Virginia Woolf Quotes
Habits and customs are a convenience devised for the support of timid natures who dare not allow their souls free play.Virginia Woolf
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I think we all feel geeky at times, don't we? Isn't that all a part of the wonderful tapestry of life?
Kate Bush -
I grew up in the '80s. I was a kid, but all my favorite movies came out of that period.
Dan Fogler -
I'm very privy to the way bookstores work, and I think a lot about the ecosystem that my books have been published in. I think it's great to be aware of how publishing works.
Gabrielle Zevin -
Let me go to hell, that's all I ask, and go on cursing them there, and them look down and hear me, that might take some of the shine off their bliss.
Samuel Beckett -
Suning Appliance has no problem of financial risk. Do you think I'm risky? I'm definitely not risky.
Zhang Jindong -
I'm one of those people if you ask, 'What's your favourite song?' I'm going to give you five. I don't have just one favourite.
Octavia Spencer
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Every woman should shave her head once in her life, to experience what it feels like.
Bai Ling -
The real challenge that we face in our communications with others is to condition our hearts to have Christlike feelings for all of Heavenly Father's children. When we develop this concern for the condition of others, we then will communicate with them as the Savior would.
L. Lionel Kendrick -
A mass of dust, world's momentary slave, Is man, in state of our old Adam made, Soon born to die, soon flourishing to fade.
Barnabe Barnes -
No illusion is more crucial than the illusion that great success and huge money buy you immunity from the common ills of mankind, such as cars that won't start.
Larry McMurtry -
I found college useful for a lot of other reasons. It exposed me to a great many influences I wouldn't otherwise have encountered, and gave me a lot of time with some very intelligent people whose thoughts are still with me.
Walter Jon Williams -
If you ask the government to solve all of your problems, it's a bit like asking your wife to cook and clean, to raise the children, to hold down a second job to help with the family finances, to keep her parents happy and well and keep your parents happy and well, and to also - to do the lawn and clean the gutters.
P. J. O'Rourke
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There is no such source of error as the pursuit of truth.
Samuel Butler -
I've had my heart broken and then gone out and done dumb things.
Randy Houser -
I always said punk was an attitude. It was never about having a Mohican haircut or wearing a ripped T-shirt. It was all about destruction, and the creative potential within that.
Malcolm Mclaren -
To the extent that you can find ways where you're making predictions, there's no substitute for testing yourself on real-world situations that you don't know the answer to in advance.
Nate Silver -
I think most Americans don't really care about politicians bickering in Washington.
Ted Cruz -
Human life is everywhere a state in which much is to be endured, and little to be enjoyed.
Samuel Johnson
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You had to feel the swell change. You had to go with the change. He told me that. No eye is on the sparrow but he did tell me that.
Joan Didion -
When I first started swinging a bat, I swung righty. So one time, my dad came home, and he wanted to see my batting stance. So I showed him. He says, 'You don't hit right-handed. You hit left-handed.' At that age I didn't even really think about it. Just like 'all right,' and I switched hands. He said I'd thank him later.
Prince Fielder -
Some coaches are not educated at the elite level in health and nutrition. They're not educated in how the body works from anatomy and physiology perspectives.
Dominique Moceanu -
I eat as much as I ever did, I drink more than I should, and my sex life is none of your goddamned business.
John Wayne -
Habits and customs are a convenience devised for the support of timid natures who dare not allow their souls free play.
Virginia Woolf