Virginia Woolf Quotes

If behind the erratic gunfire of the press the author felt that there was another kind of criticism, the opinion of people readingfor the love of reading, slowly and unprofessionally, and judging with great sympathy and yet with great severity, might this not improve the quality of his work? And if by our means books were to become stronger, richer, and more varied, that would be an end worth reaching.

Virginia Woolf

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• If my love is without sacrifice, it is selfish. Such a love is barter, for there is exchange of love and devotion in return for something. It is conditional love.

  

  Sadhu Vaswani
  • Love
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• I really like having a life outside work. I sometimes wish I did more career stuff and was in that Hollywood scene a bit more. But Toronto's my home.

  

  Rachel McAdams
  • Life
  • Work
  • Home

• I'm not the girl next door.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Girl
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  • Girl Next Door

• Peyton Royce and Billie Kay are two phenomenal workers; I would love to see them up here on Smackdown. They're great girls with great talent. A bit of momentum, and we're going to see amazing things from them.

  

  Becky Lynch
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• When you get to the point where you're established enough that people link you with something, especially being an action hero babe, it's awesome. Because then you can fight the battles and have the crossbows and wrestle with swords and ride the horses because you're already believable; people see you in that genre.

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • People
  • Action
  • Hero

• Life in a Chinese village is much more organised because the Chinese Communist Party has a presence even in the remotest Chinese village - a presence of the kind that no governmental or non-governmental organisation has in Indian villages.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • Life
  • Party
  • Chinese

• Jazz has been such a force in music, that any musician, including classical composers, have been influenced, and obviously performers, also.

  

  Yo-Yo Ma
  • Music
  • Force
  • Jazz

• I'm a Sufi Muslim, I would say. I believe in using the medium to create a good vibration because art is so important to society. Some projects I don't do because I feel that it's going to create a bad vibe. I don't do propaganda films that are anti another religion, anti-Muslim or anti-Hindu.

  

  A. R. Rahman
  • Good
  • Believe
  • Important

• Why do I always choose the shopping cart with the squeaky wheel? Is it my bad luck, or are all the carts dysfunctional?

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • Why
  • Bad
  • Luck

• Marching thus at night, a battalion is doubly impressive. The silent monster is full of restrained power; resolute in its onward sweep, impervious to danger, it looks a menacing engine of destruction, steady to its goal, and certain of its mission.

  

  Patrick MacGill
  • Power
  • Night
  • Goal

• Poetry seems to sink into us the way prose doesn't. I can still quote verses I learned when I was very young, but I have trouble remembering one line of a novel I just finished reading.

  

  Jack Prelutsky
  • Reading
  • Poetry
  • Young

• Speaking purely from a musical standpoint, I think I am a great performer.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Musical
  • Performer

• I'm proud to be here as a man that has played first base more than anybody in the game of baseball.

  

  Eddie Murray
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• I think fan fiction is the way most writers start, and the same goes for music and design.

  

  Malorie Blackman
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  • Design
  • Start

• There's also the tradition of voodoo, the Haitian magic arts, in New Orleans. And because New Orleans is below sea level, when they bury people in New Orleans, it's mostly above ground. So you have this idea that the spirits are more accessible and can access you more easily because they're not even buried.

  

  Sam Trammell
  • People
  • Magic
  • Sea

• I think there's always been singers like that and i've done my fair share of cheese as well.

  

  Marc Almond Soft Cell
  • Done
  • Think
  • Always

• Criticism always seemed to me a lot like police work. You look for clues, fingerprints, motives. You need to construct an airtight case.

  

  Nathaniel Rich
  • Work
  • Police
  • Criticism

• There may be good, but there are no pleasant marriages.

  

  Rainer Maria Rilke
  • Good
  • May
  • Pleasant

• Wembley is a ground with great history. It's hosted games and players of great prestige. It's always important playing on great stages like this.

  

  Diego Costa
  • Great
  • Important
  • History

• Respect was one thing. Survival was another. It was important that I kept my priorities in the right order.

  

  Sayyid Tahir al-Hashimi
  • Important
  • Respect
  • Survival

• Only in the case of immigration is the public systematically lied to from every major news outlet. The media lie about everything, but immigration constitutes their finest hour of collective lying.

  

  Ann Coulter
  • Immigration

• Over the last couple of years I have gotten an average of 2,000 letters a week from fans.

  

  Davy Jones The Monkees
  • Couple

• There are lots of ways to make money in venture capital, and there are even more ways to be mediocre. The industry has too much money and too many smart people chasing too few great entrepreneurs.

  

  Dan Levitan
  • People
  • Great
  • Money

• If behind the erratic gunfire of the press the author felt that there was another kind of criticism, the opinion of people readingfor the love of reading, slowly and unprofessionally, and judging with great sympathy and yet with great severity, might this not improve the quality of his work? And if by our means books were to become stronger, richer, and more varied, that would be an end worth reaching.

  

  Virginia Woolf
  • People
  • Book
  • Reading