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Jane Smith

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CAMERON WATSON I followed in my father's footsteps. I just like the sense of being there when people need help.
DAN NEE Sarah smiled, one of those little childish smiles she was so good at. It very nearly broke the Docto...
LAWRENCE MILES I watch him inhale Mary Jane .. He kisses me and blows her into my mouth. High with Mary Jane. .. Th...
NERISSA IRVING My dad was a Buick guy and I followed in his footsteps. But I always liked the performance end.
FERNANDO ALVARE For Joe and Jane Smith it's easier for them to learn than a dirt bike.
BRANDON BAILEY Annie's following in her sister's footsteps.
ED PERRY I've done stuff in the past and followed in the footsteps of my heroes, and each time, it felt a...
T. J. PERKINS I don't want her at all to follow in the footsteps I went through.
BRANDI MCCABE Elvis was the king. No doubt about it. People like myself, Mick Jagger and all the others only follo...
ROD STEWART I followed in his footsteps, ... To be a nose tackle and play in this defense, you couldn't want any...
CASEY HAMPTON I realized how important it was to know something about aviation, and it was something I was interes...
ELLEN OCHOA I watched what method Nature might take, with intention of subduing the symptom by treading in her f...
THOMAS SYDENHAM I am a great admirer of Sen. Frist, who is a nationally known heart surgeon and well known in Nashvi...
JOHN JAY HOOKER She wasn't interested in him and I think he snapped. I think he raped her and killed her.
JANET PELASARA No, I chose the name Jane Seymour because I was doing my first film, 'Ode to Lovely War,' an...
JANE SEYMOUR When Goldie Hawn wrote her memoirs, no one said Goldie Hawn was snitching. When Jane Fonda wrote her...
KARRINE STEFFANS You might have someone who calls in (to a cell phone provider) and says her name is Jane Smith and t...
BETH GIVENS Jane was my wicked stepmother: she was generous, affectionate and resourceful; she salvaged my schoo...
MARTIN AMIS We don't think Anna Nicole Smith will ever see any money. If Anna Nicole Smith had taken the six mil...
DAVID MARGULIES A writer is a thought smith; he educates men to think for themselves
BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA You have to give credit to Smith. He threw a great game. He had everything going today. I don't thin...
BIEN FIGUEROA Halfway to the house Stan stopped and turned to Jane.
He put his hands on her shoulders and dr...
BEVERLY CLEARY Jane Jameson."
He grinned. "Like the porn star."
I gaped at him. "What? No, Jane Ja...
MOLLY HARPER He's a ham. He could follow in his sister's footsteps.
LINDA HANNA That's what Roy does. I think those guys were hearing footsteps.
ANTHONY HENRY I don't think there's anything cliche feminine about Jane Austen. And, anyway, her earliest ...
WHIT STILLMAN Once again, the vice president has acknowledged that he dares to follow where Bill Bradley has boldl...
ANITA DUNN The best time I ever had with Joan Crawford was when I pushed her down the stairs in Whatever Happen...
BETTE DAVIS Gimme an S! A T! An O! A C! Followed by a K-H-O-L-M! What's it spell? HEAD FUCK.

- Jane
J.R. WARD The Will Smith that you see in movies is exactly the same as Will Smith in real life. Except for whe...
KURT FULLER Matty,” Jane whispered, “what are you thinking?”
He smiled, kissed her navel before glanc...
CHARLOTTE FEATHERSTONE My mother once told me as a child that you can tell who is coming by the mere sound of their footste...
GINA MARINELLO-SWEENEY It was unexpected. Yes, I did 20 years in the Army, but I never thought he would follow in my footst...
BRIAN MONTGOMERY Physically, he resembles him a little bit, at least a slight resemblance, the shape of his face, the...
MIKE LEWIS [Smith] has been working real hard on that. Sam gave her a great cross and we've been working on cra...
RUTH VOSTAL When Friedan came to Smith in the fall of 1938 from a provincial town in Illinois, she was not very ...
