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Howard Jacobson Quotes

Literature more often tells the story of impulses we don't act on than of ones we do. I could joke about the Cain and Abel story with my brother without expecting him to be worried, though it's always possible he was more anxious than he let on.

Howard Jacobson

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Brother Story Literature Possible

Missionaries are very human folks, just doing what they are asked. Simply a bunch of nobodies trying to exalt Somebody.

Jim Elliot

Doing Trying Human Just Somebody

All composers who came after were influenced by Beethoven, even during his lifetime, both by his personality and by his music. He was a father figure for generations.

Andris Nelsons

Father Music Personality Lifetime He

I like haunted things.

Matthew Gray Gubler

Things Like Haunted

I am staunchly committed to ensuring the long-term solvency of Social Security and preserving full benefits for Americans who have spent their entire working lives contributing to this program.

Sue Kelly

I Am Security Long-Term Working Who

I do feel like I have a lot more confidence now. I can shot list the episode before I start, but then, as things happen on set, I know how to adjust so I can still execute the scene completely, and I still know how to make my days.

Shiri Appleby

Confidence Start Feel I Can Know

Talk is cheap. Actions speak.

Robin S. Sharma

Speak Talk Cheap Actions Speak

Fundamental science that may not achieve results must be supported at the state level.

Masatoshi Koshiba

Science Results Achieve Level May

I play a nice crazy lady whose morals are right but who is really foundering.

Mary Crosby

Crazy Morals Lady Play Nice Right

I was born into a family of gospel singers. My early ambitions were many. I was going to be a ballerina. I almost had that one come true until I tore a tendon, so I transferred from my toes to my throat and that's where the talent settled.

Dionne Warwick

Family Talent Early Born True Going

No-tech tourism is a form of temporal eco-tourism in which one reads books or watches film and TV precisely because of the absence of 21st-century technologies.

Douglas Coupland

Watches Tourism Absence Film Because

I always imagined I could be what I wanted to be.

Chris Brown

Imagination Always Wanted Could

Sometimes women feel uncomfortable when men stare at them when they try on shoes.

Christian Louboutin

Women Shoes Men Feel Uncomfortable