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

• I'm always looking, as an actor, for activities. I think it's far more interesting to watch what people do than what they say. You always want to watch behavior, because the dialogue as written by our illustrious leaders is great. Eminently playable.

  

  Adam Baldwin
  • People
  • Great
  • Interesting

• 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

• Christianity does not involve the belief that all things were made for man. It does involve the belief that God loves man and for his sake became man and died.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • God

• 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

• Lying is the same as alcoholism. Liars prevaricate even on their deathbeds.

  

  Anton Chekhov

• 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 think what initially attracts many kids to trains are the 'cool' things: strength, size, agency, speed. But trains also operate within a world of systems, schedules, codes, and fine distinctions. Enter the geeks. What I personally love most about trains is that they are transporting, that they take us places - literally and otherwise.

  

  Brian Floca
  • World
  • Kids
  • Cool

• We have reached a historic point, ... Turkey will be the only Muslim country in EU.

  

  Abdullah Gul
  • Muslim
  • Turkey
  • Historic

• My art in the last period has all been in small format, but my paintings have become even deeper and more spiritual, speaking purely through colour.. .And now I leave these small – but to me – important works to the future and to the people who love art.

  

  Alexej von Jawlensky
  • Art
  • Colour
  • Paintings

• When I opened Chanel in London, they were happy. People would go, 'Oh, I just came in to see it. It's so beautiful.' And you leave with a positive attitude toward the brand. Now, you don't really get that online. You don't go, like, 'Wow.'

  

  Peter Marino
  • People
  • Happy
  • Beautiful

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

  

  Virginia Woolf