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 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

• 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

• 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 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

• When you model for a show, you get this real sense of adrenaline. It's difficult when the shoes are so high - that part's quite scary - but you just have to do it.

  

  Ymre Stiekema
  • Real
  • High
  • Model

• Leadership means a wise application of military power, and rallying the world behind causes that are right. It means seeing our foreign assistance as part of our national security, not something separate, not charity.

  

  Barack Obama
  • World
  • Power
  • Military

• We have been born into this land, charged with the historic mission of regenerating the nation.

  

  Park Chung-hee

• Pleasant, summer, and slow long day; Also pleasant to pass out of chastisement Pleasant, the blossoms on the tops of the pear-trees; Also pleasant, friendship with the Creator.

  

  Taliesin
  • Long
  • Summer
  • Friendship

• Phunny Business is a breezy, vivid, funny, star-studded and delightful valentine to comedy, entrepreneurship and the All-American impulse to make something out of nothing. The story of comedy club owner/inveterate dreamer Raymond Lambert and his heroic quest to create a safe, productive place for black stand-up comedians to hone their craft and find their voices isn't just a great Chicago story and a great comedy story: it's a flat-out great story, lovingly and engagingly told.

  

  Nathan Rabin
  • Black
  • Comedy
  • Comedian

• It's a roll of the dice in the movie business. I mean, every single movie is a roll of the dice. Any movie on paper could look like it's going to be fantastic. You know what I mean?

  

  Kevin McKidd
  • Business
  • Movie
  • Single

• How can you live in the Northeast?

  

  Paul Simon Simon & Garfunkel
  • Live
  • Can

• Home interprets heaven. Home is heaven for beginners.

  

  Charles Henry Parkhurst
  • Home
  • Heaven

• For the first time I noticed - as I would notice repeatedly during my ordeal, between one throe of agony and the next - that my suffering was taking place in a grand setting. I saw my suffering for what it was, finite and insignificant, and I was still. My suffering did not fit anywhere, I realized. And I could accept this. It was all right.

  

  Yann Martel
  • Time
  • Suffering

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

  

  Jane Austen