Favourite Quotes and Quotations

**Sigmund** · February 8th, 2011

Virginia Woolfe Quotes

"To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves."

"These are the soul's changes. I don't believe in ageing. I believe in forever altering one's aspect to the sun. Hence my optimism."

"The truth is, I often like women. I like their unconventionality. I like their completeness. I like their anonymity."

"The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages."

"Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size."

"The beauty of the world, which is so soon to perish, has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder."

"Who shall measure the hat and violence of the poet's heart when caught and tangled in a woman's body?"

"If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people."

"A good essay must have this permanent quality about it; it must draw its curtain round us, but it must be a curtain that shuts us in not out."

"Every secret of a writer's soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind is written large in his works."

"I thought how unpleasant it is to be locked out; and I thought how it is worse, perhaps, to be locked in."

"The first duty of a lecturer - to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up between the pages of your notebooks and keep on the mantlepiece forever."

"The older one grows, the more one likes indecency."

"A masterpiece is something said once and for all, stated, finished, so that it's there complete in the mind, if only at the back."

"Arrange whatever pieces come your way."

"Fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so slightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners. Often the attachment is scarcely perceptible."

"Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue."

"Really I don't like human nature unless all candied over with art."

"One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well."

"Where the Mind is biggest, the Heart, the Senses, Magnanimity, Charity, Tolerance, Kindliness, and the rest of them scarcely have room to breathe."

**Connie Reader** · February 8th, 2011

"Where ever you go, there you are."

Originally from Confucious but I hear the song "Autumn Walker" by Jets to Brazil when I think of it.
A sad 'goodbye love' rock song.

**fljoe0** · February 8th, 2011

"Classic, a book which people praise and don't read" - Mark Twain

"I haven't heard anything like that since the orphanage burned down" - Mark Twain when asked what he thought of the opera.

**Haunted** · February 9th, 2011

“Nature is merciful and does not try her children, man or beast, beyond their compass. It is only where the cruelty of man intervenes that hellish torments appear. For the rest—live dangerously; take things as they come; dread naught, all will be well.”

Winston Churchill
December 1931

**Becks19** · February 9th, 2011

Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it.
- Helen Keller

When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.
- Helen Keller

Science may have found a cure for most evils: but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all - the apathy of human beings.
- Helen Keller

Literature is my utopia.
- Helen Keller

I do not want the peace which pass-eth understanding, I want the understanding which bringeth peace.
- Helen Keller

**blunthead** · February 9th, 2011

Stupid Quotes vol 2...

"Golden, Ripe, Boneless Bananas, 39 Cents A Pound." --Ad in the "Missoulian" by Orange Street Food Farm

"Sure there have been injuries and deaths in boxing - but none of them serious." --Alan Minter, Boxer

"I think that the film Clueless was very deep. I think it was deep in the way that it was very light. I think lightness has to come from a very deep place if it's true lightness." --Alicia Silverstone, Actress

"How to store your baby walker: First, remove baby." --Anonymous Manufacturer

"This is no longer a slum neighborhood. I haven't heard of a Cubs fan being shot in a long time." --Anonymous Wrigley Field Neighbor, Chicago, IL

"During the scrimmage, Tarkanian paced the sideline with his hands in his pockets while biting his nails." --AP report describing Fresno State basketball coach Jerry Tarkanian

"Two grand slams in a week - man, that's seven or eight ribbies right there." --Bill Madlock, Baseball broadcaster

"You guys line up alphabetically by height." --Bill Peterson, Florida State football coach

"Men, I want you just thinking of one word all season. One word and one word only: Super Bowl." --Bill Peterson, football coach

"The internet is a great way to get on the net." --Bob Dole, Republican presidential candidate

**fljoe0** · February 9th, 2011

"In New York, spitting on the sidewalk is a $50.00 fine"
"Vomitting is free" - George Carlin

**blunthead** · February 9th, 2011

Stupid Quotes vol 3...

"I get to go to lots of overseas places, like Canada."--Britney Spears, Pop Singer

"Those who survived the San Francisco earthquake said, "Thank God, I'm still alive." But, of course, those who died, their lives will never be the same again." --Barbara Boxer, Senator

"I think that gay marriage is something that should be between a man and a woman." --Arnold Schwarzenegger

"Politics gives guys so much power that they tend to behave badly around women. And I hope I never get into that." --Bill Clinton, former U.S. President

"We have a firm commitment to NATO, we are a part of NATO. We have a firm commitment to Europe. We are a part of Europe." --Dan Quayle, former U.S. Vice President

"It is wonderful to be here in the great state of Chicago" --Dan Quayle, former U.S. Vice-President

"It's time for the human race to enter the solar system!" --Dan Quayle, former U.S. Vice President on the concept of a manned mission to Mars

"It isn't pollution that is hurting the environment, it's the impurities in our air and water that are doing it." --Dan Quayle, former U.S. Vice-President

"We are not ready for an unforeseen event that may or may not occur." --Dan Quayle, former U.S. Vice President

"If we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure." --Dan Quayle, former U.S. Vice President