Annie Jacobsen Quotes

Everything that goes on at Area 51 is classified 'top secret' when it's going on.

Annie Jacobsen

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• If cattle and horses, or lions, had hands, or were able to draw with their feet and produce the works which men do, horses would draw the forms of gods like horses, and cattle like cattle, and they would make the gods' bodies the same shape as their own.

  

  Xenophanes
  • Men
  • Hands
  • Feet

• One of the things I'm really good at is procrastinating.

  

  Camilla Lackberg
  • Good
  • Things
  • Really

• I've got tons more stuff to do.

  

  Henry Saint Clair Fredericks
  • Stuff
  • More
  • Got

• Term limits aren't enough. We need jail.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Enough
  • Need
  • Limits

• I still think that I'm playing instruments, not just pushing buttons and there it goes. It's interactive and alive with the sound and the manipulation and it plays like instruments.

  

  Ikue Mori
  • Think
  • Sound
  • Manipulation

• Within the U.S., the Obama presidency will be mainly measured by the success or failure of his economic policies. And here, I fear, the monstrous stimulus package with which this administration stumbled out of the gate will prove to be Obama's Waterloo.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Success
  • Fear
  • Failure

• Both of my parents were first-generation Americans, the children of Jews who left Eastern Europe around the turn of the century.

  

  H. Robert Horvitz
  • Children
  • Parents
  • Jews

• Everybody on this floor wants to send the same loud and clear message: that Congress is united in its opposition to terror and we are all deeply concerned about the future and security of our close friend and ally, Israel.

  

  Earl Blumenauer
  • Future
  • Friend
  • Same

• I can count all the ways in which being a mother has enriched my understanding of the world, of character, my sense of the future and my attachment to it. I can't imagine what kind of writer I'd be if I didn't have my kids.

  

  Barbara Kingsolver
  • World
  • Character
  • Kids

• This is why we may say that those who parade piety as a purpose and an aim mostly turn into hypocrites

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Why
  • May
  • Purpose

• When I was little, I saw the play Les Misérables on Broadway, I thought it was the most amazing thing I have ever seen. So I went to my manager and told him I wanted to be in it. He asked me if I could sing, and I said no. I took one lesson and landed the role of Cosette in a national tour of the musical

  

  Ashley Tisdale
  • Amazing

• Perseverance must have some practical end, or it does not avail the man possessing it. A person without a practical end in view becomes a crank or an idiot. Such persons fill our asylums.

  

  Alexander Graham Bell
  • Perseverance

• A good designer has technical knowledge - don't treat her like someone who's there to decide whether something should be pink or orange.

  

  Jeffrey Zeldman
  • Good
  • Knowledge
  • Pink

• Parenthood is such a lesson in self-sacrifice.

  

  Angela Kinsey
  • Sacrifice

• I played professional level sports. When you're playing for money, it's a whole other level.

  

  Kurt Russell
  • Money
  • Sports
  • Professional

• Since coming to Congress in 1971, I have been fighting to help create an environment where the goals of the National Work and the Family Month can become a reality.

  Charles B. Rangel
  • Work
  • Family
  • Help

• Any actor who says he does not like so many people shouting his name would be lying.

  

  Ali Fazal
  • People

• My prayer for you, Donald Trump, would be for you to have an opportunity to experience the delight and the joy of what oneness truly is. And if you can have that in your life, if you could feel that feeling in your life, then my prayer would be that your division and your separation, your attack, would dissolve with that boundary.

  

  Gabrielle Bernstein
  • Life
  • Experience
  • Opportunity

• That the nation has found a consensus for its highest office in some one who has sprung from the grass-roots of our society and grown up in the dust and heat of this sacred land is symbolic of the fact that the concerns of the common man have now moved to the centre stage of our social and political life. It is this larger significance of my election rather than any personal sense of honour that makes me rejoice on this occasion.

  

  K. R. Narayanan
  • Found
  • Nation
  • Consensus

• I think no matter what happens, we have to keep our eye on the ball for a while. I don’t feel like it’s hopeless completely, but it could be very easily. It’s a high-stakes adventure right now.

  

  John McCrea Cake
  • Adventure
  • Happens
  • Hopeless

• I have lived my whole life with high intensity.

  

  Rafael Nadal
  • Life
  • High
  • Intensity

• Beneficence is a duty. He who frequently practices it, and sees his benevolent intentions realized, at length comes really to love him to whom he has done good. When, therefore, it is said, "Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself," it is not meant, thou shalt love him first and do him good in consequence of that love, but, thou shalt do good to thy neighbor; and this thy beneficence will engender in thee that love to mankind which is the fulness and consummation of the inclination to do good.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Love
  • Neighbor
  • Beneficence

• Homeopathic doses are perhaps the strongest.

  

  Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • Strongest
  • Homeopathic Doses

• Everything that goes on at Area 51 is classified 'top secret' when it's going on.

  

  Annie Jacobsen