Famous Quotes & Sayings

Agnes Varda

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.

Alan Bennett

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.

Argus Hamilton

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Virginia Governor Jim Gilmore rescinded the state's European Heritage Month proclamation for fear it would sound racist.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.

Barbara Kingsolver

I live in a rural part of Virginia surrounded by farms and farmers.

Brad Paisley

Deep down, I'm just a West Virginia hillbilly.

Bob McDonnell

I made a fairly bold pledge that I wanted Virginia to be the energy capital of the East Coast.

Bill Jenkins

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.

Billy Campbell

The South Downs of England reminded me a bit of my Old Virginia homeland.

Brooks Robinson

Pocahontas was the reason the Virginia colony didn't disappear, unlike some earlier attempts

We don't want to ever feel like that again, like we did after the West Virginia game.

E. M. Forster

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.

Donald Glover

My swag is always capital and live in north Virginia.

Amy Waldman

So the premise of 'The Submission' is that there's an anonymous competition to design a 9/11 memorial and it's won by an American Muslim, an architect born and raised in Virginia, and his name is Mohammad Khan.

Albert Bushnell Hart

The old charters of Massachusetts, Virginia, and the Carolinas had given title to strips of territory extending from the Atlantic westward to the Pacific.

Corey Reynolds

I was born and raised in Richmond, Virginia, the capital of the Confederacy.

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.

Anthony Kennedy

Any time you burn a cross in Virginia, it's a crime?

Bernie Sanders

It costs a hell of a lot more money to put somebody in jail than send them to the University of Virginia.

Patrick Henry

I am not a Virginian, I am an American.

Pat Buchanan

If we had to take a million immigrants in, say Zulus, next year, or Englishmen, and put them up in Virginia, what group would be easier to assimilate and would cause less problems for the people of Virginia?

Jason Mraz

I came from Mechanicsville, Virginia, where you have four seasons.

Frank Beamer

There are so many things going on this week, ... It's great for Virginia Tech.

Ginger Baker

In West Virginia, we're all family. We know how firefighters and policemen honor their own and we feel our miners deserve to be honored in a similar way.

Neil Gaiman

There was Virginia Boote, the food and restaurant critic, who had once been a great beauty but was now a grand and magnificent ruin, and who delighted in her ruination.

John Smit

For in Virginia, a plaine Souldier that can use a Pick-axe and spade, is better than five Knights.

Martha Stewart

When I was incarcerated at Alderson in West Virginia for a five-month term, they had a ceramics class.

Neil Gaiman

Virginia is the place, where, technologically speaking, they will burn people at the stake for possessing such things as toasters.

Mercy Otis Warren

A declaration of the independence of America, and the sovereignty of the United STates was drawn by the ingenious and philosophic pen of Thomas Jefferson, Esquire, a delegate from the state of Virginia

Julian Bond

I now teach at American University and the University of Virginia

This is what we look for when we come here, Virginia v. Syracuse. We've been here before.

Henry Adams

The People of Virginia declare and make known that the powers granted under the Constitution being derived from the People of the United States may be resumed by them whensoever the same shall be perverted to their injury or oppression and that every.

Mamie Gummer

My first day on the set of 'John Adams', I was just supposed to fly to Virginia for a costume fitting. But the director figured, why not shoot it, too? So they threw me into a dress that didn't fit, gave me lines I hadn't seen, in a dialect I didn't know, and two screaming, arching infants.