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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Money has, as we know, no value in itself. It is a convenient yardstick for a large number of material values. But the health and life of an individual as well as the health of a nation cannot be measured by that yardstick. If we, entrusted with protecting and defending the health of the population, give in to a salesman's scale of values we are lost.
Karl Evang
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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
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Get up,” she said. “Get up, my lord. If you do not have long, there is still much to do. You must not waste another day, another morning! Take hold of your life with both hands and crush it to you, my lord. You will not have another in this world.
Conn Iggulden
