Virginia Woolf Quotes

Fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so slightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners. Often the attachment is scarcely perceptible.

Virginia Woolf

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: british
  • Birth: January 25, 1882 - March 28, 1941

Topics

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In many cases, the Treasury will get preferred or convertible preferred stock for the money it gives to banks. These shares typically don't have voting rights, possibly to give more of a hands-off appearance to the government.

Jerry A. Webman

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A screenplay adaptation of my 'Punktown' novel 'Health Agent' has been making the rounds. The screenplay was written by my friend, singer/songwriter Walter Egan of 'Magnet & Steel' fame!

Jeffrey Thomas

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I love doing music, and I plan to do it until I die or as long as I can walk to the piano.

Andrae Crouch

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'Maneater' is about N.Y.C. in the '80s. It's about greed, avarice, and spoiled riches.

John Oates

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The play is not in the words, it's in you!

Stella Adler

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When I think of invention, I always think of America. You're always seeing ads: 'Have you got the next big idea?' There seems to be that spirit in America of inventions and inventors.

Simon Cowell

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I wish for a world where success is measured not by what we take nor by what we get. Just by what we give. And who we become.

Robin S. Sharma

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Of course, we have known for a long time that a word, like any verbal sign, is a unity of two components.

Roman Jakobson

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I never did drama at school. I did it for one term, when it was compulsory, and I hated it. Tennis was the main thing in my life, and I was not open to anything else. When I removed tennis from the equation, I didn't know who I was.

Luke Mitchell

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I've done some analysis of the biblical stories as part of my psychological work. I knew that I had more to do, and every time I've done it, it's been extremely valuable. It makes me a better teacher because I have a richer understanding of cultural history.

Jordan Peterson

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The facts of life are very stubborn things.

Cleveland Amory

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Soviet moviegoers gazed enviously on the jalopy that took the Joads from Oklahoma to California. The message Russians took from 'The Grapes of Wrath': even the poorest capitalists have cars!

Richard Corliss

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