Virginia Woolf Quotes

Friendships, even the best of them, are frail things. One drifts apart.

Virginia Woolf

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• Imagination in the child is powerful. Reading and laughter and love are essential in our lives.

  

  Malachy McCourt
  • Love
  • Reading
  • Powerful

• Even after they had stopped modeling for Playboy and had settled down with other men to raise families of their own, Hugh Hefner still considered them his women, and in the bound volumes of his magazine he would always possess them.

  

  Gay Talese
  • Men
  • Women
  • Modeling

• Neurologists have a host of clinical tests that let them observe what a brain-damaged patient can and cannot do.

  

  Floyd Skloot
  • Brain
  • Patient
  • Tests

• I can only stick my neck out and offer my humble beliefs. If I become an outsider by doing so, this won't be a great hardship as I've been that as far back as I can remember - something strange and unacceptable in the eyes of those who believe they see straight. At least it's given me courage of a kind, which I'd like every Australian to acquire.

  

  Patrick White
  • Great
  • Believe
  • Remember

• Getting hurt changed me, he said. Changed my perspective. I've moved on, in a way. Some things have fallen into place that were not there before. I thought they were, but they werent. The best way I can put it is that I've sort of caught up with myself. That's not a bad thing. It was overdue.

  

  Cormac McCarthy
  • Up
  • Bad
  • Hurt

• It's not just about checking the box on corporate social responsibility. It's about hitting our bottom line.

  

  Peggy Johnson
  • Responsibility

• They had me doing Beach Boys remakes and all that. I was basically a marionette.

  

  Leif Garrett
  • Beach

• I didn't get to play many video games when I was growing up.

  

  Ana de Armas
  • Up
  • Growing

• There were two things I wanted to be: an actor and a hippie.

  

  Dennis Christopher
  • Hippie

• We should advocate that the North should stay in the customs union and the single market and that any customs checks should be in the ports and airports, not on land borders.

  

  Leo Varadkar
  • Single

• My mother and sisters cooked Italian food, and I never heard of half of the dishes you see in these Italian restaurants. I just go in and order spaghetti.

  

  Dennis Farina
  • Mother
  • Food
  • Italian

• That the apostolic office is temporary, is a plain historical fact.

  

  Charles Hodge

• Carly Fiorina has campaigned hard in New Hampshire to earn support from voters.

  

  Kelly Ayotte
  • Support

• Team GB's success at the Beijing Olympics can, in part, be said to have been made in Manchester. For example, all the cycling medal winners trained at Manchester's velodrome, the National Cycling Centre.

  

  Lucy Powell
  • Success
  • Team

• Yeah, I mean, climbing's always been a massive hobby of mine up until, kind of, recent times when I've had family, but no, it's been a driving passion in my life and, uh, I've always wanted to climb the Matterhorn. It was the mountain that, sort of, inspired me to climb, as a youngster. So, it was great to be able to get to do it.

  

  Andy Serkis
  • Life
  • Up
  • Great

• My mum, she has a very specific way of mixing bourgeois and hippie. She doesn't wear a lot of make-up, but she always has to wear glasses, and she has this huge collection of glasses. And no rules.

  

  Mariacarla Boscono
  • Up
  • She
  • Hippie

• I wanted to get my coaching badges after retiring, and I asked to take the exam, but they told me I needed to study for four years. I told them they were crazy. Who is going to study for four years? How is someone going to teach me technical things when I know more than they do?

  

  Johan Cruyff
  • Crazy
  • Study
  • Coaching

• In tough economic times, desperate people do desperate things, and the abortion rate goes up.

  

  Jesse Jackson
  • People
  • Up

• Adversity does not make us frail; it only shows us how frail we are.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Shows
  • Adversity
  • Frail

• I’m cold,' Snowden said softly, 'I’m cold.' 'You’re going to be all right, kid,' Yossarian reassured him with a grin. 'You’re going to be all right.' 'I’m cold,' Snowden said again in a frail, childlike voice. 'I’m cold.' 'There, there,' Yossarian said, because he did not know what else to say. 'There, there.' 'I’m cold,' Snowden whimpered. 'I’m cold.' 'There, there. There, there.

  

  Joseph Heller
  • Kids
  • Cold
  • Voice

• When making a decision of minor importance, I have always found it advantageous to consider all the pros and cons.

  

  Sigmund Freud
  • Decision
  • Importance
  • Advantageous

• Now the melancholy God protect thee, and the tailor make thy garments of changeable taffeta, for thy mind is opal.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Mind
  • Protect
  • Jewelry

• The teachers of our law, and to propose What might improve my knowledge or their own.

  

  John Milton
  • Knowledge
  • Law
  • Teachers

• Friendships, even the best of them, are frail things. One drifts apart.

  

  Virginia Woolf
  • Frail