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Many people, myself among them, feel better at the mere sight of a book.


Jane Smiley

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[Jane Smiley is renowned for the variety and originality of her work. Writing in the] Washington Pos...
WENDY SMITH You deserve to be with somebody, who knows you're the one, from that very first moment he lays eyes ...
C. JOYBELL C. But I wrought for my name's sake, that it should not be polluted before the heathen, among whom they...
BIBLE With longer life spans and better health and education, many feel that giving birth to a baby a mere...
MARIELLA FROSTRUP There is reason to feel optimistic about many of the trends in risk behavior among our young people....
JEFFREY KOPLAN Many adults feel that every children's book has to teach them something.... My theory is a children'...
R.L. STINE He had what he called just a small ration of tools:
A painted book.
A handful of pencils.<...
MARKUS ZUSAK I just write the sort of book that I would enjoy reading myself, a book that is both scholarly and r...
ANTONY BEEVOR At the sight of a good book, you just can't walk away but to claim and read it.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA The Many Trials of One Jane Doe.
GREAT WHITE I understand why people feel strongly about their own dialects. We are not trying to stop people fro...
ZHANG SHIPING One time, I was given an essay topic: to describe a perfect horse, whom the mere sight of the rider&...
MARQUIS DE LAFAYETTE She opened her eyes and met his. The impact was so strong he was amazed that his fingers continued p...
PATRICIA BRIGGS When we fall in love at a glance, the question we should ask ourselves (and this would apply to both...
ROSEMARY SULLIVAN You looked at me then like you knew me, and I thought it really was Eden, and I couldn't take your e...
TONI MORRISON If he had had all Peru in his pocket, he would certainly have given it to this dancer; but Gringoire...
VICTOR HUGO If you make it clear that you have a busy, interesting life, but that you'd like to fit her in to yo...
OSCAR AULIQ-ICE For several moments he did not move from the doorway: he heard the girl’s soft, thin voice rise ab...
JOHN WILLIAMS Before novels written by women were relegated to their own 'genre,' I was introduced to Jane...
EMMA MCLAUGHLIN So many people mistakenly take the Bible as a mere reading book! They read it every now and then! We...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Delusions of grandeur make me feel a lot better about myself.
JANE WAGNER Delusions of grandeur make me feel a lot better about myself.
LILY TOMLIN I cared about them. I wanted them to feel better, to live better lives. And then it occurred to me -...
CATE TIERNAN Younger people have so many opportunities. I don't see any pessimism among them.
FREEMAN DYSON A pretty sight, a lady with a book.
SHIRLEY JACKSON We feel the Board should have acted against Chappell as per the rule book. And they should not have ...
JAGMOHAN DALMIYA I use these senses - touch, sight, feel and smell - as triggers that invite readers or propel them i...
DAVID MORRELL I've spent a lot of my life among people brighter than myself.
LARRY NIVEN I feel like the better version of myself is on paper... I'd rather have people know me on paper.
AARON SORKIN The world is swirling with so many mysteries and secrets that nobody will ever track down all of the...
LEMONY SNICKET I mean that at least 80% of the Russian people feel destitute. It's the people who had their past an...
ALEKSANDR LEBED Just the omission of Jane Austen's books alone would make a fairly good library out of a library tha...
MARK TWAIN Which was why he reflexively turned when a flash of iridescence caught his eye. His first thought wa...
JULIE ANNE LONG As soon as I look up, his eyes click onto my face. The breath whooshes out of my body and everything...
LAUREN OLIVER This is going to sound crazy, but... from the moment I first set eyes on you I haven't been able to ...
LEIGH FALLON I'm gonna make you feel like you touched heaven just by looking into my eyes
PELLE You may fall in love at the first sight. Just make sure to take the second look.
KEN NDARU Let us never underestimate the power of a well-written letter.
JANE AUSTEN Not many people noticed because a lot of the better skiers did not train that day. I surprised mysel...
ANTOINE DENERIAZ I mean that at least 80% of the Russian people feel destitute. It's the people who had their pas...
ALEKSANDR LEBED I not only feel better about myself because these people are also fucked up (and I guess this gives ...
