Top 100 Old Virginia Sayings
#2. Up men to your posts! Don't forget today that you are from old Virginia.
George Pickett
#3. The South Downs of England reminded me a bit of my Old Virginia homeland.
Billy Campbell
#4. This worked out perfectly for me in college, because what nineteen-year-old Virginia boy doesn't want a wide-hipped, sarcastic Greek girl with short hair that's permed on top? What's that you say? None of them want that? You are correct.
Tina Fey
#5. I'll carry on, carry over, carry forward, Cary Grant, cash and carry, carry me back to Old Virginia, I'll even 'hari-kari' if you show me how, but I will not carry a gun!
Alan Alda
#6. Crime reporting was aggressive in Richmond, an old Virginia city of 220,000, which last year was listed by the FBI as having the second-highest homicide rate
Patricia Cornwell
#9. Could not decide whether he was the divinest genius or the greatest fool in the world. It
Virginia Woolf
#10. Illusions are to the soul what atmosphere is to the earth.
Virginia Woolf
#11. Madness is terrific I can assure you, and not to be sniffed at; and in its lava I still find most of the things I write about. It shoots out of one everything shaped, final, not in mere driblets, as sanity does.
Virginia Woolf
#12. The only advice ... that one person can give another about reading is to take no advice, to follow your own instincts, to use your own reason, to come to your own conclusions.
Virginia Woolf
#13. He would look over the edge of the sofa down into the sea.
Virginia Woolf
#14. [Ulysses is] the work of a queasy undergraduate scratching his pimples.
Virginia Woolf
#18. Freedom and fullness of expression are of the essence of the art.
Virginia Woolf
#19. You can't think how I depend on you, and when you're not there the colour goes out of my life.
Virginia Woolf
#20. Distorted realities have always been my cup of tea.
Virginia Woolf
#21. The summer is put away folded up in the drawer with other summers.
Virginia Woolf
#22. Women have sat indoors all these millions of years, so that by this time the very walls are permeated by their creative force, which has, indeed, so overcharged the capacity of bricks and mortar that it must needs harness itself to pens and brushes and business and politics.
Virginia Woolf
#24. And still I stayed to plan all my revenge, my vengeance against those who had turned me from good to evil, and made of me what I was going to be from this day forward.
Virginia C. Andrews
#25. So, when there is a strife of tongues, at some meeting, the chairman, to obtain unity, suggests that every one shall speak in French. Perhaps it is bad French; French may not contain the words that express the speaker's thoughts; nevertheless speaking French imposes some order, some uniformity.
Virginia Woolf
#26. Once you begin to take yourself seriously as a leader or as a follower, as a modern or as a conservative, then you become a self-conscious, biting, and scratching little animal whose work is not of the slightest value or importance to anybody.
Virginia Woolf
#28. But who, save the nerve-worn and sleepless, or thinkers standing with hands to the eyes on some crag above the multitude, see things thus in skeleton outline, bare of flesh?
Virginia Woolf
#29. I grew up at the base of a mountain in Virginia, so my comfort zone is that Appalachian area, where all the dudes wear Carhartt and all the women can put on a beautiful sweater with a snowman applique and nobody raises an eyebrow.
Hilarie Burton
#30. But when she looked at Prue tonight, she saw this was not now quite true of her. She was just beginning, just moving, just descending.
Virginia Woolf
#31. If you find yourself born in Barnsley and then set your sights on being Virginia Woolf it is not going to be roses all the way.
Alan Bennett
#32. I can reprint it. And ... I was thinking about staying in Virginia permanently after Ellie is back on her feet."
The remorse fled quickly. "Over my dead body."
"Yeah, I thought you'd say that.
Samantha Young
#33. Venerable are letters, infinitely brave, forlorn, and lost.
Virginia Woolf
#34. A sort of transaction went on between them, in which she was on one side, and life was on another, and she was always trying to get the better of it, as it was of her.
Virginia Woolf
#35. Life is not what it's supposed to be. It's what it is. The way you cope with it is what makes the difference.
Aleatha Romig
#36. My mind is so impatient, so quick, in some ways so desperate.
Virginia Woolf
#37. It is impossible for human beings, constituted as they are, both to fight and to have ideals.
Virginia Woolf
#38. Roses," she thought sardonically, "All trash, m'dear.
