Virginia Woolf Quotes

Better was it to go unknown and leave behind you an arch, then to burn like a meteor and leave no dust.

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• I'm constitutionally incapable of working on planes or trains, and airports are definitely out.

  

  Damon Galgut
  • Working
  • Out
  • Incapable

• What makes us a bit nervous is, in this instant age, to release something that might take more than one listen. Where everything is instantly judged on YouTube or something! It's a bit like releasing a horse and cart on a racetrack.

  

  Chris Martin Coldplay
  • Age
  • Horse
  • Listen

• I can be an emotional eater. Of late, I have been doing that, yes. It started when I was very little. My brothers were gone on tour a lot, and I would miss them so much.

  

  Janet Jackson
  • Emotional
  • I Can

• The test of a good letter is a very simple one. If one seems to hear the other person talking as one reads, it is a good letter.

  

  A. C. Benson
  • Good
  • Simple
  • Talking

• As life tends to become more and more distracting, let us firmly hold on to books.

  

  Alfred Edward Newton
  • Life

• Seriously, I like to wear hats so I don't get super tan. You have to protect the face.

  

  Alessandra Ambrosio
  • Face
  • Protect
  • Wear

• Nothing's ever gone. We fool ourselves that things fade, but they never do.

  

  Nalini Singh
  • Fool

• When you don't use sugar in your diet, all of the sudden fruits are really sweet. Honey is really sweet. Your taste buds change. I'm not psycho never have anything sweet, because that takes too much energy. The stress on your body just isn't worth it.

  

  Laird Hamilton
  • Energy
  • Sweet
  • Stress

• Love, and do what you will. If you are silent, be silent for love; or if you cry out, cry out for love. If you chastise, chastise for love; if you spare, spare for love.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Cry
  • Silent
  • Spares

• The Law of Concentration states that whatever you dwell upon, grows. The more you think about something, the more it becomes part of your reality.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Thinking
  • Reality
  • Law

• Self-denial is the shining sore on the leprous body of Christianity.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Body
  • Christianity
  • Self-Denial

• The happiest man on earth would be able to use the Mirror of Erised like a normal mirror, that is, he would look into it and see himself exactly as he is. Does that help?

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Help
  • Earth
  • Mirror

• I've made it eminently clear, anyone who walks away will be sued, ... It will take me 10 minutes to sign a complaint, we'll be in court.

  

  Eliot Spitzer
  • Court
  • Complaint
  • Eminently

• I don't know what drives me to succeed. I know I want to always do the best I can. I never was like that as a kid.

  

  Adam Sandler
  • Kids
  • Want
  • Succeed

• The circulatory system of man and the vertebrate animals can be considered as made up of a small number of organs or subordinate systems, which are easy to recognize anatomically, and the functions of which are on the whole quite distinct.

  

  August Krogh
  • Up
  • Small
  • Animals

• YOU are the big drop of dew under the lotus leaf, I am the smaller one on its upper side,' said the dewdrop to the lake.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • Lake
  • Lakes
  • Dew

• There is far too much talk of love and grief benumbing the faculties, turning the hair gray, and destroying a man's interest in his work. Grief has made many a man look younger.

  

  William McFee
  • Men
  • Interest
  • Grief

• And Kansas City is at Chicago tonight, or is it Chicago at Kansas City? Well, no matter as Kansas City leads in the eighth 4 to 4.

  

  Jerry Coleman
  • Funny
  • City
  • Baseball

• The NFL has a hard cap, but if you ask 20 NFL experts who is going to win the Super Bowl this year, you might get 20 different answers. If you then asked 20 baseball experts who is going to represent the American League in the World Series, at least 90 percent of them would say the Yankees and the rest would say Seattle.

  

  Bob DuPuy
  • Baseball
  • Win
  • Experts

• I'm a 21st century guy, secure in who I am.

  

  Eric Holder
  • Secure

• My message behind this album was finding the beauty in imperfection.

  

  Beyonce Destiny's Child
  • Feminist
  • Behinds
  • Albums

• Better was it to go unknown and leave behind you an arch, then to burn like a meteor and leave no dust.

  

  Virginia Woolf
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