Howard Jacobson Quotes

The novels I planned to write were never going to be funny books about Jews. They were going to be country house books. Only later on could I write what I knew I was best at writing about.

Howard Jacobson

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FunnyBestWritingHouseCountry

If you can't prove it in words, it ain't gospel. Soul music is just an expression of the mind, but your spirit has to be made alive - that's the real part, the part that God speaks to.

Andrae Crouch

MusicGodSoulWordsMindYou

Hollywood has always been a cage... a cage to catch our dreams.

John Huston

DreamsHollywoodAlwaysCageCatch

Eighty percent of my job is to ask the question, 'If this were real, what would it look like?'

John Knoll

JobLookQuestionAskRealPercent

Landscape is to American painting what sex and psychoanalysis are to the American novel.

Robert Hughes

PaintingAmericanLandscapeSex

But I always like to play ugly people who think they're pretty.

Amy Sedaris

UglyPeopleThinkPlayAlwaysLike

Keep it simple, keep it sexy, keep it sad.

Mitch Miller

SadSimpleSexyKeep

I'm not married, I frequently use my debit card to buy things that cost less than three dollars, and my bedroom is so untidy it looks like vandals ransacked the Anthropologie sale section. I'm kind of a mess.

Mindy Kaling

LooksThreeKindBedroomMessCost

The team should have implicit confidence in the captain's decisions.

Lord Mountbatten

ConfidenceTeamDecisionsCaptain

I'm quite tactful, actually. I worry about whether people are all right. With my friends, obviously, conversations are quite free and uncensored, but I would never enjoy making someone feel uncomfortable at all.

Julia Davis

PeopleFreeSomeoneWorryEnjoy

Sister relationships span a huge range, from best friends to worst enemies. From 'I adore her; I talk to her five times a day' to 'I decided to cut her out of my life.' For most women, it's in between.

Deborah Tannen

LifeWomenBestDaySisterMy Life

I went through a phase of eating dinner in the shower because I thought, 'Why don't we do that?' Then I realised, 'Because it doesn't make any sense.' It doesn't save any time, and you can't really get into a steak and baked potato when there's water pouring on you.

Brie Larson

TimeWaterDinnerEatingThought

The world is the great gymnasium where we come to make ourselves strong.

Swami Vivekananda

StrengthGreatWorldStrongWhere

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