Jane Quotes - Page 14

• I nearly died three times in 2008, and when you go through those experiences, you realize that you're blessed every day that you wake up. My world changed, my life changed, and with the help of my wife Jane, I was able to survive.

  Jon Anderson

  Life Changing, Blessed, Wife

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• As blue chips turn into penny stocks, Wall Street seems less like a symbol of America's macho capitalism and more like that famous Jane Austen character Mrs. Bennet, a flibbertigibbet always anxious about getting richer and her 'poor nerves.'

  Maureen Dowd

  Wall, Character, Blue

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• [Art] would have helped us survive in the Pleistocene - in the period, say, 1.6 million years ago until fairly recently. The kind of imaginative abilities that artists have and that we all have in the appreciation of art - to appreciate Jane Austen, the late quartets of Beethoven.

  Denis Dutton

  Appreciation, Art, Years

  Source: muse.jhu.edu

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• All I want to do is make serious movies that explore social issues and turn a profit, and slip the schnitzel to Jane DePugh.

  James Ellroy

  Issues, Serious, Want

  James Ellroy (1998). “Hollywood Nocturnes”, Delta

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• I used the name Jane Roe because I didnt want my personal name to be involved in it.

  Norma McCorvey

  Names, Want, Used

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• A $10 million windfall? At today's prices, I'd feel almost as rich as I did one day in 1936 when I found a dime on the sidewalk and blew the whole wad on 20 Mary Jane candy bars, a box of jujubes, and a double feature.

  Russell Baker

  One Day, Dimes, Bars

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• Sarah Jane Smith was everybody's hero when I was younger, and as brave and funny and brilliant as people only ever are in stories. But many years later, when I met the real Sarah Jane - Lis Sladen herself - she was exactly as any child ever have wanted her to be. Kind and gentle and clever; and a ferociously talented actress, of course, but in that perfectly English unassuming way.

  Steven Moffat

  Children, Clever, Real

  "Elisabeth Sladen, 'Doctor Who''s Sarah Jane, Dies at 63" by Angela Watercutter, www.wired.com. April 19, 2011.

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• My first feature film was a movie called 'A Gunfight,' with Kirk Douglas, Johnny Cash, Karen Black, Jane Alexander, Raf Vallone... It was shot in Santa Fe, Mexico, in 1970, and it was directed by Lamont Johnson. It was the first gig I did when I got to California from having done 'Hair' in New York on Broadway for a year. It was a Western, though! But that film was not a successful release.

  Keith Carradine

  New York, Successful, Hair

  "Keith Carradine on 'Deadwood,' 'Fargo,' and Madonna". Interview with Will Harris, www.avclub.com. July 20, 2016.

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• Jane Jacobs work wouldnt have been complete if it hadn't inspired others to carry it on, and evolve Jane's groundbreaking accomplishments so that the essential kernel of thought remains relevant for future generations. The essayists in What We See have built on those essential footholds that people who have never heard of Jane Jacobs will benefit from for decades.

  Majora Carter

  People, Accomplishment, Essentials

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• The spirit of Jane Eyre looms over Once Upon a Day.  Lisa Tucker keeps the plot of this gothic novel bubbling with tons of juicy family secrets.

  Stewart O'Nan

  Secret, Plot, Juicy

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• I read "Pride and Prejudice" [by Jane Austen]. I was gobsmacked by it - it's so funny and so modern. Unbelievable. You don't expect funny to come through after 200 years - humor doesn't transcend decades, let alone centuries.

  Julie Walters

  Pride, Years, Prejudice

  Source: www.digitalspy.com

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• When Lollapalooza started, and I was really into Red Hot Chili Peppers and Jane's Addiction, Soundgarden. I went to that Lollapalooza tour twice, I think.

  Adam Richman

  Thinking, Addiction, Hot

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Who would not spout the family teapot in order to talk with Keats for an hour about poetry, or with Jane Austen about the art of fiction?

