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've been saying it so long to you, you just wouldn't listen. Every time you said 'Farm Boy do this' you thought I was answering 'As you wish' but that's only because you were hearing wrong. 'I love you' was what it was, but you never heard.

  

  William Goldman
  • Long
  • Wish
  • Boys

• A lie's true power cannot be accurately measured by the number of people who believe its deception when it is told, it must be measured by the number of people who will go out after hearing it trying to convince others of its truth.

  

  Dennis Sharp
  • Truth
  • Hearing
  • Deception

• This is servitude, To serve th' unwise, or him who hath rebelled Against his worthier, as thine now serve thee, Thyself not free, but to thyself enthralled.

  

  John Milton
  • Serve
  • Servitude
  • Hath

• Outside of hip-hop, it was in comics that I most often found the aesthetics and wisdom of my world reflected.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • World
  • Wisdom
  • Hip Hop

• As far as I know, there is no proof whatever of the existence of an objective reality apart from our senses, and I do not see why we should accept the outside world as such solely by virtue of our senses.

  

  M. C. Escher
  • World
  • Why
  • Reality

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

  

  Jane Austen
  • Hearing
  • Objection