Jane Austen Quotes

One cannot be always laughing at a man without now and then stumbling on something witty.

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• If only Queen Elizabeth II had the intellectual, political and linguistic skills of Queen Elizabeth I, many people would support giving her some of the powers of an elected president.

  

  A. N. Wilson
  • People
  • Political
  • Giving

• I like to see myself as a bridge builder, that is me building bridges between people, between races, between cultures, between politics, trying to find common ground.

  

  T. D. Jakes
  • People
  • Me
  • Politics

• I need a little bass and I don't even need that crazy bass to break your face. I just want it to sound good when I have my favorite song.

  

  Patrice O'Neal
  • Good
  • Song
  • Crazy

• It's fun to just get out there and have a nice conversation when I'm running. To be honest, when I do longer runs, the trail that I like to run up in Malibu has mountain lions, so I always feel I want to run with someone else.

  

  Flea Red Hot Chili Peppers
  • Up
  • Fun
  • Running

• I don't want any title. I just say what I say, and hopefully somebody gets it, man. I'm not perfect, and I'm just here and trying to make a dollar, and being real at the same time, you know?

  

  Nas
  • Time
  • Real
  • Trying

• This is a very big victory for Michael and we are all very proud that he has been completely and totally vindicated in court, as we were certain he would be.

  

  LaToya Jackson
  • Proud
  • Victory
  • Big

• For research, I like to go to the location of the places in the novels. The first thing that I do is involve my senses: I notice the smells; I open the trash cans and look at what people have thrown away.

  

  Natsuo Kirino
  • People
  • Research
  • Senses

• If you can draw something from my life that helps, more power to you.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Life
  • Power
  • My Life

• Me.

  

  Hank Aaron

• When I begin to write a story, I usually know how things will end. It's the journey toward that point I must discover. The process is sometimes painful, but also exciting.

  

  Kimberly Willis Holt
  • Journey

• The people who watch a movie like 'Wolf of Wall Street' and want to work on Wall Street are exactly the kind of people who shouldn't.

  

  Brad Katsuyama
  • People
  • Work
  • Movie

• When a person only knows abuse, they shift their whole emotional and spiritual life into the context of that abuse. If all you've ever known is to be hurt by the one that pretends to love you, then many times you go to the one who hurts you for love.

  

  Anohni
  • Life
  • Spiritual
  • Hurt

• Now that I think about it, maybe my own literary exploration of the dark secrets held by families could be traced back to V.C. Andrews.

  

  Alafair Burke
  • Dark

• Emilia Clarke is someone I'm very close to, like a sister, and I love her very much.

  

  Jason Momoa
  • Sister

• When I was writing about Gotham in 'Broken City,' I was writing about Chicago. I just substituted the names.

  

  Brian Azzarello
  • Writing
  • City
  • Broken

• Slow growth and inflation have a tendency to accompany large deficits and increasing debt as a percentage of GDP.

  

  Bill Gross
  • Growth

• Jane was my wicked stepmother: she was generous, affectionate and resourceful; she salvaged my schooling and I owe her an unknowable debt for that. One flaw: sometimes, early on, she would tell me things designed to make me think less of my mother, and I would wave her away, saying, 'Jane, this just backfires and makes me think less of you.'

  

  Martin Amis
  • She
  • Mother

• Today, education does not give you the wisdom and the understanding; it only indoctrinates you to believe something. So the mind knows very less but accepts so many things; it may be science, it may be technology, it may be anything.

  

  Lobsang Tenzin
  • Believe
  • Mind
  • May

• One who is by nature daring and is suffering from poverty will not long be law-abiding. Indeed, any men, save those that are truly good, if their sufferings are very great, will be likely to rebel.

  

  Confucius
  • Law
  • Suffering
  • Rebel

• When I first came to do shows in Vegas, I followed the usual entertainer's syndrome - I played craps and lost.

  

  Gabe Kaplan
  • Lost
  • First
  • Vegas

• They asked me to write it and zoomed me over there to do it. But they ended up sacking me.

  

  Eddie Campbell
  • Write
  • Asked
  • Sacking

• It is no use painting the foot of the tree white, the strength of the bark cries out from beneath the paint.

  

  Aime Cesaire
  • Painting
  • Tree

• It didn't matter what we did or where we did it as long as we were together. We knew we'd found what most people either pursue in years of futile search or dismiss as a fantasy at the outset: the missing half of ourselves. The real thing.

  

  John Perry Barlow Grateful Dead
  • People
  • Long
  • Real

• One cannot be always laughing at a man without now and then stumbling on something witty.

  

  Jane Austen
  • Witty