Brushes Quote by Virginia Woolf Download Open image “Yes, she thought, laying down her brush in extreme fatigues, I have had my vision.” — Virginia Woolf ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.3 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Brushes Dreams Extremes Fatigue Laying down Vision
when she thought it over afterwards it occurred to her that she ought to have wondered at this, but at the time it all… — Lewis Carroll Copy Share Image
What she hadn't realized was that sometimes when your vision was that sharp and true, it could cut you. That only if you'd felt… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“Stapled to her gaze, sucked into the potency of her focus, only the trace of her blood in my mouth reassures me this is… — Poppet Copy Share Image
“I suppose she didn't think anyone was looking and had let her guard down, the way you did in an empty room. The way… — Robyn Schneider Copy Share Image
“If she had been a normal female, she would have swooned. But she was not normal, never had been. “Good grief, you are impossibly… — Loretta Chase Copy Share Image
“Of course we did other things too. We walked. We talked. We rode bikes. Though I had my driver's license, I bought a cheap secondhand bicycle so I could ride with her. Sometimes she led the way, sometimes I did. Whenever we could, we rode side by side. She was bendable light: she shone around every corner of my day.… — Jerry Spinelli Copy Share
It frightened him to think what must have gone to the making of her eyes. — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
She took off her dark glasses and squinted at me. It was as though her eyes were shattered prisms, the dots of blue and… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
She stands there in shock of what she had done & Stares at each cut, one by one.. — Obviously Me :p Copy Share Image
“Somehow she managed, capitulating at one point to the use of a mirror to be sure that no hair was showing in back. Generally… — Kristin Cashore 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
People say I've had brushes with the law. That's not true. I've had brushes with overzealous prosecutors. — Edwin Edwards Copy Share Image
Yet, it had been Dimitri’s gentleness and thoughtfulness mixed with that deadliness that made him so wonderful. The same hands that wielded stakes with… — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
“They are not brave, the days when we are twenty-one. They are full of little cowardices, little fears without foundation, and one is so easily bruised, so swiftly wounded, one falls to the first barbed word. Today, wrapped in the complacent armor of approaching middle age, the infinitesimal pricks of day by day brush one lightly and are soon forgotten,… — Daphne du Maurier Copy Share
The body is living art. Your movement through time and space is art. A painter has brushes. You have your body. — Anna Halprin Copy Share Image
Well, I do expect a lot of myself. I'm a harsh critic because I know what I'm capable of. I have hit those occasional peaks amongst the valleys, but the peaks are so few-things like genuine flashes of virtuoso brush inking, like I've never executed before or since-I can count on one hand the number of jobs where I've been… — Dave Stevens Copy Share
Everything we do is escapism, because we'll all be dead and everything we do is completely meaningless. Why brush your teeth? Why not be… — T.C. Boyle Copy Share Image
It's as if a child with a brush and too much enthusiasm has been set free with a tin of black paint inside me. — Jenny Downham Copy Share Image
My whole philosophy in survival is to take down brush as soon as you get in a situation. — Joe Teti Copy Share Image
Take your brush here and there like a bee in an alpine meadow. In other words, don't laboriously work on or try to finish… — Robert Genn Copy Share Image
I grill almost all of my fish with the skin on because that gives you real protection at least on one side. It's a… — Alton Brown Copy Share Image
I don't have much to compare it to because I really didn't know much about theater. After I signed on, I started reading a lot of Sam Shepard plays just to brush up on my history and do some research. What's great is that Sam's been here and he's been in rehearsals with us. Sometimes you don't even notice him… — Taissa Farmiga Copy Share