DANIEL HOROWITZ I'm so proud to have followed her achievements and to have done it in her lifetime.
VENUS WILLIAMS I think I always sang, I always used to listen to old Bessie Smith records, and Kate Smith. And Bill...
BEA ARTHUR I followed your footsteps," he said, in answer to the unspoken question. "Snow makes it easy."
...
MAUREEN JOHNSON We think he (Smith) has got the perfect build and speed and endurance to run those (300 hurdles).
LESTER HAMPTON My whole life had split in two: Smith and not Smith. I liked the Smith parts of it so much better. SARRA MANNING I'm a Jane Austen/Jane Eyre kind of girl.
MAGGIE GRACE He's fearless. We think he's going to make it because he has the mentality of (Panthers receiver) St...
KEVIN PARKER I know my dad always wanted to heal the world, and so I think it would be great to follow in his foo...
PARIS JACKSON I wanted to be Martha Stewart, ... but without the stock scandal. I haven't really followed her stor...
CHRISTINA LEE Of course, she could still walk away. She won't, he thought. She has to feel it, too. He said, " I'v...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER My mother started out by being a very good girl. She did everything that was expected of her, and it...
RUTH REICHL I will follow in my father's footsteps. My father set the bar very high. He was a wonderful lead...
JIGME KHESAR NAMGYEL WANGCHUCK I couldn’t peel my eyes off her face or her body. Even if she had asked me not to follow her, I wo...
ANGELA RICHARDSON Anthony (Smith) played it the best he could. It just went in.
LARRY BLAIR I talked with coach (Smith) on a number of occasions. I think the neat thing about it is he does hav...
RON RIVERA He did very well there, and I wanted to see my other son follow his footsteps.
SHARON MOORE I think (experience) is important. You could see it the last three weeks. Landon (Smith) was on the ...
GREGG GRINSTEINNER I think Shep Smith is probably the premier anchor/journalist of my generation. He's terrific, an...
DAVID SHUSTER I really enjoyed being Peppy Miller. She was an amazing character and her energy followed me everywh...
BERENICE BEJO I followed my brother Sam up here. He came up here for the wrestling and the academics. I followed h...
MACK LEWNES My parents, Mary Agnes Smith and Rowland Smith, both had to work since their early teens, she in the...
MICHAEL SMITH How I wish I lived in a Jane Austen novel!
DODIE SMITH [That studio was built for her father shortly before his death from cancer in 1978.] It was a little...
FRANK MULLINS On more than one occasion, they've wanted for Jane to adopt them. They just loved her.
DANA CAñEDO I think it's clear things are moving in the right direction under Walter Smith and that is encouragi...
BERTI VOGTS I started racing BMX when I was five years old. I followed in my brother's footsteps, and I was ...
CAROLINE BUCHANAN She went because he claimed he could offer her something Mom and Dad couldn't. I think he brainwashe...
CANDACE THOMSEN I started reading seriously at seven or eight, books about myths and legends, the Narnia series. By ...
MALORIE BLACKMAN Will Smith said if I ever need some help, he was there for me.
TATYANA ALI Jane Austen easily used half a page describing someone else's eyes; she would not appreciate summari...
TRACY CHEVALIER She remembered love, though, and a feeling of warmth. It was like remembering light, or the glow tha...
ALEXANDER MCCALL SMITH K.J. (Smith)'s had a very good camp. He had a good spring ball and I like him there (at middle lineb...
GREG ROBINSON She saw how he was staring at it, the bright red hue beneath her bonnet. She could not bear to see t...
CHARLOTTE FEATHERSTONE [Painkiller Jane centers on the title heroine, a young Marine officer who gains rapid self-healing p...
EMMANUELLE VAUGIER I think everybody has been focusing on Steve Smith. But nobody has stopped him yet.
JULIUS PEPPERS One of my major competitors was Harold Smith. Smith beat me in 1977. I was loafing during that compe...
