
Top 100 Jane Do Quotes
#1. Jesus, Samara Jane, do you fuck your girlfriend with that mouth?"
She tugs my lip between her teeth. "Only when she's good.
Dahlia Adler
#2. Taking you to the shower. Me Tarzan, You Jane. Do as I say.
Lisa Renee Jones
#3. I hear you're losing weight again, Mary Jane. Do you ever wonder who you're losing it for?
Alanis Morissette
#4. I can't imagine people telling me what to do - I just can't imagine it.
Jane Campion
#5. Don't let anyone discourage you from writing. If you become a professional writer, there are plenty of editors, reviewers, critics, and book buyers to do that.
Jane Yolen
#6. Jane Austen? I feel that I am approaching dangerous ground. The reputation of Jane Austen is surrounded by cohorts of defenders who are ready to do murder for their sacred cause.
Arnold Bennett
#7. For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors, and laugh at them in our turn?
Jane Austen
#8. I think it would be best if you came down from there before I explained that."
"I think I'll stay right where I am, thank you," I said. "And you, you stay where you are, or I'll ... I don't know what I'll do, but it will really hurt. You, I mean.
Molly Harper
#9. Miz Ellen, what do you carry in that handbag of yours that has enough wallop to knock down a full-grown man? - Dan Landry
Jane Rainwater
#10. Whenever I do talks around the country, I map out my run. Gives me something fun to do and to look forward to doing.
Jane McGonigal
#11. Don't patronize me, Caro", he said, sounding even angrier. "You think I don't know what it means to make this commitment but I do ... Don't dismiss how I feel just because ... just because I'm younger than you.
Jane Harvey-Berrick
#12. To stand there and do nothing on film is probably the hardest thing to do.
Thomas Jane
#13. A man would always wish to give a woman a better home than the one he takes her from; and he who can do it, where there is no doubt of her regard, must, I think, be the happiest of mortals.
Jane Austen
#14. ... she had nothing to do but to forgive herself and be happier than ever ...
Jane Austen
#15. I do not think it worth while to wait for enjoyment until there is some real opportunity for it.
Jane Austen
#16. Seems a lot of men never saw one such as me. A girl what could keep up and fight and ride and curse with the best of them. A girl what ain't trapped in some dress or some house or some bed. A girl what ain't waiting on some man to do what she ought to her own damn self.
J.D. Jordan
#17. To you I shall say, as I have often said before, 'Do not be in a hurry, the right man will come at last '. - Jane Austen
Alexandra Potter
#18. I am convinced that we become what we do.
Jane Fonda
#19. Jane smiled the Making Lemonade smile that adults learn to do when they get used to the world stomping on their heads.
Michael R. Underwood
#20. I think sometimes people are scared to change. Sometimes people are scared to do something different, especially if they've been successful at something.
Jane Clayson
#21. The rector of a parish has much to do. - In the first place, he must make such an agreement for tythes as may be beneficial to himself and not offensive to his patron.
Jane Austen
#22. I do find modern jazz quite tricky.
Jane Asher
#23. Okay, okay, I can do this, Jane said to herself. Of course I can do this. I should be used to making a fool out of myself by now. This will be the last big one. Just three weeks and then I can leave this part of myself behind and get on with my life. And maybe it'll be fun. It might even be fun.
Shannon Hale
#24. Walter Scott has no business to write novels, especially good ones. - It is not fair. - He has fame and profit enough as a poet, and should not be taking the bread out of other people's mouths. - I do not like him, and do not mean to like Waverley if I can help it - but fear I must.
Jane Austen
#25. I don't belong to any clubs, and I dislike club mentality of any kind, even feminism - although I do relate to the purpose and point of feminism. More in the work of older feminists, really, like Germaine Greer.
Jane Campion
#26. I've been wanting to compliment you on that', I said to her, in Delsig. 'It was nicely done. Do you compose it that moment, or had you thought about it before?
Ann Leckie
#27. My Bond character was meant to look like a virgin. I don't think they do that very often.
Jane Seymour
#28. Ideas are the cheapest part of the writing. They are free. The hard part is what you do with ideas you've gathered.
Jane Yolen
#29. I am really attracted to films. It's nice to do something new, all the time. That's why I like being an actor.
Jane Levy
#30. If we do not do something to help these creatures, we make a mockery of the whole concept of justice.
Jane Goodall
#31. Though man a thinking being is defined, Few use the grand prerogative of mind. How few think justly of the thinking few! How many never think, who think they do!
Jane Taylor
#32. Sometimes I write less than I'd like but do research. Other times, editor's notes or a copy-edited manuscript or page proofs for a forthcoming novel mean that I need to put my attentions elsewhere for a day or two, but I always come back to writing.
Jane Lindskold
#33. Pot itself has nothing to do with pots and pans, but comes from the Mexican-Spanish word potiguaya, which means marijuana leaves. And marijuana is a Mexification of 'Mary Jane' for reasons that everybody is much too stoned to remember.
