Memorable Emma Quotes & Sayings

I better make the plot good. I wanted to make it grip people on the first page and have a big turning point in the middle, as there is, and construct the whole thing like a roller coaster ride. — Mark Haddon

War makes its own morals. — Margaret Bourke-White

The voice of history is often little more than the organ of hatred or flattery. — Edward Gibbon

I don't want security - to be self-assured - I want to risk my heart in making your portrait and be paid the wages of your devotion ... — John Geddes

A real woman can do it by herself... But a real man won't let her. — Anonymous

Were I to fall in love, indeed, it would be a different thing; but I have never been in love ; it is not my way, or my nature; and I do not think I ever shall. — Jane Austen

Somebody'd better pray for him, don't you think? He IS a lost soul.
~Pastor John Linton — Janet Sketchley

Outsiders think of Silicon Valley as a success story, but in truth, it is a graveyard. Failure.. is Silicon Valley's greatest strength. Every failed product or enterprise is a lesson stored in the collective memory of the country. We not only don't stigmatize failure, sometime we even admire it. Venture Capitalists actually like to see a little failure in the resumes of entrepreneurs. — Michael Malone

How nice would it be to just drop from the tree, fall from forking branches a ripened fruit thudding your weight to earth without distraction, without option - thrust to ground under gravity's current to be gathered up and eaten or left there to decay and deposit that seed from the core of your being into the little plot of your death, lush ring of your composted fertilizing flesh. — Patrick Bryant

Interrogated innumerable suspects, and you knew that eventually you'd be sitting in a courtroom telling us what happened in the — James Patterson

The child has a mind able to absorb knowledge. He has the power to teach himself. — Maria Montessori