Jane Austen Quotes
Far be it from me, my dear sister, to depreciate such pleasures. They would doubtless be congenial with the generality of female minds. But I confess they would have no charms for me. I should infinitely prefer a book.Jane Austen
Quotes to Explore
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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 -
He thinks that Schiller and St Paul were just two Partisan Review editors.
Randall Jarrell -
The opposite of an underminer is a supporter. When colleagues are supportive, they go out of their way to be givers rather than takers, working to enhance our productivity, make us look good, share ideas, and provide timely help.
Adam Grant -
I am blessed to have worked in big-budget films at an early stage of my career.
Rakul Preet Singh -
I have never sought the reason why I write.
Nathalie Sarraute -
When I arrived to study at Oxford in October 1963, the bohemian style was black plastic or leather jackets for women and black leather or navy donkey jackets for men. I stuck to cavalry twills and a duffle coat, at least for a few months.
Tariq Ali
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I'm still learning my craft, and I've been writing since I was nine.
Kage Baker -
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 -
The tech genie is out of the bottle; you can't put it back in.
Gavin Newsom -
When it comes to investing, you are your own worst enemy.
Barry Ritholtz -
I think technology really increased human ability. But technology cannot produce compassion.
Dalai Lama -
It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.
Upton Sinclair
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Your life story would not make a good book. Don't even try.
Fran Lebowitz -
I met Ray Charles at 14, and he was 16. But he was like a hundred years older than me.
Quincy Jones -
If you're not a confident person, pretend to be one.
Caitlin Moran -
But I think it's more that when you're young, you're invincible, you're immortal - or at least you think you are. The possibilities are limitless, you're inventing the future. Then you get older and suddenly you have a history. It's fixed. You can't change anything. I find that a bit disturbing, to be honest.
Damien Hirst -
There is one kind of robber whom the law does not strike at, and who steals what is most precious to men: time.
Napoleon Bonaparte -
I've always been very tied to language.
Barbara Kruger
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I'm a bit of an insomniac. I go to bed at 5am because I get caught up in watching TV or listening to music at night.
AJ McLean -
There's five cameras, I don't know how many people in the audience... depending on where we're taping, there can be anywhere from 300 to 5,000 people, so the contestants are nervous.
Vanna White -
In Cleveland, music was always a big part of my life. That's really where I cut my teeth.
Mark Foster Foster the People -
If I'm painting, I paint every day. I'll be up in the studio from 8:00 in the morning to 8:00 at night.
John Mellencamp -
We can distinguish three groups of scientific men. In the first and very small group we have the men who discover fundamental relations. Among these are van't Hoff, Arrhenius and Nernst. In the second group we have the men who do not make the great discovery but who see the importance and bearing of it, and who preach the gospel to the heathen. Ostwald stands absolutely at the head of this group. The last group contains the rest of us, the men who have to have things explained to us.
Wilder Dwight Bancroft -
Far be it from me, my dear sister, to depreciate such pleasures. They would doubtless be congenial with the generality of female minds. But I confess they would have no charms for me. I should infinitely prefer a book.
Jane Austen