Jane Crocker Quotes

Once the intimacy has gone, however well you may get on, however friendly you may become, it is hard to believe it was ever there. ~ Jane Green

In Jane Austen it was the critical faculty that would not be quieted; and that faculty in her, played on men and women. ~ Mary Lascelles

Eight years ago, I was drawn into Keats's world by Andrew Motion's biography. Soon I was reading back and forth between Keats's letters and his poems. The letters were fresh, intimate and irreverent, as though he were present and speaking. The Keats spell went very deep for me. ~ Jane Campion

As in the universe every atom has an effect, however miniscule, on every other atom, so that to pinch the fabric of Time and Space at any point is to shake the whole length and breadth of it, so that to change a character's name from Jane to Cynthia is to make the fictional ground shudder under her feet. ~ John Gardner

till it appears that men are much more philosophic on the subject of beauty than they are generally supposed; till they do fall in love with well-informed minds instead of handsome faces, a girl, with such loveliness as Harriet, has a certainty of being admired and sought after, of having the power of chusing from among many, consequently a claim to be nice. ~ Jane Austen

It's the most charming thing about humans. You are all so sure that the lesser animals are bleeding with envy because they didn't have the good fortune to be born Homo sapiens. ~ Orson Scott Card

Wait, is this a nice-ish way of telling me we had sex and I was lousy? That's how you can tell I'm inexperienced? Because, if so, that's just rude. And what were you doing at Shenanigans? And how did you find me on the road?"
Gabriel looked wounded. "To answer your questions in order: The only body fluid I exchanged with you is blood
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"That's very comforting, thank you. ~ Molly Harper

One cannot have too large a party. A large party secures its own amusement. ~ Jane Austen

To sit in the shade on a fine day and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment. ~ Jane Austen

I wanted to keep it from Jane's knowledge; but, unluckily, I had mentioned it before I was aware. ~ Jane Austen

Cumulatively small decisions, choices, actions, make a very big difference. ~ Jane Goodall

These bitter accusations might have been suppressed, had I, with greater policy, concealed my struggles, and flattered you into the belief of my being impelled by unqualified, unalloyed inclination; by reason, by reflection, by everything. But disguise of every sort is my abhorrence. ~ Jane Austen

I urge you to read Eternal Treblinka and think deeply about its important message. ~ Jane Goodall

Be assured that our individual actions, collectively, make a huge difference. ~ Jane Goodall

Become as knowledgeable as possible. ~ Jane Goodall

I always seem to find myself fighting the law of equilibrium - the great leveling force that brings things to the mean and takes the 'cartoonishness' out of life. Perhaps I am doing a very unnatural thing ... If Einstein were still alive I would ask him about it. ~ Jane Siberry

One other thing I just thought of. One time, in this movie, Jane did something that just about knocked me out. The newsreel was on or something, and all of a sudden I felt this hand on the back of my neck, and it was Jane's. It was a funny thing to do. I mean she was quite young and all, and most girls if you see them putting their hand on the back of somebody's neck, they're around twenty-five or thirty and usually they're doing it to their husband or their little kid
I do it to my kid sister Phoebe once in a while, for instance. But if a girl's quite young and all and she does it, it's so pretty it just about kills you. ~ J.D. Salinger

We did talk about cheese on our first date. ~ Jane Kaczmarek

My father was so good-natured and had such a happy disposition. I've always confused him with Jimmy Stewart. So, think Jimmy Stewart. That's my dad. ~ Jane Pauley

Jane easily shifts among activities - testing for discovery, pinpointing, locating, determining significance, repairing, troubleshooting, and testing to learn. As long as she continues to serve her customers, it doesn't really matter which task she performs at any given time. ~ Gerald M. Weinberg

There's a history of English literature where the best boils to the top, and Jane Austen stands right at the top of that. ~ JJ Feild

That the Miss Lucases and the Miss Bennets should meet to talk over a ball was absolutely necessary; and the morning after the assembly brought the former to Longbourn to hear and to communicate. ~ Jane Austen

As water given sugar sweetens, given salt grows salty,
we become our choices. ~ Jane Hirshfield

Jane Austen was an extraordinary woman; to actually be able to survive as a novelist in those days - unmarried - was just unheard of. ~ Julie Walters

Thousands of people who say they love animals sit down once or twice a day to enjoy the flesh of creatures who have been utterly deprived of everything that could make their lives worth living and who endured the awful suffering and the terror of the abattoirs. ~ Jane Goodall

his feelings as to a first, strong attachment; sentences begun which he could not finish, his half averted eyes and more than half expressive glance; all, all declared that he had a heart returning to her at least; that anger, resentment, avoidance, were no more; and that they were succeeded, not merely by friendship or regard, but by the tenderness of the past. Yes, some share of the tenderness of the past. she could not contemplate the change as implying less. He must love her. ~ Jane Austen

I don't mean it to sound egomaniacal, but in a way, for me, it was very useful to imagine that I was the only one who was taking pen in hand. I'd always been told that it was impossible to be published, so I was writing only for myself. ~ Jane Hamilton

I think the whole tension about romanticism is the way it builds and builds, and the moment it's consummated, the tension's over. ~ Jane Campion

Anne wondered whether it ever occurred to him now, to question the
justness of his own previous opinion as to the universal felicity and
advantage of firmness of character; and whether it might not strike him
that, like all other qualities of the mind, it should have its
proportions and limits. She thought it could scarcely escape him to
feel that a persuadable temper might sometimes be as much in favour of
happiness as a very resolute character. ~ Jane Austen

Never look at what you want to change. Always look at what has changed. ~ Jane Kang

There is no other enjoyment like reading ~ Jane Austen

Good. She is planning lunch on the deck today, is on her way into town via her neighbor's house, where she has spent the last hour or so ~ Jane Green

I had spent years thinking about one thing while I was doing another. I had, in fact, prided myself on being able to do two things at once. ~ Jane Smiley

And books! ... she would buy them all over and over again; she would buy up every copy, I believe, to prevent their falling into unworthy hands; and she would have every book that tells her how to admire an old twisted tree. ~ Jane Austen

A Mr. (save, perhaps, some half dozen in the nation,) always needs a note of explanation. ~ Jane Austen