Charlotte Bronte Quotes

Am I hideous, Jane? Very, sir: you always were, you know.

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• One of the most sacred purposes for which the scriptures were written was to make it possible for all to know Christ. The scriptures teach and testify of Jesus Christ. They teach us much that we need to know and to do to return to the presence of the Savior.

  

  L. Lionel Kendrick
  • Know
  • Jesus
  • Teach

• People always comment about my clothes. They don't think a fashionable woman can love food and be knowledgeable and actually cook.

  

  Padma Lakshmi
  • People
  • Love
  • Food

• Basketball paid for four years of my education, and I am so proud of that.

  

  Ramon Rodriguez
  • Education
  • Proud
  • Basketball

• Writing, film, sculpture, music: it's all make-believe, really.

  

  Kate Bush
  • Music
  • Believe
  • Writing

• My first language is French. I just love words so much, and in French it feels like I can say whatever I want however I want.

  

  Xavier Dolan
  • Want
  • Words
  • Like

• Every man and every woman is a star.

  

  Aleister Crowley
  • Star

• Broadway is such a diverse community. Everybody knows how I believe, and everyone believes, and it's not a big deal. But in Hollywood, if you talk about politics - especially if you're a Republican - or spirituality, it's just not something people want to hear about.

  

  Kristin Chenoweth
  • People
  • Believe
  • Community

• Psychology and economics are Stalin's favorable winds. He is also the party 'boss.' But he is, in addition, the Soviet Union's most striking personality.

  

  Louis Fischer
  • Party
  • Personality
  • Psychology

• I sometimes still feel I am living in a goldfish bowl, but I now manage it better. I still have a naughty streak, too, which I enjoy and is how I relate to those individuals who have got themselves into trouble.

  

  Prince Harry
  • Naughty

• The countries of the American continent and the adjacent islands are for the United States the natural marts of supply and demand.

  

  Chester A. Arthur
  • American

• Space is dark but, of course, when we're on the sun side of the Earth, we're in full illumination and we have all the reflection of the Earth below us, beautiful blue Earth and we're in daylight. Only on the back side, opposite side of the sun, it seems like night to us, too.

  

  Kevin A. Ford
  • Beautiful
  • Night
  • Earth

• Finishing something is the hardest part. You know it's not as good as you hoped. You know there are plot problems. You know that by finishing it, you're saying - even if only to yourself - 'This is the best I can do.' And because it's not perfect, that's really hard.

  

  Antony Johnston
  • Good
  • Perfect

• I think everybody at some point in time has thought to themselves, 'I have a really great idea for a restaurant.'

  

  Bobby Flay
  • Time
  • Great

• Do you need an aggressive streak to thrive? You could say that. A lot of the great players have that mentality.

  

  Dele Alli
  • Great

• It worries me that young singers think you can shortcut the training and go straight to fame and fortune, and programmes like Pop Idol have encouraged that.

  

  Lesley Garrett
  • Training

• When I choose a role it's either because I recognise the man, or that I'm very curious to know him. If I neither recognise nor know him, then it is better that I don't play him.

  

  Ben Kingsley

• My folks ain't graduated from high school or nothing like that, so we always had to struggle in the family - and I come from a big family.

  

  Kendrick Lamar
  • Family
  • School
  • High

• If Everton were playing down the bottom of my garden, I'd draw the curtains.

  

  Bill Shankly
  • Garden

• Today, in the Internet gold rush, so many people go into dot-com jobs right from school or even before finishing. Their motivation is understandable, but sometimes they just lack experience.

  

  Mitch Kapor
  • People
  • Experience
  • Sometimes

• Oh, I'm a survivor. My whole life has been surviving.

  

  Eddie Bracken
  • Life
  • Survivor
  • Surviving

• For me, even just being English was a whole sort of experience in as much as I'm Australian.

  

  Radha Mitchell
  • Experience
  • Me
  • English

• Shadow Physicks are fearfully complicated. A. Amblygonite has no idea.

  

  Catherynne M. Valente
  • Shadow
  • Complicated
  • No Idea

• I believe no gentleman would like to have his family affairs neglected because his wife was filling her head with crotchets and pothooks, and who, because she understood a few scraps of Latin, valued that more than minding her needle or providing her husband's dinner.

  

  Sarah Fielding
  • Believe
  • Wife
  • Marriage

• Am I hideous, Jane? Very, sir: you always were, you know.

  

  Charlotte Bronte
  • Hideous
  • Jane