Virginia Woolf Quotes

It is the nature of the artist to mind excessively what is said about him. 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

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You can't go to a negotiating table pointing a gun, but you've got to keep it over your shoulder.

Joe Slovo

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Once you become tagged as anything, it becomes difficult to shake it, because the less imaginative people in the business want you to do what worked for the last guy. That's always been something I've had to deal with.

John C. Reilly

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The relationship of black Americans to Obama is sociologically riveting.

Andrew Sullivan

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If you're in a heterosexual relationship and you're a female, you win.

Megan Fox

RelationshipWinYouFemale

I'm essentially a jobbing actor. If I'm out of work, I'll be the back end of a donkey.

Michael Gough

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In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in the future.

Stendhal

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If there's a book you really want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.

Toni Morrison

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There are so many rules in Judaism, and if you get into them and you get obsessed and you have the kind of life that I have, it can make you a very unhappy person. It can make everything complicated and more stressful than it needs to be, so I kind of loosened the knots a little bit.

Matisyahu

LifeUnhappyYouRulesPersonKind

The first thing I learned is that campaigns are about money. I had this romantic idea that campaigns were about law and debates and so forth, which is just not true. It's about money.

Michael Seibel

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It is Basic Management 101 that if you reward failure you are going to get more failure, and if you want success you should reward success. But if you look at the way this administration has approached national security, they have kind of got that principle backwards.

Chris Van Hollen

SuccessFailureManagementYouLook

There are so many quirky characters, it's easy to fall in love with any number of the characters on 'The Carrie Diaries'.

Brendan Dooling

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I love near-term sci-fi. I especially love right-now sci-fi: stuff that happens in current time but incorporates a scientific breakthrough that is currently being explored.

Brad Feld

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