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
My mom was beautiful; she was supposed to be the original Jane in the original Tarzan movie. They asked her to put… — Dr. John Copy Share Image
I think the important thing to understand first and foremost about Michael Jackson is that he was the international emblem of the… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
Jane Goodall is my idol and someone I have always looked up to for the amazing work she has done with chimpanzees.… — Katie Cleary 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
Well, I'm drawn to stuff that is darker. I will probably do a version of Jane Austen at some point because her… — Robert Sikoryak 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
On May 7, a few weeks after the accident at Three-Mile Island, I was in Washington. I was there to refute some… — Edward Teller 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
“Stroking Jane’s soft hair, he murmured, “About . . . the things I have here. If you’re game, I’m still going to… — J.R. Ward 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
With Jane Birkin, we had a scene from a film called Jane B. by Agnès V. - a portrait I made in… — Agnes Varda Copy Share Image
I married him [Chris Sarandon] my senior year, and after I graduated, he went to the Long Wharf Theatre in New Haven,… — Susan Sarandon Copy Share Image
How can a guy climb trees, say 'Me, Tarzan, you, Jane,' and make a million? The public forgives my acting because they… — Johnny Weissmuller Copy Share Image
There are a couple of things that we did not get to do last season [of Mary and Jane]. There was one… — Deborah Kaplan Copy Share Image
Fortunately... 'With Fi and Jane' features BBC veterans Fi Glover and Jane Garvey sitting in the BBC cafe, nattering about whatever interests… — David Hepworth Copy Share Image
The phrase "singular incredible life" seems to me that it applies more appropriately to Jane Goodall or David Attenborough, people I regard… — Merrill Markoe Copy Share Image
I mean, Jane Wyman did a lot of silly parts for years and then all of a sudden went serious and was… — Cleo Moore 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
I don't want to call the show [ "Mary and Jane" ] a satire because it is not, but there are satirical elements. — Harry Elfont 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
As Jane Austen might have put it: It is a truth universally acknowledged that young protagonists in search of adventure must ditch… — Philip Pullman 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
Jean Valentine and Jane Cooper were my professors at Sarah Lawrence College - and they were uncompromised in their art. They gave… — Denise Duhamel Copy Share Image
I had never understood quite so clearly the effective power of Jane Jacob's writing - no, her clear-headed observation - as I… — Nancy Milford Copy Share Image
I am drawn, as a reader, to detail-drenched stories about human lives affected as much by the internal as by the external,… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
We only have one dog now. Calamity Jane had to be put down. She was very old, and her medicine no longer… — Gene Wolfe Copy Share Image
Each year the big garden grew smaller and Jane - who grew flowers by choice, not corn or stringbeans - worked at… — Donald Hall Copy Share Image
Look at Jane Lynch, another Chicagoan. She has a career I'd kill for. She does amazing work; she's famous enough to have… — Amy Landecker 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
The one thing that we wanted to make sure in the pilot [of "Mary and Jane"] is that we could go everywhere.… — Harry Elfont 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
My dear colleagues, I thank you very very much for this tribute to my work. I think that Jane Fonda and I… — Vanessa Redgrave Copy Share Image
“It gave Jane a wicked sense of satisfaction that he’d noticed that aspect of her sister’s personality, but she tried not to… — Janette Rallison Copy Share Image
All of women's stories in the 19th century had either one of two endings: you either had the good Jane Austen marriage… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
I do want to write about Jane Whitefield again, but only when I have a good enough idea - something I've figured… — Thomas Perry Copy Share Image
I boast of being the only man in London who has been bombed off a lavatory seat while reading Jane Austen. She… — Kingsley Martin 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