Jane Austen Quotes
For what do we live, but to make sport by subjecting our neighbors to endless discretionary review for minor additions?
Jane Austen
Quotes to Explore
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When a man has no reason to trust himself, he trusts in luck.
E. W. Howe
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Because some of my at-home life was rough and lonely, I often looked to escape into my imagination. Science fiction provided a deep well to pull from and was something easily accessible to me.
Keahu Kahuanui
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All we have to do is find something we love doing each day, surround ourselves with like-minded people, and put all of our effort into that one thing at all times.
Jason Calacanis
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When we tell little white lies, we become progressively color-blind. It is better to remain silent than to mislead.
James E. Faust
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The very first film I ever made, when I was seven years old, when I got my hands on a camcorder, was a remake of 'Poltergeist,' which I hadn't seen yet because my parents wouldn't allow me to. But I made my own version of it, and it starred my brother in a bed sheet.
David Lowery
Camper Van Beethoven
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What is God, and how do you believe in him - how do you not believe? It's a question the world continues to tussle with. People's beliefs get them in a lot of conflicts.
Holly Hunter
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I never got any training in how to write novels as an English major at Oberlin, but I got some great training for writing novels from anthropology and from Margaret Mead.
Alan Furst
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At one point I was introduced to a devastatingly handsome young man -- beautiful, really -- with black unruly hair, large sensitive eyes fringed by long dark lashes, a full sensuous mouth -- and an irresistible personality. His name was Tony Curtis.
Janet Leigh
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Oh, so they have internet on computers now!
Dan Castellaneta
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First of all, I didn't suggest that we should simply get rid of all prisons.
Angela Davis
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I took to wearing a black tie known as the Ascot, with long drooping ends. I had seen pictures of painters, sculptors, poets, wearing this style of tie.
Carl Sandburg
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I think I'm just as good as anyone. That's the way I was brought up. I'll tell you a secret: I think I'm better! Ha! I remember being aware that colored people were supposed to feel inferior. I knew I was a smart little thing, a personality, an individual - a human being! I couldn't understand how people could look at me and not see that, because it sure was obvious to me.
Annie Elizabeth Delany
