Virginia Lee quote: "The merging of characteristics between different species creates a very powerful language, one that I love to explore through my art, enabling me to tap into the unconscious."

Day followed day, each one a little different from the one before...but the little house stayed just...
VIRGINIA LEE BURTON

Someone has to die in order that the rest of us should value life more.
VIRGINIA WOOLF

Masterpieces are not single and solitary births; they are the outcome of many years of thinking in c...
VIRGINIA WOOLF

To have a successful writing career, you must be willing to sacrifice a great deal. The book, the de...
VIRGINIA HENLEY

Cable companies aren't bad because they're parts of unwieldy media conglomerates. They'r...
VIRGINIA POSTREL

We have a responsibility to help those around us and help others in need.
VIRGINIA WILLIAMS

One of the signs of passing youth is the birth of a sense of fellowship with other human beings as w...
VIRGINIA WOOLF

Our demand for good looks, expressed in the biting comments that ensue when public figures fall shor...
VIRGINIA POSTREL

Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by his heart, and his friends c...
VIRGINIA WOOLF

I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion at the time. It exp...
VIRGINIA WOOLF

Where the Mind is biggest, the Heart, the Senses, Magnanimity, Charity, Tolerance, Kindliness, and t...
VIRGINIA WOOLF

Really I don't like human nature unless all candied over with art.
VIRGINIA WOOLF

Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.
VIRGINIA WOOLF

It is far harder to kill a phantom than a reality.
VIRGINIA WOOLF

Every secret of a writer's soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind is writ...
VIRGINIA WOOLF

As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world.
VIRGINIA WOOLF

So much is asked of parents, and so little is given.
VIRGINIA SATIR

We must not allow other people's limited perceptions to define us.
VIRGINIA SATIR

Life is not what it's supposed to be. It's what it is. The way you cope with it is what make...
VIRGINIA SATIR

Problems are not the problem; coping is the problem.
VIRGINIA SATIR

Scientists appear most often in horror movies. Through childlike curiosity or God-defying hubris, th...
VIRGINIA POSTREL

There is an abundance of misinformation, exaggeration, and blatant lies being spread by interest gro...
VIRGINIA FOXX

Glamour invites us to live in a different world. It has to simultaneously be mysterious, a little bi...
VIRGINIA POSTREL

The mere existence of 'Buffy' proves the declinists wrong about one thing: Hollywood commerc...
VIRGINIA POSTREL

It was a miserable machine, an inefficient machine, she thought, the human apparatus for painting or...
VIRGINIA WOOLF

The interest in life does not lie in what people do, nor even in their relations to each other, but ...
VIRGINIA WOOLF

So the days pass, and I ask myself whether one is not hypnotized, as a child by a silver globe, by l...
VIRGINIA WOOLF

For love... has two faces; one white, the other black; two bodies; one smooth, the other hairy. It h...
VIRGINIA WOOLF

Fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so lightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all ...
VIRGINIA WOOLF

All I could do was to offer you an opinion upon one minor point
VIRGINIA WOOLF

Novels so often provide an anodyne and not an antidote, glide one into torpid slumbers instead of ro...
VIRGINIA WOOLF

Every secret of a writer's soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind is written ...
VIRGINIA WOOLF

I was in a queer mood, thinking myself very old: but now I am a woman again -- as I always am when I...
VIRGINIA WOOLF

We are nauseated by the sight of trivial personalities decomposing in the eternity of print.
VIRGINIA WOOLF

I believe the greatest gift I can conceive of having from anyone is to be seen by them, heard by the...
VIRGINIA SATIR

Against you I will fling myself, unvanquished and unyielding, O Death!
VIRGINIA WOOLF

It is no use trying to sum people up. One must follow hints, not exactly what is said, nor yet entir...
VIRGINIA WOOLF

The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.
VIRGINIA WOOLF

Now, aged 50, I'm just poised to shoot forth quite free straight and undeflected my bolts whatever t...
VIRGINIA WOOLF

At 46 one must be a miser; only have time for essentials.
VIRGINIA WOOLF

These are the soul's changes. I don't believe in aging. I believe in forever altering one's aspect t...
VIRGINIA WOOLF

