They are very large in effect, these painters; very little self-conscious; they have smooth broad spaces in their minds where I am all prickles & promontories.
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Related Youth must go ahead and prosper. These young painters are all very talented people, but they all pai... EDVARD MUNCH Planets are too dim to be detected with existing equipment, far away, except in these very special c... MURRAY GELL-MANN They were very experimental painters for their time. WILLIAM ANDRUS I am conscious of my inability to grasp, in all its details and positive developments, any very larg... MIKHAIL BAKUNIN Miners could afford to own one of these. They were little; they were made by village painters, and t... MARTHA J. EGAN People don't very much like things that are beautiful -- they are so far from their nasty little min... CLAUDE DEBUSSY Now they have a riddle. - Criminal Minds DEYTH BANGER In their minds they feel they are champions together. I'm satisfied because all of them are on the p... MARCO SELLE Inhibition is something I notice in hamstrung actors all the time. They can be wonderful up to a poi... CATE BLANCHETT I wouldn't be at all surprised. In the past, these two airlines have talked and they have very littl... HELANE BECKER Ideas are refined and multiplied in the commerce of minds. In their splendor, images effect a very s... GASTON BACHELARD I am often fond of saying the Trekkers are passionate about a hobby, their hobby is 'Star Trek.&... KATE MULGREW Kindly words, sympathizing attentions, watchfulness against wounding men's sensitiveness — these c... FREDERICK W. ROBERTSON When you think about Broadway, you think broad and big, but the fact is there are so many plays that... STEVE KAZEE Think of Virginia Woolf, 'A Room of One's Own' - that's what women have always neede... MARY DALY All important persons have about them someone in a subordinate position who has their ear. These dep... W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM They do a good job of protecting the surgical area and making sure it's clean while they're operatin... SCOTT ROBERTS Some men are like pyramids, which are very broad where they touch the ground, but grow narrow as the... HENRY WARD BEECHER These groups vote in very, very high percentages, and they are very committed and emotionally involv... JACK ORR Laws are two-by-fours, ... They are very broad. . . . They retard innovation. CHRISTINE VARNEY There are similarities in their game. They are both very smooth and it looks like their demeanor on ... STEVE KERR The mass loss resulting from this glacier acceleration in Greenland is very significant. These are v... ERIC RIGNOT Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? EDWARD ALBEE There are very daunting obstacles to carry out this investigation successfully. They have little int... JOANNE MARINER The greatest texts, I think, first dazzle, then with careful rereading, they instruct. I have learne... LAUREN GROFF In school, I was Martha in 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?' I loved that. CARA DELEVINGNE My dis-interest in what people speak of as "women's problems," "women's literature." Have women a sp... JOYCE CAROL OATES I was very enthusiastic about that. The Meier building was maybe not such a great place to show art.... HENRI LOYRETTE Now, there are a very large number of bodily movements, having their source in our nervous system, t... WILHELM WUNDT They are very good together and complement each other well. They look very smooth together on the co... MICHELLE WENIGER These are very proud people. They are proud of their heritage and haven't forgotten where they came ... JOSE OQUENDO If [hand-drawn animation] is a dying craft, we can't do anything about it. Civilization moves on. Wh... HAYAO MIYAZAKI All the conscious decisions that I have taken in my life have never borne fruit. Not even come close... IMTIAZ ALI I group champagnes with very broad strokes, they are either light, medium or full. MICHAEL GREEN All they expect from you is your best effort. These Marines think that they are special. They are ve... BRUCE H. NORTON Our laws are very broad about what is a public record. They can be in any format. CHARLOTTE BERGERON These are pretty broad-reaching recommendations. They're pretty much where they need to be. JOHN COX Reasons... questions... what they have in common? - All get finded in the hard way. DEYTH BANGER I have been very impressed with their staff. They are very professional. BOB SIMPSON They're ready-made victims. They're reluctant to go to the police. They speak very little English. W... VERNON KEENAN I am very proud of these guys. They worked hard all season and did not give up. GUILLERMO MENDOZA I don't think it will be a very large effect. DONALD BLAKE The truth is that our unconscious minds