Virginia Woolf Quotes
Green in nature is one thing, green in literature another. Nature and letters seem to have a natural antipathy; bring them together and they tear each other to pieces.
Quotes to Explore
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Now I've even gotten to running out to the fan buses that pass by our house, so I can talk to the people. I think I'm trying to gather fans, frankly. They're very, very nice people - they really understand. It's fun talking to them.
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When we direct our thoughts properly, we can control our emotions.
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Our leaders are acting like lemmings.
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I don't mean to sound like a touchy-feely California type here, but I knew that I could finally get over the death of my father only by having kids of my own.
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I just wish that people will be kinder to me when I pass away.
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It's easy to forget the ever-plodding eBay with all the noise made by the more lithe and lively Web 2.0 companies.
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Yeats, protected to some extent by the Nationalistic movement, wrote out of a somewhat protected world, and so his work does not touch life deeply.
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I've approached every character I've ever played with a poem, first and foremost.
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You've never seen a Columbine done by a black child. Never. They always say, 'We can't believe it happened here. We can't believe it's these suburban white kids.' It's only them!
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A voyage to Europe in the summer of 1921 gave me the first opportunity of observing the wonderful blue opalescence of the Mediterranean Sea. It seemed not unlikely that the phenomenon owed its origin to the scattering of sunlight by the molecules of the water.
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When the news wants to tell you something is important, they put dramatic theme music behind it. They scare you into watching the story.
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French people are never happy with what they have. They're always complaining. They're happy when they're complaining.
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I never watch MTV. I don't have time to watch TV. And when I do, I'm watching the Discovery Channel. 'Deadliest Catch: Crab Fishing in Alaska,' that's my show.
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It's weird: for someone who mostly really exists online, I'm actually not very interested in the Internet at all.
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It's very simple. You have to be faithful to your other half and not have secrets. That's my rule.
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Is it not worrying in itself that European Christianity is now barely able to keep Europe Christian? If we lose sight of this, the idea of Europe could become a minority interest in its own continent.
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You must enjoy the journey because whether or not you get there, you must have fun on the way.
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Greening the globalised manufacturing and sourcing will be the single biggest help multinationals could make to the tough pollution control in China and other developing countries.
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I'll admit that I do quite like drinks that come in coconut shells. So there's always that.
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The intelligent ruler makes the law select men and makes no arbitrary appointment himself; he makes the law measure merits and makes no arbitrary judgment himself.
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I read less of everything now. With only fond memories of others' work, it will be interesting to give my own journal writing a try now.
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By its very nature, non-violence cannot ‘seize’ power, nor can that be its goal. But non-violence can do more; it can effectively control and guide power without capturing the machinery of government. That is its beauty.
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Every reader, if he has a strong mind, reads himself into the book, and amalgamates his thoughts with those of the author.
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Green in nature is one thing, green in literature another. Nature and letters seem to have a natural antipathy; bring them together and they tear each other to pieces.