CARRIE FISHER I liked myths. They weren't adult stories and they weren't children's stories. They were better than...
NEIL GAIMAN Five people with passion can do better than fifty people with mere desire or interest.
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR It sometimes makes people feel better about themselves, you know, to put other people down, or make ...
LADY GAGA Nothing is never nothing. It's always something.
CECELIA AHERN Man shouldn’t be able to see his own face – there’s nothing more sinister. Nature gave him the...
FERNANDO PESSOA The Free State men, myself among them, took it for granted that Missouri was a slave state.
BUFFALO BILL Certainly Allah conferred a benefit upon the believers when He raised among them an Apostle from amo...
QURAN I've heard this so many times. When I see them breaking ground, I'll feel better about it.
BRAD DEAN Hail to you gods, on that day of the great reckoning. Behold me, I have come to you, without sin, wi...
THE BOOK OF THE DEAD Among them, there were Muslims, Christians, and Jews living together. But then violent organizations...
HASSAN NASRALLAH It's out of sight of many adults who might possibly be around the kids or monitoring them, ... We tr...
CONNIE COLLINS Politics: Poly.
MANY People who speak through words very few hear them but people who speak from their heart many feel th...
AMIT ABRAHAM I believe
in love at first sight
but I will always believe
that the people
we l...
TYLER KNOTT GREGSON Many people who switch from drinking coffee or soda to drinking water say they feel better.
DEE MURPHY For me and my wife, it was love at first sight.
JEFF BRIDGES No matter how many books you've written, whenever you sit down to write a new book, you always f...
CASSANDRA CLARE Normal is a word invented by boring people to make them feel better about being boring.
LAUREN OLIVER Knowledge is better than mere ritualistic practice, meditation is better than mere knowledge, renunc...
BHAGAVAD GITA Focus on the sight, and feel of your daily activities Living in the moment can be a challenge if you...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA Let him who walks in darkness and no light trust in the name of the Lord and rely on his God
PEOPLE OF CHRIST People simply feel better about themselves when they’re good at something.
STEPHEN R. COVEY It worries me that people think having it should make them feel better.
CAROLYN BENNETT Only after the last tree has been cut down,only after the last river has been poisoned,only after th...
THE CREE PEOPLE I've been fortunate in that I never actually read any Jane Austen until I was thirty, thus spari...
CATHLEEN SCHINE Creative people are very insecure people because they don't know whether people like them or are...
PERSIS KHAMBATTA There are many beautiful songs but I do not dedicate any of them to you because they do not describe...
OSCAR AULIQ-ICE There are many beautiful songs but I do not dedicate any of them to you because they do not describe...
AULIQ ICE Some people would be better off with poor eye sight than more credit.
BOBBY W. MILLER I would so much like young people to have a sense of the gift that they are. Not many of them feel l...
JOHN DENVER We met a great many other interesting people, among them Lewis Carroll, author of the immortal "Alic...
MARK TWAIN Many people feel if regular is good than premium must be better, ... and that's not the case. Due to...
RIK PAUL Colpo di fulmine. The thunderbolt, as Italians call it. When love strikes someone like lightning, so...
J.M. DARHOWER The moment I saw her, a part of me walked out of my body and wrapped itself around her. And there it...
ARUNDHATI ROY The clue to everything a man should love and fear in her was there right from the start in the ironi...
GREGORY DAVID ROBERTS People who meet in airports are seventy-two percent more likely to fall for each other than people w...
JENNIFER E. SMITH I want to go back to the day first we met and find out what I liked in you at first sight
RANJITH BAJPE You have plenty of love left in your heart for one more man. I can see that. It's in your eyes.
DEBORAH ARMSTRONG Those true eyes Too pure and too honest in aught to disguise The sweet soul shining through them.
OWEN MEREDITH There is not much left to see in this world if one sees her once.
FARAAZ KAZI I am drawn, as a reader, to detail-drenched stories about human lives affected as much by the intern...
CHIMAMANDA NGOZI ADICHIE I talk to myself out loud at times, and feel embarrassed when people overhear me.
