Jane Austen Quotes

I will not say that your mulberry-trees are dead, but I am afraid they are not alive.

Jane Austen

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• It always amuses me that the biggest praise for my work comes for the imagination, while the truth is that there's not a single line in all my work that does not have a basis in reality. The problem is that Caribbean reality resembles the wildest imagination.

  

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • Work
  • Truth
  • Reality

• Is literature more important than hurting people? You can't argue that. You can't say it. It's impossible.

  

  Karl Ove Knausgaard
  • People
  • Important
  • Literature

• I was a child of a tech family. My grandfather was a nuclear physicist and was always a gadget guy.

  

  Felicia Day
  • Family
  • Guy
  • Child

• My approach to cricket has been reasonably simple: it was about giving everything to the team, it was about playing with dignity and it was about upholding the spirit of the game. I hope I have done some of that. I have failed at times, but I have never stopped trying. It is why I leave with sadness but also with pride.

  

  Rahul Dravid
  • Trying
  • Done
  • Why

• I am prepared to do whatever I can do and whatever is reasonable to make sure that it is Hillary who makes it to the White House and not Trump.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • House
  • Trump
  • Reasonable

• I talked about becoming stupid, but I've always been stupid. Fortunately I've been just smart enough to realize that I'm stupid.

  

  Larry Wall
  • Stupid
  • Smart
  • Realize

• I feel very, very, very intent on only releasing things that I believe are fully worthy.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • Believe
  • Feel
  • I Believe

• People dream their whole lives of their Oscar speech; I dreamt my whole life of hosting the Oscars.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • People
  • Life
  • Dream

• A car is a killing machine. It's like waving a loaded gun. People don't realise how dangerous they are.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • People
  • Car
  • Gun

• I can't solve the poverty problem, but there are things you can do to mitigate its effects on kids.

  

  Sal Albanese
  • Kids
  • You
  • Problem

• When leaders throughout an organization take an active, genuine interest in the people they manage, when they invest real time to understand employees at a fundamental level, they create a climate for greater morale, loyalty, and, yes, growth.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
  • People
  • Time
  • Real

• You can't escape from what you are.

  

  Vincent Cassel
  • You
  • Escape

• Governments must ensure that the power of blogs is cultivated and implemented in collaborative ways, with a view to preserve peace and human dignity.

  

  Nayef Al-Rodhan
  • Power
  • Peace
  • View

• When I started out in the industry I was 14 and a beanpole, but over the last few years I've grown. For the most part I feel pretty OK with how I look. I know I'm different from the typical Hollywood ideal of what is beautiful. But quite frankly I don't think that's attainable, and I'm happy to represent something different.

  

  Mandy Moore
  • Different
  • Happy
  • Think

• When I was a child, the FA Cup was one of the crown jewels of the sporting year, along with the Grand National, Wimbledon and The Open. But with every announcement it seems to lose another piece of its identity. First it was sponsors added to the name, followed by the semi-finals at Wembley.

  

  Gary Neville
  • Child
  • Identity
  • Name

• I'm not a trained singer at all. I've auditioned on occasion for proper musical theatre-type stuff, but I can't read music, and I wasn't particularly good at it.

  

  Hannah Murray
  • Good
  • Music
  • Theatre

• I've always loved to perform in front of people, but it became pretty serious when I participated in 'Sweden's Got Talent.' I thought it would be a fun thing to do, and I was just like, 'OK, why not?' And Mom was like, 'OK, sure, sure, do this!' So I did, and I won it!

  

  Zara Larsson
  • People
  • Why
  • Fun

• I'm trying to be the Jay-Z of comedy one day. I don't know if there's any comedy moguls out there, but I would love to be the first comedy mogul.

  

  J. B. Smoove
  • Trying
  • Love
  • Comedy

• The premise of anything you do - whether it's writing a song or any business - is ultimately that it hinges heavily on your belief in the thing that you're doing and promoting and selling. It's a reflection of who you are in a very deep way.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • Writing
  • Business
  • Song

• I don't purchase records. I do enjoy listening to things like Japanese folk music or Indian music.

  

  John Lennon The Beatles
  • Listening
  • Enjoy
  • Records

• At the end of the day it's going to hurt your feelings if someone says something mean about you, but I've learned to take a step back and ask myself if it's really going to affect me, if this person who I'm never going to know or meet doesn't like me - and it doesn't.

  

  Lauren Conrad
  • Hurt

• I suppose that if your name is Freud, it is better to be related to Sigmund than not. It must be frustrating to have to keep denying family connection.

  

  Clement Freud
  • Family
  • Connection

• I will not say that your mulberry-trees are dead, but I am afraid they are not alive.

  

  Jane Austen