Virginia Woolf Quotes

I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.

Virginia Woolf

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• The mill cannot grind with the water that is past.

  

  Daniel D. Palmer
  • Past
  • Water
  • Grind

• I am especially grateful that I have been able to keep my own style over the decades, in spite of the many changes that have taken place in the world of fashion and in its business.

  

  Valentino Garavani
  • World
  • Business
  • Fashion

• I have no mouth, and I must scream.

  

  Harlan Ellison
  • Mouth
  • Scream
  • Must

• Life is more important than 'what film I do next.'

  

  Aaron Johnson
  • Life
  • Important
  • Film

• If the Great Way perishes there will morality and duty. When cleverness and knowledge arise great lies will flourish. When relatives fall out with one another there will be filial duty and love. When states are in confusion there will be faithful servants.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Knowledge
  • Morality
  • States

• I find Denver's hipster scene to be fully unique.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • Unique
  • Find
  • Hipster

• All the things that I find beautiful have a darkness about them.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • Beautiful
  • Find
  • Darkness

• I could become a Gold Glove-caliber shortstop. Not as talented as Vizquel, but definitely on par with Jeter.

  

  Ichiro Suzuki
  • Gold

• Armenians and Azerbaijanis in Stepanakert, capital of the Nagorno-Karabakh autonomous region, rioted over much needed spelling reform in the Soviet Union.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Riot
  • Armenians
  • Azerbaijanis

• You know, the way I'm accepted, I almost feel like Judy Garland, truly. It makes no sense to me because I don't think that I've been any more outspoken... Or maybe I have, I don't know. But everyone I know supports anything that has to do with raising money or with AIDS.

  

  Bea Arthur
  • Money

• Shocked disbelief greets suggestions that many women may take pleasure in rape fantasies, established long ago by Nancy Friday in her pioneering 1973 study, My Secret Garden, and dramatized today by the staggering mass-market popularity of Harlequin Romances, where heroines are overwhelmed by passionate, impetuous men.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Men
  • Long
  • Women

• One never goes so far as when one doesn't know where one is going.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

• An angel's arm can't snatch me from the grave;Legions of angels can't confine me there.

  

  Edward Young
  • Angel

• I think sports makes for good drama because it has all the same ingredients as anything worth reading or listening to or watching. Conflict, desire, heartbreak - it's all there.

  

  Jay Baruchel
  • Good
  • Reading
  • Desire

• When I was a prosecutor in Kansas City, my job was to fight for justice and safety for all citizens in my community. Equal access to justice under the law is an American value embedded in the fabric of our legal and political system - the idea that anybody, powerful or not, can have their day in court.

  

  Claire McCaskill
  • Job
  • American
  • Political

• Japan, Germany, and India seem to me to have serious writers, readers, and book buyers, but the Netherlands has struck me as the most robust literary culture in the world.

  

  Paul Theroux
  • World
  • Book
  • Culture

• I've had a 'Zelig'-like career. I pop up unexpectedly. I'm always kind of around.

  

  Dennis Christopher
  • Up
  • Career

• Reconciliation cannot be used to pass comprehensive health care reform. It won't work because it was never designed for that kind of significant legislation; it was designed for deficit reduction.

  

  Kent Conrad
  • Work
  • Health

• We suffer: the external world begins to exist...; we suffer to excess: it vanishes. Pain instigates the world only to unmask its unreality.

  

  Emil Cioran
  • World
  • Pain

• Holding still for a moment, what a moment this is, Oh for a moment of forgetting, a moment of bliss

  

  Peter Gabriel Genesis
  • Moments
  • Forget
  • Stills

• There were times when I was so sick of talking about the Bible.

  

  Karen Kingsbury
  • Bible
  • Sick
  • Talking

• My father was my trainer, my teacher. He was closer to my sister in the sense that she adored him and he adored her. He was more like my pal. Because of the 13-year gap, I think by the time I came along, it wasn't a big deal. I wasn't spoilt or cherished, I was just put to work.

  

  Felicity Kendal
  • Time
  • Work
  • She

• Freedom is not an individual effort. Yours comes only when you grant others theirs

  

  Sergio Aragones
  • Freedom
  • Effort

• I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.

  

  Virginia Woolf