Virginia Woolf Orlando Quotes

#1. I'll never, ever think of myself as famous, even if I ever get to the point of George Clooney ... because I Think you might go crazy if you start reffering to yourself in those terms.

Shailene Woodley

#2. Even Orlando (who had no conceit of her person) knew it, for she smiled the involuntary smile which women smile when their own beauty, which seems not their own, forms like a drop falling or a fountain rising and confronts them all of a sudden in the glass.

Virginia Woolf

#3. Holy shit, she thought. The dragons are throwing cars at me!

Matthew Reilly

#4. When profit diminishes, merchants are very apt to complain that trade decays; though the diminution of profit is the natural effect of its prosperity, or of a greater stock being employed in it than before.

Adam Smith

#5. I want to be a transitory fallen, lifted up by virtues every time.

Munia Khan

#6. Now, the truth is that when one has been in a state of mind (as nurses call it) - and the tears still stood in Orlando's eyes - the thing one is looking at becomes, not itself, but another thing, which is bigger and much more important and yet remains the same thing.

Virginia Woolf

#7. It was the present moment. No one need wonder that Orlando started, pressed her hand to her heart, and turned pale. For what more terrifying revelation can there be than that it is the present moment?

Virginia Woolf

#8. The Wall will be standing in 50 and even in 100 years, if the reasons for it are not removed.

Erich Honecker

#9. You know, everyone says, 'Modeling and acting are so similar' ... they say, 'It's so natural for models to become actresses because they use the camera.' I don't think of it in that way.

Gisele Bundchen

#10. The Italian Revolution was fought first of all to obtain the liberty and unity of the nation, and then, with that achieved, to join the freest and most advanced nations in inaugurating a new era of peace, justice, and joint cooperation in the work of civilization.

Ernesto Teodoro Moneta

#11. I am alone, said Orlando, aloud since there was no one to hear.

Virginia Woolf

#12. Love had meant nothing to him but sawdust and cinders.

Virginia Woolf

#13. Orlando naturally loved solitary places, vast views, and to feel himself for ever and ever and ever alone.

Virginia Woolf

#14. Settlements may be temporary, but the action of the nations in the interest of peace and justice must be permanent. We can set up permanent processes. We may not be able to set up permanent decisions.

Woodrow Wilson

#15. We live in an age of miracles.

Levon Helm

#16. If you're a gardener you don't need a gym. You're always carrying large sacks of manure all over.

Michael Caine

#17. Be courageous: be still.

Gina Greenlee

#18. You don't need a reason to forgive ... If you want to go on with someone, that is what you do.

Melissa Bank