Virginia Woolf Quotes

Was not writing poetry a secret transaction, a voice answering a voice?

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• I remember when I was growing up. My great wish was to understand who I was and how I fit in the world.

  

  Yo-Yo Ma
  • Up
  • World
  • Great

• I don't know what's on the other side.

  

  Patrick Swayze
  • Know
  • Side
  • Other

• Some people ask, 'How do you attract the young and so many different people when your poetry is complicated and different?' I say, 'My accomplishment is that my readers trust me and accept my suggestions for change.'

  

  Mahmoud Darwish
  • People
  • Different
  • Change

• There are no opportune times for a penalty, and this is not one of those times.

  

  Jack Youngblood
  • Times
  • Penalty
  • Those

• If I'm offered a good case in Florida or a good case somewhere else, South Florida will win every time.

  

  F. Lee Bailey
  • Time
  • Good
  • Win

• I have big hands. I can't do the touch-screen thing. I'm a button guy. I want to press buttons.

  

  J. B. Smoove
  • Want
  • Guy
  • Hands

• If you want the Migos to come to your venue, you need to have security there because of the type of music we're rappin'. We get fans excited.

  

  Quavo Migos
  • Music
  • Want
  • Security

• I'm not a one-issue person.

  

  Barbara Bush
  • Person

• Albania is going through a deep crisis because it lacks the rule of law, an independent judiciary, and freedom of the media. I don't think if we stop protesting the problem is solved.

  

  Edi Rama
  • Freedom
  • Law
  • Stop

• Using MO to link crimes can be problematic.

  

  Pat Brown
  • Crimes
  • Using
  • Link

• Life is a series of steps. Things are done gradually. Once in a while there is a giant step, but most of the time we are taking small, seemingly insignificant steps on the stairway of life.

  

  Ralph Ransom
  • Life
  • Time
  • Done

• Any acting is a stretch of the imagination. That's your job. Acting is truth in imaginary circumstances. Acting with green screen or a motion capture stage, you're striving for absolute truth in absolutely imaginary circumstances.

  

  Sam Worthington
  • Job
  • Truth
  • Imagination

• I remember before the Olympics, I was asked, 'What do you think you're going to do in the Olympics?' and I said, 'I'm hoping I'm going to win a medal, and, if possible, it's going to be a gold one.'

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • Remember
  • Win
  • Gold

• Actually I dance really well on the floor.

  

  Oksana Baiul
  • Dance
  • Really
  • Well

• A writer has a difficult fate, but a Jewish writer has an especially difficult fate. His soul is torn; he lives on two streets with three languages. It is a misfortune to live on this sort of 'border,' and that is what I have experienced.

  

  S. Ansky
  • Live
  • Soul
  • Fate

• From my side, there was no acceptance to this fact that I am any less than anyone around me. So there was a certain discomfort that I felt growing up that I am not seen as I want to be seen as.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • Growing
  • Acceptance
  • Discomfort

• I love 'Homeland.' I think it's such a well-done, well-acted TV show.

  

  Victoria Justice
  • Love
  • Done
  • Think

• Whether you watch 'Law and Order' all the time or not, everyone knows what it looks like. Everyone knows what the courtroom looks like, what the police precinct looks like.

  

  Samira Wiley
  • Time
  • Law
  • Police

• You know, when you first come up, and you get called up to the big leagues, all you want to do is just, you just want to have a career, a nice career. You want to make a living at it.

  

  Rafael Palmeiro
  • Up
  • Want
  • Career

• When you're writing, you're in a totally different zone... I can start a difficult poem and look up at the clock and see to my astonishment that three hours have passed.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • Up
  • Different
  • Writing

• To do today's work well and not to bother about tomorrow is the secret of accomplishment

  

  William Osler
  • Secret
  • Tomorrow
  • Accomplishment

• The counterculture has nothing to do with Dolce & Gabbana having a 'Hippy Summer' or something. Street kids, and kids who want to live in any sort of counter-cultural experience other than what's being presented by the mainstream media or political climate, or 'normal' cultural climate, are never going to look like that.

  

  Chris Robinson The Black Crowes
  • Live
  • Experience
  • Kids

• I don't really care very much if I don't think that the critics really understand music.

  

  Andrew Lloyd Webber
  • Music

• Was not writing poetry a secret transaction, a voice answering a voice?

  

  Virginia Woolf
  • Writing
  • Secret