Jakab Quotes

#1. (...) Stage fright, if you like. Easier to hide behind a persona than to bare one's soul. I'm really not the monster you think I am. I just wanted to talk to you unencumbered by all this complications, all this ... history. [Jakab]

Stephen Lloyd Jones

#2. Those were the black ears; the lost years. He had allowed himself to become the victim of events, rather than their master. [Jakab]

Stephen Lloyd Jones

#3. Miz Ellen, what do you carry in that handbag of yours that has enough wallop to knock down a full-grown man? - Dan Landry

Jane Rainwater

#4. The development of a kind heart, or feeling of closeness for all human beings, does not involve any of the kind of religiosity we normally associate with it ... It is for everyone, irrespective of race, religion or any political affiliation.

Dalai Lama

#5. At the center of President Obama's strategy for dealing with the Islamic State is an empty space. It's supposed be filled by a 'Sunni ground force,' but after more than a year of effort, it's still not there. Unless this gap is filled, Obama's plan won't work.

David Ignatius

#6. What would they say if they knew
I sit for two months
on six lines of poetry?

Lorine Niedecker

#7. All any girl needs, at any time in history, is simple velvet and basic diamonds.

Eva Gabor

#8. I feel like a defective model, like I came off the assembly line flat-out fucked and my parents should have taken me back for repairs before the warranty ran out.

Elizabeth Wurtzel

#9. The only thing standing between most people and their dreams is the fear of failure.

Robin S. Sharma

#10. And if you weren't a fool, a common fool, a perfect fool, if you were an original instead of a translation ...

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#11. For there are better sides to life
And I should know because I've seen them
But not very often

Morrissey

#12. There's nothing more interesting than the landscape of the human face.

Irvin Kershner