Things go bad after a divorce and often stay that way. It is rare for the parties to return placidly...
HOWARD JACOBSON You are changed by the people you are closest to, and this has allowed me to forgive myself for the ...
HOWARD JACOBSON What isn't for everybody shouldn't be for anybody: the world's opera houses are the reas...
HOWARD JACOBSON It was reading Hamlet that ruined the concept of authenticity for me, not because Hamlet lacked exis...
HOWARD JACOBSON Leaned on by Turkey and understandably wary of false equivalences - for not every death is a massacr...
HOWARD JACOBSON I am happiest now. There's nothing like running out of time to make you realise you're in th...
HOWARD JACOBSON I was a 'reverence for life' man - 'see life steadily and see it whole' - in my days...
HOWARD JACOBSON Of the secular mysteries to which I wake with fresh and sometimes angry amazement every day, the que...
HOWARD JACOBSON Does anyone who leaves a Baltic country ever want to return to it? Someone must, I suppose.
HOWARD JACOBSON Alone of prejudices, anti-Zionism is sacrosanct. How very dare we distinguish the motivation of one ...
HOWARD JACOBSON Every time I criticize the anti-Zionists, they say, 'You are trying to silence us.' I don...
HOWARD JACOBSON 'Legality' is a mad phrase to use when it comes to the founding of nations. Australia was fo...
HOWARD JACOBSON I've always liked older women. One sad thing about being my age is that there are no older women...
HOWARD JACOBSON Reading literature remains a civilising activity, no matter that it's literature in which people...
HOWARD JACOBSON 'Great Expectations', in short, is a more damning account of the mess Dickens himself had ma...
HOWARD JACOBSON Things happen in 'If This is a Man' that are beyond ordinary daily experience, but it is sti...
HOWARD JACOBSON Let discernment in matters of fashion and entertainment determine who should get the vote, and half ...
HOWARD JACOBSON If the Jew transmogrified into the Devil for the medieval church, he retained his devilish character...
HOWARD JACOBSON You can imprison but you can't enslave a man who argues with his books.
HOWARD JACOBSON Of my old tendency to overdo the dedication and deface the title page with florid compliments and ob...
HOWARD JACOBSON 'Family Guy'. It's not only the funniest programme on television, it's the most wond...
HOWARD JACOBSON I am enthralled until the last ball Djokovic hits, and the moment it is over and he is on his knees ...
HOWARD JACOBSON Making America great again, as if to keep the world out. The world and all its fresh ideas and every...
HOWARD JACOBSON When demagogues and dictators ban art, this is the reason: art is the great solvent of obedient fund...
HOWARD JACOBSON A system of thought that accepts no inconsistencies is a frightful thing.
HOWARD JACOBSON Trump can be damned to all hell with his enclosed little world in which no thought is possible. But ...
HOWARD JACOBSON Trump's hobbled vocabulary is now the incontestable stuff of comedy: not just how few his words ...
HOWARD JACOBSON I won't go so far as to say that novels sell in inverse proportion to their worth, for just occa...
HOWARD JACOBSON Show me a university which is a hotbed of thin-skinned offence-taking, where every unacceptable idea...
HOWARD JACOBSON There's a simple arithmetical logic at work. Build more unaffordable and not always architectura...
HOWARD JACOBSON Shakespeare's always been sitting on my back, since I began reading. And, certainly, as a writer...
HOWARD JACOBSON There is much that makes one pause in 'If This is a Man', the record of Levi's 11-month ...
HOWARD JACOBSON Maybe we'd forgotten what socialists are meant to look and sound like. Well, now we've been ...
HOWARD JACOBSON For me a Writing Day was an occasion for self-reproach and panic, a time to lament the passing of th...
HOWARD JACOBSON The death of an Italian tailor might not be calamitous in Catania or Cagliari, but the loss to Soho ...
HOWARD JACOBSON I find Australia compelling and vexatious at the best of times; I've never been able to get it o...
HOWARD JACOBSON Again and again, Primo Levi's work is described as indispensable, essential, necessary. None of ...
HOWARD JACOBSON How do you go on knowing that you will never again - not ever, ever - see the person you have loved?...
HOWARD JACOBSON Literature is a house with many mansions.
