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Virginia Woolf said that writers must be androgynous. I'll go a step further. You must be bisexual. -- Rita Mae Brown
My mother was a public school teacher in Virginia, and we didn't have any money, we just survived on happiness, on being a happy family. -- Dave Grohl
And later, if I ever felt that I was getting swept away by the craziness of being in a band, well, I'd go back to Virginia. -- Dave Grohl
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There's not a person in Virginia won't try to sell you a horse. It's in 'em. -- Isabel Scott Rorick
The Army of Northern Virginia was never defeated. It merely wore itself out whipping the enemy. -- Jubal Early
I went to the University of Virginia and I came from, I grew up in suburban Philadelphia. -- Tina Fey
In West Virginia, the most vulnerable people we have are people who get up every morning and go to work. -- Joe Manchin
They say that Virginia is the mother of Texas. We never knew who the father was, but we kinda suspected Tennessee. -- Tex Ritter
I enjoyed growing up part of my life in Virginia Beach. We had the ocean and the beach and a beautiful landscape. -- Mark Ruffalo
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
Here was buried Thomas Jefferson, author of the Declaration of American Independence, of the statute of Virginia for religious freedom, and father of the University of Virginia. -- Thomas Jefferson
We consider that any man who can fiddle all through one of those Virginia Reels without losing his grip may be depended upon in any kind of musical emergency. -- Mark Twain
That the people have a right to uniform government; and, therefore, that no government separate from, or independent of the government of Virginia, ought to be erected or established within the limits thereof. -- George Mason
On a hot day in Virginia, I know nothing more comforting than a fine spiced pickle, brought up trout-like from the sparkling depths of the aromatic jar below the stairs of Aunt Sally's cellar. -- Thomas Jefferson
I think one of the primary goals of a feminist landscape architecture would be to work toward a public landscape in which we can roam the streets at midnight, in which every square is available for Virginia Woolf to make up her novels -- Rebecca Solnit
Like all her friends, I miss her greatly...But...I am sure there is no case for lamentation...Virginia Woolf got through an immense amount of work, she gave acute pleasure in new ways, she pushed the light of the English language a little further against darkness. Those are facts. -- E. M. Forster
Deep down, I'm just a West Virginia hillbilly. -- Brad Paisley
Pocahontas was the reason the Virginia colony didn't disappear, unlike some earlier attempts. -- Brooks Robinson
My role models were childless: Virginia Woolf, Jane Austen, George Eliot, the Brontes. -- Joyce Carol Oates
They're building a bridge over the Potomac for all the white liberals fleeing to Virginia. -- George C. Wallace
I am George Rogers Clark. You have just become a prisoner of the Commonwealth of Virginia. -- George Rogers Clark
Damn the sword! When Virginia wanted a sword, I gave her one. Now she sends me a toy! I require bread! -- George Rogers Clark
The attack of John Brown upon Harper's Ferry came upon Virginia like a clap of thunder out of a clear sky. -- John Sergeant Wise
By the time we reached Virginia City I was considered a remarkable good shot and a fearless rider for a girl of my age. -- Calamity Jane
My father's family came from Virginia and Philadelphia. He wasn't a brother who talked a lot. He was a workingman, a quiet, blue-collar dude. -- Ice T
Whoever is president, my first priority is the same - as always. I look for what's best for West Virginia and the nation as a whole. -- Joe Manchin
I'm from West Virginia. If you didn't know what was happening in NASCAR, you were on the outside. NASCAR is a big league sport, but it's still also country and redneck. -- Randy Moss
I studied international relations and economics at the University of Virginia. I paid my way by working as a bartender in the summer and at three part-time jobs during the year. -- Jacqueline Novogratz
I think family is very important in West Virginia and has long been so because the mountains made travel difficult in the past, and family members had to depend on each other. -- David Selby
In Seattle, I soon found that my radical ideas and aesthetic explorations - ideas and explorations that in Richmond, Virginia, might have gotten me stoned to death with hush puppies - were not only accepted but occasionally applauded. -- Tom Robbins
I fully expect to be able to complete one more campaign goal - and that is to proudly report that signs have been erected as you enter our great state that say 'Welcome to Wild, Wonderful West Virginia: Open for Business!' -- Joe Manchin
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
It's rather splendid to think of all those great men and women who appear to have presented symptoms that allow us to describe them as bipolar. Whether it's Hemingway, Van Gogh... Robert Schumann has been mentioned... Virginia Woolf, Sylvia Plath... some of them with rather grim ends. -- Stephen Fry
