Virginia Woolf Quotes

The best letters of our time are precisely those that can never be published.

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• Many of the songs on Undertow were written at the time Opiate came out.

  

  Adam Jones
  • Time
  • Songs
  • Out

• I hate committing myself to anything. It's probably the lack of discipline, honestly. I'm probably a spoiled brat worried about getting my way every time.

  

  Cameron Diaz
  • Time
  • Hate
  • Myself

• It would be incredible to work with Stanley Kubrick and go back in time.

  

  Maika Monroe
  • Time
  • Work
  • Back

• If we are a metaphor of the universe, the human couple is the metaphor par excellence, the point of intersection of all forces and the seed of all forms. The couple is time recaptured, the return to the time before time.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • Time
  • Universe
  • Couple

• When things happen - you ask yourself why today, why not tomorrow, why not yesterday? That's the most amazing thing about time.

  

  Ozwald Boateng
  • Time
  • Why
  • Today

• If I had my time again and was able to change one thing from my career then I wouldn't have retired. I would have played for Wales longer.

  

  Gary Speed
  • Time
  • Career
  • Change

• I actually spend very little time listening to any new music.

  

  Gary Lucas
  • Time
  • Music
  • Listening

• From the sons of Ith, the first of the Gael to get his death in Ireland, there came in the after time Fathadh Canaan, that got the sway over the whole world from the rising to the setting sun, and that took hostages of the streams and the birds and the languages.

  

  Lady Gregory
  • Time
  • World
  • Death

• The Web forces me to be disciplined and not to waste time – but before the Web was invented, there were plenty of opportunities to do that anyway.

  

  Fareed Zakaria
  • Time
  • Me
  • Opportunities

• Popping broad beans out of their skins can be therapeutic, but it isn't everybody's favourite waste of time.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Time
  • Waste
  • Waste Of Time

• I'm not good with blogs and social networks because those things come and go. By the time I am used to one thing, a new type of social media is already trending.

  

  Tao Okamoto
  • Time
  • Good
  • New

• Music is the best means we have of digesting time.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Time
  • Music
  • Best

• I don't spend any time at all thinking about my personal wealth. I suppose if I had nothing, I might think, 'I have nothing.'

  

  B. Wayne Hughes
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Wealth

• There's a lot of cruelty going on all the time, and I'm not just talking about inter-human cruelty. I'm talking about whole species becoming extinct, asteroids hitting planets, black holes gobbling up stars.

  

  Barbara Ehrenreich
  • Up
  • Time
  • Black

• Why is partying and having a good time bad?

  

  Tara Reid
  • Time
  • Good
  • Why

• Like every artist that comes out, you want to make a mark; you want to be a household name and you want to be someone that people are going to look back in ten years/fifteen years' time and go, 'I love this guy Olly Murs. He was brilliant back in the day; he was someone I really, really liked.'

  

  Olly Murs
  • People
  • Time
  • Day

• At the risk of sounding really corny now, I'm a career prosecutor. I've been doing this for a very long time. And I believe in holding people responsible when they violate the law. But our sole responsibility is to seek justice. And sometimes that means a very lengthy sentence for people who are dangerous and from which society must be protected.

  

  Sally Yates
  • People
  • Time
  • Believe

• The advantage of the consumer businesses is they tend to be much broader-based, much larger number of customers, that tend to over time be a lot more predictable. The advantage of the enterprise companies is they are not as subject to consumer trend, fad, behavior.

  

  Marc Andreesen
  • Time
  • Behavior
  • Customers

• Consciously or not, we are all on a quest for answers, trying to learn the lessons of life. We grapple with fear and guilt. We search for meaning, love, and power. We try to understand fear, loss, and time. We seek to discover who we are and how we can become truly happy.

  

  Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
  • Life
  • Time
  • Trying

• It makes you also realize, 'OK, I'm excited to play tennis, and I work really hard to be the best tennis player I think I can be,' but I don't waste my time on stupid stuff, you know what I mean.

  

  Kim Clijsters
  • Time
  • Work
  • Player

• In 'Billy Elliot,' there were, like, 24 kids, so that was crazy. In 'Annie,' there's nine of us; we're all great friends, and we hang out all the time. We really are just sisters.

  

  Lilla Crawford
  • Time
  • Great
  • Kids

• I'm in the camp that needs to discover and take risks, sometimes it's with the promise of something special and new, sometimes it's to stay awake, either way it's much more stressful with all the uncertainty but worth the pain in the end.

  

  Karen O
  • Pain
  • End
  • Promise

• I have a house in Saratoga Springs.

  

  Bill Parcells
  • House

• The best letters of our time are precisely those that can never be published.

  

  Virginia Woolf
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