Virginia Woolf Quotes

The beauty of the world, which is so soon to perish, has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder.

Virginia Woolf

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• I feel funny about owning art. I don't really want to say: 'Wow, come and see my Monet - it's in a dark room at the bottom of my cellar.'

  

  Baz Luhrmann
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• Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.

  

  H. G. Wells
  • Time
  • Future
  • Funny

• It's my private life, and it's not up for grabs.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Life
  • Up
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• It's always been my dream to just continually do really cool indie movies - character-driven stuff.

  

  Tatiana Maslany
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• It's tough to be 68 and dating. I've given it up now.

  

  Ian McLagan Small Faces
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• Poetry is a phantom script telling how rainbows are made and why they go away.

  

  Carl Sandburg
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• All politicians should have 3 hats - one to throw into the ring, one to talk through, and one to pull rabbits out of if elected.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • Talk
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• If you don't have liberty and self-determination, you've got nothing, that's what this is what this country is built on. And this is the ultimate self-determination, when you determine how and when you're going to die when you're suffering.

  

  Jack Kevorkian
  • Country
  • Die
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• I love the ubiquitous idly-dosa combination. In fact, that was my pet name as a kid! In school, I would bug the canteen boys to get me my daily quota of idly!

  

  Hansika Motwani
  • School
  • Kid
  • Fact

• Our Nation must provide sufficient access to healthcare, adequate benefits, and the supplemental resources our veterans were promised and so dearly need. We owe our heroes no less.

  

  Dan Lipinski
  • Health care
  • Heroes
  • Veterans

• When I'm 40 and nobody wants to see me in a sparkly dress anymore, I'll be like: 'Cool, I'll just go in the studio and write songs for kids.'

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Kids
  • Me
  • Cool

• It's super dope when you connect with something personally.

  

  Watkin Tudor Jones
  • You
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  • Dope

• And we've got a toaster and everything. So there is no reason for the wedding.

  

  Karl Pilkington
  • Reason
  • Everything
  • Wedding

• I've tried coconut water straight up before, and to me, it's a little funky.

  

  Yvonne Strahovski
  • Me
  • Water
  • Little

• The emperor is in the Church, not above the Church.

  

  Saint Ambrose
  • Church
  • Emperor
  • Above

• It's quite absurd to act against a smoke creature that is not there.

  

  Carice van Houten
  • Act
  • Smoke
  • Absurd

• I am enormously honored to be one of the spokesmen of the New Age Womens Health Campaign, so you'll be seeing me in public service announcements and public appearances supporting the campaign.

  

  Karen Duffy
  • Age
  • Health
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• There's a place in me that can really relate to being the underdog.

  

  Halle Berry
  • Me
  • Place
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• I thought religion would make me live with my head in the clouds, but as often as not, it grounds me in this world.

  

  A. J. Jacobs
  • World
  • Live
  • Clouds

• I have no desires, save the desire to express myself in defiance of all the world’s muteness.

  

  Vladimir Nabokov
  • World
  • Desire
  • Defiance

• I am a graphic artist heart and soul, though I find the term 'artist' rather embarrassing.

  

  M. C. Escher
  • Heart
  • Soul

• Media has changed dramatically, as you and I know. We're in a world now where you're rewarded for being outrageous. Punditry has replaced reporting as the gold standard of journalism.

  

  Mark Leibovich
  • World
  • Gold
  • Changed

• The beauty of the world, which is so soon to perish, has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder.

  

  Virginia Woolf
  • World
  • Heart
  • Happiness