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Once Quotes by Virginia Woolf
- Methinks the human method of expression by sound of tongue is very elementary, and ought to be substituted for some ingenious invention which should be…
- Style is a very simple matter; it is all rhythm. Once you get that, you can't use the wrong words.
- What is amusing now had to be taken in desperate earnest once.
- Once conform, once do what other people do because they do it, and a lethargy steals over all the finer nerves and faculties of the…
- Odd how the creative power at once brings the whole universe to order.
- A masterpiece is something said once and for all, stated, finished, so that it's there complete in the mind, if only at the back.
- For once the disease of reading has laid upon the system it weakens so that it falls an easy prey to that other scourge which…
- Once you fall, Septimus repeated to himself, human nature is on you. Holmes and Bradshaw are on you. They scour the desert. They fly screaming…
- Whenever you see a board up with "Trespassers will be prosecuted," trespass at once.
- ...solitary like a pool at evening, far distant, seen from a train window, vanishing so quickly that the pool, pale in the evening, is scarcely…
- Style is a very simple matter; it is all rhythm. Once you get that, you can't use the wrong words. But on the other hand…
- Now to sum it up,' said Bernard. 'Now to explain to you the meaning of my life. Since we do not know each other (though…
- Once she knows how to read there's only one thing you can teach her to believe in and that is herself.
- I am reading six books at once, the only way of reading; since, as you will agree, one book is only a single unaccompanied note,…
- Waves of hands, hesitations at street corners, someone dropping a cigarette into the gutter-all are stories. But which is the true story? That I do…
- And in me too the wave rises. It swells; it arches its back. I am aware once more of a new desire, something rising beneath…
More Once Quotes
- It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded… — Hannah Arendt
- No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once… — Hannah Arendt
- On the field, blacks have been able to be super giants. But, once our playing days are over, this is the end… — Hank Aaron
- The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela, Colombia and… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world. — Aristotle
- I guess I wanted to leave America for awhile. It wasn't that I wanted to become an expatriate, or just never come… — Paul Auster
- Some choices we live not only once but a thousand times over, remembering them for the rest of our lives. — Richard Bach
- That money talks, I'll not deny, I heard it once: It said, 'Goodbye'. — Richard Armour
- The thing about punk is that there are purists. Once you start going outside of that, they don't think what you're doing… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest. — Isaac Asimov
- The Steps to Folly as well as Sin are gradual, and almost imperceptible, and when we are once on the Decline, we… — Mary Astell
- Once you become predictable, no one's interested anymore. — Chet Atkins