We were growing up in West Virginia. Everybody was poor there in the southern part of the state. It was like growing up in the Great Depression from the stories I hear people tell. Everybody was poor and so we didnt know that we were any different from anybody else. -- James Green
Resolved, That the General Assembly of Virginia, doth unequivocally express a firm resolution to maintain and defend the Constitution of the United States, and the Constitution of this State, against every aggression either foreign or domestic, and that they will support the Government of the United States in all measures warranted by the former. -- James Madison
I guess the language that Justice Ginsburg used at the closing of the VMI (United States v. Virginia Military Institute) case is an important thing; it resonates with me: 'A prime part of the history of our Constitution is the story of the extension of constitutional rights to people once ignored or excluded.' -- Ted Olson
I do not think it is an exaggeration at all to say to my friend from West Virginia [Sen. Robert C. Byrd, a former Ku Klux Klan recruiter] that he would have been a great senator at any moment. . . . He would have been right during the great conflict of civil war in this nation. -- Christopher Dodd
In Southern West Virginia we live in a war zone. Three and one-half million pounds of explosives are being used every day to blow up the mountains. Blasting our communities, blasting our homes, poisoning us, trying to intimidate us. I don't mind being poor. I mind being blasted and poisoned. There ARE no jobs on a dead planet. -- Judy Bonds
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? -- Edward Albee
Yes Virginia, There is a Santa Claus. -- Francis Pharcellus Church
Distance makes everything beautiful" - Virginia Dare -- Michael Scott
Heaven's Virginia when the year's at its Spring. -- Anne Spencer
I am not of Virginia blood; she is of mine. -- Joshua Chamberlain
My swag is always capital and live in north Virginia. -- Donald Glover
I came from Mechanicsville, Virginia, where you have four seasons. -- Jason Mraz
Any time you burn a cross in Virginia, it's a crime? -- Anthony Kennedy
I now teach at American University and the University of Virginia -- Julian Bond
Virginia Woolf was one example. She was called the "Lover of 100 Gangsters." -- Sergio Leone
On most things except witch trials, Virginia will always have been first. -- Morgan Griffith
I can't think of a better place to be than Scottsville, Virginia. -- Robert Hurt
I grew up in the segregated South, right here in Lynchburg, Virginia. -- Jerry Falwell
Pocahontas was the reason the Virginia colony didn't disappear, unlike some earlier attempts -- Brooks Robinson
Prohibiting guns on campus made the Virginia Tech students less safe, not more. -- Ron Paul
I'm from Middlesboro, Ky., a little town on the Tennessee and Virginia border. -- Lee Majors
Virginia is the absolute leader in homeland security and defense and information technology. -- Mark Warner
I was born and raised in Richmond, Virginia, the capital of the Confederacy. -- Corey Reynolds
Washington and Jefferson were both rich Virginia planters, but they were never friends. -- Stephen Ambrose
I live in a rural part of Virginia surrounded by farms and farmers. -- Barbara Kingsolver
The governor is Virginia's chief executive and represents the commonwealth at all times. -- Bob McDonnell
Up men to your posts! Don't forget today that you are from old Virginia. -- George Pickett
There are so many things going on this week, ... It's great for Virginia Tech. -- Frank Beamer
Sister Virginia used to say, 'You'll be known by the company you keep.' -- Michael Scheuer
Of Virginia Woolf: The talent of this generation which is most certain of survival. -- Rebecca West
The South Downs of England reminded me a bit of my Old Virginia homeland. -- Billy Campbell
When I'm at home in Virginia, I become more hermit-like. I like my own home. -- Robert Duvall
In school, I was Martha in 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?' I loved that. -- Cara Delevingne
A professorship of Theology should have no place in our institution [the University of Virginia] -- Thomas Jefferson
Virginia Woolf was wrong. You do not need a room of your own to write. -- Julia Glass
The minute I forget to balance reality with the fantasy, I'm going back to Virginia. -- Schuyler Fisk
[Virginia] has a very sizeable collection of democrats, liberals and moonbats. (Yes, they can be separated.) -- John Ringo
Sometimes I feel so entangled with the West Virginia seasons, it's like I'm breathing through them. -- Heather Day Gilbert
At the risk of sounding like Virginia Woolf, I could live on æ?¢700 a year. -- Ian Mcewan
I never wanted to fight against the Union, but could not turn my back on Virginia. -- John Brown
At the risk of sounding like Virginia Woolf, I could live on Â£700 a year. -- Ian Mcewan
No couples in Virginia can adopt other than a married couple - that's the right policy. -- Tim Kaine
I am of Virginia and all my professional life I have studied of Lee and Jackson -- Douglas MacArthur
You West Virginia girls are one tough breed," he said. You got that right," I told him. -- Jeannette Walls
Virginia Woolf's writing is no more than glamorous knitting. I believe she must have a pattern somewhere. -- Edith Sitwell
I like reading... French, Russian classics - Gogol, Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky, Flaubert. I also like Hemingway, Virginia Woolf. -- Andrea Bocelli
