#virgin

O Earth, lie heavily upon her eyes; Seal her sweet eyes weary of watching Earth; Lie close around her; leave no room for mirth With its harsh laughter, nor for sound of sighs. She hath no questions, she hath no replies. ↗

— Jeffrey Eugenides

#christianity #death #earth #funeral #poem

The State of Virginia is similar to a great business corporation... and should be conducted with the same efficiency and economy as any private business. ↗

— Harry F. Byrd

#business #conducted #corporation #economy #efficiency

Jackson, however, persevered. He joined the Franklin Debating Society, an institution that had been in existence over fifty years, and had enrolled in its membership some of the ablest men in Virginia. ↗

— Daniel H. Hill

#been #debating #enrolled #existence #fifty

For men to be virgins, we think it's negative. We think that there's something wrong with them. ↗

— Joyce Brothers

#negative #something #them #think #virgins

Girls are losing their virginity at 15, 16. I'm not promoting that. But my songs are talking... about me becoming a man. ↗

— Chris Brown

#becoming #i #losing #man #me

We are all hungry and thirsty for concrete images. Abstract art will have been good for one thing: to restore its exact virginity to figurative art. ↗

— Salvador Dali

#abstract art #art #been #concrete #exact

It's rather splendid to think of all those great men and women who appear to have presented symptoms that allow us to describe them as bipolar. Whether it's Hemingway, Van Gogh... Robert Schumann has been mentioned... Virginia Woolf, Sylvia Plath... some of them with rather grim ends. ↗

— Stephen Fry

#appear #been #bipolar #describe #ends

In a very short time the army of Northern Virginia was face to face with the Army of the Potomac. ↗

— James Longstreet

#face #northern #potomac #short #short time

I grew up in Palestine, West Virginia, which is mostly a farming community; there aren't a lot of jobs. ↗

— Jessica Lynch

#farming #grew #i #jobs #lot

At the risk of sounding like Virginia Woolf, I could live on £700 a year. ↗

— Ian Mcewan

#i #like #live #pound #risk