Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jane Birkin

I didn't really think of myself as being a muse.

Jandy Nelson

All her knowledge is gone now. Everything she ever learned, or heard, or saw. Her particular way of looking at Hamlet or daisies or thinking about love, all her private intricate thoughts, her inconsequential secret musings – they’re gone too. I heard this expression once: Each time someone dies, a library burns. I’m watching it burn right to the ground.

Jandy Nelson

Sometimes you think you know things, know things very deeply, only to realize you don't know a damn thing.

Jandy Nelson

People die, I think, but your relationship with them doesn't. It continues and is ever-changing.

Jane Austen

I think him every thing that is worthy and amiable.

Jane Austen

When once married people begin to attack me with, 'Oh! you will think very differently, when you are married,' I can only say, 'No I shall not'; and then they say again, 'Yes you will,' and there is an end to it.

Jane Austen

She was feeling, thinking, trembling about everything; agitated, happy, miserable, infinitely obliged, absolutely angry.

Jane Austen

It isn't what we say or think that defines us, but what we do.

Jane Austen

You were disgusted with the women who were always speaking and looking, and thinking for your approbation alone. I roused, and interested you, because I was so unlike them.

Jane Austen

Elinor agreed with it all, for she did not think he deserved the compliment of rational opposition.

Jane Austen

Miss Morland, no one can think more highly of the understanding of women than I do. In my opinion, nature has given them so much, that they never find it necessary to use more than half.

Jane Austen

There are few people whom I really love and still fewer of whom I think well.

Jane Austen

What are you thinking of so earnestly?" said he, as they walked back to the ballroom; "not of your partner, I hope, for, by that shake of the head, your meditations are not satisfactory." Catherine coloured, and said, "I was not thinking of anything." That is artful and deep, to be sure; but I had rather be told at once that you will not tell me." Well then, I will not." Thank you; for now we shall soon be acquainted, as I am authorized to tease you on this subject whenever we meet, and nothing in the world advances intimacy so much.

Jane Austen

The post-office is a wonderful establishment! The regularity and dispatch of it! If one thinks of all that it has to do, and all that it does so well, it is really astonishing!

Jane Austen

I often think," she said, "that there is nothing so bad as parting with one's friends. One seems to forlorn without them.

Jane Austen

Eleanor went to her room "where she was free to think and be wretched.

Jane Austen

I think I may boast myself to be, with all possible vanity, the most unlearned and uninformed female who ever dared to be an authoress.

Jan Cameron

These are things I'd never seen before, they were very disturbing and they were very compelling to try and do something to change the situation for the animals. Farm animals are providing us with the food to stay alive, so I think we really owe them a decent life while they are alive.

Jan Garbarek

You have to react to what's around you in the moment, whatever the music is. Just think of it as some place you have to enter and you need to find the key.

Jamie Wyeth

My interest in painting is recording things. I think of myself as almost a documentary filmmaker... I've gotten into some curious situations...

We're all complex human beings, and if some of that complexity shows through, I think it's advantageous for the movie.

I think the audience would like to see movies that are stunning to watch. I really think they'd like to see spectacles.

I think what makes a good action film is a story that gets you involved. Just action, by itself, is not going to work.

Jan Egeland

I think now Somalia is turning a corner and we can, with the new political development, build on momentum - really build a peaceful future.

Jan Egeland

I think the biggest challenge for Somalia has been the sense that it is a hopeless case of incomprehensible internal conflicts and there is nothing we can do.

Jamie Zawinski

I think Linux is a great thing, because Linux is an alternative to Windows, and because, of all the operating systems that are at all relevant today, Unix is the best of a bad lot.

Jamie Zawinski

I think Linux is a great thing, in the big picture. It's a great hacker's tool, and it has a lot of potential to become something more.

Jan C. Ting

I've always said that the 1986 [Immigration Reform and Control] Act had a fourth leg [in addition to law enforcement, increased immigration and amnesty] to its stool which was wishful thinking. And that pattern of a four-legged stool was copied in the failed attempts to enact a second and bigger general amnesty for illegal aliens in 2006, 2007, and in the current year 2013.

Jan Brewer

I don't think Americans would tolerate profiling.

Jan Brewer

I think that there's a liberal element out there that finds me not acceptable. They don't like my stance on a lot of issues because I am conservative.

Jan Brewer

You know, I think there was a point in time when people didn't really understand how birth certificates were kept in the state of Hawaii, and now, I think that it's been pretty much disclosed that they used to have a long form and now they don't have a long form. Arizona used to have a long form, we now have a short form.

Jan Brewer

So you know, I think that the federal government, the Democrats, and President Obama are selling a lot of hope and change, but no delivery of any of those promises.

Jamie-Lynn Sigler

I think comedy Ive learned is really just about relaxing and trusting yourself and allowing yourself to fail.