Virginia Woolf Quotes

Truth had run through my fingers. Every drop had escaped.

Virginia Woolf

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• Clinton's hands remain incredibly clean, don't they, and Tony Blair's smile remains as wide as ever. I view these guises with profound contempt.

  

  Harold Pinter
  • Hands
  • Smile
  • Profound

• I don't ever want to be like a peasant. I want to always be all right. But motivation is fans - not your kids, your mum, none of that. All of that matters, but number one is your fans.

  

  Young Thug
  • Kids
  • Want
  • Always

• There is a reason behind life. There is some connectivity between living beings. Whether you want to call that 'God' or 'The Force' or whatever word you use for it, I do believe in a spiritualized mechanism.

  

  Damon Lindelof
  • Life
  • God
  • Believe

• Canadians look down on the United States and consider it Hell. They are right to do so. Canada is to the United States what, in Dante's scheme, Limbo is to Hell.

  

  Irving Layton
  • Look
  • Down
  • Canada

• I don't believe in myths of decline or myths of progress, even as regards the literary scene.

  

  Harold Bloom
  • Believe
  • Progress
  • Myths

• Whoso walketh in solitude, And inhabiteth the wood, Choosing light, wave, rock, and bird, Before the money-loving herd, Into that forester shall pass From these companions power and grace.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Money
  • Power
  • Light

• Because in big and diverse societies like ours, progress ultimately depends on something more basic, and that is how we see each other. And we know from experience what makes nations strong. And Neha I think did a great job of describing the essence of what’s important here. We are strongest when we see the inherent dignity in every human being.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Great
  • Important
  • Job

• I was responsible to no one, I had no need mumble excuses or lies. I would become someone else and my metamorphosis would be so complete that no one I’d met over the past fifteen years would be able to recognize me. (116)

  

  Patrick Modiano
  • Past
  • Lies
  • Excuses

• Doctrine tied itself into infinite knots over the realities of sex.

  

  Barbara W. Tuchman
  • Sex

• Man can learn nothing unless he proceeds from the known to the unknown.

  

  Claude Bernard
  • Unknown

• It's tough being a teenager, man!

  

  Ashleigh Murray
  • Teenager

• Inspiration is easy. The hard part is getting the inspiration onto 300 pages in an interesting, cohesive, easy-to-read but hard-to-forget story.

  

  Janet Evanovich
  • Inspiration
  • Story

• I've watched songwriters, writers, producers, even artists that I've written hits for come and go. But to the world, it looked like Justin Bieber was my first success.

  

  Jason Boyd
  • World
  • Success

• I don't think men are that attracted by glamour. I think women are attracted by glamour. I think men are attracted by a sense of friendship.

  

  Joanna Lumley
  • Men
  • Women
  • Friendship

• I rarely see one of the 'summer blockbuster' movies. I'd like to see a stronger focus on smaller, smarter movies.

  

  Christopher Meloni
  • Focus
  • Summer

• It's not like I'm anti-China. I just think it's ridiculous that we allow them to do what they're doing to this country, with the manipulation of the currency, that you write about and understand, and all of the other things that they do.

  

  Donald Trump
  • Country
  • Manipulation

• When superstition is allowed to perform the task of old age in dulling the human temperament, we can say goodbye to all excellence in poetry, in painting, and in music.

  

  Denis Diderot
  • Music
  • Age
  • Poetry

• Globalism began as a vision of a world with free trade, shared prosperity, and open borders. These are good, even noble things to aim for.

  

  Deepak Chopra
  • World
  • Good
  • Free

• I've always been interested in what happens in the studio.

  

  Bruce Nauman

• We learn our belief systems as very little children, and then we move through life creating experiences to match our beliefs. Look back in your own life and notice how often you have gone through the same experience.

  

  Louise L. Hay
  • Life
  • Children
  • Experience

• Rock guitarists usually do not wish to think trains of thought about anything but their own guitar playing during a long solo, and I could not play this way if I were not able to divide my attention between my ever changing musical environment and my instrument itself.

  

  John Frusciante
  • Long
  • Attention
  • Wish

• Theater to me is acting but it's more real on film.

  

  Ted Shackelford
  • Real
  • Film
  • Acting

• To hear the appreciation, the screams - that's what any of us need. We're at our best when we're wanted.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Best
  • Appreciation
  • Hear

• Truth had run through my fingers. Every drop had escaped.

  

  Virginia Woolf