Virginia Woolf Quotes

I always had the deepest affection for people who carried sublime tears in their silences.

Virginia Woolf

• People
• Silence
• Tears
• Affection
• Sublime

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• Never stand still. Only stand still enough to learn, and once you stop learning in that stance, move off. Always keep yourself engaged, in theater, in whatever job you can get. If you can't get an acting job, then go backstage. Or take tickets. But be around actors because that is where you will primarily learn.

  

  Ed Asner
  • Job
  • Stop
  • Learning

• I have changed so much as an actor over the years.

  

  Vincent D'Onofrio
  • Years
  • Actor
  • Over

• The historical novelist has to consider what has actually happened, while the SF writer is dealing in possibilities, but they are both in the business of imagining a world unlike our own and yet connected to it.

  

  Pamela Sargent
  • World
  • Business
  • Own

• Big Business can make laws as easily as it can break them - and with as little impunity.

  

  Ralph Chaplin
  • Business
  • Break
  • Laws

• I don't know whether the universe contains any evidence of intelligent design, but I can assure you that thousands of everyday products do not.

  

  Gary Hamel
  • Know
  • Universe
  • Design

• I was really a charmer; I was the guy who would get to the office, the principal would sit me down and within 10 minutes, we'd be, like, talking about some movies or something.

  

  Patrick J. Adams
  • Guy
  • Me
  • Movies

• Yes, politics IS war without bloodshed; and war is an extension of those politics.

  

  H. Rap Brown
  • War
  • Politics
  • Without

• I like boxes because of the secrets they hide.

  

  Kate Williams
  • Like
  • Secrets
  • Boxes

• The final phone call that said we're going to be picked up again was just a miracle. We've overcome the impossible and we're still pushing forward. I know John is smiling and so happy that he gets to watch us on TV.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • Up
  • Happy
  • Impossible

• I've got no respect for any young man who won't join the colors.

  

  Nathan Bedford Forrest
  • Man
  • Respect
  • Colors

• There's a tremendous intellectual fervor among independent filmmakers, and that has to be cultivated.

  

  Dan Glickman
  • Independent
  • Intellectual

• Relationships are people's No. 1 priorities. They want to have good relationships, and a lot of times they don't.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • People
  • Good
  • Relationships

• We are very serious about imposing weapons restrictions on the PFLP and other Palestinian groups operating from their camps in Lebanon.

  

  Walid Jumblatt
  • Serious
  • Very
  • Weapons

• 'Smallville' is like a Domino's pizza. While you're eating, you're thinking, 'This is good, and it reminds me of pizza, but there's not enough flavor in each bite.' That's the feeling you have the entire time with 'Smallville' - that it's just about to be good, but it never is.

  

  Ira Glass
  • Time
  • Good
  • Thinking

• Sense About Science is much more than an innocent fact-checking service. It is a spin-off of a bizarre political network that began life as the ultra-left Revolutionary Communist Party and switched over to extreme corporate libertarianism when it launched 'Living Marxism' magazine in the late eighties.

  

  Zac Goldsmith
  • Life
  • Science
  • Political

• In nature there are few sharp lines.

  

  A. R. Ammons
  • Nature
  • Lines
  • Sharp

• I feel like I work on scripts for comedy as well as dramatic stuff the same.

  

  Rachael Harris
  • Work
  • Comedy
  • Feel

• The very elements of what constitutes good nursing are as little understood for the well as for the sick. The same laws of health or of nursing, for they are in reality the same, obtain among the well as among the sick.

  

  Florence Nightingale
  • Good
  • Reality
  • Health

• I like those stories that capture the brutality of life, but there's still some kind of melancholy romance.

  

  Karen Elson
  • Life
  • Kind
  • Capture

• I helped my mom raise so many little sisters. At 11, I was helping get them ready for school, watching over them, putting them to sleep. It's just naturally with me.

  

  Katy Mixon
  • School
  • Mom
  • Sleep

• A lot of men do have a fear of my ultra-femininity. Sometimes people say I look like a drag queen, that I look scary, but I think that's a fear of my confidence. Most women in contemporary culture pare down their femininity, so there's a slight androgyny about them, and I think men have got used to seeing that.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • People
  • Men
  • Women

• I'm always cooking big veggie curries for friends with tons of spices, coconut milk, chilli - I'll saute potatoes in the spices, then cook them with all the flavours and stir in some chickpeas and spinach at the end before serving it on a bed of sesame brown rice. It's easy to do and tastes amazing!

  

  Ella Woodward
  • Friends
  • Amazing
  • Cooking

• I always had the deepest affection for people who carried sublime tears in their silences.

  

  Virginia Woolf
  • People
  • Silence
  • Tears