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Years Quotes by Virginia Woolf
- Most of a modest woman's life was spent, after all, in denying what, in one day at least of every year, was made obvious.
- The human frame being what it is, heart, body and brain all mixed together, and not contained in separate compartments as they will be no…
- Old Madame du Deffand and her friends talked for fifty years without stopping. And of it all, what remains? Perhaps three witty sayings. So that…
- For what Harley Street specialist has time to understand the body, let alone the mind or both in combination, when he is a slave to…
- Masterpieces are not single and solitary births; they are the outcome of many years of thinking in common, of thinking by the body of the…
- Yet Byron never made tea as you do, who fill the pot so that when you put the lid on the tea spills over. There…
- What is the meaning of life? That was all- a simple question; one that tended to close in on one with years, the great revelation…
- ...so now, Mrs. Ramsay thought, she could return to that dream land, that unreal but fascinating place, the Manning's drawing-room at Marlow twenty years ago;…
- For they might be parted for hundreds of years, she and Peter; she never wrote a letter and his were dry sticks; but suddenly it…
- some we know to be dead even though they walk among us; some are not yet born though they go through all the forms of…
- Listening (had there been any one to listen) from the upper rooms of the empty house only gigantic chaos streaked with lightning could have been…
- Women have sat indoors all these millions of years, so that by this time the very walls are permeated by their creative force, which has,…
- Have you any notion how many books are written about women in the course of one year? Have you any notion how many are written…
- The strange thing about life is that though the nature of it must have been apparent to every one for hundreds of years, no one…
- Here was a woman about the year 1800 writing without hate, without bitterness, without fear, without protest, without preaching. That was how Shakespeare wrote, I…
More Years Quotes
- I wanted to get back to my style of 20 years ago after a long period of exploring horror and fantasy themes. — Dario Argento
- Tourism is a crucial industry that could employ millions of Filipinos, skilled and unskilled alike, cross those 7,107 islands of the Philippines.… — Benigno Aquino III
- Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or… — Richard Armour
- I've been playing rock and roll since I was 16 years old, and now I have a 16-year-old. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- I think when you're 10 years old, it's too much to see something with the threat of death in every episode. Kids… — J. J. Abrams
- The first person to promulgate the Golden Rule, which was the bedrock of this empathic spirituality, was Confucius 500 years before Christ. — Karen Armstrong
- Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside… — Lance Armstrong
- I joined the swim team when I was 12, and I was the worst kid in the pool - I was put… — Lance Armstrong
- It's tough to be a 15- or 16-year-old athlete competing around the country. There's tension, there's media. I had no idea what… — Lance Armstrong
- Obviously, I come from one background, and the people that design fitness equipment have been doing it for years and years, and… — Lance Armstrong
- Science has not yet mastered prophecy. We predict too much for the next year and yet far too little for the next… — Neil Armstrong
- I learned a lot in those first years in Miami, while struggling just for survival, by observing my father's fortitude. — Desi Arnaz