Virginia Woolf Quotes

Thoughts without words… Can that be?

Virginia Woolf

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• There is no must in art because art is free.

  

  Wassily Kandinsky
  • Art
  • Free
  • Because

• I have to be realistic about what I can and can't do. So whatever I do has to really be worth it. I like to master the things I do.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Things
  • I Can
  • Worth

• Genius goes around the world in its youth incessantly apologizing for having large feet. What wonder that later in life it should be inclined to raise those feet too swiftly to fools and bores.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Life
  • World
  • Wonder

• Nothing truly convincing - which would possess thoroughness, vigor, and skill - has been written against the ancients as yet; especially not against their poetry.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
  • Poetry
  • Nothing
  • Skill

• It may be a cold, clammy thing to say, but those that treat friendship the same as any other selfishness seem to get the most out of it.

  

  E. W. Howe
  • May
  • Cold
  • Friendship

• The late Seventies was the death of the manufacturing age in the United States. It was also a time when the Pictures Generation artists were getting started. They co-opted the language of advertising. The factory disappeared, and weirdly, so did the art object - it was the age of making gestures, not objects.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Time
  • Art
  • Age

• Every teenager and everybody around the ages from 10 to 18 has to go through finding out who they are.

  

  Sammi Hanratty
  • Teenager
  • Go
  • Through

• I knew Jimmy Dean. He tested for 'Battle Cry'. Paul Newman tested for 'Battle Cry'. I did nine tests to finally get that role.

  

  Tab Hunter
  • Battle
  • Cry
  • Nine

• I was a huge fan of video games; I wanted to write something, and I saw the tools at my fingertips to upload a video to my audience, and that's why I'm here today. I think that freedom and the lack of gatekeepers, combined with people's passion, is what really the true spirit of Internet geekdom is about.

  

  Felicia Day
  • People
  • Why
  • True

• When I decide I want something, I go in like an Exocet missile.

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • Want
  • Something
  • Go

• 'Wicked' gave us a story that 'The Wizard of Oz' did not. Two sides to every story.

  

  Abbi Glines
  • Story
  • Two
  • Sides

• My wife attends a Presbyterian church.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • Wife
  • Church
  • Presbyterian

• I love boliche, roasted pig, and black beans and rice. When I need a quick fix, I head to Cafe Cortadito on Avenue B and 3rd here in New York City.

  

  Narciso Rodriguez
  • Head
  • Fix
  • Quick

• I've worked so hard for so long, and everyone's reaction has made me feel like... almost like they trust me, which is just a wonderful feeling. It pushes me to write things better and better.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • Long
  • Feeling
  • Trust

• Life in the Middle East is quite different from other places.

  

  Zaha Hadid
  • Life
  • Different
  • Middle

• I'd visit the near future, close enough that someone might want to talk to Larry Niven and can figure out the language; distant enough to get me decent medical techniques and a ticket to the Moon.

  

  Larry Niven
  • Future
  • Language
  • Moon

• I don't know if I believe in love at first sight, but of course I believe in two people having chemistry right away. A girl should be really easy to talk to. When I lose track of time because we've been talking, I think that's really fun.

  

  Zac Efron
  • People
  • Time
  • Believe

• I think all actors have a similar deal. You want some people who understand. Although it looks great - and is great - there are also shoddy moments when you feel really rotten, and when it's going well, you're not allowed to complain.

  

  Eddie Redmayne
  • People
  • Great
  • Moments

• Culture makes people understand each other better. And if they understand each other better in their soul, it is easier to overcome the economic and political barriers. But first they have to understand that their neighbour is, in the end, just like them, with the same problems, the same questions.

  

  Paulo Coelho
  • People
  • Soul
  • Political

• Britain has had some very strong and successful queens throughout history, but, since the Act of Succession in 1701, they have only been eligible to take the throne if they had no brothers. If there was a boy in the family, no matter where he came in the order of birth, he leapfrogged his sisters to take the title.

  

  Penny Junor
  • Family
  • History
  • Strong

• It's not meant to be entertaining. If you want entertainment, go to the pictures. This is serious!

  

  Eamon Quotes
  • Want
  • Serious
  • Entertainment

• I've learned that when I'm directing, I hate when people are always questioning everything and trying to give me directions.

  

  Eugenio Derbez
  • Always
  • Everything
  • Directions

• I hold it true that thoughts are things Endowed with bodies, breath, and wings, And that we send them forth to fill The world with good results--or ill.

  

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox
  • World
  • Good
  • True

• Thoughts without words… Can that be?

  

  Virginia Woolf
  • Thoughts