EDWIN MOSES If it wasn't for coach Smith I don't think I would be where I am now. He taught me all about the gam...
ANTONIO WEBB Brad's been waiting since January, and you can see it. There was no guy in our program more excited ...
GARY PINKEL You sort of fell in love with Jane when you met her. She was exuberant, original, strong-minded and ...
JACOB EPSTEIN Following in my father's footsteps is tough, but he's my mentor and he prepared me well for this.
GREG BROWN Winston Smith: Does Big Brother exist?
O'Brien: Of course he exists.
Winston Smith: Does h...
GEORGE ORWELL Umpires are umpires, but he (Smith) was just incompetent.
RON POLK He sighed, then said, "So basically, you're stalking her."
"I am NOT stalking her." I insisted....
JENNIFER ECHOLS I am happier than Jane; she only smiles, I laugh. Mr. Darcy sends you all the love in the world, tha...
JANE AUSTEN I was the Jane Roe of Roe vs. Wade, but Jane Roe has been laid to rest.
NORMA MCCORVEY Several drivers traveling in the same direction as Smith said he ran the red light. He wasn't even c...
LARRY COLAGIOVANNI Everything starts with Smith. He beats you with his arms and his legs. Stopping Smith will give us a...
VICTOR ABIAMIRI I have never followed what people say it is 'fashionable'. I think that a woman must wear what fits ...
CARMEN MIRANDA Coach Smith and I have very similar ideas as far as schematics go, I think we compliment one another...
HUNTER ADAMS Brad's been waiting since January, and you can see it. There was no guy in our program more excited ...
GARY PINKEL At the time, when Rusty comes up to this disco, this lounge, he observes Mr. Smith, as he describes,...
ALBERT DAYAN At the time, when Rusty comes up to this disco, this lounge, he observes Mr. Smith, as he describes,...
ALBERT DAYAN She picked up the book beside her. Jane Eyre. Used, bought recently in a bookshop in Camden Passage,...
MICHELLE CLIFF I've always loved books by the Bronte sisters. I love Jane Austen, too. I'm more influenced ...
LAURA MARLING It was early in my career, and I had been seeing Mary, a shy, lonely, and physically collapsed you...
BESSEL A. VAN DER KOLK We knew he was going to have the ball in his hands. If I was Coach Smith, I would have done the same...
KIRK SPERAW I think I was a pretty normal student; I just followed most of my friends.
TALULAH RILEY I knew Jamie Smith was a good player, but I didn't realise he was as good as that,
JIMMY CALDERWOOD That was a key with Gregg. Paul Byrd wasn't sharp tonight, but he went as far as he could. I think K...
MIKE SCIOSCIA To me [Edgar Allen Poe's] prose is unreadable—like Jane Austin's [sic]. No there is a difference. ...
MARK TWAIN He said, "Were he only like his sister—what a difference that would make! For there never was such...
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JANE SEYMOUR Old-fashioned ways which no longer apply to changed conditions are a snare in which the feet of wome...
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JANE JACOBS A mind lively and at ease, can do with seeing nothing, and can see nothing that does not answer.
JANE AUSTEN If things are going untowardly one month, they are sure to mend the next.
JANE AUSTEN One man's style must not be the rule of another's.
JANE AUSTEN My idea of good company is the company of clever, well-informed people who have a great deal of conv...
JANE AUSTEN The good we secure for ourselves is precarious and uncertain until it is secured for all of us and i...
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JANE AUSTEN Action indeed is the sole medium of expression for ethics.
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JANE LYNCH You can't look at a sleeping cat and be tense.
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JANE GREEN We're still living with the old paradigm of age as an arch. That's the old metaphor: You'...
JANE FONDA Keep smiling - it takes 10 years off!
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JANE SMILEY Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure.
JANE AUSTEN Vanity working on a weak head, produces every sort of mischief.
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JANE AUSTEN Instead of drifting along like a leaf in a river, understand who you are and how you come across to ...
