Top 100 Jacobs Quotes
#1. I WAS born a slave; but I never knew it till six years of happy childhood had passed away.
Harriet Ann Jacobs
#2. I envy the people who go to Paris the first time
Marc Jacobs
#3. I had some years of definite frustration. Auditioning and not working as much as I would have liked to, or working and being paid a pittance, and sort of scrounging by in New York and sleeping on a chair that folded out into a bed.
Gillian Jacobs
#5. I empathize with women in their high heels so I'll be there in my kilt and T-shirt and I'll walk around all day just to prove that if I can wear the shoes for 36 hours then certainly our customer can wear them.
Marc Jacobs
#6. Life is a fashion show, the world is your runway.
Marc Jacobs
#7. Both my partner and I did not get into cooking so that we could wear ugly chef's coats and stuff. We dress sexy in the kitchen.
Marc Jacobs
#8. I mean, I'd love to have a private jet - I know people who fly by private jet all the time ... I've hitched a ride a few times and it is not overrated at all; it's a great way to travel!
Marc Jacobs
#9. Luxury is about pleasing yourself, not dressing for other people
Marc Jacobs
#10. We all wish there were more 'Bridesmaids' out there.
Gillian Jacobs
#11. The higher the flame shoots the quicker it blacks out.
Helen Jacobs
#12. Being able to lean on someone else . . . maybe that was brave. I mean, if you leaned on someone, you had to trust that they wouldn't let you fall.
Holly Jacobs
#13. Then the ogre fell down and broke his crown, and the beanstalk came toppling after.
Joseph Jacobs
#14. I go through phases where I buy only Speed Stick and Axe, and Noxzema shaving cream.
Marc Jacobs
#15. When I was a kid, I worked in the circus. It was a touring circus that was owned by a man named Terrell Jacobs. It was just one big tent, and he was a lion tamer. He didn't have any kids, but the bit was that I would dress up as his son in an identical outfit.
Christopher Walken
#16. She may be an ignorant creature, degraded by the system that has brutalized her from childhood; but she has a mother's instincts, and is capable of feeling a mother's agonies.
Harriet Jacobs
#17. For people that don't have any interest in the psychology of nuance, who need everything to be in their face, who don't want to analyze ... those aren't the people I romanticize about dressing.
Marc Jacobs
#18. God touched him." Pigpen points one finger in the air. "And with that one touch, he dislocates Jacobs hip. One touch and it was over.
Katie McGarry
#19. Her first week on the job a caller went silent in surprise on the other end of the line, expecting to hear Miss Jacobs' voice. Bertie's response: "Speak ass, 'cause the mouth won't!
Dawn Shamp
#20. Scrabble - The game is available in Braille. That's a nice fact. This makes me feel better about humanity for some reason. I can't really explain why.
A. J. Jacobs
#21. While politicians, clergy, creators of advertisements, and other worthies assert stoutly that the family is the foundation of society, the nuclear family, as an institution, is currently in grave trouble.
Jane Jacobs
#22. The scripture says "oppression makes it even a wise man mad" ...
Harriet Jacobs
#23. I haven't done improv since I was in middle school.
Gillian Jacobs
#24. A vigorous culture capable of making corrective,stabilizing changes depends heavily on its educated people, and especially upon their critical capacities and depth of understanding.
Jane Jacobs
#25. In America, we have 19th century school conditions and a curriculum that prepares our kids for the 1990s.
Heidi Hayes Jacobs
#26. The other two wishes," she replied rapidly. "We've only had one."
"Was not that enough?" he demanded fiercely.
"No," she cried, triumphantly; "we'll have one more. Go down and get it quickly, and wish our boy alive again.
W.W. Jacobs
#27. No, I did not think of him. When a man is hunted like a wild beast he forgets there is a God, a heaven. He forgets every thing in his struggle to get beyond the reach of the bloodhounds.
Harriet Jacobs
#28. A loud noise will get your fight-or-flight response going. This, over the years, can cause real cardiovascular damage.
A. J. Jacobs
#29. Cat, I'll let you in on a little secret. We don't all love our jobs every day. And doing something you have passion for doesn't make the work part of it any easier ... It just makes you less likely to quit.
Kate Jacobs
#30. Sentimentality about nature denatures everything it touches.
Jane Jacobs
#31. The older I got the more I appreciated the role of travel as a stimulus to memories, and the way in which journeys even to new places were somehow always awakening memories of places seen in an ever-receding past.
Michael Jacobs
#32. I am trying to break free from my stripes addiction, but the pull is strong! I need help buying non-stripes.
Gillian Jacobs
#33. Patternicity is the idea that humans are really talented at finding nonexistent patterns in random noise.
A. J. Jacobs
#34. I went to college and got my degree in acting, but because it was all theater, I really consider my first couple years on 'Mad Men' as amazing training for working in television and for acting on-camera.
