Ottokar Jacobs Quotes & Sayings

It is said to be the age of the first person singular — Ralph Waldo Emerson

The great writers can take us anywhere; but half the time they're taking us where we don't want to go. — Martin Amis

Men are so necessarily mad, that not to be mad would amount to another form of madness. — Blaise Pascal

Each night the sun sank right in our eyes along the sea, making an undulating glittering pathway, a golden track charted on the surface of the ocean which our ship followed unswervingly until the sun dipped below the edge of the horizon, and the pathway ran ahead of us faster than we could steam and slipped over the edge of the skyline - as if the sun had been a golden ball and had wound up its thread of gold too quickly for us to follow. — Lawrence Beesley

I know body hair bothers some women, but a lot of men like a fluffy partner. — Barry Humphries

A light, tender, sensitive touch is worth a ton of brawn. — Peter Thomson

Perhaps it's true that I'm very hard on myself, but that's better than exhibiting mediocre work ... too few were satisfactory enough to trouble the public with. — Claude Monet

Who has ever loved as boldly as he does? — Charlotte McConaghy

The challenge for a nonfiction writer is to achieve a poetic precision using the documents of truth but somehow to make people and places spring to life as if the reader was in their presence. — Simon Schama

I would love to have a career that's governed by the material; I always want to be part of stories that I feel are worthwhile. — Lupita Nyong'o

Complexity is not a good enough reason to give up on any idea. — Gagan Jain

A true repentance shuns the evil itself, more than the external suffering or the shame. — William Shakespeare

Like father like son, like mother like daughter! — Jamaica Kincaid

Character is the measure of our freedom from the tyranny of our instincts. It is the space we create between our urges and our actions. — Valson Thampu