

  Virginia Woolf
  • Cutting
  • Importance
  • Instinct