Gillian Jacobs
#35. While you are looking, you might as well also listen, linger and think about what you see.
Jane Jacobs
#36. To use the language of a war correspondent, which was, she knew, what Isabel Jacobs happened to be, she would have to say thay Kitty Finch was smiling at her with hostile intent.
Deborah Levy
#37. I just want to make different movies. I want them to be things that I care about and not to repeat myself.
Azazel Jacobs
#38. I don't find clothes sexy at all. I find people sexy.
Marc Jacobs
#39. And he encourages Lewis to take the same chance he is taking, to count on the "perchance." And Lewis did. For the rest of his life he was a champion of the knowledge-giving power of myth, fantasy, Faery.
Alan Jacobs
#40. Even mistakes can get you one step further.
Marc Jacobs
#41. My inners are not organs. They're actually mechanics, so I have a hole in my back, wind me up like the movie 'Hugo,' and then just say, 'Act,' you know?
Gillian Jacobs
#42. David Jacobs is a great influence on my life, has taught me so much about so many things.
Joan Van Ark
#43. Imagine if one of them were turned. Imagine if one could be bought.'
'But they're chosen just so's they can't be bought ... '
'History ... ' Jacobs spoke with terse authority. Brought Ori to a hush. 'Is all full. And dripping. With the corpses. Of them who trusted the incorruptible.
China Mieville
#44. But to the slave mother New Year's day comes laden with peculiar sorrows. She sits on her cold cabin floor, watching the children who may all be torn from her the next morning; and often does she wish that she and they might die before the day dawns.
Harriet Ann Jacobs
#45. Sometimes there are two very opposite directions, and we go with the stronger one at the end. It's an impulse thing, like, 'Oh, I love both so much, but it's got to be one or the other because the two don't work together.'
Marc Jacobs
#46. What seems terrible at first may turn out to be a great thing. You can't predict.
A. J. Jacobs
#47. One might almost say that the history of geographical discovery, properly so called, begins with Captain Cook, the motive of whose voyages was purely scientific curiosity.
Joseph Jacobs
#48. Living in the past or living in the future - those aren't real. The moment is now, and that's where safety and comfort and all that good stuff is.
Marc Jacobs
#49. I think journalists have the right to their opinions but I think their opinions should be based on history and what they see, not what they feel, how long they've been waiting or whether it's raining or it's snowing or whatever.
Marc Jacobs
#50. When you're shooting at 9 A.M. at a club, you have to use all of your acting skills.
Gillian Jacobs
#51. Twitter didn't make up the hashtag. Twitter didn't make up the retweet. It's our users. And people started using them so much that we decided to weave them into the product. I can't think of another company that has taken its users' actions and said, 'We're going to make them useful to everybody.'
Katie Jacobs Stanton
#52. I value very much the time before the show, when there is nothing else but to concentrate on the show, and it's just purely design.
Marc Jacobs
#53. When I went to Israel, it was a little disorienting, because there are so many people who look crazy and were dressed like me. There, I was just one of the apocalyptic crowd.
A. J. Jacobs
#54. Obscure as still remains the origin of that 'genre' of romance to which the tales before us belong, there is little doubt that their models, if not their originals, were once extant at Constantinople.
Joseph Jacobs
#55. Little pig, little pig, let me come in." To which the pig answered: "No, no, by the hair of my chiny chin chin." The wolf then answered to that: "Then I'll huff, and I'll puff, and I'll blow your house in." So he huffed, and he puffed, and he blew his house in, and ate up the little pig.
Joseph Jacobs
#56. Today is a good day to be a GIANT!!! Hell everyday is a good day to be a GIANT!! Y'all have a blessed day
Brandon Jacobs
#57. For so many years, I felt so insecure, so inferior, and I still have those moments, but I have a newfound confidence since I got in shape and changed my diet.
Marc Jacobs
#58. It's the things that aren't accepted as conventionally beautiful that I find more attractive.
Marc Jacobs
#59. I said, 'Okay, it's the year 2000, I'm getting a computer and a Palm Pilot.' I know how to check my e-mail, and I've listed some phone numbers on it. Half the time the battery has gone out so I can't use it.
Marc Jacobs
#60. I'd say I've gone to grad school for comedy being on 'Community.'
Gillian Jacobs
#61. Anyone who thinks designers don't talk to editors, and editors don't talk to stores doesn't know what's happening ... It's called crossover, sampling all references in music, art and fashion.
Marc Jacobs
#62. I'd like to be invisible. To be anonymous and see things for what they really are. The truth may be painful but it's probably useful!
Marc Jacobs
#63. It's all about getting the hand of things. Easy does it; take it easy. You'll figure everything out in time. But for right now, just keep trying. Pay attention and avoid the temptation to go further than you're ready. Talk less. And listen more.
Kate Jacobs
#64. Those who will never be fooled can never be delighted, because without self-forgetfulness there can be no delight, and this is a great and grievous loss.
