![The private buildings [of Virginia] are very rarely constructed of stone or brick; much the greatest proportion being of scantlingand boards, plastered with lime. It is impossible to devise things more ugly, uncomfortable, and happily more perishable.](/assets/img/quote-photos/the-private-buildings-of-virginia-are-very-rarely-constructed-of-stone-or-brick.jpg)
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virginia years people
When I saw what painting had done in the last thirty years, what literature had done - people like Joyce and Virginia Woolf, Faulkner and Hemingway - in France we have Nathalie Sarraute - and paintings became so strongly contemporary while cinema was just following the path of theater. I have to do something which relates with my time, and in my time, we make things differently. Agnes Varda
virginia sight rose
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
virginia mind salary
The Concord Coalition in Virginia complained about pork projects and wasteful spending in the federal budget. Consider the Senate chaplain's salary. As occupations go, only mind readers in Los Angeles have fewer things to do all day. Argus Hamilton
virginia years steel
Virginia Governor Jim Gilmore rescinded the state's European Heritage Month proclamation for fear it would sound racist. It's too bad. Thus ends a month of celebrating the 400-year progression of our nation's British culture from wood to steel to graphite shafts.
virginia farmers farms
I live in a rural part of Virginia surrounded by farms and farmers. Barbara Kingsolver
virginia west hillbilly
Deep down, I'm just a West Virginia hillbilly. Brad Paisley
virginia energy east
I made a fairly bold pledge that I wanted Virginia to be the energy capital of the East Coast. Bob McDonnell
virginia community together
Since the turn of the 20th century, members of the Jewish community in Upper East Tennessee and Southwest Virginia have been meeting together to celebrate and worship. Bill Jenkins
virginia england homeland
The South Downs of England reminded me a bit of my Old Virginia homeland. Billy Campbell
ugly suits mood
Why should I spoil my mood by wearing an ugly suit? Bryan Ferry
ugly tribes novelists
The complexion of a novelist is seldom rosy (Paul Bailey once announced to a heavy-hearted audience of novelists at PEN that we have always been an ugly tribe). We are engaged in indoor activity, haemorrhoidal, prone to chillblains, poor of circulation. Jane Gardam
ugly economy user-experience
DOS is ugly and interferes with users' experience. Bill Gates
ugly good-and-bad killing-yourself
If you work for a living, why do you kill yourself working? Eli Wallach
ugly good-and-bad western-movie
When you have to shoot, shoot, don't talk.
ugly honest comedy
Comedy is ugly. It's honest, it's raw. Aisha Tyler
ugly dams canyons
All dams are ugly, but the Glen Canyon Dam is sinful ugly. Edward Abbey
ugly vices mask
Vice knows [its] ugly, so [it] puts on [a] mask. Benjamin Franklin
ugly vices virtue
Vice knows she is ugly, so puts on her mask.
stones next temples
The Temple will not be completed until every living stone is there. And then what? The next thing will be that which our Masonic friends make so much of, and which we make so much of namely: the glorification of the temple. Charles Taze Russell
stones doe heavy
If God can do anything he can make a stone so heavy that even he can't lift it. Then there is something God cannot do, he cannot lift the stone. Therefore God does not exist. Lucretius
stones trouble burden
If you tell your troubles to God, you put them into the grave; they will never rise again when you have committed them to Him. If you roll your burden anywhere else, it will roll back again like the stone of Sisyphus. Charles Spurgeon
stones today ends
I keep telling you the future isn't set in stone. It's not all decided yet. The future is just what's down the road we decided to walk on today. You can change roads anytime. And that changes where you end up. Catherine Ryan Hyde
stones builder corners
The stone that the builder refused shall be the head corner stone. Bob Marley
stones gigs odd
The Stones always tried to do the odd smaller gig when they could. Bill Wyman
stones stepping-stones
Failure is a stepping stone to success. Arianna Huffington
stones glass-houses throwing
My policy is no stone throwing regardless of housing situation. Demetri Martin
stones recoil throwers
The stone often recoils on the head of the thrower. Elizabeth I