WALTER DEAN MYERS To be among people one loves, that's sufficient; to dream, to speak to them, to be silent among them...
JEAN DE LA BRUYERE Yet how hard most people work for mere dust and ashes and care, taking no thought of growing in know...
JOHN MUIR I am often asked how it is that I am able to value people to such a deep degree. Apparently, I exhib...
C. JOYBELL C. The advantage of love at first sight is that it delays a second sight.
NATALIE CLIFFORD BARNEY I feel kind of bad for the people working at that stadium having to change so many logos.
DAN MOZES I'm not always a smiley kind of guy.
BERNIE SANDERS Treason is very much a matter of habit, Smiley decided.
JOHN LE CARRé Jane Austen has phenomenal craft, ... I tried to stay faithful to the narrative, the tone and atmosp...
JOE WRIGHT You must save what you can of your life; you musn't lose it all simply because you've lost a part.
HENRY JAMES I have seen lonely people of advancing age, yet as constant as angels, keeping faith to those they l...
MARK HELPRIN This book could not have been written without the people of Mongolia, who allowed me to live among t...
CONN IGGULDEN We make so many of our own troubles, from mere mishaps to disasters, by dwelling on the possibility ...
DEAN KOONTZ A book was mere paper splattered with ink until a reader’s mind gave it life.
ELIZABETH LANGSTON People are different. People choose different criteria. But if there is a better way among many alte...
YUKIHIRO MATSUMOTO Mere words cannot express the remorse I feel for the families, ... My heart goes out to the people i...
JEFF WILLIAMS So I eagerly crack open the book and can feel myself getting smarter as I turn the first few pages.
MATTHEW QUICK Knowing so many people like myself who are singers and in traveling bands, the people you're in ...
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JANE SMILEY The only siblings I have are half-siblings. My nuclear family would have been an extra-suffocating t...
JANE SMILEY In my experience, there is only one motivation, and that is desire. No reasons or principle contain...
JANE SMILEY A child who is protected from all controversial ideas is as vulnerable as a child who is protected f...
JANE SMILEY I learned why 'out riding alone' is an oxymoron: An equestrian is never alone, is always sen...
JANE SMILEY I discovered that the horse is life itself, a metaphor but also an example of life's mystery and...
JANE SMILEY All equestrians, if they last long enough, learn that riding in whatever form is a lifelong sport an...
JANE SMILEY When I came home for the summer after my first year of college, I told my mother that my best friend...
JANE SMILEY Candy is my fuel. Ice cream, too.
JANE SMILEY When 'The Awakening' was published it was considered so scandalous it was banned in the auth...
JANE SMILEY A love story, at least a convincing one, requires three elements - the lover, the beloved, and the a...
JANE SMILEY If American literature has a few heroes, Miller is one of them. He refused to name names at the McCa...
JANE SMILEY Is human nature basically good or evil? No economist can embark upon his profession without consider...
JANE SMILEY Eavesdrop and write it down from memory - gives you a stronger sense of how people talk and what the...
JANE SMILEY I was depressed, but that was a side issue. This was more like closing up shop, or, say, having a bi...
JANE SMILEY Another thing I learned is that novels, even those from apparently distant times and places, remain ...
JANE SMILEY Why are we reading a Shakespeare play or 'Huckleberry Finn?' Well, because these works are g...
JANE SMILEY There is a sociology of horses, as well as a psychology. It is most evident in the world of horse ra...
JANE SMILEY With horses, familiarity breeds comfort. If you haven't been around horses for a while (or ever)...
JANE SMILEY I gallop and jump and ride young horses with intense pleasure.
JANE SMILEY 'The Good Soldier' is an odd and maybe even unique book. That it is a masterpiece, almost a ...
JANE SMILEY There are hundreds of Frank Lloyd Wright buildings around the United States and in other countries, ...
JANE SMILEY There can never be such a thing as a free market, because it is human nature to cheat, monopolize, a...
JANE SMILEY In many ways, being honest about 'Huckleberry Finn' goes right to the heart of whether we ca...
JANE SMILEY I wrote the Dickens book because I loved Dickens, not because I felt a kinship with him, but after w...
