Virginia Woolf Quotes

As I grow old I hate the writing of letters more and more, and like getting them better and better.

Virginia Woolf

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• A lot of times, when mother-son or mother-daughter relationships have been put on screen, they tend to trickle towards ugly, and I don't find that totally realistic for the wide swath of us, and it's also not that fun to watch.

  

  Dan Fogelman
  • Fun
  • Mother
  • Son

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

  

  Sally Watson
  • School
  • History
  • Teach

• I just have to go out and fight my fight and fight to win.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • Win
  • Fight
  • Just

• What are the relationships between power and knowledge? There are two bad, short answers: 1. Knowledge provides an instrument that those in power can wield for their own ends. 2. A new body of knowledge brings into being a new class of people or institutions that can exercise a new kind of power.

  

  Ian Hacking
  • People
  • Power
  • Bad

• Because the nights bring the threat of invasion and terror to the villages, thousands of children in northern Uganda have become night commuters, leaving the nightmare of capture behind for the safety of the city.

  

  Sam Childers
  • Children
  • Night
  • City

• My number one thing is to recycle everything from newspaper to aluminum cans, and I even use a canvas bag instead of the plastic ones when I go to the grocery store.

  

  Maiara Walsh
  • Everything
  • Canvas
  • Go

• I married him because he told me it was the only way he could protect me. If we were just manager and client, my family could do whatever they wanted to get me back, but if I was his wife, they couldn't.

  

  LaToya Jackson
  • Family
  • Way
  • Wife

• Unless and until you inspire the people, you will not get results. Imposition will never give you the results. Inspiration will always give you the results.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • Inspiration
  • Results

• I looked along the San Juan Islands and the coast of California, but I couldn't find the palette of green, granite, and dark blue that you can only find in Maine.

  

  Parker Stevenson
  • Dark
  • Find
  • Green

• I'm not such a nuisance to the world, and the kick I get out of living can, I suppose, justify the impositions I make on it. But when life isn't so fun, well, then I start to wonder. What's the point of going on if it's just trouble for us both? My friends will miss me, I am told.

  

  Aaron Swartz
  • Life
  • World
  • Friends

• Writing is much, much harder than taking pictures because you have to man-haul it all out of your insides.

  

  Sally Mann
  • Writing
  • You
  • Pictures

• I started classes and it wasn't because I was like, 'I want to be an actor!' - I was really interested in the theory of what acting can be and what it's about. It's all about living in the moment and kind of being present, which is something that at that time in my life I really wanted to explore.

  

  Caity Lotz
  • Life
  • Time
  • Present

• If you have a sense of style and purpose and will you don't want to compromise.

  

  Vidal Sassoon
  • Want
  • Style
  • Purpose

• Cerrone is a great opponent. The guy won eight fights straight.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • Great
  • Guy
  • Straight

• The substance of what it means to be a geek is essentially someone who's brave enough to love something against judgment. The heart of being a geek is a little bit of rejection.

  

  Felicia Day
  • Heart
  • Brave
  • Judgment

• It's kinda all about image.

  

  Bam Margera
  • Image
  • About
  • Kinda

• The more desperate you are, the more mistakes you make.

  

  Canelo Alvarez
  • You
  • Mistakes
  • Desperate

• There is no black-and-white situation. It's all part of life. Highs, lows, middles.

  

  Van Morrison
  • Life
  • Black
  • Black-and-white

• I talk to student-athletes. I try to get them to remember that they're not just athletes, but student-athletes. You need to get an education, keep your hands clean and try to represent the university.

  

  Earl Campbell
  • Remember
  • Education
  • Hands

• Early in my songwriting career, when I was learning a lot about writing songs, I'd force myself to sit down until I came up with something.

  

  Luke Bryan
  • Up
  • Writing
  • Career

• Conservatives don't want to read good, smart books. They mostly want to read Fox and talk radio hosts writing about presidents.

  

  Alex Pareene
  • Good
  • Writing
  • Smart

• Strange how love coexists with hate, how they render eachother mute, how the swilling of them together makes a new and softer, sympathetic thing.

  

  Sonya Hartnett
  • Together
  • Hate
  • Strange

• What's the trick to writing a good bad guy? Well, for me, it's always been the idea that you pit yourself against authority, you know? I think that's what it takes - and then you can write villainous characters.

  

  Brian Azzarello
  • Good
  • Writing
  • Bad

• As I grow old I hate the writing of letters more and more, and like getting them better and better.

  

  Virginia Woolf
  • Writing
  • Hate