Mark Forsyth
#34. I will be unneeded, and gladly so, when you realize that the vitality and reinforcement and joy are your own, and rise from the fountain of your own beings; when you realize that you do not need me for protection, for there is nothing you need protect yourself against.
Jane Roberts
#35. I am a musician. I didn't know I would be so when I was young. I do know that I have always heard music in my head that I wasn't hearing somewhere else and I 'needed' this music. And obedient to the laws of nature, I created into this vacuum.
Jane Siberry
#36. A certain amount of housekeeping also goes on in my poems. I wash doorknobs, do dishes, mop floors, patch carpets, cook.
Jane Hirshfield
#37. Nothing was so likely to do her good as a little quiet cheerfulness at home.
Jane Austen
#38. We do not suffer by accident. It does not often happen that the interference of friends will persuade a young man of independent fortune to think no more of a girl whom he was violently in love with only a few days before
Jane Austen
#39. Gossip. The more you talk about why people do things, the more ideas you have about how the world works.
Jane Smiley
#40. Sex is such a personal thing - why do we insist on sharing it with another person?
Jane Wagner
#41. As human beings, we can encompass a vague feeling of what the universe is, and all in this funny little brain here - so there has to be something more than just brain, it has to be something to do with spirit as well.
Jane Goodall
#42. I learnt from Flo how to be mother. Flo was patient, tolerant. She was supportive. She was always there. She was playful. She enjoyed having her babies, as good mothers do.
Jane Goodall
#43. A man who has nothing to do with his own time has no conscience in his intrusion on that of others.
Jane Austen
#44. I didn't accomplish what I set out to do, but I realized I had set out to do the wrong things
Jane McGonigal
#45. What do I not owe you! You taught me a lesson, hard indeed at first, but most advantageous. By you, I was properly humbled. I came to you without a doubt of my reception. You showed me how insufficient were all my pretensions to please a woman worthy of being pleased. - Darcy
Jane Austen
#46. There are very few of us that do not cherish a feeling of self-complacency on the score of some quality or other, real or imaginary
Jane Austen
#47. Do not follow the ancient masters, seek what they sought.
Jane Hirshfield
#48. She's not looking to change you. She wants you just the way you are. And loving someone isn't a crisis. It's normal. Lots of people do it. They love each other and the sky doesn't fall. The world doesn't stop turning.
Mary Jane Hathaway
#49. Do you think I would want to live under a government that you ran or set up? It's all very nice to say you're an anarchist, but you only want anarchy for yourself. For the rest of us, you want to make sure we do what you say, think how you think, and remember you're the boss.
Jane Smiley
#50. When I started painting 17 years ago, I never imagined that anyone would look at my work or buy my pieces. But now I do about 14 exhibitions each year.
Jane Seymour
#51. Acting was truly all that I ever wanted to do. I've always acted in plays and sang and played music, and you get to a certain age and think there's nothing else that you'd rather do.
Jane Badler
#52. We do not look in great cities for our best morality.
Jane Austen
#53. Oh, I'll tell you about 'Anyone Can Whistle' - the lesson I learned with doing that record is that the simplest songs are the hardest to do.
Jane Krakowski
#54. Do not you feel a great inclination, Miss Bennet, to seize such an opportunity of dancing a reel?
Jane Austen
#55. I believe that culture begins in the cradle ... To do without tales and stories and books is to lose humanity's past, is to have no star map for our future.
Jane Yolen
#56. Every once in a while I go off to do a movie or a television series and I take my art with me. I can stay in character when I paint.
Jane Seymour
#58. I have come to realise that your are the most important person in the world to me, and I wanted to know if you would consider ... if you would do me the honour of becoming my wife
C. Allyn Pierson
#59. You feel, as you always do, what is most to the credit of human nature. - Such feelings ought to be investigated, that they may know themselves.
Jane Austen
#60. It is books that are a key to the wide world; if you can't do anything else, read all that you can.
Jane Hamilton
#61. It's not what you think about that matters in life, it's what you actually do about it.
Jane Green
#62. No, indeed, I shall grant you nothing. I always take the part of my own sex. I do indeed. I give you notice
You will find me a formidable antagonist on that point. I always stand up for women.
Jane Austen
#63. Mine is a misery which nothing can do away.
Jane Austen
#64. Do you not want to know who has taken it? cried his wife impatiently.
Jane Austen
#65. But the paradox is here: when cultivated people do stay away from a certain portion of the population, when all social advantages are persistently withheld, it may be for years, the result itself is pointed to as a reason and is used as an argument for the continued withholding.
Jane Addams
#66. For what do we live, but to make sport by subjecting our neighbors to endless discretionary review for minor additions?
Jane Austen
#67. Seeing your work in something animated, you realize how little you have to do with all of it. It's always a surprise, and its always exciting to see. You never know what is going to happen when you're in that room by yourself.
Jane Lynch
#68. I'm interested in people that don't always do the right thing, its much more akin to what I know about life.
Thomas Jane
#69. Do you think the occasional witch burning helps to weld society together?
