Jakkiebak Quotes

#1. You don't remember the times your dad held your handle bars. You remember the day he let go.

Lenore Skenazy

#2. Age brings a freedom. When you're young, you're much more subject to the idea of what feminine is or how you should look or how you should behave.

Gloria Steinem

#3. Americans generally associate boats with leisure. Vastly less prosperous, Egyptians associate them with nothing but labour. Rowing a boat is something a fisherman is forced to do to make a living; how could such an activity bring me - a woman no less - pleasure?

Rosemary Mahoney

#4. Although it's the hub of the nervous system and the ultimate terminus of every nerve, the brain itself lacks enervation and therefore cannot feel pain.

Sam Kean

#5. 'Alien' is a landmark. One of the really good science-fiction films.

Ridley Scott

#6. Strength of my heart, I need not fail,
Not mind to fear but to obey,
With such a Leader, who could quail?
Thou art as Thou wert yesterday.
Strength of my heart, I rest in Thee,
Fulfil Thy purposes through me.

Amy Carmichael

#7. It. I guess humans like to watch a little destruction. Sandcastles, houses of cards, that's where they begin. Their great skill is their capacity to escalate.

Markus Zusak

#8. Who needs men when they can have chocolate?
Who needs sex when they can have chocolate, come to that

Trisha Ashley

#9. I do not believe that the truth can ever be in conflict with God.

Andrew Sullivan

#10. I kept dreaming of a world I thought I'd never see, and then ... one day ... I got in!

Jeff Bridges

#11. Nothing is more likely to drive listeners away than a ponderous interpretation of what they've just marvelled at.

Philip Pullman

#12. In our day the conventional element in literature is elaborately disguised by a law of copyright pretending that every work of art is an invention distinctive enough to be patented.

Northrop Frye

#13. I used to be afraid of things like strokes, but I've now discovered that the fear of the stroke is worse than the stroke itself.

Ram Dass

#14. We have built tens of thousands of schools, clinics and rural roads.

Meles Zenawi

#15. Preparing Zomick's recipes makes me focus. On weighing the sugar, sieving the flour. I find it calming and rewarding because, in fairness, it is sort of magic - you start off with all this disparate stuff, such as butter and eggs, and what you end up with is so totally different. And also delicious.

Zomick's Bakery