Quotes About Bloomsbury

#1. Scientists - the crowd that for dash and style make the general public look like the Bloomsbury set.

Fran Lebowitz

#2. It was as easy for him to quit Bloomsbury for the Chilterns as for a cat to jump from a hard chair to a soft. Now after a little scrabbling and exploration he was curled up in the green lap and purring over the landscape.

Sylvia Townsend Warner

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Anonymous

#4. My mother was a Bloomsbury figure: a great friend of TS Eliot, Duncan Grant, Vanessa Bell. My grandmother, Mary Hutchinson, gave her life to works of art, being an admirer of Matisse and Giaometti, whom I collected as a young man because of her.

Jacob Rothschild

#5. How many people does it take to change a searchlight bulb?

Steven Wright

#6. People feel that the EU is a one-way process, a great machine that sucks up decision-making from national parliaments to the European level until everything is decided by the EU. That needs to change.

William Hague

#7. The thing that is incredible is life itself. Why should we be here in this sun-illuminated universe? Why should there be green earth under our feet?

Edwin Markham

#8. I'm so smart, I read and understand Hegel

Oscar Wilde

#9. ravaged kidney; but, God willing, she would be able to enjoy a full life with the one that remained.

Dean Koontz

#10. This is the real way a friendship ends. Not with some huge screaming row, but with a gradual withdrawal. You'd think it would be less painful this way.

Cat Clarke

#11. It is better to feel repentance, than to be able to define it.

Thomas A Kempis

#12. The fact is, I find it extremely difficult to force myself to read old letters ... Whenever one really knows the facts, one finds that what is accepted by contemporaries or posterity as the truth about them is so distorted or out of focus that it is not worth worrying about.

Leonard Woolf

#13. Life is not an orderly progression, self-contained like a musical scale or a quadratic equation ... If one is to record one's life truthfully, one must aim at getting into the record of it something of the disorderly discontinuity which makes it so absurd, unpredictable, bearable.

Leonard Woolf

#14. Nothing matters.

Leonard Woolf

#15. If I do get nervous for a game, they usually go away after the first play. For the Super Bowl, it never went away.

Ben Roethlisberger

#16. It's a choice - there are two different sorts of photographer: those obsessed with the technicalities and those obsessed by the subject.

Mario Testino

#17. There is nothing to be said except about the sheer waste and futility of it all. It is the war all over again, when one is rung up to be told that Rupert was dead, or that one's brother was killed, and one knew that it was only to produce the kind of world we are living in now. Horrible.

Leonard Woolf

#18. I've got quite a vivid imagination and I'm easily overwhelmed by sensations and things that are beautiful or scary. I don't think I've ever seen a ghost - I think I'm probably haunted by my own ghosts than real ones.

Florence Welch

#19. What can't be explained... is the god's will... right?

Deyth Banger

#20. It is never right for any individual or government to do any vast evil as a means to some hypothetical good.

Leonard Woolf

#21. Politically I did not like Mr. Lincoln, for in him I saw the destroyer.

Belle Boyd

#22. He was sceptical about the value of almost all work, save for the pleasure it gives the worker,' reported Virginia Woolf. 'He works only because he likes it.

Richard Davenport-Hines

#23. I see clearly that I have achieved practically nothing.

Leonard Woolf

#24. When I feel confused or depressed, I remember back to junior high and I silently repeat, 'This, too, shall pass.'

Josh Groban

#25. Wriggling around, two fingers deep in my back end like some teenage boy unsure what he should be tugging at inside his girlfriend's nether region I wrestled a fifty free.

David Louden

#26. The mere fact that a very large number of people believe such a thing and that the world would be a better place if it were true, is no reason for believing that it is true.

Leonard Woolf

#27. Nothing matters, and everything matters.

Leonard Woolf