Colombe Jacobsen Quotes & Sayings

What a strange mind, to cover the real thing with an imitation of something real. — Frances Mayes

If men were but to read the New Testament with the same tone and emphasis, with which they do other books, and were to keep out of mind the idea of its being sacred, they would be disgusted with the credulity, and the want of intellect, reason and judgment, that is apparent in it. — Lysander Spooner

Dismissing fantasy writing because some of it is bad is exactly like saying I'm not reading Jane Eyre because it is a romance and I know romance is crap. — China Mieville

You have to be able to get inside the heads of the characters and completely sympathize and understand them — Carlton Cuse

He turned now with a lover's thirst to images of tranquil skies, fresh meadows, cool brooks - an existence of soft and eternal peace. — Stephen Crane

I may even show up behind the camera. I love to put things together; I love to give direction. I have a great eye for pace. — J. B. Smoove

The great artist is the simplifier. — Vincent Van Gogh

It was a laugh that came from the tip of his toes, gaining force and soul as it traveled through his body and out into the world in mirthful bursts. There wasn't anything fake about it; it was an amusement park of a laugh, and when it appeared, you wanted to jump on board. — David Levithan

I go by the role pretty much. And I think the only genre I haven't gotten to do but I'd love to is a western, but no one has ever asked me to do that. Unfortunately they are very few and far between these days, but that is one type of film I'd love to do. — Sam Neill

Each of us has his own inner concentration camp ... We must deal with, with forgiveness and patience-as full human beings, as we are and what we will become. — Viktor E. Frankl

How could a very thin woman do all the things that women needed to do: to carry children on their backs, to pound maize into flour out at the lands or the cattle post, to cart around the things of the household - the pots and pans and buckets of water? And how could a thin woman comfort a man? It would be very awkward for a man to share his bed with a person who was all angles and bone, whereas a traditionally built lady would be like an extra pillow on which a man coming home tired from his work might rest his weary head. To do all that you needed a bit of bulk, and thin people simply did not have that. — Alexander McCall Smith

And she looked at him and saw the grave tenderness in his eyes, and yet knew, for she was bred among men of war, that here was one whom no Rider of the Mark could outmatch in battle. — J.R.R. Tolkien

We are justified in believing that the success of this movement for equality of the sexes means more progress toward equality of the races. — Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin

If ... [Alban] Berg departs so radically from tradition, through his substitution of a symmetrical partitioning of the octave for the asymmetrical partionings of the major/minor system, he departs just as radically from the twelve-tone tradition that is represented in the music of Schoenberg and Webern, for whom the twelve-tone series was always an integral structure that could be transposed only as a unit, and for whom twelve-tone music always implied a constant and equivalent circulation of the totality of pitch classes. — George Perle

Sometimes a man has got to hock his sweet used-to-be in order to finance his present situation... — Tennessee Williams