Quotes About Jane

Jane," he said. "Jane, a pane of crystal, the sound of rain falling on the silken grain of marble, a slender, pale chain of a name.

After breakfast I spent an hour cleaning my revolver and trying my skill at a target. Jane shook her head, probably thinking that bullets were vain against demonic powers. But Perdita was hugely delighted with the shining little instrument and wanted it for a plaything; women of all ages will play with death! ("Absolute Evil")

Jane's little cowgirl seemed made to order for riding Tenny's bucking bronco.

'Clueless' is an adaptation of 'Emma' by Jane Austen. It works either way: if you know the book and if you don't.

Deep in my cortex, the year is divided into reading seasons. The period from mid-October to Christmas, for instance, is 'ghost story' time, while Jane Austen and P. G. Wodehouse pretty much own April and May.

I was asked by an editor to consider writing something about an American inventor. I asked him if he knew who invented the computer. He said he didn't. In that case, I told him, I should write a book about John Vincent Atanasoff.

If I could choose, I'd be bare feet with animals all around me and living in a tree house. Like Tarzan and Jane, that's my dream. I'm at my happiest around nature.

I find acting slightly nerve racking, but I like the challenge.

So, the MacGregors. Yeah. Jane nodded with a long sigh. The MacGregors. I don't get what the big deal is with them, Charlotte said. If you saw under their kilts, you would get what the big deal--- Annabelle tried to break in.

If anyone lacked the gene for holding a grudge, it was Frost, whose legendary congeniality only served to make Jane look bad.

Before your mother, my heart was little more than a seed, Jane. A wiggly, gelatinous mother, rather like a solitary sperm.

When I filmed 'Live And Let Die' with Jane Seymour, I kept my socks on in bed, as it was such a cold set.

Baby Jane' is a tune, what a sax solo. And The Faces' 'Stay With Me' is amazing.

I did the figure of Diana in V, a cult TV show seen all over the world.

Nothing is more deceitful than the appearance of humility. It is often only carelessness of opinion, and sometimes an indirect boast.

you were the only one who understood the futility of the arrangement of life; all the others were only displeased with trivial segments, carped nonsensically about nonsense; Jane, you were killed by knowing too much.

Praying's not going to help. Too late for that, Jane...I gave you a chance to have it on your terms. Now we'll do this on mine

Living here in Cambridge, you had to have an identity. It was not enough to be a wife. So I did a Ph.D. in medieval Spanish poetry.

I have no pretensions whatever to that kind of elegance which consists in tormenting a respectable man.

Veterinary arts?" Jane asked with a gasp. "Lucy, you must be mad." "I assure you I've all my wits about me," Lucy Abbington answered with a frown. No, she wasn't mad, but her life was about to change—dramatically. She'd long since recognized this as the truth, ever since her father had packed her

All I want to do is make serious movies that explore social issues and turn a profit, and slip the schnitzel to Jane DePugh.

He may live in my memory as the most amiable man of my acquaintance.

Courtship? Had I said courtship ? What did I think, that this was Jane freakin' Eyre?

Intellectually, Stephen was a towering giant. Bodily, he was as helpless as a newborn. The functions I fulfilled were all maternal rather than marital.