Bookcases Quote by Virginia Woolf Download Open image “I was always going to the bookcase for another sip of the divine specific.” — Virginia Woolf ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.5 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Bookcases Divine
I saw a Divine Being. I'm afraid I'm going to have to revise all my various books and opinions. — A.J. Ayer Copy Share Image
And I came to understand, in a way I never had before, that books are truly the stuff of miracles. I even dared to… — T.A. Barron Copy Share Image
I am striving to give back the Divine in myself to the Divine in the All. — Plotinus Copy Share Image
There are noble books but one wants the breath of life sometimes. And I see no divine person. I myself am more divine than… — Margaret Fuller Copy Share Image
The divine is everywhere, even in a grain of sand; there I represented it in the reeds. — Caspar David Friedrich Copy Share Image
I have gone to [this bookshop] for years, always finding the one book I wanted - and then three more I hadn’t known I… — Mary Ann Shaffer Copy Share Image
Really, my sacred place is my study where there are books that I love and things that people have given me. — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
Divine Intelligence working through me always knows just what I need and always supplies it when I need it. — Ernest Holmes Copy Share Image
Even as a young child, I was a lover of books and of the spaces in which, as indeed in a sacred temple, books… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
“The train slows and lengthens, as we approach London, the centre, and my heart draws out too, in fear, in exaltation. I am about to meet--what? What extraordinary adventure awaits me, among these mail vans, these porters, these swarms of people calling taxis? I feel insignificant, lost, but exultant. With a soft shock we stop. I will let the others… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share
“Across the broad continent of a woman's life falls the shadow of a sword. On one side all is correct, definite, orderly; the paths are straight, the trees regular, the sun shaded; escorted by gentlemen, protected by policemen, wedded and buried by clergymen, she has only to walk demurely from cradle to grave and no one will touch a hair… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share
“Other worshipful objects were content with worship; men, women, God, all let one kneel prostrate; but this form, were it only the shape of… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Why does Samuel Butler say, 'Wise men never say what they think of women'? Wise men never say anything else apparently. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Sometimes he woke with a brain like lead; at others it was as if a thousand wax tapers were alight and people were throwing… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
The extraordinary woman depends on the ordinary woman. It is only when we know what were the conditions of the average woman's life - the number of children, whether she had money of her own, if she had a room to herself, whether she had help bringing up her family, if she had servants, whether part of the housework was… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share
A veil of insanity everywhere: Oh why I was born in this age? It is a terrible age. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Love ought to stop on both sides, don’t you think, simultaneously?’ He spoke without any stress on the words, so as not to wake… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“It is so vast an alleviation to be able to point for another to look at. And then not to talk. To follow the… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“What a vast fertility of pleasure books hold for me! (...) I think I could happily live here & read forever.” — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
But what struck me was the book-madness of the place--books lay scattered across the unmade bed and the top of a battered-looking desk, books stood in knee-high piles on the floor, books were crammed sideways and right side up in a narrow bookcase that rose higher than my head and leaned dangerously from the wall, books sat in stacks on… — Steven Millhauser Copy Share
You rented the apartment with a dead guy in the corner?” I shrugged. “I wanted the apartment, and I figured I could cover him… — Darynda Jones Copy Share Image
The book must of necessity be put into a bookcase. And the bookcase must be housed. And the house must be kept. And the… — William E. Gladstone Copy Share Image
The Pulitzer has nothing to do with me; it's more about people's perceptions of me, whatever they may be. I'm not being humble -… — David Lindsay-Abaire Copy Share Image
Let your bookcases and your shelves be your gardens and your pleasure-grounds. Pluck the fruit that grows therein, gather the roses, the spices, and… — Judah ben Saul ibn Tibbon Copy Share Image
I own a hundred and fifty books, but I have no bookcase. Nobody will lend me a bookcase. — Henny Youngman Copy Share Image
My father always says, ‘Never trust anyone who has a TV bigger than their bookshelf.’ So I make sure I read. Back at home, I just put up a massive bookcase and asked everyone I know and love to help me fill it with their favorite books. It’s been quite nice because I’ve learned a lot about my friends and… — Emilia Clarke Copy Share
The contents of someone's bookcase are part of his history, like an ancestral portrait. — Anatole Broyard Copy Share Image
What I saw next stopped me dead in my tracks. Books. Not just one or two dozen, but hundreds of them. In crates. In piles on the floor. In bookcases that stretched from floor to ceiling and lined the entire room. I turned around and around in a slow circle, feeling as if I'd just stumbled into Ali Baba's cave.… — Jennifer Donnelly Copy Share
Meanwhile, as we read, two little girls slept as if couched on zephyrs on the south side of the parlor floor, in a room that had bunny wallpaper...and a bookcase crammed with the collected Beatrix Potter. Snow White was in a youth bed and Rose Red was in a crib, and next to them was the little blue and white… — Mary Cantwell Copy Share
Myrna could spend happy hours browsing bookcases. She felt if she could just get a good look at a person’s bookcase and their grocery… — Louise Penny Copy Share Image
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