Famous Quotes & Sayings

William F. Buckley, Jr.

One doesn't read Jane Austen; one re-reads Jane Austen.

Gurinder Chadha

Once I started writing the screenplay of 'Bride & Prejudice,' I was convinced Jane Austen was a Punjabi in her previous birth.

Robert Bernstein

It is young love. It is Jane Austen in love, something you've never seen before, a complete departure from the usual oblique portrait of her as a spinster.

Mary McCarthy

I am for the ones who represent sense, and so was Jane Austen.

Karen Joy Fowler

Each of us has a private Austen.

Gary Swenson

They got the feature quarterback in the state in Austen Arnaud. He can take a game over. You know they'll be improved. You will see him excel because they will have a better surrounding cast.

Val McDermid

I think Jane Austen builds suspense well in a couple of places, but she squanders it, and she gets to the endgame too quickly. So I will be working on those things.

Helen Thompson

Austen is a really beautiful writer when it comes to narrative and dialogue. Her writing is beautiful and elegant. As a novelist, she's one of the best.

Helen Thompson

Austen has a strong feminist vision of marital happiness. And that was a radical viewpoint for its time.

Carl Pohlad

Kirby's impact on the Twins organization, state of Minnesota and upper Midwest is significant and goes well beyond his role in helping the Twins win two world championships.

John Tyndall

Knowledge once gained casts a light beyond its own immediate boundaries.

Derek Feltner

Jake and I are beyond the point of telling each other what we want to do. I know it sounds strange, but we just know each other.

Ed Cange

Jack was a monster. He led us in scoring, but beyond that the number of rebounds he got and the defense he played was incredible.

Marco Coleman

I would say the difference between Coughlin and a guy like Marty was Coughlin took it a little beyond the football field,

The Committee

Journalists have become extremely important democracy advocates and they will have impact beyond actually what we will see today,

Richard Grasso

I think it is way beyond that at this juncture.

Jim Cameron

It can't be fixed. It's beyond the stage of tweaking.

Wes Miller

I always dreamed of playing in this tournament and here at Greensboro. It is still beyond even what I imagined it could be.

John Majdoch

Pimps and hookers are always popular Halloween costumes for adults.

If you go to a costume party at your boss's house, wouldn't you think a good costume would be to dress up like the boss's wife? Trust me, it's not.

Tim Robbins

I just have this unnatural fascination with Elvis. I guess it reminds me of how important perspective is. You know, watch out or you might wind up wearing really silly costumes with Hawaiian leis.

Mary Anderson

The Great River Relay is a team event. Members will decorate vans, wear costumes and invent original names. For many of them, partying with teammates will be as memorable a part of the race as crossing the finish line.

Clemence Poesy

I love fashion, and I've always wanted to do costume design, but I'm in jeans and T-shirts most of the time.

Colleen Atwood

People like to stir up the fashion vs. costume world, and I think what they mean by 'too costumey' is that it's too much, or not real enough for everyday wear. You couldn't say that about John Galliano's shows, right? I mean, they're awesome, and they're total costume.

Colleen Atwood

The thing that's great about being a costume designer is you never know what's going to be next; you never what world you are going to enter.

Ginnifer Goodwin

The costumes are insane on 'Once Upon a Time.' It did influence my taking the job, the fact that not only would I be horseback riding and sword fighting and traipsing through the woods but I would be doing all those things in insane, medieval garb.

Sophie McShera

Normally, you have to wait for the costume department to help you out of costume.

Herb Sendek

He was like a hockey goal-tender. We had difficulty getting things over, around or through him.

Ravi Shankar

I have great difficulty sitting in the middle of the night and writing. Everything I do comes spontaneous. Sometimes it takes a long time; sometimes it comes just like that.

Kelli Wildman

He may have difficulty remembering something that happened two weeks ago, unless it was something that made a real impression with him. But the doctors tell us that's just a part of the recovery process when a person has been in a coma.

Richard P. Feynman

When things are going well, something will go wrong. / When things just can't get any worse, they will. / Anytime things appear to be going better, you have overlooked something.

Zane Grey

The difficulty, the ordeal, is to start.

Ted Hellard

In the past, the CFL has had great difficulty of where to place these players in terms of how do you give them legitimate tryouts.

Ron Glass

In terms of the character itself, I can't really say that I find anything really difficult. I enjoy the character so much I don't perceive difficulty in trying to be him. It's just a matter of how do we get there.

Daniel Bonn

If you move into the quicksand, this loose packing will collapse. We then have densely packed sand at the bottom, and water floating on top of it. It's the difficulty of getting water into this very densely packed sand that makes it difficult for you to pull your foot out.

Reporters Borders

In the Zhao Yan and Ching Cheong cases, the authorities, and in particular the State Security Department, seem to be having the greatest difficulty in demonstrating the guilt of the accused.

Robert Webb

I was in the play 'Fat Pig in the West End,' which is a comedy but has dramatic moments.

Stacey Koerner

What you're seeing is the drama genre, which has been dominant, needing to diversify. Unfortunately, they've all diversified into science fiction.

Eric Anderson

It is only by introducing the young to great literature, drama and music, and to the excitement of great science that we open to them the possibilities that lie within the human spirit -- enable them to see visions and dream dreams.

Russell Brand

I get fixated when I'm bleeding -- I can see why they went in for blood-letting in the medieval times because it makes you feel a bit better. When I cut myself, the drama of it calms me down.

Romola Garai

I really like films and plays that cross over different genres. So I'd like to do something that you think is a drama and then you think is a supernatural thing and then becomes a drama again. That's very vague.

Tyler Perry

I get a lot of flack from critics that my comedies are all over the place, my dramas are all over the place, they're schizophrenic - as if I don't know that!

