Jane Austen Quotes

Give a girl an education and introduce her properly into the world, and ten to one but she has the means of settling well, without further expense to anybody.

Jane Austen

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

EducationGirlWorldSheWithout

When you're 89, dementia develops. I mean, I've told a story onstage, and I'm telling it with a full heart, and I forgot the damn punch line.

Jerry Lewis

HeartStoryYouDamnMeanLine

My father is an economist who specialized in foreign food policy, and my mother worked for AID, a branch of the State Department, so food in regards to world affairs was talked about a lot.

Jennifer Gilmore

FatherMotherFoodWorldPolicyAid

Publishing in a way doesn't have a lot to do with writing, and writing doesn't have a lot to do with publishing.

Jennifer Gilmore

WritingWayPublishingLot

If the hairs on my neck stand up while I'm writing, I figure the reader will get the same kind of shock.

Andrew Pyper

WritingStand UpStandKindWillUp

For me, the great problem growing up in England was that I had a very narrow concept of what God can be, and it was damn close to an old man with a beard.

John Cleese

GodGreatManMeGrowing UpBeard

I am very conscious of the viewer because that's where the art takes place. My work really strives to put the viewer in a certain kind of emotional state.

Jeff Koons

WorkArtI AmPlaceKindEmotional

It's not communism, it's shouldn't be that everybody gets a try no matter how good or bad they are. It's our profession and our art, so we should eventually strive to be working with the best people.

Amy Poehler

GoodArtBestPeopleCommunismBad

We all want something else other than what we have and don't realize what you got works. It works. It does work. You gotta work. Marriage is work. Marriage is a career. It's not an adventure.

Sinbad

WorkMarriageAdventureYouCareer

I've actually done a really good job listening to my body, relaxing. Some days you train hard, some days you rest a little bit.

Robbie Lawler

GoodJobListeningRestYouBody

On a royal birthday every house must fly a flag, or the owner would be dragged to a police station and be fined twenty-five rubles.

Mary Antin

BirthdayPoliceFlyHouseRoyal

We're always looking for ways to extend all of our intellectual property. We've seen that's what happened with 'Harry Potter' and 'The Lord of the Rings.'

Jon Feltheimer

LookingIntellectualAlwaysProperty

Evening is a time of real experimentation. You never want to look the same way.

Donna Karan

TimeEveningYouLookWantWay

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