Shakespeare had found language for the agony of living with one's own mistakes. There were words...
VIRGINIA EUWER WOLFF After clearing the land, planting the orchard, building the house and barn, and surviving the Great ...
VIRGINIA EUWER WOLFF I grew up in rural Oregon in a log house with bark left on inside and out. We had no electricity, a ...
VIRGINIA EUWER WOLFF As authors evolve and try to trace the precedents that have shaped their work, it sometimes becomes ...
VIRGINIA EUWER WOLFF It's true that I had a bucolic, truly peaceful childhood, growing up in a house next to our fami...
VIRGINIA EUWER WOLFF We're so mixed up about religion in this culture. We say the Pledge of Allegiance, 'under Go...
VIRGINIA EUWER WOLFF If you want something to grow and be so beautiful you could have a nice day just from looking at it,...
VIRGINIA EUWER WOLFF If you dont like me, Walk away , Matter of fact Run Away
VIRGINIA EUWER WOLFF You get older
and you are a whole mess of things,
new thoughts, sorry feelings,
big p...
VIRGINIA EUWER WOLFF Reviewers have called my books 'novels in verse.' I think of them as written in prose, but I...
VIRGINIA EUWER WOLFF I've followed Brenda Bowen as she's moved from Henry Holt to Scholastic to Simon and Schuste...
VIRGINIA EUWER WOLFF No one writes as slowly as I do, I'm convinced. It's so hard for me. I learn slowly; I make ...
VIRGINIA EUWER WOLFF Thus preserving the face from congealing.
ANTHONY EUWER As a beauty I'm not a great star. Others are handsomer far; but my face -- I don't mind it because I...
A. H. EUWER Paul McCartney and The Beatles in general are my idols. And I love Sting. I got to meet Sting. That ...
NAT WOLFF Now, everybody knows my music. So that's really cool. A lot of kids know it. Now, when I go to a...
NAT WOLFF I think music is my favorite thing to do, but I go through periods where I think differently.
NAT WOLFF I've been playing my instrument since I was about three or four. That's when I started bangi...
NAT WOLFF I had parents in the business and they made sure that the art was the biggest concern.
NAT WOLFF Every single movie I go up for I'm just checking the phone to see if the e-mail's come in, t...
NAT WOLFF When romance is done well in a movie, it's awesome.
NAT WOLFF I've been kind of lucky. I've always just kind of followed whatever my passion was, and that...
NAT WOLFF I feel like all the parts are seniors in high school and seventh graders, and I think I kinda skippe...
NAT WOLFF Paul Rudd is too perfect. He's super talented, super nice and super calm. I just think he's ...
NAT WOLFF It's just become such a business, getting into college. I see that a lot in my friends, their pa...
NAT WOLFF I would not describe myself as an avid jazz fan and I am not a jazz musician myself. However, that i...
NAT WOLFF Jazz is a constant theme in my life. My father is a jazz pianist, and from an early age I have been ...
NAT WOLFF I'm a huge Nirvana fan.
NAT WOLFF I have very weirdly realistic dreams where it could be real life, except it's not.
NAT WOLFF 'Holes' was my favorite book ever. So you know when you love a book and you hear it's be...
NAT WOLFF I love James Taylor, Jeff Buckley, Elliott Smith and Nine Inch Nails.
NAT WOLFF I can play a bunch of instruments but drums? My brother's a drummer and I've always been jea...
NAT WOLFF I have learned a lot from jazz. I compare good acting to jazz music. The more you study and prepare ...
NAT WOLFF There's no master plan; I'm just going with what I'm inspired to do and what I get asked...
NAT WOLFF I think as long as I have a creative outlet, I'm happy.
NAT WOLFF I try to help people become the best possible editors of their own work, to help them become conscio...
TOBIAS WOLFF There are very few professions in which people just sit down and think hard for five or six hours a ...
TOBIAS WOLFF Yeah, it would hurt us, but I think there's a lot of cities it would hurt a lot worse,
ALAN WOLFF It is far less in several respects than what we were seeking, but it is something we've accepted. Th...
ALAN WOLFF There will be strong rights...to go after counterfeiting of goods. Implementation is going to be a r...
ALAN WOLFF What one would want to see is a rising standard of living in China, ... so their people could afford...
ALAN WOLFF It's not a pocketbook issue for the American consumer. We're already applying pretty low tariffs to ...
ALAN WOLFF The White House knows the U.S. industry still confronts serious issues including massive global over...
ALAN WOLFF Without pressure from us, the expansion of the service area and services offered wouldn't have happe...
ALAN WOLFF I recall that my workshop leaders were tactful in their ways of acquainting me with my shortcomings ...
TOBIAS WOLFF Fearlessness in those without power is maddening to those who have it.
TOBIAS WOLFF Writing has nothing to do with pretty manners, and less to do with sportsmanship or restraint [...]<...
GEOFFREY WOLFF Hate is not a good counselor.
