Jane Austen Quotes

Elizabeth had never been more at a loss to make her feelings appear what they were not. It was necessary to laugh, when she would rather have cried.

Jane Austen

• Feeling
• Laugh
• Necessary
• Appear

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• One of the strangest experiences one can have is to sleep on stage, as I once did in Sydney when I'd lost the key to my flat. I had to stay at night in a bed, which conveniently was on stage because my character Sandy Stone did his monologue from a bed. To wake up looking at a shadowy auditorium is a very peculiar feeling.

  

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• Ah, mastery... what a profoundly satisfying feeling when one finally gets on top of a new set of skills... and then sees the light under the new door those skills can open, even as another door is closing.

  

  Gail Sheehy
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• I'm the first to admit that the resolution of a hand feeling the belly doesn't compare with the resolution of a CAT scan scanning the belly, but only my hand can say that it hurts at this spot and not at this spot. Only my hand can say that.

  

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• When you write as a woman, there's this feeling there's going to be a softness.

  

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• Malicious attacks on the Soviet Union produce a natural feeling of indignation.

  

  Yuri Andropov
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• Size matters in fiction, but so does lack of size. Everything else being equal, fat novels tend to be perceived as serious, very thin ones as more honest, more real. Writers address these age-old expectations by filling their big books with philosophy and cramming their little ones with feeling.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • Real
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• Written by the ancient Chinese philosopher of the same name, the 'Zhuangzi' is one long perplexing puzzle of a rambling collection of enigmatic short stories. It's a strange feeling to laugh at a joke written by someone in the 4th century B.C.

  

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• I don't remember feeling love.

  

  Quincy Jones
  • Love
  • Remember
  • Feeling

• You must learn to take life less seriously and to laugh.

  

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
  • Life
  • Learn
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• My looks have changed. I have laugh lines - not wrinkles.

  

  Iman
  • Looks
  • Laugh
  • Wrinkles

• Writing does produce a very unique satisfaction. There are times when I'm writing that it's frustrating or appalling or difficult, but when it goes well, it goes really well, and there is a feeling of rightness, like I'm doing the thing I was meant to do, almost in a mystical way, like I'm at an appropriate angle to the world.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • World
  • Writing
  • Feeling

• I'm just the second Bodhi. I think there will be more. I have the feeling this is only the first re-imagination of 'Point Break'.

  

  Edgar Ramirez
  • Think
  • Feeling
  • Imagination

• I like fearless characters, people just not afraid to do anything it takes to make people laugh.

  

  Dane Cook
  • People
  • Laugh
  • Fearless

• I'm just not somebody who can sit around doing nothing, and all of us in the Foo Fighters have our own things outside of the band. I'm not going to use the cliche that those outlets bring us back fresh and with new ideas, but what I will say is that it keeps us all feeling free - and that creative freedom is a very positive thing.

  

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  • Free
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• A man's brain has a more difficult time shifting from thinking to feeling than a women's brain does.

  

  Barbara De Angelis
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Women

• The best part about being married is feeling centered. Nothing else matters so much as long as you can come home and be with your family.

  

  Patrick Dempsey
  • Long
  • Family
  • Home

• I'm exchanging molecules every 30 days with the natural world and in a spiritual sense I know I am a part of it and take my photographs from that emotional feeling within me, rather than from an emotional distance as a spectator.

  

  Galen Rowell
  • Feeling
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• I guess my feeling is is that if you're going to make a joke, that's fine, but you should also sort of stand behind it, you know? A joke should be more than a joke, it should be a point that you're trying to make.

  

  Adam Carolla
  • Trying
  • Feeling
  • Know

• It was a strange lightness, a drifting feeling. Zero gravity. I understood that everything that once seemed solid and immovable might just float away. And that this was a truth of life, not an illusion in the grieving mind of a child. Everything that is hard and heavy in your world is made up of billions of molecules in constant motion offering the illusion of permanence. But it all tends toward breaking down and falling away. Some things just go more quickly, more surprisingly, than others.

  

  Lisa Unger
  • Life
  • Up
  • World

• The brain is not, and cannot be, the sole or complete organ of thought and feeling.

  

  Antoinette Brown Blackwell
  • Feeling
  • Brain
  • Thought

• Let me start by saying I wish no country had the need for an army. But in Israel, serving is part of being an Israeli. You've got to give back to the state. You give two or three years, and it's not about you. You give your freedom away. You learn discipline and respect.

  

  Gal Gadot
  • Country
  • Freedom
  • Respect

• To be loved is very demoralizing.

  

  Katharine Hepburn
  • Love
  • Very
  • Demoralizing

• Elizabeth had never been more at a loss to make her feelings appear what they were not. It was necessary to laugh, when she would rather have cried.

  

  Jane Austen
  • Feeling
  • Laugh
  • Necessary