Virginia Woolf Quotes

The current flows fast and furious. It issues in a spate of words from the loudspeakers and the politicians. Every day they tell us that we are a free people fighting to defend freedom. That is the current that has whirled the young airman up into the sky and keeps him circulating there among the clouds. Down here, with a roof to cover us and a gasmask handy, it is our business to puncture gasbags and discover the seeds of truth.

Virginia Woolf

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Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.

H. L. Mencken
- May
- Faith
- Belief
It is by a wise economy of nature that those who suffer without change, and whom no one can help, become uninteresting. Yet so it may happen that those who need sympathy the most often attract it the least.

F. H. Bradley
- May
- Help
- Nature
My idols are Janis Joplin and Annie Lennox, who are neither of them from the typical pop culture.

Natalie Cole
- Culture
- Pop
- Pop Culture
It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like.

Jackie Mason
- Health
- Question
- Healthy
I look at it this way: the WNBA is 13 years young. I think eventually women will get to that point, maybe in my daughter's generation, where their salaries will be similar to men's. But we're still starting off, like, where the NBA was back in the 1950s.

Candace Parker
- Men
- Women
- Daughter
Like brown rice, black rice is unmilled, and it is the dark outer husk that makes it so nutty and chewy. It's also why it takes longer to cook than many other rices.

Yotam Ottolenghi
- Why
- Black
- Dark