Tricia Helfer

Sitcom hours are silly easy compared to drama. Whenever an actor on a sitcom complains, I feel like smacking them!

Rick James

KISS hammered home the importance of high drama...I decided to design my show with the same goal; I wanted my fans to remember my show for the rest of their lives.

Reza Aslan

A cosmic war is like a ritual drama in which participants act out on Earth a battle they believe is actually taking place in the heavens.

Kelvin Sampson

Kevin's in all our drills, ... He's shooting, doing his hook shot, shooting free throws. He's doing everything except contact.

Larry Kerr

John Hale is an exception to the rule because he's a true freshman who belies his experience. He picks things up well. He's smart, he's strong and physical.

Amy Fisher

I talked my friend into going with me. It was all adults except for us,

Lee Brumbaugh

He is totally unknown at present, except by historians. He is possibly the greatest unknown photographer.

William Dunkelberg

Historically, except for the dot-com hiring binge, this is a very solid number.

Alan Trammel

I thought we responded to everything well except for this last month. I think, looking back, it is fair to say that we hit a wall.

Meredith Mize

It is a great way to get your mind off stress. When you are climbing, nothing really exists except for you and the wall. When you are finished, you look down and feel like you have accomplished something.

Steve Alford

I thought all the teams were going to be better in our league, with maybe the exception of Illinois. I thought they'd be very good.

Henry Ford

There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.

Charles Kingsley

He did not know that a keeper is only a poacher turned outside in, and a poacher a keeper turned inside out.

Scott Pruett

He just dived on the inside and used me to stop.

Bruiser Flint

He's a big kid who can score inside and outside and can rebound the ball. He can post you up. That's the tough thing about him.

Randy Moore

I thought we executed in every aspect, inside and out. We had a total package and made this happen.

Wolfgang Nowak

I think that Merkel has solved the principal unsolvable problems inside her own party. The problem for her now is the Social Democrats.

Cassie Schrock

I was just looking to penetrate every time. My teammates kept looking for me inside and my shot was just falling.

Leon Powe

I was just having fun. We were here at Staples, so I wanted to come out hard. If I can get something going inside for my team, that sets them up on offense.

Lewis Witcher

I was kind of shocked they did that, but that's OK though. Let them come in. They're not going to get too much inside when I'm in there.

Ken Hitchcock

We maybe had three inside shots in the third period. We had kind of wild turnaround shots. We didn't have any presence with shots at the net. We were one shot at the net and gone.

Claire Tomalin

I think it's about as likely Jane Austen was gay as that she was found out to be a man.

Alexis Smith

There are so many more interesting things to think about than whether Ida Lupino or Jane Wyman got the roles I should have gotten.

JJ Feild

Before 'Austenland,' I got do a lead role in 'Northanger Abbey', which is Jane Austen. Growing up in England, you can't really ignore Jane Austen. It's always been there.

Rev. Barham

The Lady Jane was tall and slim, / The Lady Jane was fair.

Clive Sinclair

As Annie Proulx is to Wyoming, so is Jane Candia Coleman to Arizona.

David Sutcliffe

Acting-wise, I haven't done a lot of comedy, so I would love to work with Jane Lynch. I think she's hilarious.

Richard Griffiths

I could never understand the attraction of Bette Davis. I always preferred Jane Russell.

Larry Martin

When we lived in Memphis, Jane and I often talked about moving to Knoxville when we retired.

Kay Redfield Jamison

It is an odd thing, owing life to pills, one's own quirks and tenacities, and this unique, strange, and ultimately profound relationship called psychotherapy.

Kathy Griffin

KATHY GRIFFIN: MY LIFE ON THE D-LIST ... To Kathy Griffin. Warmest wishes, Renee Zellweger.

Mack Strong

Just things that I've never experienced in my life.

Tom Arnold

I swear on my life that is true.

Mike Summers

It can't be any better. Life has been such a blessing.

Tiffeny Milbrett

I want to be the goal scorer and the play maker out there. I have been doing that all my life.

Stephen Sondheim

I don't find my life that interesting. The shows, maybe. But not me.

Shah Rukh Khan

In India, the films are not looked upon just as entertainment. They're a way of life.

Shyam Selvadurai

I don't really know if things go from one life to another. I don't know if there's another life after this. I don't want to know.

Tony Buzan

In 1971, when I was 29, I wrote my first volume of poetry. I am a poet, and I have published four books of my poems.

Chang-Rae Lee

I think book clubs should read more contemporary poetry.

Umberto Eco

For Mallarmé naming an object meant suppressing three-quarters of its poetic pleasure (which consists in the joy of guessing bit by bit - "le suggérer, voilà le rêve!").

William Wordsworth

poetry is the breath and finer spirit of knowledge

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

An undevout poet is an impossibility.

Wallace Stevens

The purpose of poetry is to make life complete in itself.

Wallace Stevens

The poet makes silk dresses out of worms.

Wallace Stevens

Poetry is an abstraction bloodied.

Wallace Stevens

All poetry is experimental poetry.

James Avery

Doing Shakespeare certainly makes you a better actor.

Kate O'Mara

Shakespeare is where I live. I adore him.

Kelli O'Hara

I've always wanted to do a Shakespeare play.

Martin Freeman

I've tried not to treat Shakespeare as a marble giant.

Kenneth Branagh

One of the problems with Shakespeare is that you can never give him a ring.

John Clare

I'm John Clare now. I was Byron and Shakespeare formerly.

Rhys Ifans

When I was taught Shakespeare in school, it was such an alien, sanitized puzzle, it made no sense.

Richard Madden

Doing Shakespeare on stage with Kenneth Branagh, I don't think it gets better than that.

William Shakespeare

Self-loving is not so vile a sin, my liege, as self-neglecting.

Jennifer Lopez

She is so smart. But she is trapped in her body.