| Virginia Woolf |  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.
Virginia Woolf |
| Virginia Woolf | Once conform, once do what other people do because they do it, and a lethargy steals over all the finer nerves and faculties of the soul. She becomes all outer show and inward emptiness; dull, callous, and indifferent.
Virginia Woolf |
| Virginia Woolf | The beautiful seems right by force of beauty, and the feeble wrong because of weakness.
Virginia Woolf |
| visitors | The case has been an interesting one, remarked Holmes when our visitors had left us, because it serves to show very clearly how simple the explanation may be of an affair which at first sight seems to be almost inexplicable. |
| Vivian Campbell | I still have people saying to me, 'Oh, you're still together?' They don't realize Leppard's been around this whole time, because people just don't get to hear us.
Vivian Campbell |
| Vivian Campbell | It's a lot more comfortable, I must say. Ummm, I didn't think I'd be playing with another band, I kinda thought I was through with that, but I make an exception because they're nice people.
Vivian Campbell |
| Vivien Leigh | When I come into the theatre I get a sense of security. I love an audience. I love people, and I act because I like trying to give pleasure to people.
Vivien Leigh |
| Vivienne Westwood | However, because Britain is young and exciting, I did show my second line here once or twice.
Vivienne Westwood |
| Vivienne Westwood | It is extremely difficult to say how long the process actually took to finally achieve my fragrance, Boudoir, because there was a lot of time waiting around for other people.
Vivienne Westwood |
| Vladimir Horowitz | I must tell you I take terrible risks. Because my playing is very clear, when I make a mistake you hear it. If you want me to play only the notes without any specific dynamics, I will never make one mistake. Never be afraid to dare.
Vladimir Horowitz |
| Vladimir Kramnik | I don't like to show my emotions at the board, not because they might give something away to an opponent, but because that's my style: I like to keep it to myself.
Vladimir Kramnik |
| Vladimir Lenin | There are no morals in politics; there is only expedience. A scoundrel may be of use to us just because he is a scoundrel.
Vladimir Lenin |
| W. C. Fields | I never drink water because of the disgusting things that fish do in it.
W. C. Fields |
| W. C. Fields | Never cry over spilt milk, because it may have been poisoned.
W. C. Fields |
| W. C. Fields | Never try to impress a woman, because if you do she'll expect you to keep up the standard for the rest of your life.
W. C. Fields |
| W. Clement Stone | When you do the wrong thing, knowing it is wrong, you do so because you haven't developed the habit of effectively controlling or neutralizing strong inner urges that tempt you, or because you have established the wrong habit and don't know how to eliminate them effectively.
W. Clement Stone |
| W. Clement Stone | Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity.
W. Clement Stone |
| W. G. Sebald | It is a sore point, because you do have advantages if you have access to more than one language. You also have problems, because on bad days you don't trust yourself, either in your first or your second language, and so you feel like a complete halfwit.
W. G. Sebald |
| W. H. Auden | A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them. Even a rich man thinks he has to go down to the office everyday. Not because he likes it but because he can't think of anything else to do.
W. H. Auden |
| W. H. Auden | Perhaps there is only one cardinal sin: impatience. Because of impatience we were driven out of Paradise, because of impatience we cannot return.
W. H. Auden |