are active, purposeful, and independent. Hidden they may be,... LEONARD MLODINOW They are very good. And I think they have an emotional edge in their own minds about what this seaso... TIKI BARBER In a broad context - hips and knees and all the rest of it - there's very little evidence, ALAN HUDSON These substances are very active in terms of having an effect on [Terrance]. JOHN BEDERKA They have laid the groundwork for a very broad challenge. I think that if the commission doesn't cha... ANGELA CAMPBELL I am not being an alarmist but these things get really large. They are really intelligent. They can ... TODD CAMPBELL I am not being an alarmist but these things get really large, ... They are really intelligent. They ... TODD CAMPBELL I'm very self conscious in a bikini, and I would never get my tummy out onstage. MOLLIE KING I look up to Tegan & Sara, obviously, Adele and Natalie Maines from the Dixie Chicks. All these ... MARY LAMBERT I am never so happy as when I am really engaged in good earnest, & it makes me must wonderfully ... ADA LOVELACE We all have to go through our own spiritual process. It is very difficult. Some people are strugglin... RICKY MARTIN My family, although they're very large on both my parents' sides, they don't know much a... MORRISSEY It's very alluring. When they take these classes, women have a secret life no one knows about. They ... KANIA KENNEDY From the wrestling of his own soul with the great enemy, comes that depth and mystery which startles... JONES VERY The simplest conception of the origin and plan of the Iliad must, we think, prove the most correct. ... JONES VERY As long as man labors for a physical existence, though an act of necessity almost, he is yet natural... JONES VERY We feel unsatisfied until we know ourselves akin even with that greatness which made the spots on wh... JONES VERY Often and often must he have thought, that, to be or not to be forever, was a question, which must b... JONES VERY For better or worse, pessimism without compromise lacks public appeal. In all, the few who have gone... THOMAS LIGOTTI West Virginia is a very formidable first-round opponent. They have basically the same team back from... CHRIS LOWERY My clothes have always got a very strong dynamic rapport with the body - they are very body consciou... VIVIENNE WESTWOOD I am not obsessed with being rich, not the very least. I am obsessed with the finer things in life a... RONALD LAM Positive thinkers focus their minds on the future; they are never complacent about where they are. ISRAELMORE AYIVOR The older substations are where we've seen a large number of these snakes. It's because there are mo... ART PEREZ George McGovern and his supporters committed what, in a two-party system, are capital crimes: they d... ELLIOTT ABRAMS All these e-mails going around, they're all myths, they all make very little sense. They sound good,... RICHARD MCGRATH I think in South America people are very, uh, they have no inhibitions and wear their hearts on thei... BERNARD SUMNER They have done remarkably well, and they are all very talented. That's just so impressive that they ... KIP ANDERSON I am very pleased that after all these years, we have vindication on retaliation happening in the FB... JANE TURNER Warren Beatty seems very self-conscious and actory. RICHARD BURTON I grew up with that completely fictive idea of motherhood, where the mother never strayed from the k... A. S. BYATT These guys are pros. Their conversion team has this down to a science. It really has been a very smo... BILLY LIVINGS In the minds of my parents, they are the victims; I am the abuser. CHRISTINA ENEVOLDSEN Our subliminal mental processes operate outside awareness because they arise in these portions of ou... LEONARD MLODINOW I'm shocked for many reasons, but the big one is these are people that are representing a country. T... DOUG MAYHEW I am very disappointed in these young men. Our players need to take their responsibility for being a... BRUCE PEARL Villains are a lot of fun. My villains have a lot of tongue-in-cheek. They are sometimes conscious o... JOHN RHYS-DAVIES Even good opinions are worth very little unless we hold them in the broad, intelligent, and spacious... JOHN MORLEY Even good opinions are worth very little unless we hold them in the broad, intelligent, and spacious... JOHN VISCOUNT MORLEY Whenever you have a large number of people in a building you want to make sure they can get out very... CAPT. PAUL MCDONOUGH Microsoft Dynamics as a product line is not limiting itself to small and mid-sized businesses. Clear... BRAD WILSON These ivy league students are in the upper echelon of the college boards and had great opportunity i... MICHAEL N. CASTLE These people have received aid but they are very far out, and they are very concerned about the wint... ANGELINA JOLIE In effect