Wainwright Jakobs Quotes & Sayings

Every time someone gives you a formula for what you should be and what you should do, you should know they're giving you a pair of handcuffs. — Junot Diaz

Success surely comes with conscience in the long run, other things being equal. Capacity and fidelity are commercially profitable qualities. — Henry Ward Beecher

There is no such thing as political science, but there are tenancies so strong that they might as well be called laws of nature. — Jeff Greenfield

My very first car was a grey Alfa Romeo Alfasud, which I got in 1987. But, in our family, all cars were for sale - so they might be there in the morning and were gone at night. In the mid-90s, I joined Porsche and the Carrera was the car, and the Carrera 4S was the one they gave me. As a wee boy from Dumfries, I couldn't believe it. — Allan McNish

We human beings build houses because we're alive but we write books because we're mortal. We live in groups because we're sociable but we read because we know we're alone. Reading offers a kind of companionship that takes no one's place but that no one can replace either. It offers no definitive explanation of our destiny but links us inextricably to life. Its tiny secret links remind us of how paradoxically happy we are to be alive while illuminating how tragically absurd life is. — Daniel Pennac

You live a life, you have a family, you sing your songs. You do not think about these things. You just do them. And then one day, it all make sense to you. — Julio Iglesias