Virginia Woolf Quotes

Clothes are but a symbol of something hid deep beneath.

Virginia Woolf

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• I love to cook. My dad's a really excellent cook and his style is: Look in the fridge and make whatever there is with whatever ingredients you have and I like cooking like that, too.

  

  Olivia Thirlby
  • Style
  • Like
  • Excellent

• Success demands singleness of purpose.

  

  Vince Lombardi
  • Success
  • Purpose
  • Demands

• I search for surprise in my architecture. A work of art should cause the emotion of newness.

  

  Oscar Niemeyer
  • Work
  • Art
  • Search

• I still consider myself a working-class girl and would send my kids to public school.

  

  Samantha Fox
  • School
  • Kids
  • Girl

• I didn't start working out until college. But in college I could feel my body changing, and I knew that if I didn't make some changes, I was going to go in the wrong direction.

  

  Aaron Schock
  • College
  • Start
  • Changes

• My sister was always very motherly, babysitting and stuff.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Always
  • Sister
  • Very

• Getting divorced didn't sour me on the institution of marriage. I'll tell you what I'll never do: I'll never get divorced again.

  

  Eddie Murphy
  • Me
  • Marriage
  • Never

• A famous person to themselves, they don't get up in the morning and think, I'm famous. I'm not famous to me. Famous is a perception.

  

  Van Morrison
  • Up
  • Morning
  • Famous

• An interview has become such a confrontational thing. It makes you very defensive.

  

  Francesca Annis
  • You
  • Become
  • Interview

• Sometimes we have to take on jobs that we don't love, and I always encourage any creative person to use those as the fuel to do the things that you do love to do, even if they don't pay.

  

  Dan Bucatinsky
  • Person
  • Creative
  • Jobs

• No, I'm not a French designer either. I'm from nowhere. I'm a European, old European is all I am.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Designer
  • French
  • European

• I love rhymes; I love to write a poem about New York and rhyme 'oysters' with 'The Cloisters.' And 'The lady from Knoxville who bought her brassieres by the boxful.' I just feel a sort of small triumph.

  

  Garrison Keillor
  • Love
  • Small
  • New York

• I want people to use Perl. I want to be a positive ingredient of the world and make my American history. So, whatever it takes to give away my software and get it used, that's great.

  

  Larry Wall
  • People
  • World
  • Great

• Nobody in France would ever say 'He's a Jewish novelist' or 'She's a black novelist,' even though people do write about those subjects. It would look absurd to a French person to go into a bookstore and see a 'Gay Studies' section.

  

  Edmund White
  • People
  • She
  • Black

• Any kind of restrictions put on free speech would have worse consequences than bullying.

  

  Lady Starlight
  • Free
  • Consequences
  • Bullying

• I had a guidance counsellor who made me take an aptitude test, and told me I should be a bricklayer.

  

  Harmony Korine
  • Me
  • Test
  • Told

• The principle though remains the same, and the important thing is CBS fought hard, very hard, to protect that principle and will fight again.

  

  Floyd Abrams
  • Important
  • Fight
  • Same

• In September 2005, I was three things: the media blogger for 'FishbowlNY,' a maniacal Daily Show fan, and the only person to smuggle a tape recorder and camera into a big Magazine Publishers of America event featuring Jon Stewart interviewing five hotshot magazine editors in an unbelievable bloodbath.

  

  Rachel Sklar
  • America
  • Daily
  • Media

• At Al Jazeera, we are getting our local Somalis, Yemenis and Sudanese, local correspondents from within the society, who understand much better than the people who come from overseas. We will get a much better insight.

  

  Wadah Khanfar
  • People
  • Society
  • Better

• The moon glows on the river, wind rustles the pines.

  

  Ueda Akinari
  • Wind
  • Moon
  • River

• My advice would be to write -never to stop writing, to keep it up all the time, to be painstaking about it, to write until you begin to write.

  

  Alan Gabriel Barnsley
  • Up
  • Time
  • Writing

• I was baptized alongside my mother when I was 8 years old. Since then, I have tried to walk a Christian life. And now that I'm getting older, I realized that I'm walking even closer with my God.

  

  Andy Griffith
  • Life
  • God
  • Mother

• The music's rehearsed a lot. All people think about is, they think, in rock 'n' roll, they get the music off right and they think it's okay standing, looking macho. Well, it's not. That's boring. If you want to be a performer you've got to do a lot more work than that.

  

  Mick Jagger The Rolling Stones
  • People
  • Work
  • Music

• Clothes are but a symbol of something hid deep beneath.

  

  Virginia Woolf
  • Clothes
  • Symbols