Virginia Woolf
#39. Out-of-whack emotions are always a good beginning point for identifying beliefs that aren't really true, an easy red flag for our inquiry. Exaggerated emotions of anxiety or discouragement invite us to trace them back to the thoughts that are creating them.
Virginia H. Pearce
#40. Sleep well in my arms tonight, love, but know that we must come to an understanding of sorts--for I be a full-blooded male as this fire in my loins doth remind me--and unfortunately, not the saint ye so obviously would have me!
Virginia Aird
#41. It appeared that nobody ever said a thing they meant, or ever talked of a feeling they felt, but that was what music was for.
Virginia Woolf
#42. There can be no two opinions as to what a highbrow is. He is the man or woman of thoroughbred intelligence who rides his mind at a gallop across country in pursuit of an idea.
Virginia Woolf
#43. They became part of that unreal but penetrating and exciting universe which is the world seen through the eyes of love
Virginia Woolf
#44. It is strange that we, who are capable of so much suffering, should inflict so much suffering.
Virginia Woolf
#45. It is so vast an alleviation to be able to point for another to look at. And then not to talk. To follow the dark paths of the mind and enter the past, to visit books, to brush aside their branches and break off some fruit.
Virginia Woolf
#46. As for himself, when he went to go to a party, as one was sometimes obliged to, from a wish not to give offence, he walked into the middle of the room, said 'Ha! Ha!' as loud as ever he could, considered he had done his duty, and went home.
Virginia Woolf
#47. Here am I shedding one of my life-skins and all they will say is, 'Bernard is spending ten days in Rome'.
Virginia Woolf
#48. But nothing is so strange when one is in love (and what was this except being in love?) as the complete indifference of other people.
Virginia Woolf
#49. I have sought happiness through many ages and not found it.
Virginia Woolf
#50. I like kids, but I don't expect to have any of my own. I'm 40 years old and spend most of my time working. I'd be a terrible mother.
Virginia Postrel
#51. About here, she thought, dabbling her fingers in the water, a ship had sunk, and she muttered, dreamily half asleep, how we perished, each alone.
Virginia Woolf
#52. One does not like to be told that one is naturally the inferior of a little man
Virginia Woolf
#53. Clumsiness is often mated with a love of solitude.
Virginia Woolf
#54. Like a ghostly roll of drums remorselessly beat the measure of life.
Virginia Woolf
#55. This core of darkness could go anywhere, for no one saw it.
Virginia Woolf
#56. The most important thing is not to think very much about oneself. To investigate candidly the charge; but not fussily, not very anxiously. On no account to retaliate by going to the other extreme
thinking too much.
Virginia Woolf
#57. And if we can imagine the art of fiction come alive and standing in our midst, she would undoubtedly bid us break her and bully her, as well as honour and love her, for so her youth is renewed and her sovereignty assured.
Virginia Woolf
#58. Most of a modest woman's life was spent, after all, in denying what, in one day at least of every year, was made obvious.
Virginia Woolf
#59. Art is not a copy of the real world; one of the damn things is enough.
Virginia Woolf
#60. Woman cannot survive on droplets, she requires waves to regularly crash over her shores as the moon gives way to the sun...
Virginia Alison
#61. As for my next book, I won't write it till it has grown heavy in my mind like a ripe pear; pendant, gravid, asking to be cut or it will fall.
Virginia Woolf
#62. Truth matters. Everything we can do to find, feed, and strengthen it is worth the effort.
Virginia H. Pearce
#63. The mind is certainly a very mysterious organ, I reflected, drawing my head in from the window, about which nothing whatever is known, though we depend upon it so completely.
Virginia Woolf
#64. Sadly, I really want to be Batman ... and I just never will be.
Virginia Madsen
#66. Men felt a chill in their hearts; a damp in their minds. In a desperate effort to snuggle their feelings into some sort of warmth,one subterfuge was tried after anothersentences swelled, adjectives multiplied, lyrics became epics.
Virginia Woolf
#67. Knowing when you should weigh up your options, remain calm and not take everything at face value has certain benefits
Ending the day with with a peaceful soul is one...
Virginia Alison
#68. It's the writing, not the being read, that excites me. Joy is in the doing.
Virginia Woolf
#69. Surely it was time someone invented a new plot, or that the author came out from the bushes.
Virginia Woolf
#70. When I am grown up I shall carry a notebook - a fat book with many pages, methodically lettered. I shall enter my phrases.
