Jake Ackerman Quotes

If you're gonna have your head split open, it might as well be while you're riding a wave, dude. ~ Meg Cabot

Gotta have a rusted out red farm truck to prove you're a farmer in Sonoma, or a sheep-milk dairy man. - Jake Knight in GUT-CHECK GREEN. ~ Peter Prasad

The yeehaw explanation is we're too busy chasing meat'n'pussy. ~ Glen Duncan

People are moving into modes of participation and self-generation, which apply to everything from museums and television to architecture. ~ Jake Barton

Using official government resources to help bankroll an explicit political agenda - whether on the right or left - is flat out wrong. ~ Gary Ackerman

I think, in the initial process of discovering a character and the analytical process - and this is what I did take from Buddhism - initially I think there has to be an analytical, intellectual approach. And that has to be abandoned by the time you're playing the game. ~ Jake Gyllenhaal

They say beauty is in the eye of the beholder. I think the same could be said for time. ~ Jake Vander Ark

Most fathers don't show up with hand grenades and bowie knives."
"They should be ashamed of themselves," Jake said. ~ Janet Evanovich

Are you going to kiss me?" I blabbered stupidly.
"I'm working up the nerve," he said softly. ~ Liz Reinhardt

Oh Jake, my love for you doesn't stop just because there's a rough patch in the road, or I don't get what I want. ~ Katie Ashley

I fought Sugar [Ray Robinson] so many times that I'm lucky I didn't get diabetes ~ Jake LaMotta

In that way, as an actor in particular, you're powerless. And so in that way as an actor in particular you can't make mistakes. ~ Jake Gyllenhaal

I don't know that I came across as being real competitive on 'The Bachelor,' although maybe I did a little bit on 'Dancing with the Stars.' I am a born competitor. The bigger the challenge the better! ~ Jake Pavelka

When somebody's really good, they're not just thinking about their job. ~ Jake Gyllenhaal

So, you're Bianca? The freshman bitch that's been screwing my boyfriend?"
"Your boyfriend? I haven't been-"
"Stay the hell away from Jake. ~ Kody Keplinger

Lovers moon and wishing stars are too busy for the likes of us. ~ Jake. H. Khiangte

I hope that when the world comes to an end, I can breathe a sigh of relief, because there will be so much to look forward to ~ Jake Gyllenhaal

I stood there, 220 pounds of ex-football player, ex-public defender, ex-a-lot-of-things, leaning against the faded walnut rail of the witness stand, home to a million sweaty palms. "To Speak for the Dead" (The Jake Lassiter Series) http://tinyurl.com/69eua2t ~ Paul Levine

She'll be angry," Kenny argued. "She'll be mad at me for not protecting Jake. That's my job."
Tough job for someone so young . . . ~ Mark M. Bello

Time's the thief of memory ~ Stephen King

Our days flowed around well-charted, often traveled courses, and yet, the underlying sense of falling out of time, out of the trajectory of one's life, not by choice, but by subtraction, was frequent and disquieting. Then I grieved for him, for the lost and previous Paul. He grieved for that man too. Both our griefs were mainly private, internal, unuttered. Return was impossible, and there was only one direction open ; and so we kept our compass pointed forward. [p. 286] ~ Diane Ackerman

I don't want to be lofty when I say this, but I don't know what a success is any more. I know how we define it, but that was a moment where I went, "Wait, who am I?" You could feel the business, in particular, kind of go "He's all right, let's go over here." I started to go, "Wait, I know why I love to do this." I think I got off track in why I love to do it. ~ Jake Gyllenhaal

There's a lot that goes into being Tim McGraw or Kenny Chesney. They have great songs, their show is great, they're very fit. When you look at somebody who takes care of themselves, takes care of their business, that's what every CEO would do. ~ Jake Owen

For city dwellers like me who don't get to vacation in the summer, no filmmaker can so effectively make you feel like you went to France for August, fell in love, got hurt, broke up, grew up, and figured some things out - all in 90 minutes or so. My favorite of Rohmer's cinematic escapes is 'La Collectionneuse.' ~ Jake Paltrow

He was lying in bed with the woman he loved . . . a woman he couldn't make love to. He closed his eyes. More than any­thing in this world, he wanted this woman to be happy. He'd give her anything, do anything to make her happy. Even if it made his own life hell. ~ Lorraine Heath

One-tenth of the folks run the world. One-tenth watch them run it, and the other eighty percent don't know what the hell's going on. ~ Jake Simmons, Jr.

The terror ran endlessly on in his mind, making him feel like a rat trapped on an exercise wheel. And when he tried to look ahead to some better, brighter time, he could see only darkness. ~ Stephen King

Jake was hurting, emotionally and physically, and he was exhausted. He stared at her in wonder.
"You're going to name him after me?"
"I don't see any other father in this house."
Ignoring the pain throbbing in his hands, he drew her close, holding onto her tightly. It was the most precious gift she could have given him. ~ Lorraine Heath

I said 'No, I've aged, but grown up? No'. ~ Jake Lloyd

The worst part is that I saw the whole thing
our whole life. And I want it bad, Jake, I want it all. I want to stay right here and never move. I want to love you and make you happy. And I can't, and it's killing me. ~ Stephenie Meyer

I've fought for more than three years. I was just thirteen when I started. I'm sixteen now, though that fact, like so many facts, has been deliberately obscured in the secret accounts we've kept.
I'm a sixteen-year-old kid named Jake Berenson, and I am the leader of the Animorphs. ~ Katherine Applegate

Dad, I may not be the best, but I come to believe that I got it in me to be somebody in this world. And it's not because I'm so different from you either. It's because I'm the same. I mean, I can be just as hard-headed, and just as tough. I only hope I can be as good a man as you. ~ Jake Gyllenhaal

'The Glass Menagerie' by Tennessee Williams is a great play. I had to read it for school when I was younger, but I started writing scripts after that. That's what got me into writing. ~ Jake T. Austin

And if you were still here today, I would tell you, that in your future, do not settle for anything less than the Jake Andrews of the world. Because they exist, and not just in fairytales. ~ Jay McLean

husk or shell that has grown up around a spark of holiness, masking its light" (203): Michael Wex, Born to Kvetch: Yiddish Language and Culture in All of Its Moods (New York: St. Martin's Press, 2005), p. 93. Yiddish's ~ Diane Ackerman

I just didn't lock into being in the right role in the right big movie and it going huge. I did never really make the leap to hyperspace. Who's to say that it can't still happen. I just enjoy working, and feel fortunate to be doing the things that I am doing. ~ Jake Busey

Museums, I think, are becoming more and more aware of how to turn themselves into a must-see spectacle. ~ Jake Barton

People say to me, well "What's the character you really want to play?" And I go, I don't know. ~ Jake Gyllenhaal

You have the blade!" she hissed. "You."
"I'm really sorry," said Jake. "Is that against school rules?"
"Don't do the banter thing," moaned Isabella. "Let's run. ~ Gabriella Poole

I prefer to work with first-time directors. ~ Jake Johnson

Sometimes love is calm and easy and sometimes it's just plain dirty. ~ Jake Gyllenhaal

I guess he found a new lover. ~ Bella Jeanisse