Jakie Quotes & Sayings

Although oil is a commodity, it's still not a commodity like coffee, which, thank God, we will have with us always. At some point the oil will run out. — James Surowiecki

I am excited to get on tour, if I'm speaking to the Phish fans. I can't wait. — Trey Anastasio

We are not defined as much by our reproductive organs, as we are by how we feel about them. — Michael Makai

It is the cause, not the death, that makes the martyr. — Napoleon Bonaparte

Jakie, is it my birthday or am I dying ? — Nancy Astor

The ear is the only writer and the only true reader. — Robert Frost

I want to grow roots and vines from my body and ensnare him forever in my branches. No wonder we scare men away. — Wendy Wunder

When Fancy still didn't answer, he took her hand, and with his red paintbrush, he wrote 'please' into her palm. — Dia Reeves

'Eclipse' is a concept piece, and its concept centers on 36 large light bulbs strung from above in a geometrical pattern and at different heights, some of them at times down below the dancers' chest level. — Robert Gottlieb

And there my little doves did sit With feathers softly brown And glittering eyes that showed their right To general Nature's deep delight. — Elizabeth Barrett Browning

A lot of things appearing under my byline were written in one draft. But when I started to write poetry, I started getting fussy about every syllable. I wouldn't allow the work to be seen unless it felt perfect. Not clunky at all, no clunky syllables. So, really, for the printed page, it had to have a feeling of rhythmic and syntactic verisimilitude or something. — Richard Meltzer

Jakie, is it my birthday or am I dying? (Seeing all her children assembled at her bedside in her last illness.) — Nancy Astor The Viscountess Astor

"Knowledge is the frontier of tomorrow." — Denis Waitley

Idiopathic Craniofacial Erythema', or 'severe facial blushing'. — Liane Moriarty

I'm always glad to see somebody rethink something rather than reproduce something I did. — Harold Prince

When we suffer prolonged anxiety, we have a tendency to become self-obsessed...You believe the whole world is thinking about you constantly. You believe the world is judging you and talking about you...The more you engage with the outside world, the more you'll be able to turn down the volume on those worries. You'll see that they're unfounded. You'll see that the world is a very busy and varied place and most people have the attention span of a gnat. They've already forgotten what happened. They don't think about it. — Sophie Kinsella