Jane Austen Quotes

Oh! do not attack me with your watch. A watch is always too fast or too slow. I cannot be dictated to by a watch.

Jane Austen

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: british
  • Birth: December 16, 1775 - July 18, 1817

Topics

MeSlowFastAlwaysWatchAttack

At Microsoft, the magic of software is used to take on very interesting challenges.

Jeff Raikes

ChallengesInterestingMagicSoftware

As a personal matter, I stopped voting more than a decade ago, on the grounds that it helped me as an analyst not to think about making a choice in the voting booth.

Jeff Greenfield

MeThinkVotingChoicePersonal

It is only in sorrow bad weather masters us; in joy we face the storm and defy it.

Amelia Barr

InspirationalStormJoyWeatherFace

I think my family does a good job of letting me be a regular teenager, which we all need.

Storm Reid

FamilyGoodJobMeThinkNeed

The big print giveth and the small print taketh away.

Tom Waits

SmallBigAwayPrintGiveth

My Dad was from Liverpool, and he picked it up in the army. He'd often come out with this stuff.

Mike Myers

ArmyOutUpComeStuffHe

The next time you're tempted to groan, you might try to laugh instead.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

TimeLaughYouTryNextNext Time

I have been blessed with some incredible compositions to record and perform and all of my songs have had the ability to grow as I and those who have supported this career of mine for these 50 years have.

Dionne Warwick

BlessedGrowCareerAbilityYears

I used to listen to the soap operas with my grandmother.

Bob Edwards

GrandmotherListenUsedSoapOperas

As soon as I reach any town, I talk to the shoe-shine boys or the barbers or the people in the restaurants, because it's Mr. Joe Doakes who is very close to reality.

Thurgood Marshall

PeopleRealityReachTalkBecause

I wanted to write music, and cook, and play cards, and have a nice time.

Richard Rodney Bennett

MusicTimeCardsPlayNiceWrite

Syrians need to prepare for the aftermath if the Assad regime falls. Atrocities that could be considered war crimes have been committed in this country, and Syrians should rightly demand that the perpetrators be held accountable.

Richard Engel

WarCountryNeedPrepareAccountable

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