Jane Austen Quotes
From the very beginning— from the first moment, I may almost say— of my acquaintance with you, your manners, impressing me with the fullest belief of your arrogance, your conceit, and your selfish disdain of the feelings of others, were such as to form the groundwork of disapprobation on which succeeding events have built so immovable a dislike; and I had not known you a month before I felt that you were the last man in the world whom I could ever be prevailed on to marry.Jane Austen
Quotes to Explore
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For 120 minutes, 'Birdman' floats from comedy to surrealism to high drama to quiet brilliance. I felt so inspired by watching this movie. It reaches for the sky and never comes back down to earth.
Edgar Wright -
I think in a play it's wise to just sit back and watch other actors and be able to shape it from the audience.
Zach Braff -
To me, there's no point in writing merely to entertain.
Bebe Moore Campbell -
The experience of making a movie is far removed from watching the end result. It's exciting, but it still makes me squirm.
Kate Winslet -
You grow up and change your look. I feel different from how I did in my Playboy days. Now I think I'm in charge of toning down my look or not.
Pamela Anderson -
It was always my dream to write for a living.
Karin Slaughter
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It's true that I'm not ashamed of my body. I'm comfortable, and I think more women should be more confident.
Dakota Johnson -
I'm worried a lot of our work day as artists is a producer's creation - not an artist's creation.
Garth Brooks -
Oddly enough, I've always really loved Nightcrawler. You know who else they didn't use enough was Phoenix. I just thought her story line was so tragic. I was just really drawn to that character as well.
J. August Richards -
The Big Five is a competition played in the University of Pennsylvania's Palestra among five Philadelphia-area Division I schools: Saint Joseph's, La Salle, Penn, Temple, and Villanova. 'The Big Five' was immensely popular, and rivalries quickly grew to intense proportions.
Jack Ramsay -
When I first went to 'National Geographic,' I thought I was the least qualified person to step through the doors. But because of my parents and the culture of continual learning they imposed on us, I later came to believe I was the most qualified person who ever worked there.
Sam Abell -
People say my music is English. I don't know what it is. Maybe it's not me writing English music, but that English music is becoming more like me.
Harrison Birtwistle
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From the employees' standpoint, in 1935, Social Security was a big gamble. Employees would be required to participate in the program, contributing a percentage of their income for their entire adult working life.
Wayne Allard -
If there's something dangerous, sauces are dangerous for the body.
Karl Lagerfeld -
Whether life is worth living depends on whether there is love in life.
R. D. Laing -
Were the ironies of taxation any better: raising money for schools and hospitals and roads and bridges, and spending it on blowing up schools and hospitals and roads and bridges in self-defeating wars?
Edward St Aubyn -
Effort makes some great men famous. Even greater effort enables other great men to remain unknown.
Idries Shah -
I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self.
Aristotle
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Those most moved to tears by every word of a preacher are generally weak and a rascal when the feelings evaporate.
Sallust -
You know, the key issue is that city issues are not to be put in a box and say well, that's what the mayor wants. They're Canadian issues. Cities account for 75 percent of our GDP. If you don't have a plan for cities, it means you don't have a plan for the economy.
Naheed Nenshi -
Maybe I have an affinity for Andy Griffith because we both grew up in North Carolina.
Peyton Reed -
From the very beginning— from the first moment, I may almost say— of my acquaintance with you, your manners, impressing me with the fullest belief of your arrogance, your conceit, and your selfish disdain of the feelings of others, were such as to form the groundwork of disapprobation on which succeeding events have built so immovable a dislike; and I had not known you a month before I felt that you were the last man in the world whom I could ever be prevailed on to marry.
Jane Austen