Virginia Woolf Quotes
Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.
Virginia Woolf
Quotes to Explore
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I have been the struggler of the century. Fortunately, everyone loves the underdog.
Kangana Ranaut
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Leaders who master emotions can rob us of our capacities to reason. If their values are out of step with our own, the results can be devastating.
Adam Grant
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Any time you get two people in a room who disagree about anything, the time of day, there is a scene to be written. That's what I look for.
Aaron Sorkin
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In India we only read about death, sickness, terrorism, crime.
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
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The ironic thing is I took Kole from a family name - we had a vote and they had a few names, but Kole won - and getting it spelled with a 'K' is a constant correction, too. I'll never not be Warren Blosjo; it's just my stage name.
Warren Kole
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Everything with me is pretty close to the surface, but having kids has completely ruined my emotional equilibrium.
Olivia Colman
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I hardly ever stretch the canvas before painting.
Jackson Pollock
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I have an appetite to always learn.
Wayne Rogers
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I want to tour, everywhere I can, all of the world.
Kat Edmonson
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America is essentially an entrepreneurial culture: the sizzle is the steak, because, after all, if you buy the sizzle, the steak comes with it. Canada's, in contrast, is a primary-producing culture: we'll buy the steak and hope to get a little sizzle with it. But we know we can't eat sizzle.
Wayne Grady
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If you wanted to show a mirror to people that says, 'You've been drunk on money,' they're not going to want to see it. But if you reflected that mirror on another time they'd be willing to. People will need an explanation of where we are and where we've been, and 'The Great Gatsby' can provide that explanation.
Baz Luhrmann
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It's hard to kill that father-son bond.
Adam Driver
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There's no such thing as downtime for your brain.
Jeffrey Kluger
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Whichever way we look the prospect is disagreeable. Behind, we have left pleasures we shall never enjoy, and therefore regret; and before, we see pleasures which we languish to possess, and are consequently uneasy till we possess them.
Oliver Goldsmith
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Why does pouring Oil on the Sea make it Clear and Calm? Is it that the winds, slipping the smooth oil, have no force, nor cause any waves?
Plutarch
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In the Old Testament, the first born of every being, animal and man, was dedicated to the Lord. There’s a special punishment Christians would suggest.
Bob Marshall
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The humanitarian lays stress almost solely upon breadth of knowledge and sympathy.
Irving Babbitt
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Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.
Virginia Woolf
