Virginia Woolf Quotes

If you insist upon fighting to protect me, or 'our' country, let it be understood soberly and rationally between us that you are fighting to gratify a sex instinct which I cannot share; to procure benefits where I have not shared and probably will not share.

Virginia Woolf

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

MeFightingYouSexCountryProtect

Some of the songs I do once in a while that I kinda... my set list is basically like my hits, there is a good reason why they are there; people really like them.

Joe Cocker

GoodPeopleWhyReasonLikeSongs

I was just coming out of prison, I was married, and I had a kid, and I didn't know what to do, so I tried stand-up.

Joey Diaz

PrisonKnowKidOutComingJust

What made Manhattan Manhattan was the underground infrastructure, that engineering marvel.

Andrew Cuomo

EngineeringInfrastructureManhattan

Oh, I still like to play and I still play when I want to.

John Lee Hooker

PlayWantStillLikeOh

Don't believe everything you think - or feel.

Anna Chancellor

BelieveThinkFeelYouEverything

You see something, then it clicks with something else, and it will make a story. But you never know when it's going to happen.

Stephen King

StoryYouKnowWillNeverSee

The landlady of a boarding-house is a parallelogram - that is, an oblong angular figure, which cannot be described, but which is equal to anything.

Stephen Leacock

EqualAnythingCannotFigureWhich

As the wonderful agony begins for 1964-65, I sometimes wonder why I do it. I've got an insurance business going on the side, and it is starting to grow nicely. Selling insurance fulfills me, in a way, like basketball. But basketball keeps calling me back. I suppose I'll play until I can't keep up with the kids any longer.

Tom Heinsohn

BusinessMeBasketballGrowPlay

There is a measure needing courage to adopt and enforce it, which I believe to be of virtue sufficient to redeem the nation in this its darkest hour: one only; I know of no other to which we may rationally trust for relief from impending dangers without and within.

Robert Dale Owen

CourageTrustBelieveMeasureKnow

I taught myself to listen and kind of regurgitate what I was surrounded by, and it's been a wonderful tool to have as an actor.

Rose Leslie

MyselfKindActorListenToolBeen

I'm a songwriter; it's in my nature to express things openly.

Matt Bellamy

NatureThingsSongwriterExpress

For many Americans, Osama bin Laden is the paradigmatic Muslim, an absurd conviction for anyone who has lived with Muslims.

Miroslav Volf

ConvictionLivedAbsurdWhoMuslim

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