Charlie Jane Anders
#70. Sometimes, even when I'm trying to keep the load light it just feels so heavy. Like the sky is a ton of bricks waiting to fall and anything I might do, think or feel could cause it to come crashing down.
Jane Devin
#71. I do think that men can forget a lost love quickly. I know that women would find it much harder.
Jane Austen
#72. Horse racing is really much more intimidating than anything having to do with literature. When I had horses at the racetrack, I would wake up in terror in a way that I would never wake up while working on a novel.
Jane Smiley
#73. I don't much enjoy travelling, but I have always longed to take a slow train to Russia. I'd like to go alone - like writers do - with only a pencil and piece of paper as company. I'd take my sketchbook and note down all the wonderful details of other travellers.
Jane Birkin
#74. My beloved Laura" (said she to me a few Hours before she died) "take warning from my unhappy End ... Beware of fainting-fits ... Beware of swoons, Run mad as often as you chuse; but do not faint - ".
Jane Austen
#75. It isn't what we say or think that defines us, but what we do.
Jane Austen
#76. When I was a teenager, I used to love the Bronte books, 'Wuthering Heights' and 'Jane Eyre.' In those books, the women do usually manage to heal the men, but in life, I've found it's often the woman gets wounded. Instead of healing a man, she gets affected by his cruelty.
Jocelyn Moorhouse
#77. And what may I do for you?" Jane had intended to try to draw her away to the refreshment room, but it seemed they were
Mary Balogh
#78. Do your homework and keep good files. Know the background and biases of your sources.
Jane Brody
#79. I do like the whole idea of going to a location to shoot a movie, and there is a start date and a finish date, and a lot of special things happen within those weeks.
Jane Levy
#80. Sometimes when the poop hits the fan we should block it and run, sometimes we should haul off and knock it for a loop back at the spinning blades. Wisdom is knowing two things. One is which time is which. The other is that no matter what you do you're gonna get crap on your hand.
Faith Hunter
#81. I love 'Jane Eyre,' and I love the Bronte sisters. I actually didn't read any of them until I was in college, so I don't have quite the same connection with them that I think a lot of women do.
Mallory Ortberg
#82. Anne could do no more; but her heart prophesied some mischance to damp the perfection of her felicity.
Jane Austen
#83. ...and, my dear aunt, if you do not tell me in an honourable manner, I shall certainly be reduced to tricks and stratagems to find out.
Jane Austen
#84. Ah! what could we do but what we did! We sighed and fainted on the Sofa.
Jane Austen
#85. I enjoy the crafts on the show enormously, too, when we have experts in showing how to make things. You watch them thinking you'll go home and do the things yourself, which is fun. Some I have done myself later on.
Jane Asher
#86. For me, being a director is about watching, not about telling people what to do. Or maybe it's like being a mirror; if they didn't have me to look at, they wouldn't be able to put the make-up on.
Jane Campion
#87. Well, well," said he, "do not make yourself unhappy. If you are a good girl for the next ten years, I will take you to a review at the end of them.
Jane Austen
#88. I do regard her as one who is too modest for the world in general to be aware of half her accomplishments, and too highly accomplished for modesty to be natural of any other woman.
Jane Austen
#89. And what am I to do on the occasion?
It seems an hopeless business.
Jane Austen
#90. When you think you can't do any more repetitions, do two more.
Jane Fonda
#91. In vain I have struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you." Elizabeth's astonishment was beyond expression.
Jane Austen
#92. I do not know that I should be fond of preaching often; now and then, perhaps, once or twice in the spring, after being anxiously expected for half-a-dozen Sundays together; but not for a constancy; it would not do for a constancy.
Jane Austen
#93. I'm a practicing Christian - and I'm going to keep practicing till I get it right - but I don't feel everyone has to practice the same religion that I do. You have a right to worship who you choose and how you choose to.
Jane Elliot
#94. Get over jet-lag quickly. I think a lot of people waste the first few days sleeping in the wrong time zone. Sometimes I take melatonin but at other times a glass of wine will do it.
Jane Seymour
#95. The key to life is imagination. If you don't have that, no mater what you have, it's meaningless. If you do have imagination ... you can make feast of straw.
Jane Stanton Hitchcock
#96. When I did 'Don't Look Back,' I no longer had Time-Life looking over my shoulder, so I could kind of do it as I wanted, and it was like I was really correcting 'Jane.'
D. A. Pennebaker
#97. Do not kill him. That shit would totally bum Jane out.
J.R. Ward
#98. There is a sociology of horses, as well as a psychology. It is most evident in the world of horse racing, where many horses are gathered together, where year after year, decade after decade, they do the same, rather simple thing - run in races and try to win.
Jane Smiley
#99. You may do this, I tell you, it is permitted. Begin again the story of your life.
Jane Hirshfield
#100. Not very good, I am afraid. But now really, do not you think Udolpho the nicest book in the world?"
"The nicest - by which I suppose you mean the neatest. That must depend upon the binding.
Jane Austen
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