Virginia Woolf Quotes

First a warning, musical; then the hour, irrevocable. The leaden circles dissolved in the air.

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• I enjoy all kinds of performances and take each role differently. I keep the audiences in mind.

  

  Ram Kapoor
  • Mind
  • Enjoy
  • Take

• When I got on stage, I would have a rush of adrenaline; everybody gets it. Normally after the first night it becomes more controllable, and as long as I could ride the wave, I was still in charge.

  

  Samantha Bond
  • Long
  • Night
  • Ride

• The thing about the Internet is that you can write something... for a very narrow audience and make a living at it.

  

  Randall Munroe
  • You
  • Internet
  • Living

• Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone; but if someone puts his hand on you, send him to the cemetery.

  

  Malcolm X
  • Law
  • Respect
  • Hand

• One good thing is I was instilled with really good values. My mom treats everyone the same.

  

  Carlene Carter
  • Good
  • Mom
  • Same

• We just sort of thought a Web series would be a cool thing to be able to send to our parents to show them that we were, in fact, actually doing comedy.

  

  Abbi Jacobson
  • Parents
  • Comedy
  • Cool

• I'm famous for splurging at fast-food places. I'm currently obsessed with Taco Bell's bean and cheese burritos with extra green sauce and extra cheese. Gluttony!

  

  Fergie The Black Eyed Peas
  • Food
  • Fast Food
  • Taco

• More compassionate mind, more sense of concern for other's well-being, is source of happiness.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Mind
  • Happiness
  • Wellbeing

• Before I paint someone, I always ask, 'How much examination can your body take?' 'How much do you want me to see?'

  

  Taylor Negron
  • Want
  • Always
  • Body

• Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Growth
  • Ambition
  • Proceeds

• Yeah, I am lazy. There's no doubt about that.

  

  Usain Bolt
  • Doubt
  • Lazy

• People do ask me if I think I can make it in the States.

  

  Utada Hikaru
  • People
  • Think
  • States

• I do yoga; I'm pretty dedicated.

  

  Vanessa Ferlito
  • Pretty
  • Yoga
  • Dedicated

• I'm going to scream this from the mountain top, there's no such thing as 'a curry.' There's six kazillion different kinds of curry. When someone asks how to make chicken curry, I have to ask 'Which one?'

  

  Aarti Sequeira
  • Different
  • Mountain
  • Someone

• Living here on Earth, we breathe the rhythms of a universe that extends infinitely above us. When resonant harmonies arise between this vast outer cosmos and the inner human cosmos, poetry is born.

  

  Daisaku Ikeda
  • Earth
  • Universe
  • Poetry

• There is, indeed, nothing that so much seduces reason from vigilance, as the thought of passing life with an amiable woman.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Life
  • Woman
  • Thought

• I have a cellphone, but I have no Google, I have no gaggle.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Google

• As for what other people think of me, I could worry about that every day, but choose not to.

  

  Wendi Deng Murdoch
  • People
  • Day
  • Worry

• While 'Outlander' is a brilliant period show, Claire represents so many qualities of a 10th century modern-day woman: someone who is forging her own path, fighting for what she believes, and doing so with integrity.

  

  Caitriona Balfe
  • She
  • Fighting
  • Woman

• Liberty is to faction what air is to fire, an aliment without which it instantly expires. But it could not be less folly to abolish liberty, which is essential to political life, because it nourishes faction, than it would be to wish the annihilation of air, which is essential to animal life, because it imparts to fire its destructive agency.

  

  James Madison
  • Life
  • Political
  • Wish

• I got a statistic for you right now. Grab your pencil, Doug. There are five billion trees in the world. I looked it up. Under every tree is a shadow, right? So, then, what makes night? I'll tell you: shadows crawling out from under five billion trees! Think of it! Shadows running around in the air, muddying the waters you might say. If only we could figure a way to keep those darn five billion shadows under those trees, we could stay up half the night, Doug, because there'd be no night!

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • World
  • Thinking
  • Night

• I don't believe for a minute that women really want to be understood by men.

  

  Allison Pearson
  • Believe
  • Men
  • Women

• Plurality is not to be posited without necessity.

  

  William of Occam
  • Logic
  • Witty

• First a warning, musical; then the hour, irrevocable. The leaden circles dissolved in the air.

  

  Virginia Woolf
  • Air
  • Hours
  • Musical