Howard Jacobson Quotes

People often think that you have a sense of humor because you think that life is funny. Life isn't funny at all. It's appalling and tragic.

Howard Jacobson

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LifeFunnyHumorPeopleThinkYou

For me, being a lawyer means to help those in need.

Joe Jamail

MeLawyerHelpNeedBeingMeans

I love the long grass coming up to meet the willows.

Jilly Cooper

NatureLoveLongMeetGrassUp

Apple has hundreds of stores around the world that are beautiful, and they have a distribution system and a staff of 40 or 50 people that will help you.

Robert Scoble

BeautifulPeopleWorldHelpYou

I just produced Criminal, this remake of Nine Queens, and one of the things that appealed to me about Nine Queens is that it was a performance piece, and that's the most fun.

Steven Soderbergh

FunMePerformanceThingsCriminal

Someone actually asked me once if I used coming out as a publicity stunt. It's cool that we live in a time when being gay could be seen as helping your career.

Troye Sivan

LiveTimeMeCoolSomeoneCareer

After I had been working as a cap maker for three years it began to dawn on me that we girls needed an organization. The men had organized already, and had gained some advantages, but the bosses had lost nothing, as they took it out on us.

Rose Schneiderman

MenMeOrganizationDawnLostThree

What women have to stand on squarely is not their ability to see the world in the way men see it, but the importance and validity of their seeing it in some other way.

Mary Hunter Austin

WomenMenWorldStandSeeingWay

I find most men don't like a lot of makeup.

Chloe Sevigny

MenMakeupFindLikeMostLot

When it comes to classic Disney, I've got it in my DNA. I mean, the guy who trained me, the man who mentored me when I first came to the Studio was Eric Larson, one of Walt's Nine Old Men.

Chris Buck

MenManMeDNAMeanClassic

I always feel sad when I come to the end of a book.

Claire Tomalin

SadBookEndFeelAlwaysCome

In a competition, there's always winners and losers. And I think everyone is here to win, which makes it fun for us all.

Antonio Brown

CompetitionFunWinThinkWinners

The sensation of writing a book is the sensation of spinning, blinded by love and daring. It is the sensation of a stunt pilot's turning barrel rolls, or an inchworm's blind rearing from a stem in search of a route. At its worst, it feels like alligator wrestling, at the level of the sentence.

Annie Dillard

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