"You are mistaken, Mr. Darcy, if you suppose that the mode of your declaration affected me in any other way, than as it spared the concern which I might have felt in refusing you, had you behaved in a more gentlemanlike manner." (Elizabeth Bennett)"

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Jane Austen

#Love Quotes #Pride Quotes #Way Quotes

“It is difficult to describe in short the enthusiasm and devotion provoked by and given to my research. We lived almost in poverty. I used pencils, two for a nickel, and could not buy a fountain pen, when I lost mine.”
“When I die, I hope to go to Heaven, whatever the Hell that is.”
“Maybe I should just go home and ride my tractor.”
“Well, baseball was my whole life. Nothing's ever been as fun as baseball.”
“Acting is the ability to keep an audience from coughing.”
“I loved the logistical reality of a guy who wants to take over the world, yet who has a family too.”
“You cannot tailor-make the situations in life but you can tailor-make the attitudes to fit those situations.”
“Perhaps basketball and poetry have just a few things in common, but the most important is the possibility of transcendence. The opposite is labor. In writing, every writer knows when he or she is laboring to achieve an effect. You want to get from here to there, but find yourself willing it, forcing it. The equivalent in basketball is aiming your shot, a kind of strained and usually ineffective purposefulness. What you want is to be in some kind of flow, each next moment a discovery.”

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