"But I think I’m coloured by my own……" — Virginia Woolf
"But I think I’m coloured by my own wishes, & experimental mood."
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642 Quotes by Virginia Woolf
Virginia Woolf has 642 quotes on this site.
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To enjoy freedom ... we have of course to control ourselves. We must not squander our powers, helplessly and ignorantly,…
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If we didn't live venturously, plucking the wild goat by the beard, and trembling over precipices, we should never be…
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Against you I will fling myself, unvanquished and unyielding, O Death!
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Tom's great yellow bronze mask all draped upon an iron framework. An inhibited, nerve-drawn; dropped face - as if hung…
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I like going from one lighted room to another, such is my brain to me; lighted rooms.
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Does housekeeping interest you at all? I think it really ought to be just as good as writing and I…
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If woman had no existence save in the fiction written by men, one would imagine her a person of utmost…
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King old ladies assure us that cats are often the best judges of character. A cat will always to to…
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It is no use trying to sum people up. One must follow hints, not exactly what is said, nor yet…
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To make ideas effective, we must be able to fire them off. We must put them into action.
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Life for both sexes is arduous, difficult, a perpetual struggle. More than anything... it calls for confidence in oneself...And how…
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The history of most women is hidden either by silence, or by flourishes and ornaments that amount to silence.
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More Coloured Quotes
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Pure drawing is an abstraction. Drawing and colour are not distinct, everything in nature is coloured.
— Paul Cezanne
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Unless you're living on the street and surviving on a diet of discarded turkey drumsticks, there's no point in being…
— Jarvis Cocker
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Today I walked on the lion-coloured hills with only cypresses for company, until the sunset caught me, turned the brush…
— Elizabeth Jane Coatsworth
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When I'm born I'm black, when I grow up I'm black, when I'm in the sun I'm black, when I'm…
— Malcolm X
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To me, then, true criticism consists in trying to find out the intrinsic worth of the thing itself, and not…
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
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The flowers, the gorgeous, mystic multi-coloured flowers are not the flowers of life, but people, yes people are the true…
— Lord Buckley
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I wish those people who write so glibly about this being a holy war and the orators who talk so…
— Vera Brittain
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Switching to light-coloured roofs and roadways would have the equivalent effect on greenhouse gas emissions to taking one billion cars…
— Steven Chu
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The gateway to freedom...was somewhere close to New Orleans where most Africans were sorted through and sold. I had driven…
— Chuck Berry
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Those who are incapable of attaining to supreme religious values include the black coloured people and those who resemble them…
— Maimonides
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You can almost judge how screwed up somebody is by the kind of toilet paper they use. Go in any…
— Don Van Vliet
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Talk of world peace is heard today only among the white peoples, and not among the much more numerous coloured…
— Oswald Spengler
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