Jane Austen Quotes

One word from you shall silence me forever.

Jane Austen

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• My company invents all kinds of new technology in lots of different areas. And we do that for a couple of reasons. We invent for fun - invention is a lot of fun to do - and we also invent for profit. The two are related because the profit actually takes long enough that if it isn't fun, you wouldn't have the time to do it.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • Time
  • Different
  • Long

• When I saw Wonder Woman being constantly put in positions where she'd get tied up with her own rope, or held hostage, even as a kid, my reaction was 'C'mon, she's too smart for that.'

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • Woman
  • Wonder
  • Smart

• I like someone who's not afraid to be a kid!

  

  Vanessa Hudgens
  • Like
  • Afraid
  • Someone

• It's true: a lot of sportspeople really struggle to find something to do when they finish. It tips them into all sorts of strange things. With ex-footballers, it's really scary. I think 70% of them get divorced within five years. It's hard. You go from being really famous to not that famous. Your salary drops through the floor.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • True
  • Struggle
  • Famous

• To put it bluntly, there isn't one economic theory that can single-handedly explain Singapore's success; its economy combines extreme features of capitalism and socialism. All theories are partial; reality is complex.

  

  Ha-Joon Chang
  • Success
  • Reality
  • Single

• I'm holding onto the hope that there is some reason that I got cancer and there is something – that may not be very clear to me right now – but that I will do.

  

  Farrah Fawcett
  • Hope
  • Reason
  • Right

• I do believe that all of the world needs reform. The reform must take place everywhere.

  

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
  • World
  • Believe
  • Place

• Somewhere, in some city in America, someone is wearing my clothes, and I'm happy with that.

  

  Raf Simons
  • America
  • Happy
  • City

• I'm not a revolutionary, and I'm not a warrior.

  

  Bassem Youssef
  • Warrior
  • Revolutionary

• Something my mom and I have always said to each other is: 'We're not here for interviews. We're not here to get your picture taken. We're here to make a difference, and this is our opportunity to.'

  

  Bailee Madison
  • Opportunity
  • Mom
  • Picture

• I hope when I'm dead I'll be considered an icon, though.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Hope
  • Dead
  • Icon

• Unlike 'real relationships', 'virtual relationships' are easy to enter and to exit. They look smart and clean, feel easy to use, when compared with the heavy, slow-moving, messy real stuff.

  

  Zygmunt Bauman
  • Real
  • Moving
  • Smart

• I am an African and I am very proud of that.

  

  Fatou Bensouda
  • Proud
  • African

• At an early school, when I was about 5, they asked what we wanted to be when we grew up. Everyone said silly things, and I said I wanted to be an actress. So that was what I wanted to be, but what I was, of course, was a writer.

  

  Tanith Lee
  • Up
  • School
  • Said

• I go to Japan every November on vacation, and the one thing I never return home without is yuba, which is the thin skin that forms atop boiling soy milk. You skim it off and either eat it fresh or dry it.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • Home
  • Never
  • Vacation

• Are we really so far from the Victorians? Much of what our society holds important was shaped in the 19th century.

  

  Kate Williams
  • Important
  • Society
  • Far

• Lipstick is iconic. It's the one product that marks out an era, and a certain lip colour can define a season. It makes me feel more 'done'. I wear a beige lip in the day, but red when I'm going somewhere - it makes that transition from day to night. I just slick it on; I don't bother with lipliner.

  

  Kate Moss
  • Done
  • Night
  • Day

• I love Brooke. Exploiting her was never my intention.

  

  Calvin Klein
  • Love
  • Never
  • Intention

• Orlando naturally loved solitary places, vast views, and to feel himself for ever and ever and ever alone.

  

  Virginia Woolf
  • Feels
  • Views
  • Solitary

• Well, it's New Year's now but I don't feel that way anymore. I wonder if you do either. Something's happening to me. It's like I'm shrinking smaller and smaller and I can't stp it. There's just os much wrong that I can't imagine the shame in admitting even the tiniest part of it. When you left it was like there was this huge gap to fill, but instead of spreading wide enough to do it I just fell right in, and I'm still falling. Like I'm half-asleep, and I can't wake up, can't wake up.

  

  Sarah Dessen
  • Fall
  • Wonder
  • Feels

• The most dangerous silence is noise; noise keeps us from hearing what we need to hear or from speaking what we need to speak.

  

  Armin Wiebe
  • Silence
  • Speak
  • Noise

• If I was very high-strung, I probably would've knocked a few people out by now, and, you know, you would have seen a bad side of me that probably, hopefully, I'll never show.

  

  Kevin Federline
  • People
  • Bad
  • High

• One word from you shall silence me forever.

  

  Jane Austen
  • Forever
  • Silence