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JANE ELLIOT I did this Super-8 film at art school called 'Tissues,' this black comedy about a family who...
JANE CAMPION I am only resolved to act in that manner, which will, in my own opinion, constitute my happiness, wi...
JANE AUSTEN My husband used to take care of the business part of this, and after he died I found I wasn't re...
JANE HADDAM The fact that I even get in Broadway shows is, to me, still amazing, but then to win a Tony was just...
JANE KRAKOWSKI I thought," Shad said slowly, "that she was offended if you referred to Blind Seer or Elation as her...
JANE LINDSKOLD After a day of watching the two-legs interact from within their midst, she was certain that they cou...
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JANE RIDLEY I had a baby at 19 and was a grandmother by 39. Now, my children lend me their children to take them...
JANE BIRKIN The only siblings I have are half-siblings. My nuclear family would have been an extra-suffocating t...
JANE SMILEY A diagnosis is burden enough without being burdened by secrecy and shame.
JANE PAULEY It's always helpful to have somebody help buoy you in difficult times and problem-solve with and...
JANE POYNTER When my father died, my mother came back from being Mrs. Birkin to being Judy Campbell. She was a st...
JANE BIRKIN Seek women mentors. If you're a businesswoman, look at the TEDx conferences. There's a lot o...
JANE FONDA I have a theory that you can tell what the head of a company is like by the people who work there. I...
JANE GREEN Don't let anyone discourage you from writing. If you become a professional writer, there are ple...
JANE YOLEN Melanoma is not the most common of skin cancers, but it is the most dangerous if not found in the ea...
JANE GREEN Torture is illegal, both in the U.S. and abroad. So - and that is true for the Bush administration a...
JANE MAYER I got my love of animals from the Dr. Doolittle books and my love of Africa from the Tarzan novels. ...
JANE GOODALL I think if you go from show to show without doing that big PR blitz it's helpful because people ...
JANE CURTIN Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite without any...
JANE GOODSELL I love nothing better than to get all the nuts and bolts out of the way - show up on time, with line...
JANE ELLIOT I was on 'Murder She Wrote' with Angela Lansbury. She was fantastic... she was lovely to eve...
JANE BADLER No baby boomer has a completely original idea, but after 13 years on 'Today' and another 11 ...
JANE PAULEY There are other types of public appearances a writer does in addition to book signings and readings....
JANE LINDSKOLD I loved 'Boogie Nights.' That was a great movie, and I had a lot of fun doing that.
THOMAS JANE If we as a nation are to break the cycle of poverty, crime and the growing underclass of young peopl...
JANE FONDA Marriage, for a woman at least, hampers the two things that made life to me glorious -- friendship a...
JANE HARRISON Happiness is a sunbeam which may pass through a thousand bosoms without losing a particle of its ori...
JANE PORTER A lot of actresses I've worked with recently have done so much Botox their faces don't look ...
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CALAMITY JANE We remained in Texas leading a quiet home life until 1889.
CALAMITY JANE While in El Paso, I met Mr. Clinton Burk, a native of Texas, who I married in August 1885.
CALAMITY JANE During the fall and winter we built Fort Meade and the town of Sturgis.
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CALAMITY JANE As many of the riders before me had been held up and robbed of their packages, mail and money that t...
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CALAMITY JANE When I joined Custer I donned the uniform of a soldier. It was a bit awkward at first but I soon got...
CALAMITY JANE It was considered the most dangerous route in the Hills, but as my reputation as a rider and quick s...
CALAMITY JANE By the time we reached Virginia City I was considered a remarkable good shot and a fearless rider fo...
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JANE LEVY You spend all your life trying to do something they put people in asylums for.
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JANE GOLDMAN Thank God I've never had the sort of intense fame that means you can't walk up the road. Tha...
JANE ASHER What strange creatures brothers are!
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JANE AUSTEN [I]f a book is well written, I always find it too short.
JANE AUSTEN Angry people are not always wise.