It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.
VIRGINIA WOOLF

I hope Britney doesn't get bummed out that Lindsey is a better singer. It is not Lindsey saying ...
VIRGINIA MADSEN

If we help an educated man's daughter to go to Cambridge are we not forcing her to think not abo...
VIRGINIA WOOLF

Growing up is losing some illusions, in order to acquire others.
VIRGINIA WOOLF

As a general rule, durable-goods production tends to be the most volatile sector of the economy. Sin...
VIRGINIA POSTREL

My own brain is to me the most unaccountable of machinery - always buzzing, humming, soaring roaring...
VIRGINIA WOOLF

The biggest threat to a better life is the desire to keep the future under control - to make the wor...
VIRGINIA POSTREL

Kidney disease is a low-profile, unglamorous problem, a disease that disproportionately strikes mino...
VIRGINIA POSTREL

We can best help you to prevent war not by repeating your words and following your methods but by fi...
VIRGINIA WOOLF

I feel certain that I'm going mad again. I feel we can't go through another of those terrible times....
VIRGINIA WOOLF

As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world.
VIRGINIA WOOLF

What is amusing now had to be taken in desperate earnest once.
VIRGINIA WOOLF

It's not catastrophes, murders, deaths, diseases, that age and kill us; it's the way people look and...
VIRGINIA WOOLF

I always felt that I hadn't achieved what I wanted to achieve. I always felt I could get better. Tha...
VIRGINIA WADE

When Baby Boomer women started choosing hotel-like birthing centers over hospital delivery rooms, ho...
VIRGINIA POSTREL

My own brain is to me the most unaccountable of machinery --always buzzing, humming, soaring roaring...
VIRGINIA WOOLF

It would be a thousand pities if women wrote like men, or lived like men, or looked like men, for if...
VIRGINIA WOOLF

If one could be friendly with women, what a pleasure -- the relationship so secret and private compa...
VIRGINIA WOOLF

Women have served all these centuries as looking-glasses possessing the magic and delicious power of...
VIRGINIA WOOLF

Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
VIRGINIA WOOLF

All this pitting of sex against sex, of quality against quality; all this claiming of superiority an...
VIRGINIA WOOLF

Different though the sexes are, they inter-mix. In every human being a vacillation from one sex to t...
VIRGINIA WOOLF

But when the self speaks to the self, who is speaking? The entombed soul, the spirit driven in, in,...
VIRGINIA WOOLF

It is curious how instinctively one protects the image of oneself from idolatry or any other handlin...
VIRGINIA WOOLF

Really I don't like human nature unless all candied over with art.
VIRGINIA WOOLF

As borrowers, we may feel guilty about running up debt, anxious about making payments, and resentful...
VIRGINIA POSTREL

Inevitably we look upon society, so kind to you, so harsh to us, as an ill-fitting form that distort...
VIRGINIA WOOLF

Every face, every shop, bedroom window, public-house, and dark square is a picture feverishly turned...
VIRGINIA WOOLF

The current flows fast and furious. It issues in a spate of words from the loudspeakers and the poli...
VIRGINIA WOOLF

That great Cathedral space which was childhood.
VIRGINIA WOOLF

The word-coining genius, as if thought plunged into a sea of words and came up dripping.
VIRGINIA WOOLF

Young women... you are, in my opinion, disgracefully ignorant. You have never made a discovery of an...
VIRGINIA WOOLF

Therefore if you insist upon fighting to protect me, or
VIRGINIA WOOLF

Our brave soldiers and support personnel are engaged in a battle as important as any the United Stat...
VIRGINIA FOXX

Fly high... Where the only chill that cuts through you is the wind. Where your heart pounds from exh...
VIRGINIA ALISON

When the body escaped mutilation, seldom did the heart go to the grave unscarred.
VIRGINIA WOOLF

We all indulge in the strange, pleasant process called thinking, but when it comes to saying, even t...
VIRGINIA WOOLF

Somewhere, everywhere, now hidden, now apparent in what ever is written down, is the form of a human...
VIRGINIA WOOLF

