W. W. Jacobs Quotes

Fashion isn't a necessity. It pulls at your heart. It's a whim. You don't need it. You want it.

After decimating several vegetables, I decide juicing is my favorite form of food preparation. There's something perversely appealing about subjecting an innocent plant to that much violence.

How do you gag the voice in your head that says, 'You don't have to [do it] today. There's always tomorrow.'?

Paintings! They're like TV, but they don't move.

When my babe was born, they said it was premature. It weighed only four pounds; but God let it live.

DURING the first years of my service in Dr. Flint's family, I was accustomed to share some indulgences with the children of my mistress

When I was nearly twelve years old, my kind mistress sickened and died.

I'm addicted to self-improvement. The thing is, there's so damn much about myself to improve.

The successful publishing house is the one that can guess ahead, not the one that imitates the past.

The red carpet doesn't interest me. I think people become all the same; it's like everyone posing from the three-quarter angle in some low-cut, fitted dress; it's all the same.

I'm not conservative, but I am kind of clean living in my own life.

I am Marc Jacobs by birth, but we are Marc Jacobs by the company that we built.

I remember walking the dog one day, I saw a car full of teenage girls, and one of them rolled down the window and yelled, 'Marc Jacobs!' in a French accent.

Sometimes suffering is just suffering,” she told Gus. “It doesn't make you stronger. It doesn't build character. It only hurts.

I don't think of the New Urbanism as an economic or political train wreck. I think of it as one of these great generational upheavals that's coming.

I like the Moth podcast a lot. I listen to that.

Happy, happy fashion. There is not much more to it than that.

Sentimentality about nature denatures everything it touches.

Nothing is so clear in history that is it happens for any one thing. It seems that a lot of things come together to make great changes.

Some men tend to cling to old intellectual excitements, just as some belles, when they are old ladies, still cling to the fashions and coiffures of their exciting youth.

Power is supposed to be so corrupt. I don't think it's so much corrupt, in the usual sense of the word, as stupid and unrealistic. The more power a person has, the further he gets from reality.

It is hopeless to try to convert some borders into seams.

Innovating economies expand and develop. Economies that do not add new kinds of goods and services, but continue only to repeat old work, do not expand much nor do they, by definition, develop.

I think that things are going to change just because people get too damn bored with what they have.

I am ambivalent about London because I am so ambivalent about England in general.

It feels kind of naughty when you're swearing on set and you know it's gonna make it in unbleeped on the show.

Credentialing, not education, has become the primary business of North American universities.

I used to like to make myself sad, so I would listen to Bill Callahan as Smog.

We're developing things, but I don't know what we'll go with for the show, so I don't like to talk about it.

It's a big change for a country boy like me, to be in the limelight in New York City. It was most definitely a tough adjustment.

I am officially Jewish, but I’m Jewish in the same way the Olive Garden is an Italian restaurant.

The Friday Night Knitting Club

I don't see myself as being as big of an influence as other people seem to think.

I just want to make different movies. I want them to be things that I care about and not to repeat myself.

And we find at the end of a perfect day, The soul of a friend we've made.

The best dresses are like t-shirts - you just put them on and forget about them.

I really like the concept of, like, slowing down and savoring your food, enjoying it.

In wretched outcomes, the devil is in the details.

I prefer the earlier birth control techniques, which ranged from the delicious (using honey as a spermicide) to the aerobic (jumping backward seven times after coitus).

There were lots of programs over the course of the two referendums and the general tenor of them was that if Quebec were to separate, then Canada would disintegrate.

I've always found it very important to do your homework first and then talk.

The World Health Organization ... estimated that 1.6 million years of healthy living are lost every year in Europe because of noise pollution.

Very few people changed the world by sitting on their couch.

I don’t throw cell phones. I don’t hurt people, I only hurt myself.

'Fresh Air' I listen to, like, every day.

I'm looking to show people I'm a running back.

I think it is fatal to specialize. And all kinds of things show us that and that the more diverse we are in what we can do, the better.

The successful men of action are not sufficiently self-observant to know exactly on what their success depends.

I always wanted to be a fashion designer so I just have to remember that as long as I'm doing it I'm living the dream.

I can be in the NFL as long as any other back. I went late in the draft because no one thought I could do it.