Virginia Woolf Quotes

Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.

Virginia Woolf

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• It was a great opportunity that I had to take - my very own theater. That comes along once in a lifetime. It doesn't even seem like 15 years ago - time sure flies by. I've really had a lot of fun with it.

  

  Lance Burton
  • Time
  • Great
  • Fun

• I like to do the splits onstage.

  

  Gavin DeGraw
  • Like
  • Onstage
  • Splits

• I was always interested in the kind of history they didn't teach you in school.

  

  Sally Watson
  • School
  • History
  • Teach

• Once you avoid the things that accelerate aging like smoking, obesity, excessive alcohol consumption, and excessive sun exposure, you've done about as much as you can to influence your aging process.

  

  S. Jay Olshansky
  • Done
  • Sun
  • Influence

• You can't win if you don't play as a unit.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • You
  • Play
  • Win

• 'Dangerous' is an album that I was very dedicated to. I wanted every song to be a hit.

  

  Yandel Wisin & Yandel
  • Song
  • Dangerous
  • Very

• We begin to see, therefore, the importance of selecting our environment with the greatest of care, because environment is the mental feeding ground out of which the food that goes into our minds is extracted.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Food
  • Environment
  • Care

• What I don't miss is living in a small town where everybody knows you, your family, and what you ate for breakfast.

  

  Nancy Carell
  • Family
  • Small
  • Breakfast

• On the contrary, I'm a strong believer in the necessity of imperfection coming into the film.

  

  Walter Salles
  • Strong
  • Film
  • Imperfection

• I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.

  

  Tallulah Bankhead
  • Right
  • Wrong
  • Rather

• A core part of Teach For America's mission has always been affecting positive change in the traditional public school system.

  

  Wendy Kopp
  • School
  • America
  • Change

• Those of us raised in modern cities tend to notice horizontal and vertical lines more quickly than lines at other orientations. In contrast, people raised in nomadic tribes do a better job noticing lines skewed at intermediate angles, since Mother Nature tends to work with a wider array of lines than most architects.

  

  Sam Kean
  • People
  • Work
  • Job

• All I did was ask for rights. I didn't attack anyone. I didn't harass anyone. I didn't oppose the system or the country or the authority. All I said is, 'Why can't I drive?'

  

  Manal al-Sharif
  • Country
  • Why
  • Said

• I think rap music is rap music. I mean, are there heavy writing aspects of it? Absolutely. In a sense, is it poetry? Yeah. I've heard that so much, growing up in a house with poetry. But I think people like to use that as a shortcut for who's good and who's not. It's like the word 'lyrical' - 'lyrical' is the worst word in the entire world.

  

  Thebe Neruda Kgositsile
  • People
  • Up
  • World

• Twenty20 is cricket on speed. In an era of hectic lifestyles and falling attention spans, it gives spectators more drama and intensity in three hours that they would get from a whole-day match. And even though it is a heady cocktail of money, entertainment and media, at its core it is cricket.

  

  Vikas Swarup
  • Money
  • Attention
  • Drama

• Acting was something I had to do.

  

  Nancy Marchand
  • Acting
  • Something
  • Had

• The thing I hate most in acting is asking permission to do things. What you really want to do is say, 'This is my need; this is what's going to get me further; this is what's going to be alive. I don't ever say, 'Do you mind if...?' I just come in and do it.

  

  Lance Henriksen
  • Mind
  • Hate
  • Acting

• I used to get a shiver if I thought about holding balloons, because I was scared of floating away.

  

  Fiona Apple
  • Thought
  • Scared
  • Floating

• I think a scientist's job is to explore the Universe, to explore the cosmos around us. People always want to know - why is that useful? Well, on just pure fundamental grounds, on some level it's like art, it's like umm, music, it's aesthetics, it's like philosophy. You want to know where you are in the Universe.

  

  Brian Schmidt
  • People
  • Music
  • Why

• The creator, if he should love his creature, would be loving only a part of himself; but the creature, praising the creator, praises an infinity beyond himself.

  

  Olaf Stapledon

• 'Day Men' provides a magnificent challenge in that it deals with a secret society within a secret society.

  

  Brian Stelfreeze
  • Men
  • Society
  • Challenge

• Religion is no more the parent of morality than an incubator is the mother of a chicken.

  

  Lemuel K. Washburn
  • Mother

• Don Truby thought about Kelly Ripa’s anus.

  

  Chad Kultgen
  • Anus
  • Don Truby
  • Kelly Ripa

• Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.

  

  Virginia Woolf
  • Writing
  • Women
  • Mind