The only advice, indeed, that one person can give another about reading is to take no advice, to fol...
VIRGINIA WOOLF

If we help an educated man's daughter to go to Cambridge are we not forcing her to think not about e...
VIRGINIA WOOLF

A masterpiece is something said once and for all, stated, finished, so that it's there complete in t...
VIRGINIA WOOLF

One likes people much better when they're battered down by a prodigious siege of misfortune than whe...
VIRGINIA WOOLF

The poet gives us his essence, but prose takes the mold of the body and mind.
VIRGINIA WOOLF

Boredom is the legitimate kingdom of the philanthropic.
VIRGINIA WOOLF

It is the nature of the artist to mind excessively what is said about him. Literature is strewn with...
VIRGINIA WOOLF

To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves.
VIRGINIA WOOLF

Henry James seems most entirely in his element, doing that is to say what everything favors his doin...
VIRGINIA WOOLF

No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself.
VIRGINIA WOOLF

As long as she thinks of a man, nobody objects to a woman thinking.
VIRGINIA WOOLF

When I cannot see words curling like rings of smoke round me I am in darkness—I am nothing.
VIRGINIA WOOLF

If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
VIRGINIA WOOLF

I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion at the time. It exp...
VIRGINIA WOOLF

Books are the mirrors of the soul.
VIRGINIA WOOLF

I will not be "famous," "great." I will go on adventuring, changing, opening my mind and my eyes, re...
VIRGINIA WOOLF

To depend upon a profession is a less odious form of slavery than to depend upon a father.
VIRGINIA WOOLF

Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the...
VIRGINIA WOOLF

Orlando naturally loved solitary places, vast views, and to feel himself for ever and ever and ever ...
VIRGINIA WOOLF

Alone, I often fall down into nothingness. I must push my foot stealthily lest I should fall off the...
VIRGINIA WOOLF

Melancholy were the sounds on a winter's night.
VIRGINIA WOOLF

Women and fiction remain, so far as I am concerned, unsolved problems.
VIRGINIA WOOLF

The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.
VIRGINIA WOOLF

Yet Byron never made tea as you do, who fill the pot so that when you put the lid on the tea spills ...
VIRGINIA WOOLF

Just in case you ever foolishly forget; I'm never not thinking of you.
VIRGINIA WOOLF

One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
VIRGINIA WOOLF

Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the magic and delicious power of...
VIRGINIA WOOLF

A woman knows very well that, though a wit sends her his poems, praises her judgment, solicits her c...
VIRGINIA WOOLF

The connection between dress and war is not far to seek; your finest clothes are those you wear as s...
VIRGINIA WOOLF

But it is just when opinions universally prevail and we have added lip service to their authority th...
VIRGINIA WOOLF

The man who is aware of himself is henceforward independent; and he is never bored, and life is only...
VIRGINIA WOOLF

Great bodies of people are never responsible for what they do.
VIRGINIA WOOLF

There can be no two opinions as to what a highbrow is. He is the man or woman of thoroughbred intell...
VIRGINIA WOOLF

I am to be broken. I am to be derided all my life. I am to be cast up and down among these men and w...
VIRGINIA WOOLF

I ransack public libraries, and find them full of sunk treasure.
VIRGINIA WOOLF

Thus when I come to shape here at this table between my hands the story of my life and set it before...
VIRGINIA WOOLF

Almost any biographer, if he respects facts, can give us much more than another fact to add to our c...
VIRGINIA WOOLF

Yet it is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.
VIRGINIA WOOLF

If lawyers are disbarred and clergymen defrocked, doesn't it follow that electricians can be delight...
VIRGINIA OSTMAN

Methinks the human method of expression by sound of tongue is very elementary, and ought to be subst...
VIRGINIA WOOLF

Things have dropped from me. I have outlived certain desires; I have lost friends, some by death... ...
VIRGINIA WOOLF

When a subject is highly controversial... one cannot hope to tell the truth. One can only show how o...
VIRGINIA WOOLF

I thought how unpleasant it is to be locked out; and I thought how it is worse, perhaps, to be locke...
VIRGINIA WOOLF

