Jane Austen Quotes
Imust have a London audience.I could never preach, but to the educated; to those who were capable of estimating my composition.
Jane Austen
Quotes to Explore
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The students that, like the wild animal being prepared for its tricks in the circus called 'life', expects only training as sketched above, will be severely disappointed: by his standards he will learn next to nothing.
Edsger Dijkstra
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I never thought I would write a memoir at age 40... but I did have this unique place in history.
Dana Perino
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It's quite an obscure notion for a kid, no? To want to be a curator. But even then, I knew that I would do this.
Hans-Ulrich Obrist
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'As with all dwellings,' she said, 'of mortals and immortals both, it is the living that makes a house-not the doors, not the walls.'
Tad Williams
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I sit on my duff, smoke cigarettes and watch TV. I'm not exactly a poster girl for healthy living.
Lexa Doig
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I am glad that I wrote something that brought joy to millions of people.
Chuck Mangione
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Look at nature with science as a lens. The rock swarms, the clod dances; the mineral is but the vegetable stepping down, and the animal an ascending plant; the man, a beast extended; and the angel, a developed human soul.
Cyrus Augustus Bartol
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When I left I just played in rock bands, and started playing acoustic, washed dishes, but pretty much supported myself with music.
John Roy Anderson
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Oakmont possesses all the charm of a sock to the head.
Gene Sarazen
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Thus then a single harmony orders the composition of the whole...by the mingling of the most contrary principles.
Aristotle
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It is personal vanity of the most flagrant type which intrudes itself, unasked, into other people's affairs. There are few of us who do not feel capable of ordering the daily lives of others, down to the most minute detail.
Myrtle Reed
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I always felt a little worm inside me: 'Now you need to write a novel with a woman protagonist.'
Carlos Fuentes