Charlotte Bronte Quotes

The hiss of the quenched element, the breakage of the pitcher which I had flung from my hand when I had emptied it, and, above all, the splash of the shower-bath I had liberally bestowed, roused Mr Rochester at last though it was dark, I knew he was awake; because I heard him fulminating strange anathemas at finding himself lying in a pool of water. 'Is there a flood?' he cried...

Charlotte Bronte

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• All the religious wars that have caused blood to be shed for centuries arise from passionate feelings and facile counter-positions, such as Us and Them, good and bad, white and black.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Black

• I was looking for the people who were making the music inside the cabinet. I would look in there and see if I could find somebody who was making all this wonderful music.

  

  Abbey Lincoln
  • People
  • Music
  • Looking

• Then during the mission itself, I used the space shuttle's robot arm to release a satellite into orbit.

  

  Sally Ride
  • Space
  • Mission
  • Robot

• Suffering is not good for the soul, unless it teaches you to stop suffering.

  

  Jane Roberts
  • Good
  • Soul
  • Stop

• I'm a Republican, but I'm a Republican from the old school. I was taught that you get what you put into it. You can be anything you want to be if you work hard enough at it, and you can earn your place. That's the old way.

  

  Joe Perry Aerosmith
  • Work
  • Republican

• In the ultimate analysis, all of us would have served Pakistan better if history and our future generations judge us positively.

  

  Ashfaq Parvez Kayani
  • History
  • Future
  • Judge

• You want to balance the budget in this country? We change the salary structure for Congress and the President. Every year they don't balance the budget, we don't pay them.

  

  Daniel Keys Moran
  • Country
  • Balance

• I have never joined the Facebook world because, to be truthful, social media scares me to death. It is kind of crazy how huge that world is, so I have never joined Facebook, but I do have Instagram and Twitter.

  

  Bindi Irwin
  • World
  • Death
  • Crazy

• I've never been truly closeted on the air; it's just something I never really made a big deal out of because I never felt like I wanted to push an agenda or push it any further than I felt comfortable with.

  

  Elvis Duran
  • Air

• The nice thing about being detained in Canada is it's like being in a Days Inn; it's very clean and very nice.

  

  Bill Ayers
  • Nice

• I think I could sing and shear a few sheep at the same time.

  

  Robert Plant Led Zeppelin
  • Time

• Everyone tells me I have a funny accent. It's because I copy people. I learned English at school but have best friends who are French, Australian, English and American; a very weird mix.

  

  Caroline Winberg
  • People
  • School
  • Friends

• Being a former engineer, you learn to always go back, study yourself, see what you could've done differently, see what you could've said.

  

  Loni Love
  • Done
  • Study

• Knock wood, but I started acting professionally when I was 16, and I've always been able to support myself since then.

  

  Anthony Charles Edwards
  • Support

• I have about two or three people, we don't have an office, we don't even have a dedicated phone line. We do it out of our own homes, and we make it work.

  

  John Zorn
  • People
  • Work

• I'm not laughing at you. ... I'm laughing at the whole stupid business. We face the biggest threat in our history and they give me a helmet too big,and you a helmet too small, and tell us we can't exchange them. It's too much. Really.

  

  David Gemmell
  • Business
  • History
  • Small

• What I know for sure is that behind every catastrophe, there are great lessons to be learned. Among the many that we as a country need to get is that as long as we play the "us and them" game, we don't evolve as people, as a nation, as a planet.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • People
  • Great
  • Long

• Your success isn’t about you and your performance. It’s about us and how we perceive your performance.

  

  Albert-Laszlo Barabasi
  • Success
  • Performance
  • Perceive

• Obviously, local elections are where you can make the most difference, but it's great when everyone starts talking about what they believe in.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • Great
  • Believe
  • Difference

• I used to paint a lot of oil and now I paint more mixed-media stuff.

  

  Abbie Cornish
  • Now
  • Paint
  • Oil

• You start out with Mad magazine, and you go right through the sort of black humor of Lenny Bruce, Lord Buckley, Mort Sahl, Paul Krassner... If you put Lenny together with Mad magazine and run it through the brain of a college student, you get National Lampoon.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Together
  • Black
  • Running

• When you turn up for work, especially with looking down the barrel of a show, you're hoping the person you're acting opposite of is going to be on your kind of crazy wavelength.

  

  Raza Jaffrey
  • Person
  • Looking
  • Opposite

• The hiss of the quenched element, the breakage of the pitcher which I had flung from my hand when I had emptied it, and, above all, the splash of the shower-bath I had liberally bestowed, roused Mr Rochester at last though it was dark, I knew he was awake; because I heard him fulminating strange anathemas at finding himself lying in a pool of water. 'Is there a flood?' he cried...

  

  Charlotte Bronte
  • Element
  • Quenched
  • Hiss