Home
Topics
Authors
:
A
B
C
D
E
F
G
H
I
J
K
L
M
N
O
P
Q
R
S
T
U
V
W
X
Y
Z

Howard Jacobson Quotes

I am happiest now. There's nothing like running out of time to make you realise you're in the right skin, with the right person, and that the Apocalypse will happen with or without you.

Howard Jacobson

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: british
Birth: August 25, 1942

Topics

Time I Am Right Person You Skin Now

Music is a form of prayer.

Toru Takemitsu

Music Prayer Form

I don't care whether the technology is invented by our employees. I want to bring everybody's innovations into our ecosystem together.

Masayoshi Son

Technology Together Care Employees

It's a difficult line to tread, where sometimes you go to the movies or you watch someone do publicity for movies or TV shows, and they do all the jokes that are good in the promotion of it, and you see the movie, and you're like, 'I kind of get it already. I'm not that psyched about it.'

Mike Birbiglia

Good Someone You Promotion Sometimes

I definitely don't need therapy in life because I have gone through every little corner of my life.

Joy Mangano

Life My Life Therapy Need Gone

When I began to write and used a typewriter, I went through three drafts of a book before showing it to an editor.

Judy Blume

Book Three Write Through Typewriter

My dad in particular I tend to use - I call him 'The Brain.' If he's accessible, I'd rather put it through his brain. My wife, Melissa, maintains that the closer he is in proximity to me, the less I think for myself. And I think she's actually correct. So anything worth mulling over, I will mull over with my father, and that includes ratings.

Joshua Malina

Father Myself Wife Me Brain Think

I want people to hear the presence of God in the music.

Bryan White

Music God People Want Presence Hear

The attributes we're focused on for Mickey are exactly the ones Walt had in mind in the first place. The original Mickey was impish and irreverent. Walt sanitized him because when Mickey got so popular, there was a fear that his behavior was influencing kids.

Bob Iger

Fear Mind Behavior Place Focused

I have taught some master classes and things at my alma mater and sometimes at my kids' school. I will go in and talk to the theater students. I wouldn't really call myself a teacher.

Annie Potts

Teacher Myself School Go Sometimes

If I'm not in the dead heat of working on something, I can end up spending tons and tons of time on the Web, and I hate it. I feel the same shame I did in grad school when I was pretty much addicted to reruns of 'Star Trek: The Next Generation'. I wish someone would make the Web just go away. Just remove it from the earth.

Susan Choi

Time Hate School End Generation

I remember, when I was a kid, watching my mother jam herself into her girdle - a piece of equipment so rigid it could stand up on its own - and I remember her coming home from fancy parties and racing upstairs to extricate herself from its cruel iron grip.

Susan Orlean

Mother Home Stand Up Stand Racing

It doesn't matter whether it's television or films or the theater. I just have to believe in what I'm doing. If I don't believe in it, I won't do it.

Sheryl Lee

Believe Doing Television Matter Just