Quotes of: Jane-austen Keyword

It's haunting to realize that half of the languages of the world are teetering on the brink of extinction.

Wade Davis

On paper I would be a rather bold individual in our culture.

Wade Davis

I went to start the first Ethiopian-led project in paleoanthropology, ever. Doing that was not easy.

Zeresenay Alemseged

According to Johnny Carson, I was the guy who Marlon sent out to do all the dirty work.

Jim Fowler

Lucy saw the delighted expressions of the guests and knew they looked like something out an Austen movie. Well, at least Jem did. She giggled a little and cleared her throat. “Something funny?” he murmured out of the corner of his mouth. “Just ...

Persuasion, Captain Wentworth and Cracklin' Cornbread

I am at a loss to understand why people hold Miss Austen's novels at so high a rate, which seem to me vulgar in tone, sterile in artistic invention, imprisoned in their wretched conventions of English society, without genius, wit, or knowledge of the...

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Governments and fashions come and go but Jane Eyre is for all time.

The Eyre Affair

You call to a dog and a dog will break its neck to get to you. Dogs just want to please. Call to a cat and its attitude is, 'What's in it for me?'

Lewis Grizzard

Dream Song: The heavens Go with me.

American Indians and Their Music

... your grasp, even in fury, would have a charm for me...

Jane Eyre

Where there is energy to command well enough, obedience never fails.

Jane Eyre

And it is you, spirit--with will and energy, and virtue and purity--that I want, not alone with your brittle frame.

Jane Eyre

All the room darkened and my heart again sank; inexpressible sadness weighed it down

Jane Eyre

Decidedly he has had too much wine,' I thought

Jane Eyre

All concepts of politics, of whatever kind, are about conflict──how to contain it, or abolish it.

Marxism And Politics

To Jane's horror, he unfolded her paper and read aloud. "Possible Candidates as Lovers.

At the Spy's Pleasure

We tend to overestimate the effect of a technology in the short run and underestimate the effect in the long run.

Roy Amara

We take for granted how our mind puts everything together.

Robert Lanza

Our instinctual understanding of reality is the same as most other animals.

Robert Lanza

Make haste” Jane added, just because she always wanted to say that.

Shannon Hale

To excavate is to open a book written in the language that the centuries have spoken into the earth.

Spyridon Marinatos