JANE AUSTEN I am worn out with civility. I have been talking incessantly all night, and with nothing to say. But...
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JANE AUSTEN Words were insufficient for the elevation of his [Mr Collins'] feelings; and he was obliged to walk ...
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JANE AUSTEN Had I been in love, I could not have been more wretchedly blind. But vanity, not love, has been my f...
JANE AUSTEN We all know him to be a proud, unpleasant sort of man; but this would be nothing if you really liked...
JANE AUSTEN There could have been no two hearts so open, no tastes so similar, no feelings so in unison
JANE AUSTEN I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine.
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JANE AUSTEN Oh, Lizzy! do anything rather than marry without affection.
JANE AUSTEN I cannot fix on the hour, or the spot, or the look or the words, which laid the foundation. It is to...
JANE AUSTEN There is, I believe, in every disposition a tendency to some particular evil, a natural defect, whic...
JANE AUSTEN Somewhere a bird sang, its chant hanging plaintive and melancholy in the still air...I think it's a ...
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JANE AUSTEN ....how good Mrs. West could have written such books and collected so many hard works, with all her ...
JANE AUSTEN What should I do with your strong, manly, spirited sketches, full of variety and glow? How could I p...
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JANE AUSTEN If I am a wild Beast I cannot help it. It is not my own fault.
JANE AUSTEN I will not say that your mulberry trees are dead; but I am afraid they're not alive.
JANE AUSTEN I could not sit seriously down to write a serious Romance under any other motive than to save my lif...
JANE AUSTEN To you I shall say, as I have often said before, Do not be in a hurry, the right man will come at la...
JANE AUSTEN Many people, myself among them, feel better at the mere sight of a book.
JANE SMILEY Is not general incivility the very essence of love?
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JANE AUSTEN To look almost pretty is an acquisition of higher delight to a girl who has been looking plai...
JANE AUSTEN Her pleasure in the walk must arise from the exercise and the day, from the view of the last ...
JANE AUSTEN ...when pain is over, the remembrance of it often becomes a pleasure.
JANE AUSTEN You must learn some of my philosophy. Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure.
JANE AUSTEN To be womanly is one thing, and one only; it is to be sensitive to man, to be highly endowed with th...
JANE HARRISON Men are creatures with eight hands.
JANE MANSFIELD It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
JANE AUSTEN Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance.
JANE AUSTEN A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.
JANE AUSTEN Business, you know, may bring you money, but friendship hardly ever does.
JANE AUSTEN Telling lies and showing off to get attention are the mistakes I made that I don't want my kids to m...
JANE FONDA I personally think we developed language because of our deep inner need to complain.
JANE WAGNER When you affirm your own rightness in the universe, then you co-operate with others easily and autom...
JANE ROBERTS A good many dramatic situations begin with screaming.
JANE FONDA But look what we have built low-income projects that become worse centers of delinquency, vandalism ...
JANE JACOBS You can do one of two things; just shut up, which is something I don't find easy, or learn an awful ...
JANE FONDA A young and vital child knows no limit to his own will, and it is the only reality to him. It is not...
JANE HARRISON My husband said he wanted to have a relationship with a redhead, so I dyed my hair.
JANE FONDA I worry that no matter how cynical you become, it's never enough to keep up.
JANE WAGNER You're probably not a member of a major league baseball team, your errors, unless they are truly spe...
JANE GOODSELL Channels, psychological and psychic, always exist, sending communications back and forth through the...
JANE ROBERTS Call it a clan, call it a network, call it a tribe, call it a family: Whatever you call it, whoever ...
JANE HOWARD From politics it was an easy step to silence.
JANE AUSTEN There is safety in reserve, but no attraction. One cannot love a reserved person.
JANE AUSTEN I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principle.
JANE AUSTEN Surprises are foolish things. The pleasure is not enhanced and the inconvenience is often considerab...
JANE AUSTEN Social advance depends as much upon the process through which it is secured as upon the result itsel...
