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Related How then did it work out, all this? How did one judge people, think of them? How did one add up this... VIRGINIA WOOLF Fuck, she was so sick of herself—herself and her fucking emotional retardation. How did people do ... STACIA KANE Fuck, she was so sick of herself-herself and her fucking emotional retardation. How did people do th... STACIA KANE I just knew how to do the one thing I did, and whether I did it well or not depended on who the dire... JACKIE COOPER It's the political question of the year: what happened to Gifford? There are two major surprises in ... DOUGLAS MUZZIO Little did he know, back then, that the worth of one's faith depended not on how solid and strong it... ELIF SHAFAK Let's see how this one goes, but I have one up my sleeve if we think that people want it. EMMA THOMPSON One question. How did you know I was here? JOHN CASSAVETES That is how we lived, happily and without hope. I was very young then, and I did not miss having a f... 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DIANNE DANIELS Just the bond that he had with the kids, I did not realize how strong that was and how much he did w... ANNETTE SCARLETT He had a harder time helping her out though. He was asleep while she was doing stars. Without wings,... LAURIE FRANKEL It may be that Tolstoy and Virginia Woolf were sitting around fretting about their Amazon reviews or... GARTH RISK HALLBERG She was so far absorbed in this work, for it was really difficult to find how all these sounds shoul... NICOLE ARLYN Well, it looks like we've moved a step closer to war. Not with Iraq. With France and Germany. How di... JAY LENO One of the things that stands out about this project is how it was funded. DAVID BOWERS Did people think I sounded black? Totally, but that was a marketing tool as well, but also this is h... TAYLOR DAYNE We did not want one youngster to receive that much money. We felt it was becoming out of proportion. LEROY SHAFER At the end I told them how proud I was of them. 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ALEXANDRE DUMAS I did not know the woman soul, that crowning gift of Providence to man, which, if we do not ourselve... ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE SR. People forget how fast you did a job, but they remember how well you did it. HOWARD W. NEWTON People forget how fast you did a job-but they remember how well you did
it. HOWARD W NEWTON People forget how fast you did a job - but they remember how well you did it. HOWARD NEWTON People forget how fast you did a job- but they remember how well you did it. UNKNOWN People forget how fast you did a job -- but they remember how well you did it. HOWARD W. NEWTON We know we're not out there trying to throw games. If we were really trying to lose, how did we win ... ANDRE JOHNSON If I get stuck, I look at a book that tells me how someone else did it. I turn the pages, and then I... RICHARD P. FEYNMAN For five minutes I was speechless, ... Then I told them that I didn't know how to use this gun, but ... PAUL RUSESABAGINA What the Sharks did, it shocked the heck out of me. We've always been rivals, but I think they know ... LUC ROBITAILLE When I realized I was depressed, then I started reading up about it. When I read that one in four pe... DEEPIKA PADUKONE Hwang has no idea how this happened. We can't reconstruct how it did happen. KATRINA KELNER A baseball bat could not have hit me harder than that smile did. I was sixteen years old. In that ti... JERRY SPINELLI From our point of view, the issue isn't just a player did this. It's their reaction, and what they d... BILL BAVASI We stand there, quiet. My questions all seem wrong: How did you get so old? Was it all at once, in a... JENNIFER EGAN Where did she come from, and where can I find one?" "Picked this one up at a gas station ... ALEXANDRA BRACKEN Vasudeva listened with great attention. Listening carefully, he let everything enter his mind, ... HERMANN HESSE We talked about it all week, how this could be the game that we throw it 50 times, and I think we al... DREW BREES People use that as a measuring stick of how this guy handles adversity, ... It wasn't losing a coupl... JUSTIN SMILEY How much she wanted it - that people should look pleased as she came in, Clarissa thought and turned... VIRGINIA WOOLF That's how they did it back then everywhere, HENRY WADE No one remembers how you got a chance, they only remember what you did with it. STEWART STAFFORD We talked about how you can leave no doubt at the end of the game. We had two batters today that I w... DON PERKINS We kind of gave away a move we did beating them two weeks ago. He beat us once, then we beat them, a... JASON BREIHOLZ That's been the pattern all year, ... No matter how many runs we have, whether it's one or eight or ... PAUL KONERKO This is my fundamental teaching: that there is no division between this and that. That is contained ... OSHO We went out and looked at shelters all across the southern part of the state, and then we got on the... EUGENE DIAL Learning was of two kinds: the one being the things we learned and knew, and the other being the tra... GEORGE S. CLASON I was laughed at by everyone upon every occasion. But no one knew or guessed that if there was a man... FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY I don't know how he calmed me down without even talking, but he did. Some people just have a calming... COLLEEN HOOVER An offering for the sake of offering, perhaps. Anyhow, it was her gift. Nothing else had she of the ... VIRGINIA WOOLF It never mattered how much you did or how much you tried. LINDA PARDO I think everyone played pretty well today. Our team lost a close one last year, so we wanted to come... MALLORY VOELKER How did we lose this game? ERIC WINSTON It was one of those days where any one play, in a game that close, can end up biting you. And (Sunda... DAVE MACHEMER He knew today that his life was forever changed in that one moment and he was clueless as to why or ... P.J. FIALA Once upon a time, they say, there was a girl...there was a boy...there was a person who was in troub... TERRI WINDLING Obviously the first thing you think about it is: