Jane Quotes - Page 10

• We only have one dog now. Calamity Jane had to be put down. She was very old, and her medicine no longer controlled her seizures. Dilly is five now, I think. He's a neutered American Pit Bull Terrier, very gentle, about the color of buckskin.

  Gene Wolfe

  Dog, Thinking, Color

  "Shadows of the New Sun: Wolfe on Writing/Writers on Wolfe". Book by Gene Wolfe, 2007.

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• Just imagine the banner headlines if a marine biologist were to discover a species of dolphin that wove large, intricately meshed fishing nets, twenty dolphin-lengths in diameter! Yet we take a spider web for granted, as a nuisance in the house rather than as one of the wonders of the world. And think of the furore if Jane Goodall returned from Gombe stream with photographs of wild chimpanzees building their own houses, well roofed and insulated, of painstakingly selected stones neatly bonded and mortared! Yet caddis larvae, who do precisely that, command only passing interest.

  Richard Dawkins

  Marine, Thinking, Fishing

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• I was born and brought up in Liverpool with my clever little sister Jemma, who is 14 and wants to be a vet. My mum Jane is an administrator and my dad Peter is a taxi driver.

  Jennifer Ellison

  Clever, Dad, Little Sister

  "My CV: Jennifer Ellison". www.mirror.co.uk. November 10, 2005.

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• Let's note, that in what I consider the most disgraceful performance abroad by an American official in my lifetime - something not exampled since Jane Fonda sat on the anti-aircraft gun in Hanoi to be photographed - Mr. McDermott said in effect, not in effect, he said it, we should take Saddam Hussein at his word and not take the President at his word. He said the United States is simply trying to provoke. I mean, why Saddam Hussein doesn't pay commercial time for that advertisement for his policy, I do not know.

  George Will

  Mean, Gun, Trying

  "Flashback: Stephanopoulos Scolded Critic of Bonior and McDermott". www.newsbusters.org. March 26, 2008.

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• There were many good actresses in my time like Jane Powell and Debbie Reynolds, but I was the only dancer.

  Leslie Caron

  Dancer, Actresses, My Time

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Jane, my little darling (so I will call you, for so you are), you don't know what you are talking about; you misjudge me again: it is not because she is mad I hate her. If you were mad, do you think I should hate you?

  Charlotte Bronte

  Pain, Hate, Thinking

  Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.246, Penguin

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• I write about violence as naturally as Jane Austen wrote about manners. Violence shapes and obsesses our society, and if we do not stop being violent we have no future.

  Edward Bond

  Writing, Negativity, Shapes

  Edward Bond (2014). “Bond Plays: 2: Lear; The Sea; Narrow Road to the Deep North; Black Mass; Passion”, p.3, A&C Black

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• I read stories aloud at every stage. I listen to my writer friends when they kindly offer criticism. I listen to my husband when he tells me something doesn't seem right. I have my mother's boyfriend, Loring Janes, read to make sure I get everything right with the machines and guns.

  Bonnie Jo Campbell

  Mother, Husband, Gun

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• I've sort of had an investigatory relationship with being a musician. I really wasn't sure what I wanted to do. I felt I had had my run - I had done Jane's and I wasn't particularly interested in music anymore.

  Eric Avery

  Running, Musician, Done

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• I was really glad to meet Jane Clark because it did give me an insight. I couldn't imagine what kind of woman she was. I was hugely impressed by her energy, straightforward nature and enthusiasm for life.

  Jenny Agutter

  Enthusiasm For Life, Giving, Energy

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• I'm named after Jane Austen's Emma, and I've always been able to relate to her. She's strong, confident but quite tactless.

  Emma Donoghue

  Strong, Able, Emma

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• I'm a Jane Austen/Jane Eyre kind of girl.

  Maggie Grace

  Girl, Kind, Austen

  "Maggie Grace Talks LOCKOUT, TWILIGHT, TAKEN 2, DECODING ANNIE PARKER, and More". Interview, collider.com. April 10, 2012.

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• I hear you're losing weight again, Mary Jane. Do you ever wonder who you're losing it for?

  Alanis Morissette

  Art, Media, Weight

  Song: Mary Jane, Album: Jagged Little Pill, 1995

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• Pride and Prejudice' - perhaps more than any other Jane Austen book - is engrained in our literary consciousness.

  Seth Grahame-Smith

  Book, Pride, Prejudice

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• I always say that the characters in Jane Austen's original books are rather like zombies because they live in this bubble of immense wealth and privilege and no matter what's going on around them they have a singular purpose to maintain their rank and to impress others.

  Seth Grahame-Smith

  Book, Character, Zombie

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• We just sent some footage to ABC Primetime, who is doing a segment that alleges to tell our side of the story, and in that, a week before she became ill, there's Eliza Jane at her friend's birthday party, blowing, over and over again, a party horn - the one with the long, curly thing that sticks out when you blow it and retracts when you breathe in - over and over and over again...this child that, a few weeks later, would be said to have died of fatal pneumonia.

  Christine Maggiore

  Children, Party, Blow

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• I've always loved books by the Bronte sisters. I love Jane Austen, too. I'm more influenced by people like her than by pop culture.

  Laura Marling

  Book, People, Like Her

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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