Virginia Woolf Quotes

A veil of insanity everywhere: Oh why I was born in this age? It is a terrible age.

Virginia Woolf

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• I felt unhappy and trapped. If I left baseball, where could I go, what could I do to earn enough money to help my mother and to marry Rachel? The solution to my problem was only days away in the hands of a tough, shrewd, courageous man called Branch Rickey, the president of the Brooklyn Dodgers.

  

  Jackie Robinson
  • Money
  • Help
  • Mother

• If I'm playing with Ozzy it's just a guitar thing. But with the vocals I feel like I'm studying for the SATs.

  

  Zakk Wylde Black Label Society
  • Guitar
  • Just
  • Studying

• I am doing what I love; acting is what I love best after being a mother.

  

  Karisma Kapoor
  • Love
  • Mother
  • Best

• Our goal is not simply to reconstruct the Japan that existed before March 11, 2011, but to build a new Japan. We are determined to overcome this historic challenge.

  

  Yoshihiko Noda
  • Challenge
  • Goal
  • March

• Everybody's had their differences with President Trump. He's a polarizing president, but I think a majority of the people like what he's doing.

  

  Ralph Norman
  • People
  • Think
  • Trump

• I struggled with being a broke college graduate, and while all my friends were getting career jobs, I was working horrible part-time jobs. That's why now, even when I get tired, I think, 'This is what I asked for.'

  

  J. Cole
  • Time
  • Why
  • Friends

• Things were easier for the old novelists who saw people all of a piece. Speaking generally, their heroes were good through and through, their villains wholly bad.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • People
  • Good
  • Bad

• The best of life is to embark on an adventure with a woman interested in having an adventure with you.

  

  Oleg Cassini
  • Life
  • Best
  • Adventure

• There are a lot of shows that have secrets and string people along and use the secrets of the narrative engine to keep people coming back every week. I don't know if those programs even have an answer. I don't know how they build their shows.

  

  J. H. Wyman
  • People
  • Know
  • Week

• The acting bug just seemed to stick with me. I loved going to theatre school in college and continued to train in film classes and had been auditioning for T.V. and movie roles since I was in my late teens. My career has been slow and steady, and I kind of like it that way.

  

  Laura Mennell
  • School
  • Movie
  • Career

• I don't weigh into politics.

  

  Gary Bettman
  • Politics
  • Weigh

• In sleep, you are safe from the revolting mechanics of living and being a prey to outrageous fortune.

  

  Taylor Caldwell
  • You
  • Sleep
  • Fortune

• As President Trump quickly moved to limit immigration, civil rights, and environmental protections, I felt fear for my young children, and guilt, too - as if I'd somehow betrayed the unspoken contract all parents make to give our children a better life than ourselves.

  

  Laura Moser
  • Life
  • Children
  • Parents

• I see myself as extremely lucky.

  

  Cal Ripken, Jr.
  • Myself
  • See
  • Lucky

• Try not to eat after 7 P.M. Try to stay away from heavy food in the night, like hamburgers and chicken nuggets. Eat that stuff in the morning or early afternoon.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • Night
  • Food
  • Morning

• We do not have to accept the world as we find it. And we have a responsibility to leave our world a better place and never walk by on the other side of injustice.

  

  Ed Miliband
  • World
  • Responsibility
  • Walk

• Fate is nothing but the deeds committed in a prior state of existence.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Fate
  • Existence
  • Nothing

• I would only take a role that I know I'm comfortable in and I can do. I've turned down plenty of things because I'd feel it's not me, and I wouldn't want to come on someone's project and flip that.

  

  J. B. Smoove
  • Want
  • Know
  • Me

• Every time you get in front of the lights and the cameras and you think, 'Okay, well, we've done this before, but we have to do it again? Oh, we're doing it again? We're doing it again?' It's so gratifying, but I don't think I'll ever get used to it. I hope I won't.

  

  Brian Tyree Henry
  • Time
  • Done
  • Hope

• I believe that education is the greatest equalizer; thus, I will continue to fight to equalize the playing field in an educational atmosphere that is not always level!

  

  Erin Gruwell
  • Playing
  • Atmosphere
  • Educational

• Old age and sickness bring out the essential characteristics of a man.

  

  Felix Frankfurter
  • Age
  • Man
  • Old Age

• I had been writing poems and stories since I learned to make letters. I had placed poems in a hardcover anthology at the age of 6. And I knew more big words than anyone else in the 10th grade.

  

  Jeff Lindsay
  • Writing
  • Age
  • Words

• Nearly all the powerful people of this age are unbelievers, the best of them in doubt and misery, the most in plodding hesitation, doing as well as they can, what practical work lies at hand.

  

  John Ruskin
  • People
  • Work
  • Age

• A veil of insanity everywhere: Oh why I was born in this age? It is a terrible age.

  

  Virginia Woolf
  • Age
  • Born
  • Terrible