I love the area I grew up in, which is right outside D.C., in Alexandria, Virginia. -- Casey Wilson
Random Roles? Oh, I saw Virginia Madsen do this the other day! You see? I'm paying attention! -- Rob Lowe
People in West Virginia do have cars. We have indoor plumbing. We even use knives and forks. -- John Kruk
When I was incarcerated at Alderson in West Virginia for a five-month term, they had a ceramics class. -- Martha Stewart
Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus. He exists as certainly as love and generosity and devotion exist. -- Francis Pharcellus Church
For in Virginia, a plaine Souldier that can use a Pick-axe and spade, is better than five Knights. -- John Smit
I made a fairly bold pledge that I wanted Virginia to be the energy capital of the East Coast. -- Bob McDonnell
I grew up in Palestine, West Virginia, which is mostly a farming community; there aren't a lot of jobs. -- Jessica Lynch
My older sister Nikki went to Hampton music school in Virginia, then to another school later in New York. -- Debra Wilson
An otherwise happily married couple may turn a mixed doubles game into a scene from Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf. -- Rod Laver
Virginia Woolf, I enjoyed talking to her, but thought nothing of her writing. I considered her 'a beautiful little knitter. -- Edith Sitwell
In a very short time the army of Northern Virginia was face to face with the Army of the Potomac. -- James Longstreet
Virginia is the place, where, technologically speaking, they will burn people at the stake for possessing such things as toasters. -- Neil Gaiman
Growing up in the church in West Virginia, faith is always there. It's part of the fabric of the culture. -- DeVon Franklin
When I auditioned for 'Animal House,' I had only done some plays at a local dinner theater in Virginia. -- Stephen Furst
The force I represent is Virginia's New Mainstream. It looks forward, not backwards. It tries to unify people, not divide them. -- Douglas Wilder
Who's afraid of Virginia Woolf means who's afraid of the big bad wolf ... who's afraid of living life without false illusions. -- Edward Albee
It's ironic that the Bible belt is the killing belt - Texas, Florida, Alabama, Virginia, and so forth, Georgia. Chief executioners. -- Joseph Lowery
She pulled off Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse and settled down in a comfortable leather chair by the fire to read. -- Lucinda Riley
There's a great quote about Virginia Woolf, she had the same spiritual stake in her diaries as she had in her writing. -- Sam Abell
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
It costs a hell of a lot more money to put somebody in jail than send them to the University of Virginia. -- Bernie Sanders
Men of Virginia, countrymen of Washington, of Patrick Henry, of Jefferson, and of Madison, will ye be true to your constitutional faith? -- Caleb Cushing
I was just a bumpkin. Just a country bumpkin. I had just come to New York from Virginia. Or was it Baltimore? -- Cass Elliot
Not a good night for President Obama. He lost elections in Virginia, New Jersey, and he's not doing good in Afghanistan either. -- Jay Leno
When I saw Virginia Woolf, somewhere between the first and second acts, someone I had known as my mother became somebody else. -- Kiefer Sutherland
I'm just a poor boy from the cornfields of Richmond, Virginia. I'm proud because I loved baseball and played with the best. -- Ray Dandridge
A lot of good things start in Virginia; a lot of good things have started in Virginia. We're no strangers to firsts. -- Robert Hurt
Our neighbors in Virginia are just as responsible for these killings as the criminals are because they won't pass strong gun [control] legislation. -- Marion Barry
If I ever felt like I was getting lost in the hurricane that was storming around Nirvana, I'd just go back to Virginia. -- Dave Grohl
The day the army of Virginia allows a negro regiment to enter their lines as soldiers they will be degraded, ruined, and disgraced. -- Robert Toombs
I can assure you that my wife and I - every penny of income we've ever had, our taxes were paid in West Virginia. -- Joe Manchin
It may be too late for West Virginia to save itself from the ravages of Big Coal. But it's not too late for America. -- Jeff Goodell
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
I'm like a little boy from Virginia. I'm a backpacker. In my head, I'm left of centre. I come from the pool of weirdoes. -- Pharrell Williams
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I have family dotted everywhere - Dad's in California; I've got aunts in Scotland and Virginia; family in Kansas City; family in Manchester and London. -- Hayley Atwell
The State of Virginia is similar to a great business corporation... and should be conducted with the same efficiency and economy as any private business. -- Harry F. Byrd
In the Envoy Corps, you take what is offered, Virginia Vidaura said, somewhere in the corridors of my memory. And that must sometimes be enough. -- Richard K. Morgan
Here was buried Thomas Jefferson Author of the Declaration of American Independence Of the Statute of Virginia for religious freedom & Father of the University of Virginia. -- Thomas Jefferson

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