What's this first swing going to feel like? And I t... BRIAN ROBERTS I would think for hours how strange it was that some parts of words are silent, just like some parts... RENE DENFELD I watched the tape, and I know how he did it. He was relentless. He just drove up under everybody's ... CARL EDWARDS My audience was my life. What I did and how I did it, was all for my audience. CAB CALLOWAY At the end of the day, you realize that this is important stuff, but it isn't as important as ho... ALBERTO GONZALES This is a spreading phenomenon. By that, I mean that one county or Extension unit creates this posit... DICK WARNER They stepped up and did what they needed to do despite being tired. This is a good win, no matter ho... DEB HENDERSON How wonderful it would be if people did all they could for one other without seeking anything in ret... KENTETSU TAKAMORI Well, that explained it, then. Secret demon hunter and thief. Man, did I know how to pick 'em. RACHEL HAWKINS I've met Bob Dylan. We did one of those non-handshake handshakes. I was with all guys, and he sh... KATE MOSS This was one that worked out. If [Bautista is] safe there and the runner gets to second base, I dese... ERIC BRUNTLETT There’s another story I know. This one doesn’t have any swords or visions. This one is about a b... PRIYA ARDIS It was so much easier to blame it on Them. It was bleakly depressing to think that They were Us. If ... TERRY PRATCHETT I don't want to expose the intricacies of my work so people can understand how I did it. BILLY CRUDUP We tend to think of the legacy of an individual in terms of the masses. How did he or she impact lar... BARRY RAY One of our goals was serving. All the girls did a very good job. I don't think we started missing se... BRIAN DOYON I was very young when we got married and I don't know why it worked out like it did or how I was... KYRA SEDGWICK I don't even think its sunk in yet how lucky or how big this is going to be. They are just taking it... JEFF MALLONEE He glanced back at the wall. How like a mirror, too, her face. Impossible; for how many people did y... RAY BRADBURY
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I like their unconventionality. I like their completeness. I like ... VIRGINIA WOOLF I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman. VIRGINIA WOOLF Indeed, I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often ... VIRGINIA WOOLF The telephone, which interrupts the most serious conversations and cuts short the most weighty obser... VIRGINIA WOOLF Anyone who has the temerity to write about Jane Austen is aware of [two] facts: first, that of all g... VIRGINIA WOOLF I feel a thousand capacities spring up in me. I am arch, gay, languid, melancholy by turns. I am roo... VIRGINIA WOOLF It's not catastrophes, murders, deaths, diseases, that age and kill us; it's the way people ... VIRGINIA WOOLF It might be possible that the world itself is without meaning. VIRGINIA WOOLF One might fancy that day, the London day, was just beginning. Like a woman who had slipped off her p... VIRGINIA WOOLF I rise from my worst disasters, I turn, I change. VIRGINIA WOOLF As a woman I have no country. As a woman I want no country. As a woman, my country is the whole worl... VIRGINIA WOOLF How much better is silence; the coffee cup, the table. How much better to sit by myself like the sol... VIRGINIA WOOLF Sleep, that deplorable curtailment of the joy of life. VIRGINIA WOOLF What does the brain matter compared with the heart? VIRGINIA WOOLF Often on a wet day I begin counting up; what I've read and what I haven't read. VIRGINIA WOOLF Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others. VIRGINIA WOOLF If one could be friendly with women, what a pleasure -- the relationship so secret and private com... VIRGINIA WOOLF I have lost friends, some by death... others through sheer inability to cross the street. VIRGINIA WOOLF I meant to write about death, only life came breaking in as usual. VIRGINIA WOOLF Women have served all these centuries as looking-glasses possessing the magic and delicious power of... VIRGINIA WOOLF The beautiful seems right by force of beauty, and the feeble wrong because of weakness. VIRGINIA WOOLF If you insist upon fighting to protect me, or 'our' country, let it be understood soberly an... VIRGINIA WOOLF Friendships, even the best of them, are frail things. One drifts apart. VIRGINIA WOOLF I see you everywhere, in the stars, in the river, to me you're everything that exists; the reality o... VIRGINIA WOOLF The beauty of the world...has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder. VIRGINIA WOOLF I am rooted, but I flow. VIRGINIA WOOLF When you consider things like the stars, our affairs don't seem to matter very much, do they? VIRGINIA WOOLF Mrs. Dalloway said she would buy the flowers herself. VIRGINIA WOOLF The most important thing is not to think very much about oneself. To investigate candidly the charge... VIRGINIA WOOLF One has to secrete a jelly in which to slip quotations down people's throats - and one always se... VIRGINIA WOOLF I read the book of Job last night, I don't think God comes out well in it. VIRGINIA WOOLF The hatchet must fall on the block; the oak must be cleft to the centre. The weight of the world is ... VIRGINIA WOOLF If one is to deal with people on a large scale and say what one thinks, how can one avoid melancholy... VIRGINIA WOOLF With stars in her eyes and veils in her hair, with cyclamen and wild violets—what nonsense was he ... VIRGINIA WOOLF Happiness is in the quiet, ordinary things. A table, a chair, a book with a paper-knife stuck betwee... VIRGINIA WOOLF Yes, I deserve a spring–I owe nobody nothing. VIRGINIA WOOLF One should be a painter. As a writer, I feel the beauty, which is almost entirely colour, very subtl... VIRGINIA WOOLF What I value is the naked contact of a mind. VIRGINIA WOOLF Whatever may be their use in civilized societies, mirrors are essential to all violent and heroic ac... VIRGINIA WOOLF All the being and the doing, expansive, glittering, vocal, evaporated; and one shrunk, with a sense ... VIRGINIA WOOLF To look life in the face, always, to look life in the face, and to know it for what it is...at last,... VIRGINIA WOOLF