Virginia Woolf Quotes

He smiled the most exquisite smile, veiled by memory, tinged by dreams.

Virginia Woolf

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• I've lived most people's dream by playing football.

  

  Fabrice Muamba
  • People
  • Dream
  • Football

• There comes a point when a dream becomes reality and reality becomes a dream.

  

  Frances Farmer
  • Dream
  • Reality
  • Point

• When I have a bad day, I dream about opening up a gelato stand on the streets of Sydney, Australia. Doesn't everyone have a random escape fantasy?

  

  Nancy Lublin
  • Up
  • Bad
  • Dream

• I wouldn't dream of working on something that didn't make my gut rumble and my heart want to explode.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Heart
  • Want
  • Dream

• As delicate as 'Guy and Madeline' was, it was important that 'Whiplash' come off as more of a fever dream.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • Important
  • Guy
  • Dream

• You must go after your wish. As soon as you start to pursue a dream, your life wakes up and everything has meaning.

  

  Barbara Sher
  • Life
  • Up
  • Dream

• I have this dream of what I ultimately want my life to be like, and it involves a lot of quaint activities like cooking and canoeing and camping and hiking.

  

  Hannah Kearney
  • Life
  • Dream
  • My Life

• Competing in London would be a dream come true.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
  • True
  • Dream
  • London

• As a kid, you obviously dream of being a professional footballer. I would watch players like Ronaldo of Brazil and pretend to be him in the playground. But I don't think about trying to become one of the best in the world or anything like that. I just play football.

  

  Gareth Bale
  • World
  • Trying
  • Dream

• 'Planet Earth' was such an extraordinary series and the 'Making Of'... is fascinating: the creatures and stories behind the camera are just as fascinating as those in front. It's a bit of a dream come true to be a part of the team in some small way.

  

  Dan Stevens
  • True
  • Dream
  • Earth

• When writers stop to sharpen pencils or get up and make coffee to procrastinate, they still stay in their heads with their characters. But when you zip over to read email or check your Facebook page, you get zapped out of the fictive dream. It's brutal on my writing.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • Up
  • Writing
  • Dream

• I'm older and wiser, but I still dream of doing new things and creating new things.

  

  Paige O'Hara
  • Dream
  • New
  • New Things

• To me the ego is the habitual and compulsive thought processes that go through everybody's mind continuously. External things like possessions or memories or failures or successes or achievements. Your personal history.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • Mind
  • History
  • Thought

• A lot of my childhood memories involve walking home in floods of tears. At that age, feeling unpopular is difficult to handle.

  

  Rachel Stevens
  • Home
  • Age
  • Feeling

• All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • Dream
  • See
  • Romantic

• If I were asked to name the chief benefit of the house, I should say: the house shelters day-dreaming, the house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.

  

  Gaston Bachelard
  • Home
  • House
  • Dream

• I've been having this really weird anxiety dream about arriving too late or too early, and the people in charge are like, 'You have to leave! You have to go back to the hotel and get ready!' And I use the wrong exit, and I'm running down the red carpet in pyjamas, like, 'No! Don't look at me!'

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • People
  • Dream
  • Running

• Academically, I was never that interested. I skipped classes. My biggest dream was to have a coffee shop, but I had no idea how to get the money to do that.

  

  Daniel Espinosa
  • Money
  • Dream
  • Coffee

• That's what I find so special: when you actually imagine something. But really, when it comes to you in a dream, and then you can bring it to life on the screen, it's very powerful.

  

  Robert Trujillo Metallica
  • Dream
  • Imagine
  • Screen

• I just feel like I've been in a lot of high-pressure situations, and I think I'm able to stay poised in those situations.

  

  Jalen Brunson
  • High

• Back 12 years ago, when Dr. Mathews was president here, we had a plan that when I got ready to quit, we'd bring a certain guy in and he'd take over that day and I'd leave. But as time wore on, I realized that wouldn't have been good at all.

  

  Bear Bryant
  • Time
  • Good
  • Guy

• You know, there's a certain irony in the fact that our lives and perhaps the lives of everyone on Earth may depend on Captain Patterson's sex appeal.

  

  Charles Beaumont
  • Lives
  • Depend
  • Sex Appeal

• He smiled the most exquisite smile, veiled by memory, tinged by dreams.

  

  Virginia Woolf
  • Dream
  • Memories
  • Exquisite