It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.
Quote by Virginia Woolf
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It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.
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Virginia Woolf Quotes
- It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.
- If we help an educated man's daughter to go to Cambridge are we not forcing her to think not about education but about war? - not how she can learn, but how she can fight in order that she might win the same advantages as her brothers?
- Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to puncture gas bags and discover the seeds of truth.
- I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion at the time. It expands later, and thus we don't have complete emotions about the present, only about the past.
- One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
- We can best help you to prevent war not by repeating your words and following your methods but by finding new words and creating new methods.
- It is the nature of the artist to mind excessively what is said about him. Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.
- There can be no two opinions as to what a highbrow is. He is the man or woman of thoroughbred intelligence who rides his mind at a gallop across country in pursuit of an idea.
- The beautiful seems right by force of beauty, and the feeble wrong because of weakness.
- The truth is, I often like women. I like their unconventionality. I like their completeness. I like their anonymity.
Best Quotes
- I've been involved with violent movies, and then I've also said at a certain point, 'I can't take it anymore. Please cut it.' You know, you've got to respect the filmmaker, and it's a really tough issue.
- I think a simple rule of business is, if you do the things that are easier first, then you can actually make a lot of progress.
- People talk about doom-laden scenarios happening in the future: they are happening in Africa now. You can see it perfectly clearly. Periodic famines are due to too many people living on land that can't sustain them.
- At the end of the day it's got to be a good movie, it's got to be a funny movie, and it's got to make people think, 'Hey, I couldn't have spent my time any better.'
- We'll support the government on issues if it's essential to the country but our primary responsibility is not to prop up the government, our responsibility is to provide an opposition and an alternative government for Parliament and for Canadians.
- The political system is broken, the economy is broken and so is society. That is why people are so depressed about the state of our country.
- Home base is the support system where we have a culinary team, my own writers because of the shows and the books and stuff, we have a culinary team of about six people. Marketing, public relations, accounting and all that sort of stuff.
- Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow talent to the dark place where it leads.
- Teach a child what is wise, that is morality. Teach him what is wise and beautiful, that is religion!
- The old cathedrals are good, but the great blue dome that hangs over everything is better.