Quotes of: Jane Keyword

My parents divorced after 25 years of marriage.

Jonathan Evison

The value of marriage is not that adults produce children but that children produce adults.

Peter De Vries

In marriage, a man becomes slack and selfish, and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his moral being.

Robert Louis Stevenson

In so much of politics you're not allowed to disagree with what's been agreed.

Iain Banks

And the terror itself is an example of the world's uncontrollability.

Ulrich Beck

The main force used in the evolving world of humanity has hitherto been applied in the form of war.

Arthur Keith

Blessed be the inventor of photography! I set him above even the inventor of chloroform! It has given more positive pleasure to po or suffering humanity than anything else that has "cast up" in my time or is like to--this art by which even the "poor"...

The Collected Letters of Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle: July 1847-March 1848

I never met your likeness. Jane: you please me, and you master me - you seem to submit, and I like the sense of pliancy you impart; and while I am twining the soft, silken skein round my finger, it sends a thrill up my arm to my heart. I am influence...

Jane Eyre

One morning at the end of the two years, as I was writing a letter to his dictation, he came and bent over me, and said--"Jane, have you a glittering ornament round your neck?" I had a gold watch-chain: I answered "Yes." "And have you a pale blue dre...

Jane Eyre

Our first point of discussion is the hunt. (...) My idea is to start the film with an image of the vixen locked out of her lair which has been plugged up. Her terror as she's pursued across the country. This is a big deal. It means training a fox fro...

The Sense and Sensibility Screenplay and Diaries: Bringing Jane Austen's Novel to Film

Sometimes she wished for someone she could tell about her problems, just to be able to say, ‘I’m in love with a man and I can’t have him.’ But that would only lead to questions she couldn’t answer, so she kept the secret and the pain inside...

The Man Who Loved Pride & Prejudice: A Modern Love Story with a Jane Austen Twist

To my amazement, miraculously, the lid suddenly loosened and slid all the way open, revealing its hidden cargo: A stack of small paper booklets. Dozens and dozens of them. Booklets made of ordinary sheets of white writing paper, folded in half, and h...

The Missing Manuscript of Jane Austen

Halfway to the house Stan stopped and turned to Jane. He put his hands on her shoulders and drew her toward him. "I'm glad we're going steady," he whispered. "So am I." In spite of the reassuring weight of his bracelet on her wrist, Jane suddenly fel...

Beverly Cleary

Make my happiness--I will make yours.

Jane Eyre

Unheard-of combinations of circumstances demand unheard-of rules.

Jane Eyre

At night the sky is pure astronomy.

Man Walks Into a Room

I think the American university system still seems to be the best system in the world.

Clifford Geertz

Evolution is a fact. It is the best explanation of what is known from observations. It's a theory as powerful as the theory of gravity.

Donald Johanson

Truth in science can be defined as the working hypothesis best suited to open the way to the next better one.

Konrad Lorenz

Culture is not a biologically transmitted complex.

Ruth Benedict

The trouble with life isn't that there is no answer, but that there are so many answers

Ruth Benedict