Lying Quote by Virginia Woolf Download Open image “Like" and "like" and "like"--but what is the thing that lies beneath the semblance of the thing?” — Virginia Woolf ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.3 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Lying Semblance
There is the name and the thing; the name is a sound which sets a mark on and denotes the thing. The name is… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Things are entirely what they appear to be and behind them... there is nothing. — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
They are words that are easy enough to say and which fill vast empty spaces. — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
How badly I want that nameless thing! First there must be an idea, a feeling... Maybe it was an abstract idea that you've got… — Emily Carr Copy Share Image
Words don't change their shape, they change their meaning, their function...They don't have a meaning of their own any more, they refer to other… — Marguerite Duras Copy Share Image
It's like, symbolic language, the way that people approach dense poetry... it always bugs me, because that approach suggests that it's like a mystery… — Carey Mercer Copy Share Image
Words fashioned with somewhat over precise diction are like shapes turned out by a cookie cutter. — Peter De Vries Copy Share Image
Individual words, sounds, squiggles on paper with no meanings other than those with which our imagination can clothe them. — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
Think of the many different relations of form and content. E.g., the many pairs of trousers and what's in them. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Yeah, well, the F-bomb - it's become as ubiquitous as the word 'like.' People just throw the word 'like' around as punctuation. And I… — Geoffrey Rush Copy Share Image
Words are the most subtle symbols which we possess and our human fabric depends on them. — Iris Murdoch 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… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“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… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“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 -… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
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
There is something more important than any ultimate weapon. That is the ultimate position-the position of total control over Earth that lies somewhere out… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
Against his own will, almost, Will felt himself understanding; he would have done anything, he thought, told any lie, taken any risk, to make… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
To me, the beauty of a quilt or a dress lies within the stitches and the thought of the person who made them. When… — Natalie Copy Share Image
Half the misery of human life might be extinguished if men would alleviate the general curse they lie under by mutual offices of compassion,… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Jobs and money are never the primary cause of stress. Thinking, negative thinking causes stress. The real cause of all problems lie in our… — Bob Proctor Copy Share Image
“People talk about books that write themselves, and it's a lie. Books don't write themselves. It takes thought and research and a backache and… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
[Islam] Leaves no room of human legislation in an Islamic state, because herein all legislative functions vest in God and the only function left… — Abul A'la Maududi Copy Share Image
What is history after all? History is facts which become lies in the end. — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
If the media is sending girls the message that their value lies in their bodies, this can only leave them feeling disempowered and distract… — Jennifer Siebel Newsom Copy Share Image
I just can’t, Nick, okay? Now, please give me a second to lie here in silence and bleed.” – Caleb — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
The social [media channel] isn't about beauty contests and popularity contests. They're a distortion, a caricature of the real thing. It's about trust, connection,… — Umair Haque Copy Share Image