Famous Quotes & Sayings

Naomie Harris

I'm totally in love with Jane Austen and have always been in love with Jane Austen. I did my dissertation at university on black people in eighteenth-century Britain - so I'd love to do a Jane Austen-esque film but with black people.

A. N. Wilson

I've never had a study in my life. I'm like Jane Austen - I work on the corner of the dining table.

Cathleen Schine

'Emma' is my favorite Jane Austen novel - one of my favorite novels period; a novel about intelligence outsmarting itself, about a complicated, nuanced, irresistible heroine who does everything wrong.

Chris Bohjalian

If you look at my personal library, you will notice that it ranges from Henry James to Steig Larsson, from Margaret Atwood to Max Hastings. There's Jane Austen and Tom Perrotta and volumes of letters from Civil War privates. It's pretty eclectic.

Val McDermid

I think Jane Austen builds suspense well in a couple of places, but she squanders it, and she gets to the endgame too quickly. So I will be working on those things.

Sophie Hannah

No highbrow literary type would ever say 'Moby Dick' is good but it's just about a whale, or a Jane Austen would be important if she wasn't just writing about romantic relationships.

Val McDermid

One of the reasons we all still read Jane Austen is because her books are about universal things which still matter today - love, money, family. They haven't gone out of fashion, so it's not throwing the baby out with the bathwater to rework her in a contemporary style.

George Romero

If I tried to make money for a Jane Austen movie, I'd get laughed out of the office.

Seth Grahame-Smith

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

David Poile

The perception has been sort of an 'us-against-them' mentality in the NHL for a long period of time. I think this addresses that perception, and builds the idea of a partnership.

John Burnside

The poem builds in my mind and sits there, as if in a register, until the poem, or a piece of a longer poem, is finished enough to write down. I can hold several lines in my head for quite some time, but as soon as they are written down, the register clears, as it were, and I have to work with what is on the paper.

John Fote

We are a team that kind of likes momentum and kind of builds off that momentum. We seized the opportunity tonight. We took advantage. That?s how we played last year.

Daniel Defoe

Wherever God erects a house of prayer, The Devil always builds a chapel there; And 'twill be found, upon examination, The latter has the largest congregation

Kevyn Adams

We want everybody out there, and we miss the guys who are out, but there's a mentality in the room where we're focused on what's in front of us. It's just something that builds over the course of the year.

Mike Casey

What a good inspector is looking for, and what he builds his reputation on, is the things that will cost buyers $10,000, $20,000, $30,000 when they move in. If an inspector is skilled, he finds those things.

A. S. Byatt

You learn different things through fiction. Historians are always making a plot about how certain things came to happen. Whereas a novelist looks at tiny little things and builds up a sort of map, like a painting, so that you see the shapes of things.

Lauren Fix

On a moist day, that moisture builds up. The car won't start.

Cindy Sulham

She builds some very elaborate spreadsheets, which she taught herself to do. There's a lot more to food service than people think.

Ed Walker

We want to see that he gets some national recognition.

Michael Specter

There is a major problem with reliance on placebos, like most vitamins and antioxidants. Everyone gets upset about Big Science, Big Pharma, but they love Big Placebo.

Sasho Cirovski

The other team starts to feel, 'It's just not our day.' And our team gets that great save as a lift. I think that's what happened at that point.

Bob Stoops

We're in good shape and the guys understand the plan. It just gets down to making plays and handling the different wrinkles.

Joe Tereshinski

Where Shock is now, he is light years away from where he was back then. He could play back then, but now he gets in there and he doesn't hesitate. He can play, and he knows that. That's what makes him so dangerous.

Alyn McCauley

Where it gets really complicated is some player reps are on different teams now and some aren't even playing. Some executive-committee members have retired. So who gets a vote? Who still has a say in the matter? Without those guys in there, should somebody be promoted?

Ken Holland

Whenever this gets done, there's going to have to be a long healing process with fans, management and players.

Mickey Rourke

When you're young, working in a warehouse or selling hot dogs, you look at work - at acting - as something precious. It gets you out of the stink.

Lorenzo Booker

When he gets to the league, people are going to wonder, 'Where did this guy come from? And we'll say, 'We knew it all along.

Clive Sinclair

As Annie Proulx is to Wyoming, so is Jane Candia Coleman to Arizona.

Jane Austen

One of Edward's Mistresses was Jane Shore, who has had a play written about her, but it is a tragedy and therefore not worth reading.

Claire Tomalin

I think it's about as likely Jane Austen was gay as that she was found out to be a man.

Alexis Smith

There are so many more interesting things to think about than whether Ida Lupino or Jane Wyman got the roles I should have gotten.

Larry Martin

When we lived in Memphis, Jane and I often talked about moving to Knoxville when we retired.

David Sutcliffe

Acting-wise, I haven't done a lot of comedy, so I would love to work with Jane Lynch. I think she's hilarious.

Rev. Barham

The Lady Jane was tall and slim, / The Lady Jane was fair.

JJ Feild

Before 'Austenland,' I got do a lead role in 'Northanger Abbey', which is Jane Austen. Growing up in England, you can't really ignore Jane Austen. It's always been there.

Richard Griffiths

I could never understand the attraction of Bette Davis. I always preferred Jane Russell.