Jacobssons Quotes & Sayings

If you can have everything at fifty that you wanted when you were fifteen, you're happy. — Alfred Bester

After leaving school, I travelled around Europe for about six months. In Denmark, I thought that was my chance to get an amazing haircut, so I went to what I thought was a great hairdresser. It turned out to be the car wash of hairdressers, and I walked out sporting yet another pudding bowl, but this time with a stripe bleached down the centre. — Becki Newton

You know what the game of golf is, don't you? It's basketball for people who can't jump and chess for people who can't think. — Tom Robbins

I'm not the best of you, but I'm not the worst either. — Cat Stevens

We are experiencing a level-one security breach and all elevators have been temporarily shut down. Please enjoy a hot cup of tea while we wait for clearance. — Marissa Meyer

What man can hate or love well when he is drugged? — Kristin Cashore

It wasn't every day a girl lost her virginity, not to mention to a delicious, perfect specimen of man. One who had wings, to boot. — Rosalie Lario

Media work needs ideals. Maybe thirty years from now, after I retire, I'll see the media mature and make the transition from political party, interest group, and corporate to truly public. But over the next ten years, the encroachment of commercialism and worldliness will loom much larger than the democratization we imagine. -Jin Yongquan in China Ink — Judy Polumbaum

If Corporations are people, I guarantee you that a government of those people, by those people, and for those people will continue to exist. — Stephen Colbert

The soul knows no greater anguish than to take a breath that begins with love and ends with grief. — Steven Erikson

Sometimes you need a reminder that negative comments about your body aren't even really about your body, they're about society and our society's wrongheaded and impossibly narrow definition of a "good" body. Your body didn't do anything wrong. What's fucked up about your body is not your body at all, but that your body has to live in a society that thinks it has a right to say fucked up things about your body. — Golda Poretsky

Every sentence must do one of two things: reveal character or advance the action. — Kurt Vonnegut

On the tree, Future, we build our nest; and in our solitude eagles shall bring us nourishment in their beaks! — Friedrich Nietzsche

There was some reason to call Pole heartless. His blood ran thinly in an effete body; no human emotion was urgent in him, neither love of family nor of country, and certainly not of women. But now he was forced to remember that his mother was also a woman, and to realize that her fate had lain at his door. — Margaret Irwin