VICTORIA WOLFF We are made to persist. That's how we find out who we are.
TOBIAS WOLFF It's jarring to go from one amazing experience to another that feels ordinary. I don't quite...
NAT WOLFF I think Paul Weitz is a really amazing director, obviously with tons of acclaim and stuff, but I sti...
NAT WOLFF Jazz is smooth and cool. Jazz is rage. Jazz flows like water. Jazz never seems to begin or end. Jazz...
NAT WOLFF I teach one semester a year, and this year I'm just teaching one course during that semester, a ...
TOBIAS WOLFF If I'm not doing anything, I get really antsy and bored.
NAT WOLFF Music is a mixed mathematical science that concerns the origens, attributes, and distinctions of sou...
CHRISTOPH WOLFF But a lot of writers - and I'm one of them - do tend to feel dissatisfied. It makes you a little...
TOBIAS WOLFF What I really love about them... is the fact that they contain someone's personal history...I find m...
ISABEL WOLFF I think everybody's intensity level just picked up. We started to rebound a little bit better. We ra...
NICOLE WOLFF They were a really tough team and went after the ball hard, but we could have boxed them out better....
NICOLE WOLFF [But some of the Wizards players were very well aware of what was going on elsewhere in the conferen...
JOSH WOLFF I definitely think we're a better team than last year. I don't think we're a playoff team yet, but w...
ALLYSON WOLFF She's the leader out there. She's got a great arm, knows how to take control out there and has aweso...
ALLYSON WOLFF She's got a good fastball and she's working on her change up.
ALLYSON WOLFF I mean no disrespect, but ...
MICHAEL WOLFF Anybody can be very destructive in that position without at all meaning to be, and I know that I hav...
TOBIAS WOLFF It is no major composition but an occasional work in the form of an exquisite and highly refined str...
CHRISTOPH WOLFF Women have always been the guardians of wisdom and humanity which makes them natural, but usually se...
CHARLOTTE WOLFF When the Saints fell behind 7-0 in the first quarter, someone from Louisiana told me they would have...
NELSON WOLFF We came out here to get peaches every year.
JUANITA WOLFF It was a tough make, but it was clearly after the horn went off. We did get it up there pretty quick...
DENNIS WOLFF I think you can overanalyze these things to where you're going to drive yourself nuts. The last two ...
DENNIS WOLFF That was one of the softest performances by a BU team in six years - in every way.
DENNIS WOLFF Form is a theatrical event of a certain length, and the length itself may be unpredictable.
CHRISTIAN WOLFF My call for no severance is not vindictive, but necessary to show how serious we take his misdeeds, ...
PAUL WOLFF I think Mel and I did a good job not allowing her to catch the ball, and when she did catch it not a...
NICOLE WOLFF Why were Jack and his brother digging post holes? A fence there would run parallel to the one that a...
TOBIAS WOLFF When the source is a story. That's a softball question.
MICHAEL WOLFF We built the arena for the Spurs (the SBC Center in 2002). We have a capacity in our bonds maybe to ...
NELSON WOLFF In summary, as neighboring property owners we object to the development of the park into such a high...
VIKKI WOLFF I feel really good about this. It gives me a comforting feeling knowing he wants me in the game. I'v...
NICOLE WOLFF Maybe we'll have vampire prom."
He shot me an appalled look. "What is this, Twilight?
VERONICA WOLFF big, old rambling house in Corrales.
JUANITA WOLFF There is no question that some of the material in the cache is authentic, It seems that the cache is...
CHRISTOPH WOLFF I'm a survivor, " I said. But I didn't think that claim would carry much weight in an obituary.
TOBIAS WOLFF You may just want wait and see if there's any more (beyond Bailey's incarceration) that we don't kno...
NELSON WOLFF Transparency and compliance with the law are factors of further development,
CHRISTIAN WOLFF Knowing that everything comes to an end is a gift of experience, a consolation gift for knowing that...
TOBIAS WOLFF Authors are some of the best actors in the world - with multiple personality disorder.
RIP WOLFF Who you choose to surround yourself with will determine if you fail, or if you will succeed. Assets ...
STEVEN WOLFF Getting from La Jolla to Alta Vista State Hospital isn't easy, unless you have a car or a breakdown....
TOBIAS WOLFF And I learned that it's a bad idea to curse if you're in trouble, but a good idea to sing, if you ca...
TOBIAS WOLFF The destination is fulfilling when the path is authentically your own; find the courage and forge yo...
JESSLYN WOLFF There's a joy in writing short stories, a wonderful sense of reward when you pull certain things...
TOBIAS WOLFF I think the defense is playing hard. But still, our margin for error is not that great. There are st...
DENNIS WOLFF The kid is a very good shooter, as good as I've recruited since I've been a coach here. He's gonna m...
DENNIS WOLFF It's a play that's designed to get him a shot, but I can't take too much credit. I designed plays fo...
DENNIS WOLFF I thought our kids gave a real gusty effort. They didn't appear to be intimidated by the circumstanc...
