Jakobson Model Quotes & Sayings

Indeed, until one tries it for himself, it is incredible what dignity there is in an old hat, what virtue in a time-worn coat, and how savory the dinner-table can be made without sirloin steaks and cranberry tarts. — Edmund Morris

Hitler is no worse, nay better, in my opinion, than the other lugs. He makes the German mistake of being tactless, that's all. — Henry Miller

The reason it's difficult to learn something new is that it will change you into someone who disagrees with the person you used to be. — Seth Godin

If you've put a smile on someone's face today, you've done more good than you know. — Richelle E. Goodrich

As long as I can remember, growing up we had a guitar around our house, and I was always plucking on it. — Adam Jones

Those of us who have the luck to enjoy good health forget about this vast parallel universe of the unwell-their daily miseries, their banal ordeals. Only when you cross that frontier into the world of ill-health do you recognize its quiet, massive presence, its brooding permanence. — William Boyd

Well, beauty's in the eye of the beholder ... It's all subjective. I'm kind of shy about it, but I'll take it. — Marisa Miller

The Spirit tells me - Fidel Castro will die - in the 90s. Oooh my! Some will try to kill him and they will not succeed. But there will come a change in his physical health, and he will not stay in power, and Cuba will be visited of God. — Benny Hinn

That's one of the things I resent the most violently. To have to take your own life and give it away to the public, in pieces. — Ida Lupino

You ask people what their ethnicity is, and a lot of Scots-Irish people either don't know or if they know it they just don't acknowledge it. It's not something they really identify with. They're just plain old Americans, plain vanilla. I don't think they are a self-conscious voting bloc. — John Shelton Reed

Techno-optimism is a belief in the power of technology to extend our sphere of possibilities and, ultimately, a belief that technology helps us solve and transcend problems, limitations and obstacles. — Jason Silva