Rolf Jacobsen Quotes

#1. 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

#2. Good-for-nothing husband were as unDursleyish as it was possible to be. The Dursleys shuddered to think what the neighbors would say

J.K. Rowling

#3. You know what? I'm not going to beat myself up. I did the best I can do, and so I'm going to believe that - I'm going to believe good things about myself.

Joel Osteen

#4. For the Earth itself is a blossom, she says,
on the star tree,
pale with luminous
ocean leaves.

Rolf Jacobsen

#5. I don't think of myself as giving interviews. I just have conversations. That gets me in trouble.

Charles Barkley

#6. If you're brave enough to try, you might be able to catch a train from UnLondon to Parisn't, or No York, or Helsunki, or Lost Angeles, or Sans Francisco, or Hong Gone, or Romeless.

China Mieville

#7. 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

#8. When you are unable to forgive someone, you deny yourself a life free of anger and hate.

Winsome Campbell-Green

#9. me that it had been many years since the world had been afforded the spectacle of a man adventurous enough to undertake

Mark Twain

#10. The primary goal of publishing general fiction and non-fiction was never profit - though profit was essential to stay in the game. Publishing is a vocation in which the work is its own reward, an insufficient goal for today's conglomerates.

Jason Epstein

#11. Totally self-reliant, he is a master negotiator. He believes no one, expects the worst of people, distrusts his allies and adversaries alike and makes no pretense at intimacy.

Mark Stevens

#12. 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

#13. When you first start singing something after you've written it, it has this sort of sparkle to it. And if you capture that, that's luck.

Jesse Harris

#14. But how many moments are already past!
Ah! who thinks of those that are past?

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

#15. Sssh says the ocean
Sssh says the small wave at the shore
sssh not so violent, not so proud, not so remarkable.
Sssh says the surf crowding around the outcrops, washing the shore.
Sssh, they say to people, this is our Earth, our eternity.

Rolf Jacobsen

#16. She tied an apron round her and prepared everything with the bustling activity common to young housewives who still find something sexual in the handling of a saucepan.

Bertolt Brecht

#17. If you go far enough out you can see the Universe itself, all the billion light years summed up time only as a flash, just as lonely, as distant as a star on a June night if you go far enough out. And still, my friend, if you go far enough out you are only at the beginning - of yourself.

Rolf Jacobsen