Virginia Woolf Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
It seems to me that trying to live without friends is like milking a bear to get cream for your morning coffee. It is a whole lot of trouble, and then not worth much after you get it.
-
I was in San Francisco for 'Trauma' and then got back to town and got situated and started looking at things and passing on things. I think I was around for a month and a half, and there were other projects that were up, but it's all a waiting game. And then, 'The Vampire Diaries' came up, and I was really interested and read for it.
-
The law of sacrifice is uniform throughout the world. To be effective it demands the sacrifice of the bravest and the most spotless.
-
I've had the experience of having a book praised but then it doesn't sell. Or not praised but then it sells.
-
I would be very happy doing movies. I love to work and I think I'm a little different.
-
Some of our best journalists take themselves even more seriously than the politicians they write about.
-
My parents wanted us to be well-rounded individuals and really have the American experiences as richly as one can.
-
What you look like, whether you're Brad Pitt or Charles Laughton, is significant for actors.
-
I've never rejected the world I came from. To be rejected by it is horrible.
-
I've learned about ice water in the morning - when you wake up tired, or you're jet lagged and you've been flying and your skin is dry, or you have puffy eyes - the ice water really helps cool the face down and helps circulation.
-
I was raised by very traditional Southern parents with Southern manners. You don't air your dirty laundry to people that aren't your family or your friends. Why would I ever want to portray myself as anything other than together?
-
You have a new role: family caregiver. It's a role nobody applies for. You don't expect it. You won't be prepared. You probably won't even identify yourself as a caregiver.
-
The only questions that really matter are the ones you ask yourself.
-
The children break all my jewelry, so everything I wear is cheap - from Topshop or Dorothy Perkins.
-
I found my voice singing pop and ballads, almost all of them Colombian artists. When I was 16, my family gave me a recording session with some Colombian producers, and that's where I started my career.
-
My style of music is the great American songbook meets the pop world of the Seventies and Eighties.
-
I'm now convinced that I'm a doctor. I mean, if someone says they have a pain, I'm like, 'Well, that's your spleen.'
-
I think that our comfort is in our history.
-
I am not Lyme disease, that's not who I am, I'm still a feminist artist, but this is a part of my story too, and I'm not going to keep it out to look cooler.
-
There is so much talent among our young people; I hope the women in 'Hidden Figures' inspire them.
-
I ran through most of college and ran through most of grad school. When I was writing my dissertation for my Ph.D., it was literally the only hour of the day that I wasn't working. It was nine months of torture, but I made sure I got out to run.
-
When a battle for suffrage is conducted, it should only be conducted according to socialist principles, and therefore with the demand of universal suffrage for women and men.
-
A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.
