Virginia Wolfe Quotes & Sayings

When you speak of other people's marriages, you are, of course, saying something about your own. — Carol Grace

She risked her life to put your mind at rest,' Evgenia said. 'How great is love! — Marcus Sedgwick

I feel challenged every day, when I come to work. I feel like I have to step up my game, and that's a great thing. — Eric Ladin

She felt worthless and hollow. There was no hope of fixing this.
And when hope is gone, time is punishment. — Mitch Albom

Carrying his books from one life into the next was nothing new to Zuckerman. He had left his family for Chicago in 1949 carrying in his suitcase the annotated works of Thomas Wolfe and Roget's Thesaurus. Four years later, age twenty, he left Chicago with five cartons of classics, bought secondhand out of his spending money, to be stored in his parents' attic while he served two years in the Army. In 1960, when he was divorced from Betsy, there were thirty cartons to be packed from the shelves no longer his; in 1965, when he was divorced from Virginia, there were just under sixty to cart away; in 1969, he left Bank Street with eighty-one boxes of books. — Philip Roth

REASON, v.i. To weight probabilities in the scales of desire. — Ambrose Bierce

Sleep, that deplorable curtailment of the joy of life. — Virginia Woolf

I'm a pretty emotional person. — Katey Sagal

Failure is a signpost on the trail to success — Phillip Gary Smith

I've accepted the fact that there's a beginning and end to everything. All species are born, evolve, and then die off. We're going through the 6th great extinction and the large mammals are going first and, you know what - we're large mammals! — Yvon Chouinard

Capital Letters Were Always The Best Way Of Dealing With Things You Didn't Have A Good Answer To. — Douglas Adams

In brain scans, music lights up the medial prefrontal cortex and triggers a memory that starts playing in your mind. All of a sudden you can see a place, a person, an incident. The strongest responses to music - the ones that elicit vivid memories - cause the greatest activity on brain scans. — Jodi Picoult

The ripe, the golden month has come again, and in Virginia the chinkapins are falling. Frost sharps the middle music of the seasons, and all things living on the earth turn home again ... the fields are cut, the granaries are full, the bins are loaded to the brim with fatness, and from the cider-press the rich brown oozings of the York Imperials run. The bee bores to the belly of the grape, the fly gets old and fat and blue, he buzzes loud, crawls slow, creeps heavily to death on sill and ceiling, the sun goes down in blood and pollen across the bronzed and mown fields of the old October. — Thomas Wolfe

If you wonder what the difference between them and me is, I'll break the news: you never heard of them. Most of them ... can fight almost as good as I can. I'm just saying you never heard of them. — Muhammad Ali

The most important thing about expedition food is that there is some — Eric Shipton