Returnings Jakob Quotes & Sayings

Having been in Hollywood as a shadow, as someone who is almost invisible, I can see fame for what it is. — Alex Kingston

Laws, when good, should be supreme; and that the magistrate or magistrates should regulate those matters only on which the laws are unable to speak with precision owing to the difficulty of any general principle embracing all particulars. — Aristotle.

On some levels, you can also have this feeling that we are being duped, somehow. And that the world is at play for something you would understand more if it were pure ideology. It is a very strange time and also basic things are being taken away. — Edwidge Danticat

The human body is a funny machine. When you want to move something - say, your arm - the brain actually sends two signals at the same time: "More power!" and "Less power!" The operating system that runs the body automatically holds some power back to avoid overexerting and tearing itself apart. Not all machines have that built - in safety feature. You can point a car at a wall, slam the accelerator to the floor, and the car will crush itself against the wall until the engine is destroyed or runs out of gas.
Martial arts use every scrap of strength the body has at its disposal. In martial arts training, you punch and shout at the same time. Your "Shout louder!" command helps to override the "Less power!" command. With practice, you can throttle the amount of power your body holds back. In essence, you're learning to channel
the body's power to destroy itself. — Hiroshi Sakurazaka

Some politicians are much noisier than the dogs! Just like teaching a dog how to hush, public must likewise teach those politicians to shush! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

I was looking forward to having a halo. It would make such a convenient reading lamp. — Dean Koontz

Yeats was straight, but as Auden wrote in 'In Memory of WB Yeats': "You were silly like us. — Christopher Bram

If you tell me, it's an essay. If you show me, it's a story. — Barbara Greene

I fix my grandchildren's computers. — Alan Alda