Capricious Quote by Virginia Woolf Download Open image “The mind is the most capricious of insects — flitting, fluttering.” — Virginia Woolf ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.1 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Capricious Fluttering Insects Mind Psychology
I was always fascinated by the infinite, strange and 'scandalous' ways that insects copulate. — Isabella Rossellini Copy Share Image
The best thing about bugs is their lack of self consciousness, also the ability to fly doesn't hurt. — Dov Davidoff Copy Share Image
Perhaps there are somewhere in the infinite universe beings whose minds outrank our minds to the same extent as our minds surpass those of… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
There is some confusion between insects and creatures, insects are common, and certain creatures are curious .... possibly fun. — Grass Hopper Copy Share Image
I can say, if I like, that social insects behave like the working parts of an immense central nervous system: the termite colony is… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
Of what use, however, is a general certainty that an insect will not walk with his head hindmost, when what you need to know… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
I don't know about you, but I find it exhilarating to see how vague psychological notions evaporate and give rise to a physical, mechanistic… — Gero Miesenbock Copy Share Image
[Insects] are not only cold-blooded, and green- and yellow-blooded, but are also cased in a clacking horn. They have rigid eyes and brains strung… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
Insects are what neurosis would sound like, if neurosis could make a noise with its nose. — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
Human beings ought not to draw in their antennae at every ungentle touch, like supersensitive insects. — E. T. A. Hoffmann Copy Share Image
“...the insects here see you as a big slab of animated but not very well defended food. The ability to move, far from being… — Neal Stephenson 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
Not to be offensive, not to be capricious, not to be arbitrary, not to be neurotic, not to be an actor outer, you're just… — William Hurt Copy Share Image
How dare you? How dare you create a world in which there is such misery that is not our fault? It's not right, it's… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
O Logic: born gatekeeper to the Temple of Science, victim of capricious destiny: doomed hitherto to be the drudge of pedants: come to the… — Jeremy Bentham Copy Share Image
Huamns, uregulated, are cruel and capricious; violet and selfish; miserable and quarrelsome. It is only after their instincts and basic emotions have been controlled… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
Any test that turns on what is offensive to the community's standards is too loose, too capricious, too destructive of freedom of expression to… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
Capricious, wanton, bold, and brutal Lust Is meanly selfish; when resisted, cruel; And, like the blast of Pestilential Winds, Taints the sweet bloom of… — John Milton Copy Share Image
The Greeks understood perfectly that if there were divine beings they are capricious, unkind, malicious mostly, temperamental, envious and mostly deeply unpleasant because that… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
Like many air travelers, I am aware that airplanes fly aided by capricious fairies and invisible strings. — J. Maarten Troost Copy Share Image
When you die, you are extinguished. From being you will be transformed to non-being. A god does not necessarily dwell among our capricious atoms. — Ingmar Bergman Copy Share Image
Society is capricious and rewards the bad as often as the good. But it never rewards the quiet. — Julia Quinn Copy Share Image
Einstein repeatedly argued that there must be simplified explanations of nature, because God is not capricious or arbitrary. No such faith comforts the software… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
For many people, God is a frightening idea. Asking God for help doesn't seem very comforting if we think of Him as something outside… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
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