Jane Austen Quotes

You want to tell me, and I have no objection to hearing it.

Jane Austen

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• Hearing voices no one else can hear isn't a good sign, even in the wizarding world.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • World
  • Good
  • Hearing

• I've always worn earplugs, but I'm sure my hearing's not great.

  

  J Mascis
  • Great
  • Always
  • Hearing

• Twitter is fun because it lets me stay in touch with all my original readers who grew up with my books. I love hearing from readers instantly on Twitter.

  

  R. L. Stine
  • Fun
  • Books
  • Hearing

• They have been deprived nutritionally, or some illness has not been picked up, or they have not been screened for vision or hearing defects, or they have not had some kind of a chronic illness or error of metabolism picked up.

  

  C. Everett Koop
  • Up
  • Kind
  • Vision

• If a thing seems to you worth working for at all, if it appears to you of moment enough to challenge any effort, then put into what you do all the enthusiasm of which you are capable, regardless of criticism.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Challenge
  • Effort
  • Moment

• The objection to Puritans is not that they try to make us think as they do, but that they try to make us do as they think.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Think
  • Try
  • Objection

• I think bullying in general is for cowards.

  

  Eddie Alvarez
  • Bullying

• I think it's so fun when I get to work with women writers in particular because we really understand the core story or foundation as women. That's so important to me that the authenticity is there, you know, from the place that I speak from for my women. Having other females with me helps me dig deeper.

  

  Ciara
  • Work
  • Important
  • Women

• I think being tortured as a virtue is a kind of antiquated sense of what it is to be an artist. It comes out of that Symbolist idea, back to Rimbaud and all that disordering of the senses and all of that being some exalted state. When I've been that way, I've always been less exalted than I would have liked.

  

  Mary Karr

• I start really missing London when I go away. I have a little flat, but very central. I live above a pub and you'd think it'd be a nightmare, but I like hearing the music and it's quite comforting.

  

  Ellie Goulding
  • Music
  • Thinking
  • Live

• To the hard of hearing you shout, and for the almost blind you draw large and startling figures.

  

  Flannery O'Connor
  • Blind
  • Figures
  • Hearing

• Your best servant is the person who does not attend so much to hearing what he himself wants as to willing what he has heard from you.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Want
  • Doe
  • Hearing

• I keep hearing tree talk water words and i keep knowing what they mean.

  

  Lucille Clifton
  • Words
  • Water
  • Mean

• As a child, I was spoilt by my parents as an only son. They indulged my every whim, and I grew up in luxury.

  

  Asif Ali Zardari
  • Up
  • Parents
  • Son

• Her hearing was keener than his, and she heard silences he was unaware of.

  

  Donald Michael Thomas
  • She
  • Silence
  • Heard

• The love shown in Christ by our God to mankind should constrain all of us who are followers and disciples of Christ to do all in our power to see to it that the Message of Salvation is carried to those of our fellows for whom Christ Our Saviour was sacrificed but who have not had the benefit of hearing the good news.

  

  Haile Selassie
  • Good
  • God
  • Power

• Images are not only visual. They're also auditory, they involve sensuous impressions, bundles of information that come to us through our senses, and mainly through seeing and hearing: the audio-visual field.

  

  W. J. T. Mitchell
  • Information
  • Hearing
  • Audio

• I had a boyfriend who told me I'd never succeed, never be nominated for a Grammy, never have a hit song, and that he hoped I'd fail. I said to him, 'Someday, when we're not together, you won't be able to order a cup of coffee at the f***** deli without hearing or seeing me.'

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Never
  • Succeed
  • Boyfriend

• I was the shadow of the waxwing slain By the false azure in the windowpane; I was the smudge of ashen fluff -and I Lived on, flew on, in the reflected sky. And from the inside, too, I'd duplicate Myself, my lamp, an apple on a plate: Uncurtaining the night, I'd let dark glass Hang all the furniture above the grass, And how delightful when a fall of snow Covered my glimpse of lawn and reached up so As to make chair and bed exactly stand Upon that snow, out in that crystal land!

  

  Vladimir Nabokov
  • Night
  • Fall
  • Dark

• Don't ever look down, be comfortable with who you are, our flaws are what makes us perfect.

  

  Machine Gun Kelly
  • Perfect

• Let me twine Mine arms about that body, where against My grained ash an hundred times hath broke And scarr'd the moon with splinters: here I clip The anvil of my sword, and do contest As hotly and as nobly with thy love As ever in ambitious strength I did Contend against thy valour. Know thou first, I loved the maid I married; never man Sigh'd truer breath; but that I see thee here, Thou noble thing! more dances my rapt heart Than when I first my wedded mistress saw Bestride my threshold.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Men
  • Heart
  • Married

• As a teenager I had friends who had little music studios in their bedrooms and garages. I'd go and play around; very soon, my hobby became a passion.

  

  Natasha Bedingfield
  • Music
  • Friends
  • Passion

• You can't let fear paralyze you. The worse that can happen is you fail, but guess what: You get up and try again. Feel that pain, get over it, get up, dust yourself off and keep it moving.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Up
  • Fear
  • Pain

• You want to tell me, and I have no objection to hearing it.

  

  Jane Austen
  • Hearing
  • Objection