Virginia Woolf Quotes

A writer should give direct certainty; explanations are so much water poured into the wine.

Virginia Woolf

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• My story is endless. I put in a teletype roll, you know, you know what they are, you have them in newspapers, and run it through there and fix the margins and just go, go - just go, go, go.

  

  Jack Kerouac
  • Know
  • Story
  • Fix

• By what right do you refuse to accept the vote of a citizen of the United States?

  

  Victoria Woodhull
  • You
  • Vote
  • Citizen

• Everybody loves a villain - let's face it.

  

  Campbell Scott
  • Face
  • Everybody
  • Villain

• I got into beards right in the middle of the hipster boom.

  

  Aaron Taylor-Johnson
  • Right
  • Got
  • Hipster

• I read in the paper that I'd slashed my wrists. But I didn't.

  

  Gail Porter
  • Read
  • Paper

• English people are famous for never speaking out but only saying what they really feel about you behind your back. Americans believe the shortest distance between two points is a straight line. I like exploring those, er, differences in national snippiness.

  

  Rachel Johnson
  • People
  • Believe
  • English

• By admitting your inadequacies, you show that you're self-aware enough to know your areas for improvement - and secure enough to be open about them.

  

  Adam Grant
  • You
  • Know
  • Improvement

• I know I could be the host of 'SportsCenter' in two years if I changed my show today to sports.

  

  Gary Vaynerchuk
  • Today
  • Know
  • Sports

• Actor's life is very long.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • Life
  • Long
  • Actor

• Everyone agrees to that; but when we come to define truth, dissension starts.

  

  Samuel E. Morison
  • Truth
  • Everyone
  • Define

• Pummeling an answer out of someone never works. You cannot intimidate someone with aggressive language and think they'll be more forthcoming... that's a caricature of interrogation, part of the TV culture of what it looks like.

  

  Pamela Meyer
  • Think
  • Culture
  • Language

• I found it very easy to transform into creeps and weirdos and losers and goof-balls, and I'm happy to play eccentric kinds of characters, and I have a great affinity for the outsider, but I definitely am about expanding my range as well.

  

  Rainn Wilson
  • Great
  • Happy
  • Easy

• Beware how you take away hope from another human being.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
  • Hope
  • You
  • Human

• Your audience gives you everything you need. They tell you. There is no director who can direct you like an audience.

  

  Fanny Brice
  • You
  • Everything
  • Director

• The Bill of Rights isn't some legalistic fine print. It was written to make our lives freer, more prosperous, and happier. By forsaking it, America has become no better than any other country in the world.

  

  Harry Browne
  • World
  • Country
  • America

• I'm an entrepreneur. I'm married to an entrepreneur. So I haven't just sipped the entrepreneurship cool-aid, I bleed this stuff.

  

  Nancy Lublin
  • Cool
  • Married
  • Entrepreneur

• If I'm on holiday, I'm active on the beach, I play tennis, I run, I swim a lot. It's just about making the workouts fun, I think, and then it doesn't really feel that bad.

  

  Candice Swanepoel
  • Bad
  • Fun
  • Tennis

• My greatest concern is that the emergence of this technology without the appropriate public attention and international controls could lead to an unstable arms race.

  

  K. Eric Drexler
  • Attention
  • Technology
  • Race

• Fencing made me feel for the first time like a winner.

  

  Neil Diamond
  • Time
  • Feels
  • Winner

• We're raising a generation of kids who are being overly praised for incredibly minor accomplishments. I think it's counter-productive.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • Kids
  • Think
  • Being

• I would die if Woody Allen ever called and said, 'Emma, I have a role for you.'

  

  Emma Roberts
  • Die

• I have thought sometimes that the sanest people, the people who are just very balanced, very happy, are probably lower achieving than other people. My kind of irrationality happens to be fear or anxiety.

  

  Jon Ronson
  • People
  • Happy
  • Fear

• The world has changed - through technology, through wine-making techniques, the quality of wine is greater than it's ever been. Whereas ten, fifteen years ago it was very easy to find lots of bad wine, it's kind of hard now. The technology, the science - it's like, are you kidding? We're in the golden years of wine!

  

  Gary Vaynerchuk
  • World
  • Bad
  • Science

• A writer should give direct certainty; explanations are so much water poured into the wine.

  

  Virginia Woolf
  • Giving
  • Water
  • Wine