Top 100 Jacobsen Quotes
#1. Humans lack good mirrors. It's so hard for anyone to show us how we look, and so hard for us to show anyone how we feel. - Daddy Jacobsen
John Green
#2. Perfection stands still while mortals walk past. - Quentin "Q" Jacobsen
John Green
#3. My job is to file things! I'm not going to be like, "Mr. Jacobsen from Oakland, California" - just listing his problems, like a rap.
Tamaryn
#4. The church thrives where people are focused on Jesus, not where they are focused on church.
Wayne Jacobsen
#5. Carrying out the thing, getting it to the point when one might say: There, now it is good - that point is hard to reach. Often, one sets very high goals for oneself. Perhaps too high.
Arne Jacobsen
#6. Break the ice, or draw that which lives in the dimness out into the full light of speech - what happens is the same: that which is now seen and now grasped is not, in its clearness, the shadowy thing that was.
Jens Peter Jacobsen
#7. But inspiration? - That's when you come home from abroad and are asked: Well, have you found inspiration? - and fortunately you haven't. But the impressions sink in, of course, and may emerge later: None of us has invented the house; that was done many thousands of years ago.
Arne Jacobsen
#8. I love the process of being taken from where I am to somewhere else.
Josephine Jacobsen
#9. He looked so strange and absentminded; quite obviously he had just been reading a book, one could tell that from the expression in his eyes, from his hair, from the abstracted way in which he managed his hands.
Jens Peter Jacobsen
#10. Now, the downside to conservation is that so much is done for the public, which almost always mars the environment that one wanted to conserve.
Arne Jacobsen
#11. reign. Until God's reign comes in all its fullness, we can only experience it in part in fragmentary ways. With
David Schnasa Jacobsen
#12. When you look at a city, it's like reading the hopes, aspirations and pride of everyone who built it.
Hugh Newell Jacobsen
#15. I'm probably less serious about my game than I was in the past. I've lost a brother and father in the past six years. And what about people who have lost friends and comrades in war? Golf is a game. You've got to keep that in perspective.
Peter Jacobsen
#16. Whatever your job, it is important if it is what God wants you to do.
Henry Jacobsen
#17. Your confidence is the 15th club in your bag. You'd like it to be a thick headed driver. But it sometimes seems like a pretty weak little stick.
Peter Jacobsen
#18. Jesus, kid, you're almost a detective. All you need now is a gun, a gut, and three ex-wives.
John Green
#19. Of what are you thinking now?" she asked.
"I am thinking of myself."
"That's just what I am doing."
"Are you also thinking of yourself?"
"No, of yourself - of you, Mogens.
Jens Peter Jacobsen
#20. I always got very nervous whenever I heard that Margo was about to show up, on account of how she was the most fantastically gorgeous creature that God has ever created.
John Green
#21. Architecture tends to consume everything else, it has become one's entire life.
Arne Jacobsen
#22. If architecture had nothing to do with art, it would be astonishingly easy to build houses, but the architect's task - his most difficult task - is always that of selecting.
Arne Jacobsen
#23. I don't know how it is, but I am so tired of commonplace happiness and commonplace goals.
Jens Peter Jacobsen
#24. Besides, I think that when one has been through a boarding school, especially then, you have some resistance, because it was both fine comradeship and a fairly hard training.
Arne Jacobsen
#25. Picasso said that no one has to explain a daffodil. Good design is understandable to virtually everybody. You never have to ask why.
Hugh Newell Jacobsen
#26. With stealth technology, the U.S. could spy on its Cold War adversaries without running the risk of getting caught.
Annie Jacobsen
#27. You will soon find that I am a bit obsessive about my work. And that is a little sad, one often feels strangely restricted, not finding time to simmer, although one actually has many interests.
Arne Jacobsen
#28. The clouds roll on. Silent as sleepwalkers the clouds keep coming from infinity bank behind bank and line after line, and change colors on the earth.
Rolf Jacobsen
#29. I have no philosophy, my favourite thing is sitting in the studio.
Arne Jacobsen
#30. Please stop," I said. "You're upsetting the black Santas.
John Green
#31. ...we need to remind ourselves that natural systems are much more finely tuned than we think, and if we like the way they currently work, then we should try very, very hard to not screw with them.
Rowan Jacobsen
#32. For us, it's all progress from infancy to adulthood - language, walking, winking, sex.
Rowan Jacobsen
#33. In many previously classified documents relating to activities at the base, the words 'Area 51' are conveniently blacked out. There's always a euphemism for it - like 'the test facility' or 'the base' - but never 'Area 51.'
