Jane Austen Quotes

Where shall we see a better daughter, or a kinder sister, or a truer friend?

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• I was taught from a very early age that I had to work twice as hard to get half as much. That was the world I grew up in - a very strong work ethic.

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • Up
  • World
  • Work

• If you would know strength and patience, welcome the company of trees.

  

  Hal Borland
  • Patience
  • Strength
  • Welcome

• I felt unhappy and trapped. If I left baseball, where could I go, what could I do to earn enough money to help my mother and to marry Rachel? The solution to my problem was only days away in the hands of a tough, shrewd, courageous man called Branch Rickey, the president of the Brooklyn Dodgers.

  

  Jackie Robinson
  • Money
  • Help
  • Mother

• We have the ability to be able, if we have the right resources around us, to really do chop and change and have fun in our time and not just be stuck in one world or the other.

  

  Aaron Taylor-Johnson
  • Time
  • World
  • Fun

• Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Art
  • Truth
  • Poetry

• I have never sought the reason why I write.

  

  Nathalie Sarraute
  • Why
  • Reason
  • Never

• Truth never damages a cause that is just.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Truth
  • Never
  • Just

• I'm still learning my craft, and I've been writing since I was nine.

  

  Kage Baker
  • Writing
  • Learning
  • Craft

• I was the youngest and on my own a lot. I think this probably taught me independence and how to be okay with my own company. Also, it meant I read a lot.

  

  Zoe Foster Blake
  • Think
  • Me
  • Company

• I guess I say this for younger actors out there: you have to be brave, and you have to be ready to fail, and that's the only way you can be unique. So when a director is confident enough in what they're doing, and they allow their actors to be brave and bring in stuff, the more likely it's going to work out okay.

  

  Vincent D'Onofrio
  • Work
  • Unique
  • Brave

• A potential person is not a person, any more than an acorn is an oak tree. I don't think women should have to give birth just because a sperm met an egg.

  

  Katha Pollitt
  • Women
  • Tree
  • Potential

• I try to widen the horizons of every child I meet, and part of that is promoting diverse forms, be it graphic novels, stories told in a narrative voice, or more translated books, as well as more diverse writers and more diverse characters.

  

  Malorie Blackman
  • Child
  • Voice
  • Try

• My parents worked in the art world. They were really supportive of my music in that they allowed me to drop out of school and move out of our home, which not many parents would do.

  

  Ed Sheeran
  • World
  • Music
  • School

• I went up for the first time when I was 18. It's a great place - I love L.A.; I mean, in Ireland it just rains all the time, it's crap weather, so it's nice to go to L.A. where it's just sunshine every day, and then it's kinda easier to live a kinda healthy lifestyle.

  

  Jack Reynor
  • Time
  • Live
  • Place

• I used to have a very difficult childhood because I was always the tallest girl in school, and everybody was staring at me and saying, 'You are very different.' Now, different is good.

  

  Tao Okamoto
  • Good
  • Different
  • School

• I love what I do.

  

  Vanessa Paradis
  • Love
  • I Love

• I met Ray Charles at 14, and he was 16. But he was like a hundred years older than me.

  

  Quincy Jones
  • Me
  • Like
  • Years

• The utter incompetence of the U.N. is literally incomprehensible.

  

  Malcolm Wallop
  • Incompetence
  • Utter

• I hate mules. I hate the noise when someone walks with mules. Clomp, clomp, clomp. I think it's very not chic. I don't even like a flip-flop. I don't like this noise.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Think
  • Hate
  • Noise

• Kerry Washington is the most fun: she cracks me up! Everyone talks about how drop-dead gorgeous, smart, and fashionable she is, and she is all of that, but I must add she's the hugest goofball. She has the best sense of humor and lightheartedness that makes coming into work every day so delightful.

  

  Darby Stanchfield
  • Up
  • Work
  • She

• He who sings frightens away his ills.

  

  Miguel de Cervantes
  • Sings
  • Ills
  • Frightens

• I would never butt heads with Rob Zombie. I don't know anybody that's in acting that ever butted heads with Rob Zombie. I adore Rob. I adore him. I adore working with him. I adore knowing him. I'm happy to consider myself a friend and someone who he hires. I just think he's great.

  

  Dee Wallace
  • Great
  • Happy
  • Friend

• Anything you don’t understand, Mr. Rankin, you attribute to God. God for you is where you sweep away all the mysteries of the world, all the challenges to our intelligence. You simply turn your mind off and say God did it.

  

  Carl Sagan
  • World
  • God
  • Mind

• Where shall we see a better daughter, or a kinder sister, or a truer friend?

  

  Jane Austen
  • Friend
  • Daughter
  • Sister