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

• When I started secondary school, it was assumed that the girls would do domestic science and the boys would do science, and I wasn't too happy with that.

  

  Jocelyn Bell Burnell
  • School
  • Happy
  • Science

• In the places I go there are things that I see That I never could spell if I stopped with the Z. I'm telling you this 'cause you're one of my friends. My alphabet starts where your alphabet ends!

  

  Dr. Seuss
  • Friends

• Although among heretics and schismatics there is the same Baptism, nevertheless, the remission of sins is not operative among them because of the very rottenness of discord and wickedness of dissension ... Baptism was in them, but it did not profit them outside the Church ... Outside the Church, Baptism works death because of discord.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Death
  • Church
  • Baptism

• This is important, to represent our country. We've also got to be ready for the Minnesota Twins.

  

  Carlos Silva
  • Important
  • Country

• The first time I heard The Beatles, I cried. It was 'Let it Be'.

  

  James Durbin Quiet Riot
  • Time

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

  

  Jane Austen
  • Witty