JANE SMILEY he aspired to produce something simultaneously less vulgar and less formless than the novels of the ...
JANE SMILEY We sort of read two or three big newspapers but we don't get the flavor of the local events, the...
JANE SMILEY English majors understand human nature better than economists do.
JANE SMILEY Some novelists are luckier than others in the eras of their formative intellectual years, but all We...
JANE SMILEY Ignorance and bloodlust have a long tradition in the United States, especially in the red states.
JANE SMILEY Writing this book was incredibly fun because I soaked in the bathtub, laid around eating chocolate i...
JANE SMILEY Look at Me.
JANE SMILEY Thirteen Ways of Looking at the Novel
JANE SMILEY Your sons weren't made to like you. That's what grandchildren are for.
JANE SMILEY As soon as you bring up money, I notice, conversation gets sociological, then political, then moral.
JANE SMILEY My characters never die screaming in rage. They attempt to pull themselves back together and go on. ...
JANE SMILEY I loved the house the way you would any new house, because it is populated by your future, the famil...
JANE SMILEY In my experience, there is only one motivation, and that is desire. No reasons or principle contain ...
JANE SMILEY Take naps. Often new ideas come together when you are half asleep, but you have to train yourself to...
JANE SMILEY When a novel has two hundred thousand words, then it is possible for the reader to experience two hu...
JANE SMILEY I was an only child. I've known only children. From this experience, I do believe that the child...
JANE SMILEY Before I write a novel, images float around in my head that work like icons - they are meaningless i...
JANE SMILEY She always said, 'When I'm home, I've got to get things done, even if there are visitors. Elizabeth ...
JANE SMILEY A northerner, insensitive in some ways and full of self-righteousness could gravely offend a souther...
JANE SMILEY Oh, that sound? I'm in the hot tub, reading a novel.
JANE SMILEY In the traditional urban novel, there is only survival or not. The suburban idea, the conformist ide...
JANE SMILEY Combined families often get bad reviews, but the family my children got when they traded away 't...
JANE SMILEY One of the profound effects of economics in our day is that the people with the money and the power ...
JANE SMILEY I had a burden lift off me that I hadn't even felt the heaviness of until then, and it was the burde...
JANE SMILEY Fascination with horses predated every other single thing I knew. Before I was a mother, before I wa...
JANE SMILEY But what truly horsey girls discover in the end is that boyfriends, husbands, children, and careers ...
JANE SMILEY The novel integrates several forms of human intelligence - verbal intelligence (for the style), psyc...
JANE SMILEY If living is to progress, if you are lucky, from foolishness to wisdom, then to write novels is to b...
JANE SMILEY A novelist has two lives-- a reading and writing life, and a lived life. he or she cannot be underst...
JANE SMILEY Failure was startling, really. So startling that I hardly noticed it at all.
JANE SMILEY With any novel that you begin, you can't foresee how difficult or easy it's going to be, and...
JANE SMILEY accepted his idea that the audience for a quality novel might not be large enough to support the aut...
JANE SMILEY It's pure hackwork. ... Here it is: I produce fast, I can do it on a deadline, and I usually have so...
JANE SMILEY We watched the swimmers and sunbathers and I thought about this. Had I faced all the facts? It seeme...
JANE SMILEY ...and that's how the tournament started, the Million Dollar World Series of Monopoly...

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JANE SMILEY When it comes to the president, we have to respect him, we have to protect him, and we have to corre...
TAVIS SMILEY We - again, the, the, the, the bastardization and the demonization over the last few years of teache...
TAVIS SMILEY In some states, not even 50 percent of black boys finish high school.
TAVIS SMILEY This administration and these folk who run Washington are no more interested in our welfare and our ...
TAVIS SMILEY I don't think that left to its own devices, capitalism moves along smoothly and everyone gets tr...
TAVIS SMILEY This whole notion of a post racial America was nonsense from the very beginning. It was a bad idea, ...
TAVIS SMILEY History is replete with examples of moments in time when we talk about deficit reduction and try to ...
TAVIS SMILEY This is not a skill problem, this is a will problem. Does America have the will to make education a ...
