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.

Dick Gregory

King was really telling us it's not about love, it's about being lovable. 'I love you baby and if I can't have you no one else will is frightening,' but once you become lovable we become safe and that's where I think we'll end up.

I wouldn't be surprised if someday some fishermen caught a big shark and cut it open, and there inside was a whole person. Then they cut the person open, and in him is a little baby shark. And in the baby shark there isn't a person, because it would be too small. But there's a little doll or something, like a Johnny Combat little toy guy - something like that.

Ernie Speranza

I would say that 30 percent of the women that go in a store are pushing a baby carriage. You have to make it easier to navigate.

Lynn Peterson

He was a kid and was into kids. He would play in the snow with them, even play baby dolls.

Michael Rose

He couldn't eat at a restaurant without people recognizing him. He was just a great guy, an enjoyable, pleasant man who donated himself to causes in any way he could. He has endeared himself to a whole generation of Baby Boomers. He was a dear friend of mine, a very convivial man, interested in everybody.

Jose Gonzales

Having a very big baby is not good,

Rick Hearst

I think the baby will be born for November sweeps. When that kid comes out, he's going to be 5-foot-2.

Richard Burton

There is no Heaven, there is no Hell; These are the dreams of baby minds; Tools of the wily Fetisheer, To fright the fools his cunning blinds

Gary Jackson

We've got to take baby steps until we can walk. We've got to ... bring these kids home because this has to stop. This violence has to stop.

Jeff Kinney

Kids and adults have a difference of opinion when it comes to what constitutes legitimate reading. Adults often push books that they loved as children, which, ironically, were often books that their parents weren't particularly keen on.

Stephen Jones

Kid books can get cute and a-d-o-r-a-b-l-e. Garfield says cute rots the intellect. Don't forget the name of the cat! You pick up cats the wrong way and they stop being adorable...they become Scratch.

James Patterson

Kids say the No. 1 reason they don't read more is that they can't find books they like. Freedom of choice is a key to getting them motivated and excited.

Japanese Proverb

Knowledge without wisdom is a load of books on the back an ass

Spike Jonze

Kids are so fiercely opinionated, that if they love the Harry Potter books and they go see the movie, they'll be the first to say, 'That was wrong! They didn't get that right!' They're storytellers themselves. They're critics. They're going to have the critical opinion.

Jan Nash

Just look at the shelves of any bookstore in any airport, and you see how much people love crime and mysteries, how much they love solving puzzles.

Sophie Hannah

Agatha Christie's writing is incredibly skillful because her books are incredibly intellectually puzzling and challenging.

Sugata Mitra

Schools still operate as if all knowledge is contained in books, and as if the salient points in books must be stored in each human brain - to be used when needed. The political and financial powers controlling schools decide what these salient points are.

Jon Scieszka

There are six 'Time Warp Trio' books that would take a page each to fully praise. And I just thought up twelve more while I was typing this sentence.

Stephen Graham

I wouldn't rule out L.A. life, but I love England. I have a lovely house and nice garden, I walk my kids to school - family is most important to me.

Ari Fleischer

Kennebunkport has a very strong sense of family for him.

Patricia Johnson

It ain't about the money, it's about the people. I see them more than some of their family do.

Quentin Thomas

I talked to my family back home and my mom and we just prayed on it. It was something I went through and I'm not going to sit here and say it was something I'm glad I went through ? but it's helped me.

Josh Duell

I talked to my family about that, and they're fine with it. They just wanted me to be happy.

Robbie Loomis

I think it's a good time for me to reprioritize my personal life and get things figured out there. In life, for years, I've had racing, God and family. I'm trying to get it God, family then racing.

Pablo Gomez

He was a hero. But I can't let my family go through this again.

Joseph Allen

He was a good, good man, very involved in the lives of his two teenage daughters, ... He was a big soccer coach. His wife and family were number one.

David Morales

He used to make it in large stew pots and then can it and give it away to friends and family members,

Bobby Vinton

I wrote that song 'Melody Of Love', the one with the Polish lyrics, because over the years I had gone to Italy, Germany, South America.

Pavle Jovanovic

He keeps us on our toes, because you can be gone one race to the next no matter the outcome.

John Montgomery

Hard Rock has this cachet and image that can't be under-valued. I think if it had gone to Vail, for example, which already has a number of world-class hotels, the impact wouldn't have been as great.

Sonya Berzett

Her numbers have been pretty consistent. They've gone up every year, for the most part.

Robert Redford

God, it was great to play a guy like him, gone to seed, surly,

Pat Perez

He's always gone by Joe. I was surprised he used Ignacio.

O. Winston

He's gone through a lot and I think that helps him. There's not too much stuff he hasn't gone through, that's for sure. He's a real raw player. He hasn't had a lot of experience. I think he's gotten significantly better. He's got a lot of want-to about him. And he's a good guy to have around.

Steven Levitt

He's gone from someone who has never gotten a lot of endorsements to someone who's likely not to get any more and likely lose some that he already had,

Paul Jewell

It could have been worse, it could have gone to extra-time,

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.

Kellan Lutz

I love the idea of marriage. I definitely want marriage and little Kellans running around.

Keke Palmer

I love competing. I love a challenge. I love going in and showing people what I can do, proving to them that I can get this part, that I can give you what you want.

Grady Sizemore

I always feel like that. That's what I love about the game. There's always pressure in baseball.

