Virginia Woolf Quotes

Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.

Virginia Woolf

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

MenLiteratureOpinionsBeyondWho

England is the paradise of women, the purgatory of men, and the hell of horses.

John Florio

WomenMenHellParadiseHorses

We were postwar middle-class white kids living in the slipstream of the greatest per-capita rise in income in the history of Western civilization; we were 'teen-agers' - a term, coined in 1941, that was in common usage a decade later - a new, recognizable franchise. We had money, mobility, and problems all our own.

John Lahr

HistoryMoneyProblemsWhiteLiving

Without books, we might just melt into the airwaves and be just another set of blips.

John Updike

WithoutMeltMightJustBooksSet

Seeing so much of the same thing suppresses the desire to buy.

Stanley Marcus

SeeingDesireSameBuyMuchThing

Books stay with me and have shaped me and made huge impacts on my life.

Stephan Jenkins

LifeMeMy LifeStayBooksMade

Half of the modern world goes back as far as Pearl Jam. The real historians go back to U2. But they need to go back further. They have to go back to the '50s and '60s, where things started. That's how you get to be your own personality, by studying the masters. Rock and roll was white kids trying to make black music and failing, gloriously!

Steven Van Zandt

MusicPersonalityWorldRock And Roll

Hip-hop started as this niche moment, and the values of it, the cultures that it carried on its back; language, clothes, the way you wear your clothes, the items that you consume, all came with the music as an art form. And those things helped transform how people buy, shop, speak, engage.

Steve Stoute

MusicArtMomentPeopleSpeakYou

The magic's back, folks.

Jordan Knight

MagicBackFolks

Oxford is the most dangerous place to which a young man can be sent.

Anthony Trollope

ManPlaceDangerousYoungYoung Man

Muslims have great reverence in their prayers but not much intimacy.

Philip Yancey

GreatIntimacyReverencePrayers

Having a thick skin doesn't mean that you're hard or harsh. I was lucky because I was born with a thick skin. That doesn't mean that things don't bother me, but you have to keep it in perspective.

Shelley Moore Capito

PerspectiveMeYouBornSkinLucky

The mare set off for home with the speed of a swallow, and going as smoothly and silently. I never had dreamed of such a motion, fluent and graceful, and ambient, soft as the breeze flitting over the flowers, but swift as the summer lightening.

Richard Blackmore

HomeFlowersSpeedSummerNever

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