"Women alone stir my imagination...." - Quote by Virginia Woolf

“Ransack the language as he might, words failed him. He wanted another landscape, and another tongue.”

“It was odd, she thought, how if one was alone, one leant to inanimate things; trees, streams, flowers; felt they expressed one; felt they became one; felt they knew one, in a sense were one; felt an irrational tenderness thus (she looked at that long steady light) as for oneself.”

“Words, English words, are full of echoes, of memories, of associations. They have been out and about, on people's lips, in their houses, in the streets, in the fields, for so many centuries. And that is one of the chief difficulties in writing them today -- that they are stored with other meanings, with other memories, and they have contracted so many famous marriages in the past.”

“If I haven't thought about six impossible things before breakfast, I consider the day wasted.”

“Imagination is not a talent of some men but is the health of every man.”

“There is no better way to exercise the imagination than the study of the law.”

“Women want certain things in marriage--the right to a title and a front seat in the lap of luxury.”

“Women have sat indoors all these millions of years, so that by this time the very walls are permeated by their creative force, which has, indeed, so overcharged the capacity of bricks and mortar that it must needs harness itself to pens and brushes and business and politics.”

“My wife, like many women, actually LIKES wrapping things. If she gives you a gift that requires batteries, she wraps the batteries separately, which to me is very close to being a symptom of mental illness.”