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Howard Jacobson Quotes

I recall waking to the realisation that I was the best table tennis player under 17 in north Manchester and parts of Bury. The satisfaction lasted for half an hour before I saw into the nothingness of things.

Howard Jacobson

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Best Table Satisfaction Tennis Saw

Might I be ridiculous? Might my career in music be laughable? Yeah, that's possible, but that's certainly not my intention.

Joaquin Phoenix

Music Career Intention Possible Yeah

High Alpine meadows, like their near relatives prairie, desert and certain varieties of wetland, teach us to consider the world from a fresh perspective, to open our eyes and take account of what we have missed, reminding us that, in spite of our emphasis on the visual in everyday speech, we see so very little of the world.

John Burnside

Eyes Perspective World Desert Speech

Local commerce, without question, will be one of the fundamental use cases enabled by mobile devices over the next several years.

Andrew Mason

Will Question Over Years Without

I like design, I like details, to me it is just another form of self-expression.

John Malkovich

Me Details Design Just Like Form

It's a lot of fun being dressed by designers and surrounded by publicists.

Luke Evans

Fun Dressed Surrounded Being Lot

I can fight Cain Velasquez if they want. It's not up to me, I'm not the matchmaker.

Jose Aldo

Fight Me I Can Want Up

If a building looks better under construction than it does when finished, then it's a failure.

Douglas Coupland

Failure Construction Building Better

I emote. I love things so much.

Chris Evans

Love Things Much I Love Emote

We're always just telling stories, and stories are always just approximations of the truth. It's never the truth exactly.

Brit Marling

Truth Never Always Just Stories

Freedom is the right to one's dignity as a man.

Archibald MacLeish

Freedom Man Dignity Right

There's no point about whining or complaining or screaming.

Anna Wintour

Complaining Point Whining Screaming

I have brought many artifacts back with me from the steppe. My favourite is a 90-year-old Kazakh saddle decorated with silverwork in traditional motifs. It symbolises the deep relationship between man and horse on the Eurasian Steppe.

Tim Cope

Relationship Man Me Deep Horse Back