Virginia Woolf Quotes
Oh, but she never wanted James to grow a day older or Cam either. These two she would have liked to keep for ever just as the way they were, demons of wickedness, angels of delight, never to see them grow up into long-legged monsters.Virginia Woolf
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We lived in Atlanta for a couple of years, and had a lot of fun, but my best work happens when I isolate myself. It's all about turning inward.
Washed Out -
In America the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience.
Oscar Wilde -
I really found this campaign odious. I couldn't get up for it. The quality of the candidates and the campaign, I just found the whole thing second-rate. I didn't know how to explain to my granddaughter that I was spending my dotage writing about Al Gore and George W. Bush.
Jack Germond -
We are so Post-Modern that we don't realize how Post-Modern we are anymore.
Larry Wall -
Twenty20 is cricket on speed. In an era of hectic lifestyles and falling attention spans, it gives spectators more drama and intensity in three hours that they would get from a whole-day match. And even though it is a heady cocktail of money, entertainment and media, at its core it is cricket.
Vikas Swarup -
'A living dog is better than a dead lion.' Judge Douglas, if not a dead lion for this work, is at least a caged and toothless one. How can he oppose the advances of slavery? He don't care anything about it.
Abraham Lincoln
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Once in a while, I do these things that would make the 10-year old version of me laugh. I don't know why. You've got to do something a little bit immature. I'm surprised at how often those are my best ideas.
Nathan Fielder -
Well, I'm a professional.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar -
One of the greatest lessons of my own life was learning to turn the inner rampage of hatred and anger toward my own father for his reprehensible behavior and abandonment of his family into an inner reaction more closely aligned with God and God-realized love.
Wayne Dyer -
The world is like a grand staircase, some are going up and some are going down.
Samuel Johnson -
The crew, like all Italian crews, was generous, warm, and enthusiastic.
Barbara Steele -
To a great experience one thing is essential - an experiencing nature.
Walter Bagehot
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Knowledge is theory. We should be thankful if action of management is based on theory. Knowledge has temporal spread. Information is not knowledge. The world is drowning in information but is slow in acquisition of knowledge. There is no substitute for knowledge.
W. Edwards Deming -
You don’t know how to handle anything today, because you have to go to jail to get some press or fall down drunk.
Liza Minnelli -
The survivors lay quietly in that cratered void and watched the whitehot stars go rifling down the dark. Or slept with their alien hearts beating in the sand like pilgrims exhausted upon the face of the planet Anareta, clutched to a namelessness wheeling in the night.
Cormac McCarthy -
The sneaking arts of underling tradesmen are thus erected into political maxims for the conduct of a great empire; for it is the most underling tradesmen only who make it a rule to employ chiefly their own customers. A great trader purchases his good always where they are cheapest and best, without regard to any little interest of this kind.
Adam Smith -
I'm actually a NASA brat. My father was a rocket scientist. He started working at NASA before it was NASA in 1959.
Ellen Stofan -
I am always looking for that nuance, that moment of truth, and you can't really do that fast.
Paul Thomas Anderson
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There are quite enough unpleasant things in life without the need to manufacture more.
Auguste Renoir -
Gaze no more in the bitter glass The demons, with their subtle guile, Lift up before us when they pass, Or only gaze a little while.
William Butler Yeats -
Don't cheat people of their growth. Empower them to solve problems and generate ideas. Watch them grow!
Stephen Covey -
If you go to the gym and you come home and look into the mirror, you'll see nothing. If you go the next day and you come home, you will see nothing. In fact sometimes you're in pain.
Simon Sinek -
The poets are nothing but interpreters of the gods, each one possessed by the divinity to whom he is in bondage.
Plato -
Oh, but she never wanted James to grow a day older or Cam either. These two she would have liked to keep for ever just as the way they were, demons of wickedness, angels of delight, never to see them grow up into long-legged monsters.
Virginia Woolf