Most of a modest woman's life was spent, after all, in denying what, in one day at least of every ye...
VIRGINIA WOOLF

Life for both sexes is arduous, difficult, a perpetual struggle. It calls for gigantic courage and s...
VIRGINIA WOOLF

As the streets that lead from the Strand to the Embankment are very narrow, it is better not to walk...
VIRGINIA WOOLF

Some collaboration has to take place in the mind between the woman and the man before the art of cre...
VIRGINIA WOOLF

Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can on...
VIRGINIA WOOLF

For what Harley Street specialist has time to understand the body, let alone the mind or both in com...
VIRGINIA WOOLF

Tom's great yellow bronze mask all draped upon an iron framework. An inhibited, nerve-drawn; dropped...
VIRGINIA WOOLF

Rigid, the skeleton of habit alone upholds the human frame.
VIRGINIA WOOLF

We need 4 hugs a day for survival. We need 8 hugs a day for maintenance. We need 12 hugs a day for g...
VIRGINIA SATIR

A strange thing has happened -- while all the other arts were born naked, this, the youngest, has be...
VIRGINIA WOOLF

There is much to support the view that it is clothes that wear us and not we them; we may make them ...
VIRGINIA WOOLF

We must determine whether we really want freedom -- whether we are willing to dare the perils of... ...
VIRGINIA HANSON

When some people retire, it's going to be mighty hard to be able to tell the difference.
VIRGINIA GRAHAM

Humor is the first gift to perish in a foreign language.
VIRGINIA WOOLF

Publicity in women is detestable. Anonymity runs in their blood. The desire to be veiled still posse...
VIRGINIA WOOLF

For such will be our ruin if you, in the immensity of your public abstractions, forget the private f...
VIRGINIA WOOLF

What I like, or one of the things I like, about motoring is the sense it gives one of lighting accid...
VIRGINIA WOOLF

Those comfortably padded lunatic asylums which are known, euphemistically, as the stately homes of E...
VIRGINIA WOOLF

If we didn't live venturously, plucking the wild goat by the beard, and trembling over precipices, w...
VIRGINIA WOOLF

What is meant by reality? It would seem to be something very erratic, very undependable -- now to be...
VIRGINIA WOOLF

One has to secrete a jelly in which to slip quotations down people's throats --and one always secret...
VIRGINIA WOOLF

Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
VIRGINIA WOOLF

Every season is likeable, and wet days and fine, red wine and white, company and solitude. Even slee...
VIRGINIA WOOLF

The man who is aware of himself is henceforward independent; and he is never bored, and life is only...
VIRGINIA WOOLF

In solitude we give passionate attention to our lives, to our memories, to the details around us.
VIRGINIA WOOLF

Life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning.
VIRGINIA WOOLF

The first duty of a lecturer--to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap u...
VIRGINIA WOOLF

It is far harder to kill a phantom than a reality
VIRGINIA WOOLF

The first duty of a lecturer is to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap...
VIRGINIA WOOLF

Why are women... so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
VIRGINIA WOOLF

The history of men's opposition to women's emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story o...
VIRGINIA WOOLF

All this pitting of sex against sex, of quality against quality; all this claiming of superiority an...
VIRGINIA WOOLF

A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.
VIRGINIA WOOLF

Anything may happen when womanhood has ceased to be a protected occupation.
VIRGINIA WOOLF

It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.
VIRGINIA WOOLF

Women have sat indoors all these millions of years, so that by this time the very walls are permeate...
VIRGINIA WOOLF

This soul, or life within us, by no means agrees with the life outside us. If one has the courage to...
VIRGINIA WOOLF

On the outskirts of every agony sits some observant fellow who points.
VIRGINIA WOOLF

A world of few choices, whether in jeans or mates, is a world in which individual differences become...
VIRGINIA POSTREL

Rich people in poor places want to show off their wealth. And their less affluent counterparts feel ...
VIRGINIA POSTREL

The number of kids affected by obesity has tripled since 1980, and this can be traced in large part ...
VIRGINIA FOXX