  Virginia Woolf

  Art, Order, Fiction

  Virginia Woolf, Hermione Lee (2000). “A room of one's own and other essays”

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• You, Jane, I must have you for my own--entirely my own.

  Charlotte Bronte

  My Own

  Charlotte Bronte (2013). “Jane Eyre”, p.321, Simon and Schuster

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• Jane Eyre "I desired more...than was within my reach. Who blames me? Many call me discontented. I couldn't help it: the restlessness is in my nature; it agitated me to pain sometimes.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Pain, Helping, Blame

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• I waited patiently - years - for the pendulum to swing the other way, for men to start reading Jane Austen, learn how to knit, pretend to love cosmos, organize scrapbook parties, and make out with each other while we leer. And then we'd say, Yeah, he's a Cool Guy.

  Gillian Flynn

  Reading, Party, Men

  Gillian Flynn (2014). “The Complete Gillian Flynn: Gone Girl, Dark Places, Sharp Objects”, p.243, Broadway Books

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• On May 7, a few weeks after the accident at Three-Mile Island, I was in Washington. I was there to refute some of that propaganda that Ralph Nader, Jane Fonda and their kind are spewing to the news media in their attempt to frighten people away from nuclear power. I am 71 years old, and I was working 20 hours a day. The strain was too much. The next day, I suffered a heart attack. You might say that I was the only one whose health was affected by that reactor near Harrisburg. No, that would be wrong. It was not the reactor. It was Jane Fonda. Reactors are not dangerous.

  Edward Teller

  Heart, Next Day, Islands

  2 page advertisement sponsored by Dresser Industries in the "Wall Street Journal", July 31, 1979.

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• There are some writers who wrote too much. There are others who wrote enough. There are yet others who wrote nothing like enough to satisfy their admirers, and Jane Austen is certainly one of these.

  Margaret Drabble

  Too Much, Enough, Admirer

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• Thank you, Jane Birkin, for providing me with infinite outfit ideas and the confidence to dress like a boy but act like a girl.

  Alexa Chung

  Girl, Boys, Ideas

  Alexa Chung (2014). “It”, p.119, Penguin UK

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• I had never understood quite so clearly the effective power of Jane Jacob's writing - no, her clear-headed observation - as I did reading “What We See”. Maybe that's really the point of writing. That if you take the time to look, to really observe, then you see what is happening, and, with the clarity of that vision, you can act to save neighborhoods.

  Nancy Milford

  Reading, Writing, Vision

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• Jane Austen can in fact get more drama out of morality than most other writers can get from shipwreck, battle, murder, or mayhem.

  Ronald Blythe

  Drama, Battle, Facts

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• That's what got me into exercise and training my body and my voice. I looked at Madonna as this G.I. Jane superstar. I used to go jogging around my neighborhood at midnight sometimes and I'd be thinking, it'll all be worth it one day.

  Darren Hayes

  Exercise, Thinking, Voice

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• We asked Jane Fonda if she would like to meet American pilots in Hanoi, but she refused, she didn't want to.

  Hanoi Hannah

  Want, Pilots, Hanoi

  "The Search for Hanoi Hannah" by Don North, www.psywarrior.com.

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• To paraphrase Jane Austen, it is a truth universally acknowledged that a married man in possession of a vast fortune must be in want of a newer, younger wife.

  Bruce Feirstein

  Men, Wife, Want

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• Jane Francklyne, born in 1565, had lived for less than a month. She left very little behind. She was buried in the Ecton churchyard, but her father would hardly have paid a carver to engrave so small a stone. If not for the parish register, there would be no record that this Jane Francklyne had ever lived at all. History is what is written and can be found; what isn't saved is lost, sunken and rotted, eaten by the earth.

  Jill Lepore

  Father, Records, Earth

  Jill Lepore (2013). “Book of Ages: The Life and Opinions of Jane Franklin”, p.16, Vintage

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