TAVIS SMILEY When you work for something, you appreciate it more. So what are y'all going to do with all the ...
TAVIS SMILEY How do you grow up in the shadow of a guy - I want to talk about the movie in a second - but how do ...
TAVIS SMILEY Jamestown changed the world in many ways, but perhaps it shaped our nation most profoundly the day A...
TAVIS SMILEY I thought our community should have a deep dialogue to make black America better. I believe if we ma...
TAVIS SMILEY To be clear, the gap between the have gots and the have nots is widening. In this most multicultural...
TAVIS SMILEY I still think in this country, and this might surprise you, the one thing that George Bush said as p...
TAVIS SMILEY This country is going to implode, or put another way, it's going to get crushed under the weight...
TAVIS SMILEY We believe that when you make Black America better - you make all of America better.
TAVIS SMILEY My role on television is one of helping people reexamine the assumptions that they hold. I regard Dr...
TAVIS SMILEY That is still the case in this country for too many students, the soft bigotry of low expectations. ...
TAVIS SMILEY We give you the facts. I told you information is power - knowledge is power. We can't be in an i...
TAVIS SMILEY The storm came. Lives were washed away. Ancient pains resurfaced. Now it is time for a sea of change...
TAVIS SMILEY If we are deprived of our just due, we naturally experience emotions of anger.
SMILEY BLANTON Love is the immortal flow of energy that nourishes, extends and preserves. Its eternal goal is life.
SMILEY BLANTON The truth is that all of us attain the greatest success and happiness possible in this life whenever...
SMILEY BLANTON The first and finest lesson that parents can teach their children is faith and courage.
SMILEY BLANTON Things that upset a terrier may pass virtually unnoticed by a Great Dane.
SMILEY BLANTON Practice easing your way along...Do your best; take it as it comes. You can handle anything if you t...
SMILEY BLANTON A sense of curiosity is nature's original school of education.
SMILEY BLANTON No one who has ever brought up a child can doubt for a moment that love is literally the life-giving...
SMILEY BLANTON Say if you have a high-end Cadillac, you'll pay basic insurance of about $1,200 -- so 10% of that wi...
BRIAN SMILEY There are about 1,400 out there right now.
BRIAN SMILEY Overall, there's nearly 2,000 inspection stations in the province of Manitoba, they know exactly wha...
BRIAN SMILEY If a government safety [inspection] is being carried out, they're expected to follow that handbook, ...
BRIAN SMILEY We expected to have five in the finals and five champs.
BRIAN SMILEY He has become more of a man. You can see him competing with focused energy. He's going after it like...
BRIAN SMILEY It's been a decent year.
BRIAN SMILEY That's what we've been looking for.
BRIAN SMILEY Those who aren't, many of them end up back in jail. Many of them end up in breach of their court ord...
BRIAN SMILEY Socks comprised of 60 to 80 percent cotton woven with 15 to 20 percent nylon also showed a higher CO...
MARKUS SMILEY Who thinks Lewis appreciates his car more?
TAVIS SMILEY Things that upset a terrier may pass virtually unnoticed by a Great Dane
SMILEY BLANTON It is easier to talk about money -- and much easier to talk about sex -- than it is to talk about po...
SMILEY BLANTON To be happy, drop the words 'if only,' and substitute instead the words 'next time
SMILEY BLANTON Practice easing your way along. Don't get het up or in a dither. Do your best; take it as it comes. ...
SMILEY BLANTON The choices we make about the lives we live determine the kinds of legacies we leave.
TAVIS SMILEY I'm three times as frustrated as he is.
BILL SMILEY We're sitting here begging for something to do.
BILL SMILEY I knew it wasn't good when it happened. It's definitely scary. Every now and then, something brings ...
JUSTIN SMILEY He was an authentic American hero whose work will be respected and dissected for years to come. This...
TAVIS SMILEY It seems disgusting, and I'm not too excited about it. But it's going to let us know how significant...
MARKUS SMILEY I was proud I was able to finish the game. This running game takes a toll on your body, but it also ...
JUSTIN SMILEY It's scary. It's deadly scary.
