Quotes of Jane - somelinesforyou

“ It occurred to me when I was thirteen and wearing white gloves and Mary Janes and going to dancing school, that no one should have to dance backward all their lives. ”

- Jill Ruckelshaus

“ How can a guy climb trees, say Me, Tarzan, you, Jane, and make a million? The public forgives my acting because they know I was an athlete. They know I wasn't make-believe. ”

- Johnny Weissmuller

“ Tarzan is direct; he doesn't ask Jane if they might have a meaningful relationship or if they can get together for lunch sometime. ”

- Richard Kahn

“ Astride the intersection of politics and culture stands Jane Fonda like a female colossus. Or at least a nicely aging Barbarella. ”

- Suzanne Fields

“ During Whatever Happened To Baby Jane?, I knitted a scarf from Hollywood to Malibu. ”

- Joan Crawford

“ The Dick, Jane, and Spot primers have gone to that bookshelf in the sky. I have, in some ways, a tender feeling toward them, so I think it's for the best. ”

- Chris Van Allsburg

“ Just the omission of Jane Austen's books alone would make a fairly good library out of a library that hadn't a book in it. ”

- Mark Twain

“ I write about violence as naturally as Jane Austen wrote about manners. Violence shapes and obsesses our society, and if we do not stop being violent we have no future. ”

- Edward Bond

“ A hippie is someone who looks like Tarzan, walks like Jane and smells like Cheetah. ”

- Ronald Reagan

“ Jane Austen is the pinnacle to which all other authors aspire. ”

- J. K. Rowling

“ All I know is that when I was a kid the Vietnam war was on and Jane Fonda was the own person standing up and saying what every kid who was nine-years-old like I was knew, war is wrong and we shouldn't go over and kill other people in a country that has nothing to do with us or our democracy. ”

- Rosie O’Donnell

“ Jane Grigson is the nearest thing that we have on this side of the great green bouillabaisse to M F K Fisher. with learning and wit that are rarely devoted to such a banausic subject as stuffing food down one's cake hole. ”

- Philip Howard

“ Imagine a nineteenth-century Jane Fonda visiting the Oglala Sioux in the Black Hills before the battle at Little Big Horn. Imagine her examining Crazy Horse's arrows or climbing upon Sitting Bull's horse. Such behavior by a well-known actress no doubt would have infuriated Gen… ”

- Tom Hayden

“ One of the first jobs I ever had in the industry was with Fred Zinnermann, who directed High Noon. I was in Julia with Jane Fonda, and I was this slimy, awful man. Mr Z said to me, 'This man believes he himself is very noble'. It was my first insight into the type of characters I've played… ”

- John Glover

“ The system — the American one, at least — is a vast and noble experiment. It has been polestar and exemplar for other nations. But from kindergarten until she graduates from college the girl is treated in it exactly like her brothers. She studies the same subjects, becomes proficient at the same sports… ”

- Phyllis McGinley
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