Alan Jacobs
#65. I like the sort of 'nothingness' of the jeans and the T-shirt. I feel that's about as close as I can get to the future because it seems like something so old that will always be, so I feel it's a safe bet for the future.
Marc Jacobs
#66. I thought that religion, for all the good it does, seemed too risky for our modern world.
A. J. Jacobs
#67. there is no such thing as poverty; only the absence of wealth (Jacobs, 1969; and see Piachaud, 2002
Hartley Dean
#69. I'd never really done comedy before 'Community,' so getting to work day in and day out with all these great people, directors, writers, and actors, I feel like I've learned a lot.
Gillian Jacobs
#70. But in another, I think a woman's going to go into a shop to find a coat or a jacket and I just don't think she's not going to go into a shop because of a bad review she probably didn't even read.
Marc Jacobs
#71. A lot of people I went to college with felt like they wanted to pursue theater exclusively, so I don't think that I really was in competition with people that I went to school with.
Gillian Jacobs
#72. Very little strength can produce much motion of air. Learn about air as motion.
Arnold Jacobs
#73. It appeared to me that there were already too many dreams festering on shelves with a promise return to them someday, and time was too fickle to trust with such a precious progeny as dreams.
Wes Jacobs
#75. I think of many people and no one as a muse. I love the way Sofia looks always, and I love the way Kim looks always. Fashion may be part of their world, but it's not their whole life. It's not everything.
Marc Jacobs
#76. I think maybe my mom thought that Katharine Hepburn would be a good role model of, like, a strong, smart, independent woman. Maybe she steered me in that direction. You know, because she was really so ahead of her time.
Gillian Jacobs
#77. will try to find the original intent of the biblical rule or teaching and follow that to the letter.
A. J. Jacobs
#78. I would love it if 'Community' could have a trajectory like '30 Rock' and choose when to go out.
Gillian Jacobs
#79. This is something everyone knows: A well-used city street is apt to be a safe street. A deserted city street is apt to be unsafe.
Jane Jacobs
#80. It's joyous," he says. "If I save someone from breaking a commandment, it gives me a little high." He pumps his fist. "I never took drugs, but I imagine this is what it feels like.
A. J. Jacobs
#81. Education is a business - the growth business. It cultivates the growth of our learners, translates the growth of new knowledge, and builds professional growth.
Heidi Hayes Jacobs
#82. Nobody strolled and laughed on the sidewalks as relaxing burghers would in sweet, mellow, rotting Europe.
Vladimir Nabokov
#83. Every quilt has an intentional flaw because the only thing that's perfect is God.
Holly Jacobs
#84. And we find at the end of a perfect day, The soul of a friend we've made.
Carrie Jacobs-Bond
#85. Neighborhood is a word that has come to sound like a Valentine. As a sentimental concept, 'neighborhood' is harmful to city planning. It leads to attempts at warping city life into imitations of town or suburban life. Sentimentality plays with sweet intentions in place of good sense.
Jane Jacobs
#86. Streets and their sidewalks-the main public places of a city-are its most vital organs.
Jane Jacobs
#88. When I was six years old, my mother died; and then, for the first time, I learned, by the talk around me, that I was a slave.
Harriet Ann Jacobs
#89. I know the name of Turkey's leading avant-guard publication. I know that John Quincy Adams married for money. I know that Bud Abbott was a double-crosser, that absentee ballots are very popular in Ireland, and that dwarves have prominent buttocks.
A. J. Jacobs
#90. I love it when the Bible gives Emily Post-like tips that are both wise and easy to follow.
A. J. Jacobs
#91. In the Land of Ire, the belief in fairies, gnomes, ogres and monsters is all but dead; in the Land of Ind, it still flourishes in all the vigour of animism.
Joseph Jacobs
#92. I am wrestling with the overalls trend. I wore so many pairs in junior high, and no one thought they were cute. Perhaps I'll try them cuffed with a tasteful crop top?
Gillian Jacobs
#93. Detroit is largely composed, today, of seemingly endless square miles of low-density failure.
Jane Jacobs
#94. I love the gym, but I still want to look a bit awkward at it. I don't want to look too on top of it, you know?
Marc Jacobs
#95. The nice part about not being a huge film is that you get to goof around a bit more.
Gillian Jacobs
#96. The Puerto Ricans who come to our cities today have no place to roast pigs outdoors...
Jane Jacobs
#97. In wretched outcomes, the devil is in the details.
Jane Jacobs
#98. I love to design for women, it's really open and very free. I always think of my friends. I think of both fictitious characters, real people from the past and the present. I am not a woman, but I find women so beautiful and so fascinating.
Marc Jacobs
#99. I know other actors who are relieved when their shows get cancelled, and I've never felt that way about 'Community.'
Gillian Jacobs
#100. It gave her a feeling of her own power, to make something practical and beautiful just by using her own skill and creativity. It inspired her.
Kate Jacobs
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