JUSTIN SMILEY I was one of the first ones down there and if I could have gotten a hand on him, I would have brough...
JUSTIN SMILEY People use that as a measuring stick of how this guy handles adversity, ... It wasn't losing a coupl...
JUSTIN SMILEY It's definitely scary. Every now and then it kind of brings you to reality. I mean, obviously offens...
JUSTIN SMILEY It seems like we're light-years better than we were last year. I was wondering, 'What is the differe...
JUSTIN SMILEY I think he's taking it pretty well, but I know it's tough.
JUSTIN SMILEY The truth is that all of us attain the greatest success and happiness possible in this life whenever...
DR. SMILEY BLANTON A sense of curiosity is nature's original school of education.
DR. SMILEY BLANTON You can have a plan, but you have to be flexible. Every day is unpredictable, and you just have to g...
JANE KRAKOWSKI You don't learn from successes; you don't learn from awards; you don't learn from celebr...
JANE FONDA Every savage can dance.
JANE AUSTEN I'm not driven by killer ambition. I'm not a workaholic. I'm a good team player. I don&#...
JANE PAULEY To be fond of dancing was a certain step towards falling in love.
JANE AUSTEN At the end of the day, I let myself have a glass of wine.
JANE SEYMOUR Old-fashioned ways which no longer apply to changed conditions are a snare in which the feet of wome...
JANE ADDAMS There is a quality even meaner than outright ugliness or disorder, and this meaner quality is the di...
JANE JACOBS A mind lively and at ease, can do with seeing nothing, and can see nothing that does not answer.
JANE AUSTEN If things are going untowardly one month, they are sure to mend the next.
JANE AUSTEN One man's style must not be the rule of another's.
JANE AUSTEN My idea of good company is the company of clever, well-informed people who have a great deal of conv...
JANE AUSTEN The good we secure for ourselves is precarious and uncertain until it is secured for all of us and i...
JANE ADDAMS Education in this country is about how to maintain the status quo and to perpetuate racism.
JANE ELLIOT The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupi...
JANE AUSTEN Walter Scott has no business to write novels, especially good ones. It is not fair. He has fame and ...
JANE AUSTEN Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be...
JANE AUSTEN Action indeed is the sole medium of expression for ethics.
JANE ADDAMS I wanted to - any chance I had to dress up as a boy, like Halloween, I would be a pirate or a ghost ...
JANE LYNCH You can't look at a sleeping cat and be tense.
JANE PAULEY I am very busy, life is very busy, and I was, I think, a somewhat lazy friend. I love them, I know t...
JANE GREEN We're still living with the old paradigm of age as an arch. That's the old metaphor: You'...
JANE FONDA Keep smiling - it takes 10 years off!
JANE BIRKIN Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure.
JANE AUSTEN Vanity working on a weak head, produces every sort of mischief.
JANE AUSTEN To sit in the shade on a fine day and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment.
JANE AUSTEN Gamers always believe that an epic win is possible and that it's always worth trying, and trying...
JANE MCGONIGAL Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings.
JANE AUSTEN Instead of drifting along like a leaf in a river, understand who you are and how you come across to ...
JANE FONDA Somebody has to wear the black hat and give the audience someone to shake their fists at. They want ...
JANE ELLIOT I did this Super-8 film at art school called 'Tissues,' this black comedy about a family who...
JANE CAMPION I am only resolved to act in that manner, which will, in my own opinion, constitute my happiness, wi...
JANE AUSTEN My husband used to take care of the business part of this, and after he died I found I wasn't re...
JANE HADDAM The fact that I even get in Broadway shows is, to me, still amazing, but then to win a Tony was just...
JANE KRAKOWSKI I thought," Shad said slowly, "that she was offended if you referred to Blind Seer or Elation as her...
JANE LINDSKOLD After a day of watching the two-legs interact from within their midst, she was certain that they cou...
JANE LINDSKOLD The main reason why historians have skated over the relationship of Victorian PMs with the press is ...
JANE RIDLEY I had a baby at 19 and was a grandmother by 39. Now, my children lend me their children to take them...
JANE BIRKIN A diagnosis is burden enough without being burdened by secrecy and shame.