Maria Sharapova

I also want to play in the Olympics and would love to represent Russia there as well.

Stephen Jackson

He wants to play with us. He loves his teammates. He has no problem with his teammates. He told me that personally. He wants to come back and play.

Rod Carew

He cared. I love him. I'm going to miss him.

Peggy Fleming

He just loves what he's doing. And that rubs off on his skaters.

Sami Hyypia

He is very aggressive, loves a tackle and can play as well.

Graham Elliot

Even though I live in and love Chicago, I can't stand deep-dish pizza. I'm a New York-style pizza person.

Bill Freeman

Just patriotism, ... No matter what went down, we were supporting our own nation and land.

David Eckstein

Just stepping to the plate, just understanding it's you vs. him, that's all that really mattered at that point.

Greg Puhalski

He didn't play too badly. It's just a matter of getting a little rust off.

Doug Miller

He comes up with a lot of big plays no matter where you put him.

Sally Field

The only thing that matters to me is getting to the work - getting to do the work. And I don't really care where it is: whether it's on stage or on television or in film.

Sloane Crosley

Going to a museum is one of those inexplicably tiring things. You're not actually doing anything, more shifting your weight from room to room than walking. And yet it is one of the more tiring things one can do, no matter how thrilled you are by the exhibits.

Brian Beckwith

His success is all to him. It's all a matter of how he thinks each night and how he prepares for each game.

Dave Duncan

His stuff is there, it's just going to be a matter of time. He'll get into the swing of things.

Arlen Specter

I think it's more a matter for them than us because we've got ... a lot of matters which take precedence over this for our own time,

Edmund White

I was always ambitious - not to make money: to be published.

Pat McDonald

I think it probably should just be torn down. It's probably going to take a lot of money to rebuild.

Chris Beatty

He'll be making a lot more money than that senator.

Grant Heslov

When I write, I make decent money doing it, but I don't wake up dreaming about writing.

Shaquille O'Neal

I'm tired of hearing about money, money, money, money, money.

Simon Reuben

If you can't make 40% on your money in Russia, you're a fool.

Silvio Santos

I'm a TV man, not a money man.

Stanley Tucci

I'm not interested in wasting money on a project.

Shuji Nakamura

There are still people in Japan who think money is something evil.

Jim Webb

I'm a Democrat, and I have strong reasons for being a Democrat.

John Hurt

I've done some stinkers in the cinema. You can't regret it; there are always reasons for doing something, even if it's just the location.

Steve Pugliese

It seems pretty shallow, the reasons we've been given.

Herb Thomas

There's a lot of reasons not to reinvent the wheel here.

Penelope Cruz

There are roles I have said no to, but for different reasons. And, I never talk about those because I feel it's disrespectful to say, 'Oh, I said no to this project or that other project.' I'd rather talk about the ones that I said yes to and the reasons why.

Nick Flynn

The only strategy I know of is to write every day, which I don't always do, because sometimes I just can't, for various reasons that seem out of my control.

Christopher Chute

It would solve a big bottleneck. One of the reasons video has always been cumbersome . . . is it requires so much storage space.

Kurt Barnard

One of the reasons why stores did not do better than they did is because there were not enough new designs, not enough new fashions.

John Grisham

One of the reasons we wanted to target Mississippi is, obviously, we are from there,

Joe Mauer

He's just touching up. He was a up a little bit, but he was throwing hard.

Mike Hampton

If you're durable, if you're used to throwing a lot, ... I don't think there is any problem.

Gerald Laird

I'm throwing good, my thumb is 100 percent,

Rick Peterson

Any time you have a lot of time off that's always a concern. It is always a factor, but he's done a lot of throwing (in the bullpen).

Bobby Bowden

I wanted to see what we could do throwing the ball,

Mike Holmgren

They have you outnumbered just a little bit. Now it is safer, I suppose, than throwing a pass, but you can't worry too much about that.

Bill Parcells

Not at all. He was just throwing it indiscriminately then.

David Berry

You can't keep throwing us around. Accommodate your own people.

Jack Kokinda

This is the time of year you want him throwing this way.

James Park

Today is a very directionless market, ... It is really quiet. There's not much going on.

Donald Tusk

Today I must tell myself I did not make it.

Jim Haslett

Today he's sore, so he didn't practice. He'll be fine. He'll play.

Tony Franklin

I thought we got a lot done offensively. Omar showed today why he has become the top quarterback.

Rachel Kyono

I think that I wouldn't be where I am today without going through the program.

Graeme Smith

He had a re-scan today and it doesn't look good. It would pretty much look like he's going home.

William Safire

Took me a while to get to the point today, but that is because I did not know what the point was when I started.

Virender Sehwag

Today if I'm a cricketer it is because of Sachin Tendulkar. Else, I would never have picked up a bat. He's the reason behind me playing cricket

Woodrow Wilson

Today's greatest labor-saving device is tomorrow.

Kodi Smit-McPhee

In L.A., I live right across from Universal Studios.

Jan Peter Balkenende

Freedom is a universal value.

Stephen Sondheim

Musicals are so expensive to put on the stage that you have to have the backing of a corporate, you have to have Universal Studios or Disney or somebody to put in the money.

Maz Jobrani

You know, funny can be universal.

Carl Rogers

what is most personal is most universal

Harold Bloom

Shakespeare is universal.