Jane Austen Quotes
Oh, Lizzy! do anything rather than marry without affection.
Jane Austen
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In market research I did at Microsoft Corp. in the early 1990s, I estimated that the 'Wall Street Journal' took in about 75 cents per copy from subscribers, $1.25 at the newsstand and a whopping $5 per copy from ads. The ad revenue let them run a far bigger newsroom than subscribers were paying for.
Nathan Myhrvold
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I've always loved books by the Bronte sisters. I love Jane Austen, too. I'm more influenced by people like her than by pop culture.
Laura Marling
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Opportunity dances with those already on the dance floor.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
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I tend not to trust people who live in very tidy houses. I know that on the surface there is nothing wrong with a person being well-ordered and disciplined. Nothing, except that it leaves the impression of that person having lived in the confines of a stark institution which, although he or she has long since left, remains within.
Jack Dee
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Everything happens for a reason - I'm a believer of that for sure.
Katarina Johnson-Thompson
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If most people were to take a moment to picture in their minds the average, not-for-profit, save-the-world girl, they... well, they probably wouldn't, because who wants to think about hemp, hairy legs, and Birkenstocks? But I'd rather eat a pair of Birkenstocks than put them on my feet, and I love, love, love my Christian Louboutins.
Nancy Lublin
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I'd be talking to other coaches, and he walked up and joined the conversation.
Randy Cross
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When it comes to fashion or any high art, you have to have a combination of delicacy, along with taste.
Erykah Badu
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Without birds to feed on them, the insects would multiply catastrophically. The insects, not man or other proud species, are really the only ones fitted for survival in the nuclear age. The cockroach, a venerable and hardy species, will take over the habitats of the foolish humans, and compete only with other insects or bacteria.
H. Bentley Glass
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Quite simply I've distilled my mission down to the essence. The only thing I'm really here to do is shine light on people's lives through music, through laughter and to simply enjoy being with people.
Jason Mraz
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Risk is inherent in the market, ... We all understand that and we thrive on that; what we don't tolerate is fraud.
Eliot Spitzer
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The final phone call that said we're going to be picked up again was just a miracle. We've overcome the impossible and we're still pushing forward. I know John is smiling and so happy that he gets to watch us on TV.
Kaley Cuoco
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The first time you marry for love, the second for money, and the third for companionship.
Jackie Kennedy
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Oh, I never meant, in my old age, to become subject to the thrall of a love like this; it is almost dreadful, so absorbing, so stirring down to the deeps. For the tiny creature is so old and wise and sweet, and so fascinating in his sturdy common sense and clear intelligence; and his affection for me is a wonderful, exquisite thing, the sweetest flower that has bloomed for me in all my life through.
Celia Thaxter
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It's not an adventure until something goes wrong.
Yvon Chouinard
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How poor are they that have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees?
William Shakespeare
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Oh, Lizzy! do anything rather than marry without affection.
Jane Austen
