Admiraal Jacob Quotes

#1. Idle men tempt the devil to tempt them.

Charles Spurgeon

#2. Whole new theories of money were growing here like mushrooms: in the dark and based on bullshit.

Terry Pratchett

#3. My life is parallel to a horse race. They have blinders on to keep them from being distracted in the race and keep them focused on winning the race. That's kind of like my life. Focus on the goal, not the things coming at me from the side.

Reggie Bush

#4. You should approach each book
you should approach life
with the real possibility that you might get a metaphorical boner at any point.

Sherman Alexie

#5. I'm going to write a book someday and the title will be I'm an Ass, You're an Ass. That's the most liberating, wonderful thing in the world, when you openly admit you're an ass. It's wonderful. When people tell me, You're wrong I say, What can you expect of an ass?

Anthony De Mello

#6. Tiffany's father didn't cry but gave her a silver dollar and rather gruffly told her to be sure to write home every week, which is a man's way of crying.

Terry Pratchett

#7. An understanding of what food is and how cooking works does no violence to the art of cuisine, destroys no delightful mystery. Instead, the mystery expands from matters of expertise and taste to encompass the hidden patterns and wonderful coincidences of nature.

Harold McGee

#8. I wish my auntie was here."
"I wish my father.. O, what's the use?

William Golding

#9. I've never had a chance to sit down and enjoy what's happened - I've been too panicked about the next move. So I took some time out. I thought either I do this now or in 10 years' time I'll end up in the Priory.

Adam Rickitt

#10. Frederick Buechner can find grace and redemption even in the shoddiest, phoniest aspects of a cultural wasteland. One reads Lion Country ... with hope and delight.

Louis Auchincloss

#11. The RNC was run so badly you could walk through their deepest competence and not get your ankles wet.

John Fund

#12. If someone were to ask about your taste in fine dining and you were to say, "I lean toward food served with vivid adjectives," you'd probably get a pretty strange look;

Leonard Mlodinow