Annie Jacobsen
#34. I didn't miss the putt. I made the putt. The ball missed the hole.
Peter Jacobsen
#35. I am convinced that real community flows out of right relationship with God and not that right relationship with God flows out of right community.
Wayne Jacobsen
#36. It is our art that has an opportunity to leave a footprint in the sand. They don't wrap fish in our work.
Hugh Newell Jacobsen
#37. Many of the engineers I interviewed worked on reverse-engineering technology. It's a hallmark of Area 51.
Annie Jacobsen
#38. Can a democratic nation fight a War on Terror and at the same time bend over backward so as not to offend a few visitors' rights?
Annie Jacobsen
#39. Since 9/11, the Justice Department has been widely criticized for one particular tactic it uses in fighting the War on Terror: it detains suspicious persons for long periods of time and puts them under heavy questioning before they are ever even charged with a crime.
Annie Jacobsen
#40. That is the artistic task: To choose the best from these solutions.
Arne Jacobsen
#42. The Cold War had become a battlefield marked by doublespeak. Disguise, distortion, and deception were accepted as reality. Truth was promised in a serum.
Annie Jacobsen
#43. One of the few things the Air Force did admit to me existed out there presently without admitting that it was Area 51 is this drone called the 'Beast of Kandahar' which does not fire missiles, unlike the Predator and the Reaper, but just conducts surveillance.
Annie Jacobsen
#44. Who would have thought that in the 1950s, Burbank was a hotbed of international espionage?
Annie Jacobsen
#45. I don't see that any buildings should be excluded from the term architecture, as long as they are done properly.
Arne Jacobsen
#46. Praise God even when you don't understand what He is doing.
Henry Jacobsen
#47. Furniture manufacturing in plastics requires very costly machinery, which the Danish market is not big enough to justify. Or so they say. But show me a plastics manufacturer who dares to take on the experiment.
Arne Jacobsen
#48. I laugh, but I'm still thinking about ten-year-old Margo having a crush on ten-year-old me.
John Green
#49. I am going to be working on bathroom fittings for a company in the USA, and then I thought it was appropriate to simplify the fittings and, thus, lowering the cost.
Arne Jacobsen
#50. I believe it is called 'Area 51' because of a project, the very first project that went on out there, in 1951.
Annie Jacobsen
#51. Proportions are what makes the old Greek temples classic in their beauty. They are like huge blocks, from which the air has been literally hewn out between the columns.
Arne Jacobsen
#52. For the Earth itself is a blossom, she says,
on the star tree,
pale with luminous
ocean leaves.
Rolf Jacobsen
#53. I work better the more I am confined and the less I am distracted. My ultimate place would be a closet.
Josephine Jacobsen
#54. The problem is the myths of Area 51 are hard to dispute if no one can speak on the record about what actually happened there.
Annie Jacobsen
#55. A pastry usually tastes better if it looks nice. A cream pastry, now that looks nice - in fact, there is nothing I mind as long as it looks nice.
Arne Jacobsen
#56. The fruit of the Spirit is not what we can make ourselves do for a moment, But what God makes us to be for a lifetime.
Wayne Jacobsen
#58. The sad truth is that most Christians spend their entire lives trying to score points with Someone who is not keeping score.
Wayne Jacobsen
#59. Try claiming God's blessings instead of merely longing for them.
Henry Jacobsen
#60. In 1957, with the arms race in full swing, the Department of Defense had decided it was just a matter of time before an airplane transporting an atomic bomb would crash on American soil, unleashing a radioactive disaster the likes of which the world had never seen.
Annie Jacobsen
#61. There is no one that God does not love with all that he is. His love reaches beyond every sin and failure, hoping that at some moment they will come to know just how loved they are.
Wayne Jacobsen
#62. When I travel, I draw and paint sketches which is great fun. And as long as you are fully aware that it has nothing to do with actual art, I think that's all right.
Arne Jacobsen
#63. Anyone who's read my 'Terror in the Skies' series knows that I have not been writing with an eye toward approval from any government agency.
Annie Jacobsen
#64. The activities that went on at Camp King between 1946 and the late 1950s have never been fully accounted for by either the Department of Defense or the CIA.
Annie Jacobsen
#65. But I think that parents who criticise their children too much are in fact better than parents who praise their children too much.
Arne Jacobsen
#66. You can absolutely drive through an atmospheric bomb test and not be affected.
Annie Jacobsen
#67. As we walked, I kept taking glances at her through the crowd, quick snapshots: a photographic series entitled Perfection Stands Still While Mortals Walk Past.