Adult stem cells tend not to form tumors.
VIRGINIA FOXX

Adolescents are not monsters. They are just people trying to learn how to make it among the adults i...
VIRGINIA SATIR

Americans born since World War II have grown up in a media-saturated environment. From childhood, we...
VIRGINIA POSTREL

The impulse for personal adornment is hard to stamp out.
VIRGINIA POSTREL

The goal of socialism is a fairer allocation of economic resources, which its advocates often claim ...
VIRGINIA POSTREL

Socialism is about claims of justice, and it is also about money: about wealth, income, physical and...
VIRGINIA POSTREL

Average Americans order nonfat decaf iced vanilla lattes at Starbucks and choose from 1,500 drawer p...
VIRGINIA POSTREL

When the shriveled skin of the ordinary is stuffed out with meaning, it satisfies the senses amazing...
VIRGINIA WOOLF

The American flag is the most recognized symbol of freedom and democracy in the world.
VIRGINIA FOXX

When 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer' premiered on the WB Network in 1996, American culture was in...
VIRGINIA POSTREL

Challenging unfairly subsidized products, fighting counterfeit goods and intellectual property theft...
VIRGINIA FOXX

Before it became a ubiquitous part of urban life, Starbucks was, in most American cities, a radicall...
VIRGINIA POSTREL

The glamour of twentieth-century air travel helped to persuade once-fearful travelers to take to the...
VIRGINIA POSTREL

The glamour of air travel - its aspirational meaning in the public imagination - disappeared before ...
VIRGINIA POSTREL

From the days of biplanes and silk scarves, the aviator has been the archetype of masculine glamour....
VIRGINIA POSTREL

The Dallas model, prominent in the South and Southwest, sees a growing population as a sign of urban...
VIRGINIA POSTREL

Language is wine upon the lips.
VIRGINIA WOOLF

Yet, it is true, poetry is delicious; the best prose is that which is most full of poetry.
VIRGINIA WOOLF

I felt like a failure, like somehow my self-worth was tied to my ability to procreate. I didn't ...
VIRGINIA WILLIAMS

What lingers from the parent's individual past, unresolved or incomplete, often becomes part of ...
VIRGINIA SATIR

Every word, facial expression, gesture, or action on the part of a parent gives the child some messa...
VIRGINIA SATIR

Clothing creates the illusion that bodies fit an aesthetically pleasing norm. And that illusion depe...
VIRGINIA POSTREL

Persuasion has become a kind of force. The more the advertiser knows about what consumers want, and ...
VIRGINIA POSTREL

A good essay must have this permanent quality about it; it must draw its curtain round us, but it mu...
VIRGINIA WOOLF

Once conform, once do what other people do because they do it, and a lethargy steals over all the fi...
VIRGINIA WOOLF

Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
VIRGINIA WOOLF

Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the power of reflecting the figu...
VIRGINIA WOOLF

Lessons learned today, I am my greatest champion. Nobody will respect me unless I stand up for mysel...
VIRGINIA TOOLE

It seems as if an age of genius must be succeeded by an age of endeavour; riot and extravagance by c...
VIRGINIA WOOLF

In Shakespeare's world, characters cannot trust their senses. Is the ghost in Hamlet true and tr...
VIRGINIA POSTREL

One must love everything.
VIRGINIA WOOLF

Most of us cluster somewhere in the middle of most statistical distributions. But there are lots of ...
VIRGINIA POSTREL

We are material creatures who spend much of our lives on material pursuits (even building a cathedra...
VIRGINIA POSTREL

I am not giving up hope. That's why I am keeping up my strength.
ANGELA VIRGINIA

This has never happened before, the most he'd ever be late is a half an hour or so. He's a very heal...
ANGELA VIRGINIA

It isn't in his character to do that.
ANGELA VIRGINIA

I believe they've been forced against their will.
ANGELA VIRGINIA

The merging of characteristics between different species creates a very powerful language, one that I love to explore through my art, enabling me to tap into the unconscious.

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The merging of characteristics between different species creates a very powerful language, one that I love to explore through my art, enabling me to tap into the unconscious.

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