Lakeisha Jacobs Quotes

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

I glanced, wide eyed, from Edward's grimace to Jacob's sneer. ~ Stephenie Meyer

While I love film and want to continue to pursue it 100 percent, my home is TV. ~ Gillian Jacobs

This is what a city is, bits and pieces that supplement each other and support each other. ~ Jane Jacobs

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

I have always unswervingly held, that God, in our civilizing world, manifests Himself not in the miracles of biblical age, but in progress. It is progress that leads humanity up the ladder towards the God-head. No Jacob's ladder this, no, but rather Civilization's Ladder, if you will. ~ David Mitchell

Ah, if he had ever been a slave he would have known how difficult it was to trust white men. ~ Harriet Jacobs

Especially in a world that doesn't need homemade anything.That's when we need homemade everything. ~ Kate Jacobs

He grew vexed and asked if poverty and hardships with freedom, were not preferable to our treatment in slavery ... No, I will not stay. Let them bring me back. We don't die but once. ~ Harriet Jacobs

Weaving love stories from cosmic dust. ~ Jillian Jacobs

Grief is one of those ideas you think you understand until you meet it face-to-face, gut-to-gut. After a sledgehammer of an introduction it insults you further by taking up residence deep inside your soul. It has the obnoxious melodrama of a teenage girl and the hormonal pulse of a bitter pregnant woman – not to mention the nocturnal stamina of a fucking vampire. ~ Marley Jacobs

I think of many people and no one as a muse. I love the way Sofia looks always, and I love the way Kim looks always. Fashion may be part of their world, but it's not their whole life. It's not everything. ~ Marc Jacobs

The only grown-up other than Jacob who ever came into his schoolroom was Eli Willard.

School was in session one day when the Connecticut itinerant reappeared after long absence, bringing Jacob's glass and other merchandise. Jacob seized him and presented him to the class. 'Boys and girls, this specimen here is a Peddler. You don't see them very often. They migrate, like the geese flying over. This one comes maybe once a year, like Christmas. But he ain't dependable, like Christmas. He's dependable like rainfall. A Peddler is a feller who has got things you ain't got, and he'll give 'em to ye, and then after you're glad you got 'em he'll tell ye how much cash money you owe him fer 'em. If you ain't got cash money, he'll give credit, and collect the next time he comes 'round, and meantime you work hard to git the money someway so's ye kin pay him off. Look at his eyes. Notice how they are kinder shiftly-like. Now, class, the first question is: why is this feller's eyes shiftly-like? ~ Donald Harington

One might almost say that the history of geographical discovery, properly so called, begins with Captain Cook, the motive of whose voyages was purely scientific curiosity. ~ Joseph Jacobs

I love you, Daniel Wesley," she whispers.
"I love you Seven Marie Six Cinderella Jacobs. ~ Colleen Hoover

Probably the most important element in intricacy is centering. Good small parks typically have a place somewhere within them commonly understood to be the center - at the very least a main crossroads and pausing point, a climax. ~ Jane Jacobs

there was a common understanding that religion generally served the powerful, who manipulated the words of the gods and prophets to justify their greed and lust for power. Yet Christianity comes in numerous guises; mystical to dogmatic; it is used by some as a reason to justify their wars, their oppression and their hatreds. Others use it to oppose those wars and other injustices. ~ Ron Jacobs

The building blocks of mathematical thinking are requisite for more advanced conceptualization. If a student is not ready to move on, then the teacher must take time to assist that learner. ~ Heidi Hayes Jacobs

You can die of the wrong thought as quick as of a bullet. ~ Helen Jacobs

Sometimes, you just have to clear your head and get out to see other things. It is very important to be nourished. I love to go to museums and galleries, I like to see theatre, film, dance - anything creative. It doesn't promise you inspiration, but it nourishes your creative soul, and that's good. ~ Marc Jacobs

Yes, I always remember my dad's, mom's and my grandma's perfumes. ~ Marc Jacobs

My immune system has always been overly welcoming of germs. It's far too polite, the biological equivalent of a southern hostess inviting y'all nice microbes to stay awhile and have some artichoke dip. ~ A. J. Jacobs

I'm a Bravoholic, and I love 'RuPaul's Drag Race.' ~ Gillian Jacobs

Both my partner and I did not get into cooking so that we could wear ugly chef's coats and stuff. We dress sexy in the kitchen. ~ Marc Jacobs

I'm still agnostic. But in the words of Elton Richards, I'm now a reverant agnostic. Which isn't an oxymoron, I swear. I now believe that whether or not there's a God, there is such a thing as sacredness. Life is sacred. The Sabbath can be a sacred day. Prayer can be a sacred ritual. There is something transcendent, beyond the everyday. It's possible that humans created this sacredness ourselves, but that doesn't take away from its power or importance. ~ A. J. Jacobs

As a writer, being produced and getting credits is essential: it's like being a horse running a race - and if the movie is a success, then your horse won and people were right to bet on it. From my experience, and a lot of others have done it, it's the best way to start out in the industry and get recognition, which will then get you more work, and later on will allow you to do your own movies. ~ Matthew Jacobs

I actually started my career interning at Perry Ellis and got to work with Marc Jacobs. ~ Nina Garcia

Be careful what you wish for, you may receive it. ~ W.W. Jacobs

Every quilt has an intentional flaw because the only thing that's perfect is God. ~ Holly Jacobs

'The Comeback' is my favorite TV show of all-time because it's just brill. It's Lisa Kudrow's show about what it's like to be an actor on a TV show. She's so amazing on it. ~ Gillian Jacobs

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. ~ Marc Jacobs

I guess when I look over my shoulder at other designers, I feel like people are so definitive. It's so clear to me what their aesthetic is, what they're projecting. And I look at my own work and I think, Who could ever decipher what the hell is going on? ~ Marc Jacobs

I WAS born a slave; but I never knew it till six years of happy childhood had passed away. ~ Harriet Ann Jacobs

Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge Him, and He will make your paths straight. Proverbs 3:5 ~ Lakeisha Dixon

Why should we always try to be true to our natural selves? What if our natural selves are assholes? Stalin was true to himself ~ A. J. Jacobs

There are no bonds so strong as those which are formed by suffering together ~ Harriet Ann Jacobs

I had been avoiding the D-word. But the kids cut right to it. My boys are well aware of death. My twins finish every story they make up with the same phrase: "Then everyone died. The end. ~ A. J. Jacobs

Lives that flash in sunshine, and lives that are born in tears, receive their hue from circumstances. ~ Harriet Ann Jacobs

Being able to lean on someone else . . . maybe that was brave. I mean, if you leaned on someone, you had to trust that they wouldn't let you fall. ~ Holly Jacobs

I very rarely listen to music in my car - a lot of people make fun of me for it. But sometimes I listen to music on YouTube. I'm like a teenager. ~ Gillian Jacobs