JANE PAULEY It's always helpful to have somebody help buoy you in difficult times and problem-solve with and...
JANE POYNTER When my father died, my mother came back from being Mrs. Birkin to being Judy Campbell. She was a st...
JANE BIRKIN Seek women mentors. If you're a businesswoman, look at the TEDx conferences. There's a lot o...
JANE FONDA I have a theory that you can tell what the head of a company is like by the people who work there. I...
JANE GREEN Don't let anyone discourage you from writing. If you become a professional writer, there are ple...
JANE YOLEN Melanoma is not the most common of skin cancers, but it is the most dangerous if not found in the ea...
JANE GREEN Torture is illegal, both in the U.S. and abroad. So - and that is true for the Bush administration a...
JANE MAYER I got my love of animals from the Dr. Doolittle books and my love of Africa from the Tarzan novels. ...
JANE GOODALL I think if you go from show to show without doing that big PR blitz it's helpful because people ...
JANE CURTIN Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite without any...
JANE GOODSELL I love nothing better than to get all the nuts and bolts out of the way - show up on time, with line...
JANE ELLIOT I was on 'Murder She Wrote' with Angela Lansbury. She was fantastic... she was lovely to eve...
JANE BADLER No baby boomer has a completely original idea, but after 13 years on 'Today' and another 11 ...
JANE PAULEY There are other types of public appearances a writer does in addition to book signings and readings....
JANE LINDSKOLD I loved 'Boogie Nights.' That was a great movie, and I had a lot of fun doing that.
THOMAS JANE If we as a nation are to break the cycle of poverty, crime and the growing underclass of young peopl...
JANE FONDA Marriage, for a woman at least, hampers the two things that made life to me glorious -- friendship a...
JANE HARRISON Happiness is a sunbeam which may pass through a thousand bosoms without losing a particle of its ori...
JANE PORTER A lot of actresses I've worked with recently have done so much Botox their faces don't look ...
JANE SEYMOUR I should think he must be rather a dressy man for his time of life. Such a number of looking-glasses...
JANE AUSTEN I left Montana in Spring of 1866, for Utah, arriving at Salt Lake city during the summer.
CALAMITY JANE We remained in Texas leading a quiet home life until 1889.
CALAMITY JANE While in El Paso, I met Mr. Clinton Burk, a native of Texas, who I married in August 1885.
CALAMITY JANE During the fall and winter we built Fort Meade and the town of Sturgis.
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CALAMITY JANE On October 28th, 1887, I became the mother of a girl baby, the very image of its father, at least th...
CALAMITY JANE Left the ranch in 1883, went to California, going through the States and territories, reached Ogden ...
CALAMITY JANE As many of the riders before me had been held up and robbed of their packages, mail and money that t...
CALAMITY JANE We were ordered out to quell an uprising of the Indians, and were out for several days, had numerous...
CALAMITY JANE When I joined Custer I donned the uniform of a soldier. It was a bit awkward at first but I soon got...
CALAMITY JANE It was considered the most dangerous route in the Hills, but as my reputation as a rider and quick s...
CALAMITY JANE By the time we reached Virginia City I was considered a remarkable good shot and a fearless rider fo...
CALAMITY JANE I actually failed my first license test. I got an automatic fail. I guess I had been doing well but ...
JANE LEVY You spend all your life trying to do something they put people in asylums for.
JANE FONDA You want, in a sense, to relate to the main character, so often, the main character POV is a bit mor...
JANE GOLDMAN Thank God I've never had the sort of intense fame that means you can't walk up the road. Tha...
JANE ASHER What strange creatures brothers are!
JANE AUSTEN ...the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.
JANE AUSTEN [I]f a book is well written, I always find it too short.
JANE AUSTEN Angry people are not always wise.
JANE AUSTEN I am worn out with civility. I have been talking incessantly all night, and with nothing to say. But...
JANE AUSTEN The conversation soon turned upon fishing, and she heard Mr. Darcy invite him, with the greatest civ...
JANE AUSTEN Words were insufficient for the elevation of his [Mr Collins'] feelings; and he was obliged to walk ...
JANE AUSTEN