Niama Jacobs Quotes

#1. Women are repeatedly accused of taking things personally. I cannot see any other honest way of taking them.

Marya Mannes

#2. I still maintain that the times get precisely the literature that they deserve, and that if the writing of this period is gloomy the gloom is not so much inherent in the literature as in the times.

Bill Styron

#3. Maybe the answer to all of his problems was nothing more than a darkened sky and a glittering city, a lofty perch above the world below. It seemed entirely possible that it was all just a matter of setting and location, and Peter wondered why he hadn't thought of it before.

Jennifer E. Smith

#4. You can turn your flow into stock.

Austin Kleon

#5. Your generation has no sense of responsibility to a group, a calling higher than your own. You treat random friends like family and family like strangers. You want to dither your life away, pursuing one pleasure after another. That is not a path; that is a waste of life.

Liz Braswell

#6. I don't think that you can write music if you don't know how to play an instrument. You have to know the basics, then you can go forward.

Alber Elbaz

#7. I will remember this day for the rest of my life. There is nothing you can say. It's just like you won the match after the earthquake and it just feels great.

Elena Vesnina

#8. I have entered the field to die, if need be, for this government, and never expect to return to peaceful pursuits until the object of this war of preservation has become a fact established.

John A. Logan

#9. During the first firing a dozen or so numbers from the dock neglected to get out of the way - nothing remained of them except some crumbs and soot.

Yevgeny Zamyatin