“J: You will not believe what Mom is doing. M: Ballroom dancing lessons? Hot-air balloon classes?” — Kelly Bingham Copy Share Image
Jane Austen is the feminine Peter Pan of letters. She never grew up. — George Sampson Copy Share Image
I'd say I'm a pretty intense person. I'm definitely not my Denise character on 'Scrubs,' nor my Jane character on 'Happy Endings,'… — Eliza Coupe Copy Share Image
“Carving?" "Your name. My back. I can't fucking wait." Jane whistled under her breath. "Do I get to do it?" He barked… — J.R. Ward Copy Share Image
Jane Austen: Getting into her books is like getting in bed with a cadaver. Something vital is lacking; namely, life. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
[Art] would have helped us survive in the Pleistocene - in the period, say, 1.6 million years ago until fairly recently. The… — Denis Dutton Copy Share Image
A few times a year I'll remember that I love old literature, too. Charlotte Brontë's "Jane Eyre" is one of my 10… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
Think of anybody - Dostoevsky or Jane Austen - [their work] was always something that now we would call political. So I… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
I'm an old-fashioned English lit. man. Straight down the line - it's George Eliot, it's Dickens, it's Dr. Johnson, it's Jane Austen. — Howard Jacobson Copy Share Image
Jane Fonda, who divided her life into three acts, decided after her sixtieth birthday that she was now facing the final act,… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
Since There are so many questions about what the president was doing over 30 years ago, what is it that he did… — Jeff Gannon Copy Share Image
“Happiness There's just no accounting for happiness, or the way it turns up like a prodigal who comes back to the dust… — Jane Kenyon Copy Share Image
When I take up one of Jane Austen's books ... I feel like a barkeep entering the kingdom of heaven. I know… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Jane Austen's characters for women are always very strong, opinionated and elegantly written, so they're always great for an actress to have… — Tamsin Egerton Copy Share Image
“I don’t think my sister is old enough to have sex.” “V, she’s the same age you are.” He frowned for a… — J.R. Ward Copy Share Image
Jane Austen has often been praised as a natural historian. She is a naturalist among tame animals. She does not study men… — Robert Wilson Lynd Copy Share Image
While Jane Fonda has no shortage of knowledge to share, I was particularly moved and fascinated by her recovery from bulimia, which… — Amanda de Cadenet Copy Share Image
“Reader, I married him. A quiet wedding we had: he and I, the parson and clerk, were alone present.” — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
'Emma' is my favorite Jane Austen novel - one of my favorite novels period; a novel about intelligence outsmarting itself, about a… — Cathleen Schine Copy Share Image
We ["Mary and Jane"] did not want to be a weed show, like it is a bunch of people sitting around smoking. — Harry Elfont Copy Share Image
[Henry] James is much more complex than Jane Austen. That's why it's not so easy to adapt him. People expect a nice… — Agnieszka Holland Copy Share Image
"The Theory of Everything" is an extraordinary story because [Jane Hawing] was incredibly religious and [Stephen Hawking] was an atheist, so you… — Felicity Jones Copy Share Image
I would be curious about one of those Jane Austen women - you know - long-suffering, dutiful - but all right in… — Peter Greenaway Copy Share Image
The latest gorgeous entry in the Belknap Press' growing library of annotated Jane Austen novels arrives, this time the mighty Emma under… — Steve Donoghue Copy Share Image
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