#jan

I will be calm. I will be mistress of myself. ↗

— Jane Austen

#serenity #jane-austen

You must be the best judge of your own happiness. ↗

— Jane Austen

#jane-austen

It took me awhile to learn the rules. OK, it took the librarian in me weeks of careful obsessive research to learn the rules. There was a label maker involved. I'd rather not go into it. ↗

— Molly Harper

#librarian #vampire-romance #vampires #librarians

How many unuttered words died in the heads of those for whom a word was too expensive. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

#expensive #heads #literature #literature-quotes #philosophy

Do not look too far for you will see nothing. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

#dejan-stojanovic #literature #literature-quotes #nothing #philosophy

Teaching others, he corrected himself. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

#correction #corrections #dejan-stojanovic #himself #literature

I think a duet with Janet is a great idea. ↗

— Paula Abdul

#great #great idea #i #i think #idea

I have the highest respect for your nerves, they are my old friends. ↗

— Jane Austen

#mr-darcy #pride-and-prejudice #respect

My mother taught public school, went to Harvard and then got her master's there and taught fifth and sixth grade in a public school. My dad had a more working-class lifestyle. He didn't go to college. He was an auto mechanic and a bartender and a janitor at Harvard. ↗

— Ben Affleck

#bartender #college #dad #fifth #go

Our task force put to sea in early January 1942, to attack the Japanese in the Marshall and Gilbert islands, but the mission was called off on the eve of the attack. ↗

— Jack Adams

#called #early #eve #force #gilbert