Virginia And Vita Quotes

#1. Vita Sackville-West is one of my favorite female icons. She was a writer and a prolific gardener, but she also had a relationship with Virginia Woolf, and she was married to Sir Harold Nicolson. She was a woman who lived outside of norms.

Gwendoline Christie

#2. Pleasure and pain.
That was my Melody.
She was my poison
so toxic, when sampled,
yet,
so sweet ...

Kenya Wright

#3. Dale Earnhardt was the best race car driver there will ever be in NASCAR. I would hope you don't expect me to replace him because nobody ever will.

Kevin Harvick

#4. We must consider not only why the classical theory of democracy appears to be in contradiction with the observed practice, but also why the many different responses to this observation, though mutually incompatible, all share the belief that democracy is the best form of political organization.

Moses Finley

#5. One acts, and thus finds out what one has decided to do.

Kim Stanley Robinson

#6. That, Kuwei, is the sound that death makes when she comes calling.

Leigh Bardugo

#7. If you start in the pit of despair with these profane, awful things, even a glimmer of hope or awareness is going to occur that's much brighter coming from this dark, awful beginning.

Chuck Palahniuk

#8. To attempt to superimpose its views through the exercise of force, is seldom the part of intelligence; it is frequently the part of ignorance.

Paul Harris

#9. Yes, I miss you, I miss you.

Virginia Woolf

#10. Secrecy, once accepted, becomes an addiction.

Edward Teller

#11. Never does Nature say one thing and Wisdom another.

Juvenal

#12. I think the relationship between print and film is symbiotic, it's more about evolving and complimenting your existing content. The two are very much interconnected.

Rankin

#13. My first acting role as a kid was on 'Freaks and Geeks.'

Lizzy Caplan

#14. Beauty crowds me till I die,
Beauty, mercy have on me!
But if I expire today,
Let it be in sight of thee

Emily Dickinson

#15. And I'll tell you all the things I have in my head, millions, myriads - the won't stir by day, only by dark on the river.

Virginia Woolf

#16. King Hussein never lost his faith, no matter how difficult and unbearable and cruel the circumstances could be. I always remember that. It helps me get through everything. It's a way of trying to keep that positive spirit alive for as many people as we can touch. I think that's good for the world.

Queen Noor Of Jordan

#17. After you work out, you have your dog with you. There's no better companion. You've got to have a friend. I didn't like opponents who had dogs with them. Because you know they had a little edge. They have a friend.

George Foreman

#18. Talk of solitude (...). It is the last resort of the civilised: our souls are so creased and soured in meaning we can only unfold them when we are alone. (5/4/1927 - From a Letter to Vita Sackville-West)

Virginia Woolf

#19. for those to whom Lynne Truss is a hero, everything from spelling convention to word choice to logic is, somehow, "grammar." And

Robert Lane Greene