DENNIS WOLFF I think Hassan, Geffen [and] Macon all played very well. Considering that Gardner didn't play, this ...
DENNIS WOLFF I started him in the second half, that's how it works. If you produce, you play.
DENNIS WOLFF This is the best game he's played in college. He was very efficient, very active on both ends of cou...
DENNIS WOLFF I think it feels very good to get the win. We've played very hard lately but we haven't been able to...
DENNIS WOLFF We started three guys who haven't played a minute of Division I basketball in this type of environme...
DENNIS WOLFF It's a sweet deal for the firm. Most workers will wind up worse off as a result of the defined contr...
EDWARD WOLFF It would be very unusual for workers to make up for the shortfall and it might certainly be a good w...
EDWARD WOLFF With IBM gone, it won't be long before a lot of other companies follow suit.
EDWARD WOLFF Things are not looking good for retirees with the collapse of the defined benefit plans. In 20 years...
EDWARD WOLFF Memory is funny. Once you hit a vein the problem is not how to remember but how to control the flow.
TOBIAS WOLFF We don't usually do that before games. It was different, but I think it motivated everybody because ...
NICOLE WOLFF I've no idea when I'm going to wear it, the girl replied calmly. I only knew that I had to have it. ...
ISABEL WOLFF Want! You must want something. What do you want?
TOBIAS WOLFF I recognized no obstacle to miraculous change but the incredulity of others. This was an idea that d...
TOBIAS WOLFF I've allowed some of these points to stand, because this is a book of memory, and memory has its own...
TOBIAS WOLFF It was like fishing a swamp, where you feel the tug of something that at first seems promising and t...
TOBIAS WOLFF Happiness is endless hapiness, innocent of its own sure passing. Pain is endless pain.
TOBIAS WOLFF And in my heart I despised the life I led in Seattle. I was sick of it and had no idea how to change...
TOBIAS WOLFF I was giving up--being realistic, as people liked to say, meaning the same thing. Being reali...
TOBIAS WOLFF When we are green, still half-created, we believe that our dreams are rights, that the world is disp...
TOBIAS WOLFF We even talked like Hemingway characters, though in travesty, as if to deny our discipleship: That i...
TOBIAS WOLFF Had he learned nothing from all those years of teaching Hawthorne? Through story after story he’d ...
TOBIAS WOLFF Why were we so full of hope in those days? Looking back, I see so clearly that violence was worsenin...
KAIMANA WOLFF It's more of an attitude of constant vigilance, and making sure that they don't fall through the cra...
LOWELL WOLFF Meeting your adoptive baby is like being set up on a blind date with someone you will have to spend ...
JANA WOLFF I'm eternally grateful to {our birth mother}, but wish I had never needed her. It's a loaded friends...
JANA WOLFF What a surprise. I'm very pleased. I think it worked out well for Billy and for Ken and for the play...
LEWIS WOLFF What a surprise, ... I'm very pleased. I think it worked out well for Billy and for Ken and for the ...
LEWIS WOLFF I like the A's best, but I like the White Sox and Angels,
LEWIS WOLFF It's the single-most creative thing I've seen done (in San Jose) in a long time.
LEWIS WOLFF I think it would be premature and self-serving.
LEWIS WOLFF I had been living more in cities, and I wanted to live in a more country atmosphere,
JUANITA WOLFF I'm not going to look at this as being the most critical game of my life, but it's important like th...
JOSH WOLFF I'm not going to say it's a a do or die, but it's important. You're a forward. That's what you get p...
JOSH WOLFF I think getting an early goal helps any forward. He has that killer instinct. Once he gets one, he w...
JOSH WOLFF When he does things well, it's pretty special. But there's a flip side, things he needs to be groome...
JOSH WOLFF We talk about scoring goals; we talk about winning at home, being ahead. None of that means anything...
JOSH WOLFF We don't give up many opportunities [at home], but for whatever reason they were able to find the ba...
JOSH WOLFF That was the first time we got a game with Mexico in a pro-American environment, ... Everyone was ex...
JOSH WOLFF You come out of the All-Star break with a pretty good mentality that the last third of the season is...
JOSH WOLFF Four goals is a good night for us, but we should have had more. We let them back in the game, but we...
JOSH WOLFF This is just a totally spectacular image, ... I can't get enough of these.
MICHAEL WOLFF All Roads Lead to Rove.
MICHAEL WOLFF I enjoy her in a different way than I did my own kids. … Since I'm retired, I have more time to be ...
PAUL WOLFF It was a whole team effort. We knew we wanted to chase her around the screens, and our post players ...
NICOLE WOLFF He who wishes to explain Generation must take for his theme the organic body and its constituent par...
CASPAR FRIEDRICH WOLFF It is no exaggeration to say that the rich own most of what there is that is not nailed down.
PAUL ROBERT WOLFF It is no exaggeration to say that the rich own most of what there is that is not nailed down.
ROBERT PAUL WOLFF 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