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

• When I was small, I was the same as everyone else. I used to play in a small council estate nearby. But it's really my family who taught me. I started watching my dad play from the age of two. I wanted to be like him.

  

  Eden Hazard
  • Family
  • Age
  • Small

• 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

• When mom and dad were at the height of their careers, and things were super-crazy, and they couldn't leave their houses, there wasn't social media. It was all about autographs. Now, everyone's the press. I feel fame is perforated: it can be glorious, but it can completely destroy a human, too.

  

  Dakota Johnson
  • Dad
  • Mom
  • Crazy

• 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

• Shun all vice, especially card playing.

  

  Nathan Hale
  • Playing
  • Vice
  • Shun

• 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
  • Germ

• 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

• The only thing that you absolutely have to know, is the location of the library.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Know
  • Library
  • Thing

• Where are the flowers, the fair young flowers, that lately sprang and stood In brighter light and softer airs, a beauteous sisterhood?

  

  William Cullen Bryant
  • Air
  • Sister
  • Flower

• I was constantly, always and forever, trying to perform the musical 'Annie' for anyone who would listen, and I have a terrible singing voice. It was the first thing that made me think I wanted to be an actress.

  

  Sarah Paulson
  • Thinking
  • Trying
  • Singing

• I was reading this story about these people who suffered from brain injuries, and then their behavior changed kind of drastically afterward, and I just said to myself, 'There's no way that that can possibly be true.'

  

  Sam Kean
  • People
  • True
  • Reading

• Beauty adds to goodness a relation to the cognitive faculty: so that "good" means that which simply pleases the appetite; while the "beautiful" is something pleasant to apprehend.

  

  Thomas Aquinas
  • Good
  • Beauty
  • Appetite

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

  

  Virginia Woolf
  • Air
  • Hours
  • Musical