Virginia Woolf Quotes

How much better is silence; the coffee cup, the table. How much better to sit by myself like the solitary sea-bird that opens its wings on the stake. Let me sit here for ever with bare things, this coffee cup, this knife, this fork, things in themselves, myself being myself.

Virginia Woolf

Quotes to Explore

I remember thinking that people were crazy for reading the same book more than once, but I now have a new-found appreciation for the re-discovery of literature. The lessons we learned from books in the school curriculum are reinvented and updated when we read as adults.

Rachel Nichols
- People
- Thinking
- School
I didn't want to leave Newcastle, but that's football.

Gary Speed
- Want
- Football
- Leave
The atmosphere seems to change once the sun goes down and the race fans get to watch a good show.

Dale Earnhardt
- Good
- Change
- Sun
I didn't dictate sections of 'Visions of Cody.' I typed up a segment of taped conversation with Neal Cassady, or Cody, talking about his early adventures in L.A.

Jack Kerouac
- Up
- Conversation
- Talking
If I decide to make a coat red in the show, it's not just red, I think: is it communist red? Is it cherry cordial? Is it ruby red? Or is it apple red? Or the big red balloon red?

Lady Gaga
- Think
- Red
- Apple
Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained. Follow some other object, and very possibly we may find that we have caught happiness without dreaming of it.

Nathaniel Hawthorne
- World
- May
- Happiness