Virginia Woolf
#71. That silence is more profound after noise still wants the confirmation of science. But that loneliness is more apparent directly after one has been made love to, many women would take their oath.
Virginia Woolf
#73. I almost envied him the possession of this modest and clear flame.
Virginia Woolf
#74. When two people have been married for years they seem to become unconscious of each other's bodily presence so that they move as if alone, speak aloud things which they do not expect to be answered, and in general seem to experience all the comfort of solitude without its loneliness.
Virginia Woolf
#75. If it's ever fair to say that anything has "changed everything," it's fair to say so about the Internet.
Virginia Heffernan
#76. When Baby Boomer women started choosing hotel-like birthing centers over hospital delivery rooms, hospitals quickly wised up. Now even rural hospitals offer well-designed labor-delivery-recovery suites.
Virginia Postrel
#77. The house was left; the house was deserted. It was left like a shell on a sandhill to fill with dry salt grains now that life had left it. The long life seemed to have set in; the trifling airs, nibbling, the clammy breaths, fumbling, seemed to have triumphed.
..
Virginia Woolf
#78. The flower bloomed and faded. The sun rose and sank. The lover loved and went. And what the poets said in rhyme, the young translated into practice.
Virginia Woolf
#79. For a driver to be driven by somebody else is an ordeal, for there are only three types of drivers: the too fast, the timid and oneself.
Virginia Graham
#80. In West Virginia, the most vulnerable people we have are people who get up every morning and go to work.
Joe Manchin
#81. This is my first term. I was told it was going to be an exciting term, and a lot of things would be done, and I cannot think about something more exciting than save Social Security.
Virginia Foxx
#82. When we have been hurt, slighted, or wounded unfairly, we are not left alone to bear it. We can get on our knees and ask for the Lord's help to forgive.
Virginia H. Pearce
#83. These then are some of my first memories. But of course as an account of my life they are misleading, because the things one does not remember are as important; perhaps they are more important.
Virginia Woolf
#84. He called her a melon, a pineapple, an olive tree, an emerald, and a fox in the snow all in the space of three seconds; he did not know whether he had heard her, tasted her, seen her, or all three together.
Virginia Woolf
#85. It would have been impossible, completely and entirely, for any woman to have written the plays of Shakespeare in the age of Shakespeare.
Virginia Woolf
#86. In all her history, from the formation of the federal government until the hour of secession, no year stands out more prominently than the year 1858 as evidencing the national patriotism of Virginia.
John Sergeant Wise
#87. I think the kind of unexpected I really love is when you open books and the actual way of writing is different and interesting. Like reading Virginia Woolf for the first time or Lawrence Durrell for the first time.
Lalla Ward
#88. My mind works in idleness. To do nothing is often my most profitable way.
Virginia Woolf
#89. The old charters of Massachusetts, Virginia, and the Carolinas had given title to strips of territory extending from the Atlantic westward to the Pacific.
Albert Bushnell Hart
#90. The American people must not buy into the Democrat rhetoric.
Virginia Foxx
#91. Great bodies of people are never responsible for what they do. They are driven by instincts which are not within their control.
Virginia Woolf
#92. Sir William said he never spoke of 'madness'; he called it not having a sense of proportion.
Virginia Woolf
#93. But to begin again? No, Virginia. There can be no beginning again. Love and forgiveness are not the same thing.
Priya Parmar
#94. The November evening had a bite; it nibbled not-quite-gently at her cheeks and ears. In Virginia the late autumn was a lover, still, but a dangerous one.
J. Aleksandr Wootton
#95. Why creeds and prayers and mackintoshes? when, thought Clarissa, that's the miracle, that's the mystery; that old lady, she meant, whom she could see going from chest of drawers to dressing-table.
Virginia Woolf
#96. What amulet is there against this disaster? What face can I summon to lay cool upon this heat?
Virginia Woolf
#97. I don't make friends with the girls I'm playing against. It would be too painful to beat them.
Virginia Wade
#98. In the glass she wore an expression of tense melancholy, for she had come to the depressing conclusion, since the arrival of the Dalloways, that her face was not the face she wanted, and in all probability never would be.
Virginia Woolf
#100. It's quite clear that Virginia Wade is thriving on the pressure now that the pressure on her to do well is off .
Harry Carpenter
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