Ikumi Wolf Quotes & Sayings

When I was young and knew Virginia Woolf slightly, I learned something that startled me - that a person may be ultrasensitive and not warm. She was intensely curious and plied one with questions, teasing, charming questions that made the young person glow at being even for a moment the object of her attention. But I did feel at times as though I were "a specimen American young poet" to be absorbed and filed away in the novelist's store of vicarious experience. Then one had also the daring sense that anything could be said, the sense of freedom that was surely one of the keys to the Bloomsbury ethos, a shared secret amusement at human folly or pretensions. She was immensely kind to have seen me for at least one tea, as she did for some years whenever I was in England, but in all that time I never felt warmth, and this was startling. — May Sarton

A dementia sufferer effuses delight and notices very different things when taken out in her wheelchair. Such people can teach us to see again the little things that make a big difference. They can show us how to enjoy familiar environments with fresh new eyes. — Jane Wilson-Howarth

Where's your sense of adventure? It died under mysterious circumstances. My sense of self-preservation found the body, but assures me it has an airtight alibi. -Captain Tagon & Captain Andreyasn — Howard Tayler

I'm not a movie star. I'm just an actress. — Monica Bellucci

They want me to kill him because he didn't do well on their tests. This is a mismatch. I am Darwin's scythe. Nature scraping away the chaff. — Pierce Brown

Grab your gun, it's time to go to hell. — Jared Leto

Those who try to obliterate the past are injuring the present. — Helen Dunmore

It's always better to be underdressed. — Coco Chanel

The city itself swung slowly toward us silent as a dream. No sign of life but puffs of steam from skyscraper chimneys, the motion of the traffic. The mighty towers stood like tombstones in a graveyard, leaning against the sky and waiting for
for what? Someday we'll know. — Edward Abbey

I don't ever be trippin off of what ain't mine. — Drake

We are grateful Rhysand," said Amren quietly. "More than you know. — Sarah J. Maas

It seems to me that any full grown, mature adult would have a desire to be responsible, to help where he can in a world that needs so very much, that threatens us so very much. — Norman Lear

Skepticism may undermine beliefs, but never belief. — Mason Cooley

Right. Because there's no bigger sign of commitment than a Halloween dance — Richelle Mead

For every minute you are sad, you are losing a whole 60 seconds of happiness. — Chen Chen