Jacob Quotes

Astronomy is not the apex of science or of invention. But it is a test of the cast of temperament and mind that underlies a culture.

Only a fairy tale calls a constant condition 'happiness'.

There are many ways to draw beautifully. It's important to let the drawing be an investigation and sometimes, in order to investigate, you need to go off the path.

You can't go back. I know that. But you can look back.

Finishing is torture... There's always some newly seen flaw. But the little glimpses of beauty between the anxiety make it worth it.

Everybody welcome-especially elders who smoke.

There are infinite modes of expression in the world of art, and to insist that only by one road can the artist attain his ends is to limit him.

A sculptor is supposed to be a dull dog anyway, so why should he not break out in colour sometimes, and in my case I'd as soon be hanged for a sheep as a lamb.

Before the castle gate all was as the fox had said: so the son went in and found the chamber where the golden bird hung in a wooden cage, and below

I have very simple tastes really. I like to ride my bicycle and I like to spend time upstate where it's quiet and I can take time to think and dream about new projects and possibilities.

Raising the debt limit on some levels is a ministerial act. It doesn't involve any new spending.

Nothing sells tombstones like a Girl Scout in uniform.

Unless we have a Central Bank with adequate control of credit resources, this country is going to undergo the most severe and far reaching money panic in its history.

Muslim delegates concerned about rights in Palestine could have brought their enthusiasm closer to home by addressing the fate of black Christians being slaughtered and enslaved in the Sudan.

Aside from rabid Islamists, no one who wishes to be taken seriously can publicly say anything bad about the old Jews of Europe without sounding like reactionary troglodytes.

Palestinian ideology has become a lethal cocktail of radical nationalism and Islamic fundamentalism.

I consider myself a student of life.

Men are not narrow in their intellectual interests by nature; it takes special and rigorous training to accomplish that end.

No one person can be above the ANC. He can't be.

Our media, which is very open and report on really everything, tend to exaggerate the crime issue...This is why one gets the impression that we have much more crime than other countries.

I’ve always said that a wise businessperson will support the ANC… because supporting the ANC means you’re investing very well in your business

Criminality is always the result of poverty.

Art is a game. Too bad for him who makes a duty of it.

The poet's expression of joy conceals his despair at not having found the reality of joy.

I agree with Thomas Jefferson, who once wrote that he would support the death penalty only when the infallibility of human judgment had been demonstrated.

Choose old people for enemies. They die. You win.

Fifty years from now if an understanding of man's origins, his evolution, his history, his progress is not in the common place of the school books we shall not exist.

Power is the by-product of understanding.

Knights are cavalry, bishops are archers, rooks are cannons and queens are wizards.

The choice of moves should not be made on an exact verdict of the final position, but on whether or not your position has improved or worsened.

It's bizarre. In middle school, I thought girls were running away from me, so when they ask for a picture now, I'm like, 'Really, what?!'

Genres aren't that relevant. Nearly every form of music is a melting pot of things of things.

As a writer, I never paid much attention to the length of titles. I've just wanted them to communicate the emotional overtones of the content of a record or song that they are describing

I feel that people spend as much time skipping songs as they do listening to them in their library.

Everyday that passes I am pulled from youth as how it has been defined by that culture into something else.

The bad things you can see with one eye closed. But keep both eyes wide open for the little things. Little things mark the great dividing line between success and failure.

Marriage is like a violin. After the beautiful music is over, the strings are still attached.

There's no fool like an old fool --- you can't beat experience.

By the time a man can afford to lose a golf ball, he can't hit that far.

Bigamy is two rites that make a wrong.

The central opposition between magic and science is the opposition between power and knowledge.

The world today is made, it is powered by science; and for any man to abdicate an interest in science is to walk with open eyes towards slavery.

It is very much easier to divide your outlook on the world into two halves, to say that you know this belongs to the daily half and this belongs to the Sunday half.

All science is the search for unity in hidden likenesses.

Beyond all our actions stands the larger shadow: How are we to choose between what we have been taught to think right and something else which manifestly succeeds?

Science is a tribute to what we can know, although we are fallible.

I love painting still lifes because there's a feeling of musical, flowing experience. The drawing doesn't matter as much - what you're really after is a feeling of clarity and beauty.

A wife, a lover, can perhaps never see what the artist sees. They rarely ever do. Perhaps a really mediocre artist has more chance of success.

There is no difference in principle, ... between the economic philosophy of Nazism, socialism, communism, and fascism and that of the American welfare state and regulated economy.

Honesty towards yourself. Looking into your mirror, any time all the time will guide.