John Green
#68. With a painter or a sculptor, one cannot begin to alter his works, but an architect has to put up with anything, because he makes utility objects - the building is there to be used, and times change.
Arne Jacobsen
#69. Our attempts to trust others will often be frustrated, but that's because God never wanted us to trust others. He wanted us to love others but to trust him alone.
Wayne Jacobsen
#70. The only reason these kids keep score in these games is for the parents and coaches satisfaction. Who cares? They're 10 years old.
Peter Jacobsen
#71. we also discover that much of our most potent creative energy arises from the flames of past injustices and inhibited creative efforts.
Mary-Elaine Jacobsen
#72. Everything that goes on at Area 51 is classified 'top secret' when it's going on.
Annie Jacobsen
#73. The oil under Libya is the champagne of oil, drop for drop the world's most valuable.
Annie Jacobsen
#74. purpose was not to make us worthy of God's love, but to set us free to see that we already have it. And
Wayne Jacobsen
#75. Look - The moon thumbs through night's book. Finds a lake where nothing is printed. Draws a straight line. That's all it can. That's enough. Thick line. Straight toward you. - Look.
Rolf Jacobsen
#76. The idea that Area 51 was this test facility working to move science and technology faster and further than any other nation is true and is one of the great hallmarks of Area 51. There are other areas of the base that are controversial - but they both exist simultaneously - out there in the desert.
Annie Jacobsen
#77. I'm not an aviation historian, I'm not an Air Force aficionado, and I'm definitely not a ufologist. I'm not someone who studies UFOs.
Annie Jacobsen
#78. In 2001, Katie Couric told 'Today Show' audiences that 7 percent of Americans doubt the moon landing happened - that it was staged in the Nevada desert.
Annie Jacobsen
#79. In a way, the sense of quality has improved, the status symbol of the small things is gone, and it is acceptable to use stainless steel, even if the neighbour uses silver.
Arne Jacobsen
#81. In addressing a task, one almost always has several possible options, sometimes only a few, and they may all be practical and functional. But they lack the aesthetic aspect that raises it to architecture.
Arne Jacobsen
#82. Clearly, if a building is not functionally and technically in order, then it isn't architecture either, it's just a building.
Arne Jacobsen
#84. I do not feel certain until I have confronted my initial solution with other solutions - although in fact the first solution often proves to be the right one.
Arne Jacobsen
#85. On the other hand, I don't understand the enthusiasm for everything in the antique shop that Grandma threw out. There, the sense of quality has declined; otherwise Grandma wouldn't have thrown it out.
Arne Jacobsen
#86. The area out at Area 51 that was part of the Operation Plumbbob test continues to be contaminated. It was not cleaned up until the '80s.
Annie Jacobsen
#88. Think Jesus taught us that we have a Father who loves us more than we know, and if we could sort that out we would know how to treat each other.
Wayne Jacobsen
#90. As far as I know, all the presidents know about Area 51. It would almost be impossible for them not to.
Annie Jacobsen
#91. Let the young rain of tears come, let the calm hands of grief come. It's not all as evil as you think.
Rolf Jacobsen
#93. Washington is the only city in the world where you can go to a black-tie dinner and there at the foot of the table is a television set up to catch a press conference.
Hugh Newell Jacobsen
#94. And when an architect has designed a house with large windows, which is a necessity today in order to pull the daylight into these very deep houses, then curtains come to play a big role in architecture.
Arne Jacobsen
#95. That business of relaxation, which is so terribly modern today, is all good and well, but my work interests me so much, and is so varied, that many times it seems relaxing when I go from one aspect to another.
Arne Jacobsen
#96. If you can't enjoy the time between golf shots, then you are going to have a pretty difficult life because most of you life is the time spent in-between.
Peter Jacobsen
#97. I had not cried for Margo until then, but now finally I did, pounding against the ground and shouting because there was no on to hear: I missed her I missed her I missed her I miss her.
John Green
#98. Love is like a diamond; for as a diamond is beautiful to look upon, so is love fair, but as the diamond is poison to any one who swallows it, in the same manner love is a kind of poison and produces a baneful raging distemper in those who are infected by it.
Jens Peter Jacobsen
#99. Area 51 is located in southern Nevada desert about 75 miles north of Las Vegas. It's set inside a greater land parcel that's about the size of the state of Connecticut that's called the 'Nevada Test and Training Range.'
Annie Jacobsen
#100. Almost every time I make a building, some people will condemn it straight to Hell.
Arne Jacobsen
