Jane Quotes - Page 5

• If there is a heaven, Jane Austen is sitting in a small room with Mother Teresa and Princess Diana, listening to Duran Duran, forever. If there's a hell, she's standing.

  Roddy Doyle

  Mother, Princess, Small Rooms

  "Writing Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha" by Roddy Doyle, www.theguardian.com. August 28, 2009.

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• "The Theory of Everything" is an extraordinary story because [Jane Hawing] was incredibly religious and [Stephen Hawking] was an atheist, so you have this conflict both on a domestic level between a couple in a difficult situation but also this bigger conflict of science versus religion, so it's a really fascinating project.

  Felicity Jones

  Religious, Atheist, Couple

  Source: www.shockya.com

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• Jane Austen: Getting into her books is like getting in bed with a cadaver. Something vital is lacking; namely, life.

  Edward Abbey

  Book, Bed, Cadavers

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.32, RosettaBooks

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• That's it. With equal parts regret and relief, the Jane's Addiction experiment is at an end.

  Eric Avery

  Regret, Addiction, Relief

  Eric Avery @ericavery, twitter.com. March 1, 2010.

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• I know in my soul when something feels like a sell out and I think for me, I knew that if I did the Jane's Addiction reunion thing, that I would feel like a sell out. That's how it would feel to me.

  Eric Avery

  Thinking, Addiction, Soul

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• Jane's Addiction has only put out new music when our hearts were in and when we had something to say creatively.

  Dave Navarro

  Heart, Addiction, New Music

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Not to be confused with Spider-Man's other girlfriend Mary Jane Watson, who is a skank and doesn't love him like I do.

  Emma Stone

  Girlfriend, Confused, Men

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• You know who helped me a lot? Jane Fonda. She said, Look at how many times I've been up and I've been down. So don't worry about anything.

  Melanie Griffith

  Worry, Looks, Said

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• Jane Austen, much in advance of her day, was a mistress of the use of the dialogue. She used it as dialogue should be used-to advance the story; not only to show the characters, but to advance.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Character, Writing, Mistress

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• Tarzan is direct; he doesn't ask Jane if they might have a meaningful relationship or if they can get together for lunch sometime.

  Richard Kahn, Baron Kahn

  Meaningful, Lunch, Together

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• It occurred to me when I was thirteen and wearing white gloves and Mary Janes and going to dancing school, that no one should have to dance backward all their lives.

  William Ruckelshaus

  School, Should Have, White

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• Jane Fonda, who divided her life into three acts, decided after her sixtieth birthday that she was now facing the final act, and came to the following conclusion: "I thought to myself, well if that's the case and if what I'm scared of isn't death, but getting to the end with regrets, then I've got to figure out what would be the things that I would regret when I got to the last act if I hadn't done them or achieved them by then. And they were: having an intimate relationship and having made a difference."

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

  Regret, Business, Intimate Relationships

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (2004). “Good Business: Leadership, Flow, and the Making of Meaning”, p.130, Penguin

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• I wish you could be kissed, Jane,' he said. 'Because I would beg just one off you. Under all this.' He flailed an arm toward the stars.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Stars, Wish, Arms

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• Blue. My name's Blue Sargent.' 'Blair?' 'Blue.' 'Blaize?' Blue sighed. 'Jane

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Blue, Names, Blair

  Maggie Stiefvater (2012). “The Raven Boys”, p.283, Scholastic Inc.

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• I have a high respect for your nerves. They are my old friends.

  Jane Austen

  Mrs Bennet, Old Friends, Prejudice

  "Pride and Prejudice".

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• On vague wording of drone strike criteria: “Are you going to just drop a hellfire missile on Jane Fonda? Are you going to drop a missile on Kent State? That’s gobbledygook.

  Rand Paul

  Drones, Criteria, States

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• The fame thing is interesting because I never wanted to be famous, and I never dreamt I would be famous. You know, my fantasy of being a famous writer, and again there's a slight disconnect with reality which happens a lot with me. I imagined being a famous writer would be like being like Jane Austen.

  J. K. Rowling

  Reality, Interesting, Would Be

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• To Jane Jacob’s three traditional urban values of civic space, human scale and diversity, the current environmental imperative adds two more: conservation and regionalism.

  Peter Calthorpe

  Two, Space, Diversity

  Peter Calthorpe (2010). “Urbanism in the Age of Climate Change”, p.15, Island Press

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• I'm playing like Tarzan-and scoring like Jane.

  Chi Chi Rodriguez

  Golf

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• I love marijuana - Mary Jane - and you can print that! I smoke it every day and it's the greatest thing since ice cream and I'm not afraid to say it.

  Rick James

  Marijuana, Ice Cream, Mary Jane

  FaceBook post by Rick James from Nov 18, 2013

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• Since There are so many questions about what the president was doing over 30 years ago, what is it that he did after his honorable discharge from the National Guard? Did he make speeches alongside Jane Fonda denouncing America's racist war in Vietnam?

  Jeff Gannon

  War, Years, America

  Jeff Gannon (2007). “The Great Media War: A Battlefield Report”, Iuniverse Inc

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• I am not talking about what every one of us means by love. Little namby-pamby love is lovely. Man rails in love with woman, and woman goes to die for man. The chances are that in five minutes John kicks Jane, and Jane kicks John. This is a materialism and no love at all. If John could really love Jane, he would be perfect that moment.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Mean, Men, Love Is

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• The boy in the pearl gray suit could have been Jane's twin. His hair was darker, and his lips were not as full, but he was just as lovely.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Boys, Hair, Lovely

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• Every housemaid expects at least once a week as much excitement as would have lasted a Jane Austen heroine throughout a whole novel.

  Bertrand Russell

  Excitement, Week, Heroines

  Bertrand Russell (2015). “The Conquest of Happiness”, p.33, Lulu Press, Inc

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• Give a girl an education and introduce her properly into the world

  Jane Austen

  Girl, Giving, Further Education

  Jane Austen (2007). “The Complete Novels of Jane Austen”, p.477, Wordsworth Editions

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