they purchase influence through these contributions. And while most industries give money ... WILLIAM NOVELLI Children are happy because they don't have a file in their minds called "All the Things That Could G... MARIANNE WILLIAMSON Children are happy because they don't have a file in their minds called "All the Things That Could G... MARIANNE WILLIAMSON It was very clear from their testimony yesterday that they make up their minds based upon what the c... WAYNE ABERNATHY Their record is a little bit deceiving. I still think they are a very good team. LAURA HALLDORSON As a Welsh speaker, I'm very conscious of how activism can effect real change. RHYS IFANS A lot of the students are very limited in their backgrounds. It's very encouraging for these people ... JENNIFER CLARK I am very glad they are still alive. ED REYES Some broad themes brought me where I am today. At a very young age, my hobby became thinking and fin... DEAN KAMEN We have some very good neutral venues like California, United Arab Emirates and Holland where there ... SHARAD PAWAR I have no idea why they gave me the award, ... I respect their judgment. I am very grateful. HAROLD PINTER West Virginia, unfortunately, hasn't realized the value of their great, green spaces. KATHRYN HOHMANN The state of Virginia gets its primary revenues from income tax. Virginia, as a state, has very litt... HORACE COOPER Writers are typically self-conscious at the time of their first publication. But once they are conti... JENNIFER ARMSTRONG They run their stuff very well. They have talented players and very good players in supporting roles... PATRICK FOLEY
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VIRGINIA WOOLF I rise from my worst disasters, I turn, I change. VIRGINIA WOOLF As a woman I have no country. As a woman I want no country. As a woman, my country is the whole worl... VIRGINIA WOOLF How much better is silence; the coffee cup, the table. How much better to sit by myself like the sol... VIRGINIA WOOLF Sleep, that deplorable curtailment of the joy of life. VIRGINIA WOOLF What does the brain matter compared with the heart? VIRGINIA WOOLF Often on a wet day I begin counting up; what I've read and what I haven't read. VIRGINIA WOOLF Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others. VIRGINIA WOOLF If one could be friendly with women, what a pleasure -- the relationship so secret and private com... VIRGINIA WOOLF I have lost friends, some by death... others through sheer inability to cross the street. VIRGINIA WOOLF I meant to write about death, only life came breaking in as usual. VIRGINIA WOOLF Women have served all these centuries as looking-glasses possessing the magic and delicious power of... VIRGINIA WOOLF The beautiful seems right by force of beauty, and the feeble wrong because of weakness. VIRGINIA WOOLF If you insist upon fighting to protect me, or 'our' country, let it be understood soberly an... VIRGINIA WOOLF Friendships, even the best of them, are frail things. One drifts apart. VIRGINIA WOOLF I see you everywhere, in the stars, in the river, to me you're everything that exists; the reality o... VIRGINIA WOOLF The beauty of the world...has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder. VIRGINIA WOOLF I am rooted, but I flow. VIRGINIA WOOLF When you consider things like the stars, our affairs don't seem to matter very much, do they? VIRGINIA WOOLF Mrs. Dalloway said she would buy the flowers herself. VIRGINIA WOOLF The most important thing is not to think very much about oneself. To investigate candidly the charge... VIRGINIA WOOLF One has to secrete a jelly in which to slip quotations down people's throats - and one always se... VIRGINIA WOOLF I read the book of Job last night, I don't think God comes out well in it. VIRGINIA WOOLF The hatchet must fall on the block; the oak must be cleft to the centre. The weight of the world is ... VIRGINIA WOOLF If one is to deal with people on a large scale and say what one thinks, how can one avoid melancholy... VIRGINIA WOOLF With stars in her eyes and veils in her hair, with cyclamen and wild violets—what nonsense was he ... VIRGINIA WOOLF Happiness is in the quiet, ordinary things. A table, a chair, a book with a paper-knife stuck betwee... VIRGINIA WOOLF Yes, I deserve a spring–I owe nobody nothing. VIRGINIA WOOLF One should be a painter. As a writer, I feel the beauty, which is almost entirely colour, very subtl... VIRGINIA WOOLF What I value is the naked contact of a mind. VIRGINIA WOOLF Whatever may be their use in civilized societies, mirrors are essential to all violent and heroic ac... VIRGINIA WOOLF All the being and the doing, expansive, glittering, vocal, evaporated; and one shrunk, with a sense ... VIRGINIA WOOLF To look life in the face, always, to look life in the face, and to know it for what it is...at last,... VIRGINIA WOOLF