JANE ADDAMS One cannot be always laughing at a man without now and then stumbling on something witty.
JANE AUSTEN It is indolence... Indolence and love of ease; a want of all laudable ambition, of taste for good co...
JANE AUSTEN It will, I believe, be everywhere found, that as the clergy are, or are not what they ought to be, s...
JANE AUSTEN I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of anything than o...
JANE AUSTEN The good we secure for ourselves is precarious and uncertain - until it is secured for all of us and...
JANE ADDAMS One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other.
JANE AUSTEN One does not love a place the less for having suffered in it, unless it has been all suffering, noth...
JANE AUSTEN Nobody can tell what I suffer! But it is always so. Those who do not complain are never pitied.
JANE AUSTEN Those who do not complain are never pitied.
JANE AUSTEN Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery.
JANE AUSTEN In nine cases out of ten, a woman had better show more affection than she feels.
JANE AUSTEN I am afraid that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.
JANE AUSTEN Single women have a dreadful propensity for being poor. Which is one very strong argument in favor o...
JANE AUSTEN What dreadful hot weather we have! It keeps me in a continual state of inelegance.
JANE AUSTEN With men he can be rational and unaffected, but when he has ladies to please, every feature works.
JANE AUSTEN There are certainly are not so many men of large fortune in the world as there are of pretty woman t...
JANE AUSTEN It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be...
JANE AUSTEN And I, Mr. Knightley, am equally stout in my confidence of its not doing them any harm. With all dea...
JANE AUSTEN America's future will be determined by the home and the school. The child becomes largely what he is...
JANE ADDAMS The essence of immorality is the tendency to make an exception of myself.
JANE ADDAMS Nothing is more deceitful than the appearance of humility. It is often only carelessness of opinion,...
JANE AUSTEN Why not seize the pleasure at once? How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish prepara...
JANE AUSTEN Where an opinion is general, it is usually correct.
JANE AUSTEN Every man is surrounded by a neighborhood of voluntary spies.
JANE AUSTEN For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors, and laugh at them in our turn?
JANE AUSTEN To sit in the shade on a fine day, and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment.
JANE AUSTEN It may be possible to do without dancing entirely. Instances have been known of young people passing...
JANE AUSTEN A woman, especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as sh...
JANE AUSTEN . . . it is happy for you that you possess the talent of flattering with delicacy. May I ask whether...
JANE AUSTEN When you can't remember why you're hurt, that's when you're healed.
JANE FONDA Human nature is so well disposed towards those who are in interesting situations, that a young perso...
JANE AUSTEN You mistake me, my dear. I have a high respect for your nerves. They are my old friends. I have hear...
JANE AUSTEN We do not look in our great cities for our best morality.
JANE AUSTEN One has not great hopes from Birmingham. I always say there is something direful in the sound.
JANE AUSTEN Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be...
JANE AUSTEN I go into the locker room and find a corner and just sit there. I try to achieve a peaceful state of...
JANE BLALOCK It is not time or opportunity that is to determine intimacy;-- it is disposition alone. Seven years ...
JANE AUSTEN It's never too late -- never too late to start over, never too late to be happy.
JANE FONDA Although our productions have afforded more extensive and unaffected pleasure than those of any othe...
JANE AUSTEN I will not adopt that ungenerous and impolitic custom so common with novel writers, of degrading by ...
JANE AUSTEN A well adjusted person is one who makes the same mistake twice without getting nervous.
JANE HEARD Self-denial is painful for a moment, but very agreeable in the end.
JANE TAYLOR To be a revolutionary you have to be a human being. You have to care about people who have no power.
JANE FONDA Even though I make those movies, I find myself wishing that more of those magic moments could happen...
JANE SEYMOUR In my experience, there is only one motivation, and that is desire. No reasons or principle contain...
JANE SMILEY The best manner of avenging ourselves is by not resembling him who has injured us.
JANE PORTER In my day, we didn't have self-esteem, we had self-respect... and no.
JANE HADDAM