HOWARD JACOBSON A writer should never allow himself to be lulled out of the vigilance native to his profession.
HOWARD JACOBSON As soon as I finished 'The Finkler Question,' I was in despair. I'd changed my English p...
HOWARD JACOBSON You don't divorce simply because your spouse has a number of qualities you dislike and on occasi...
HOWARD JACOBSON No good writer ever merely cheered us up. But there's an unblinking stare into the darkness of t...
HOWARD JACOBSON As for 'Great Expectations', it is up there for me with the world's greatest novels, not...
HOWARD JACOBSON Homesickness is universal. But Neapolitan homesickness goes back further than the accidents of domic...
HOWARD JACOBSON I was young; I was newly married. My Cambridge degree was still warm in my pocket - a roll of parchm...
HOWARD JACOBSON I have a son, but I've never had a daughter. I have a sister, and my sister had a fairly tempest...
HOWARD JACOBSON I've never owned a T-shirt. I don't like vests or sweaters or cardies with zips. I like a pr...
HOWARD JACOBSON If we doubt the power of literature and art to civilise, how come no one has ever been mugged by a p...
HOWARD JACOBSON Our connection to the great myths of our natures is murky. A mother might see the Medea in herself w...
HOWARD JACOBSON Economics is not a science; it is a quasi-religion: part superstition, part mystique, part sentiment...
HOWARD JACOBSON Among the many arguments to be made against cultural revolutions is that they are monotonous in spir...
HOWARD JACOBSON But he didn't have to listen to his father. Taking after your father was optional, wasn't it?
HOWARD JACOBSON Whoever has once been truly unsettled by a work of the imagination will never give loyalty to a sing...
HOWARD JACOBSON I've always said if a woman is looking for a good husband, she should go for a Jewish man past 6...
HOWARD JACOBSON Rereading one's own novels after many years is always a fraught business, but when a novel has f...
HOWARD JACOBSON The queue and the fan are, of course, closely related in that fans will queue any length of time in ...
HOWARD JACOBSON It isn't only in the name of free speech that the views of an itchy polemicist should be tolerat...
HOWARD JACOBSON To my ear, the term 'comic novelist' is as redundant and off-putting as the term 'litera...
HOWARD JACOBSON To a philosopher like Nietzsche, the Jew is culpable not for rejecting Christianity but for inventin...
HOWARD JACOBSON You know you are grown sentimental when you start counting the cygnets on the duck pond in the park ...
HOWARD JACOBSON Once in a while, we need the hard Left to pipe up.
HOWARD JACOBSON The young come in many guises: vigorous and passionate, vindictive and mean-spirited. And not every ...
HOWARD JACOBSON I recall waking to the realisation that I was the best table tennis player under 17 in north Manches...
HOWARD JACOBSON Where there are no spectators, there is no sponsorship. Where there is no sponsorship, there is no m...
HOWARD JACOBSON You don't remember people you love by the wise things they say but the silly things they do.
HOWARD JACOBSON To any young person starting out on life and looking to make a quick fortune, I have this advice: fo...
HOWARD JACOBSON In anticipation of a meal - supposing we are with the ideal companion at the best table in the perfe...
HOWARD JACOBSON Words do not necessarily make us moral. And there have been presidents before who have stumbled over...
HOWARD JACOBSON This is now the way our culture prioritises. Look up 'Steppenwolf,' and you'll get the b...
HOWARD JACOBSON It's a weakness of mine to forget what it is I've just been talking about so that when peopl...
HOWARD JACOBSON I normally take a long time finding titles. I finish the book and go into sweats for months afterwar...
HOWARD JACOBSON I was brought up a Jew but, you know, that way of being Jewish - the New York way. We were stomach J...
HOWARD JACOBSON When I see ultra-Orthodox Jews stamping all over Jaffa, or when I see them deciding who is a Jew, I ...
HOWARD JACOBSON No traveller ever sets out with so little idea of where he is going or how he is going to get there ...
HOWARD JACOBSON I have made of Sydney, to which I sailed in 1965, a paradise beyond the powers of fancy.
HOWARD JACOBSON I wouldn't dream of watching motor racing, cycling, or golf - which aren't truly sports anyw...
HOWARD JACOBSON I'm so thankful for that struggling period. That time is really great where you have no idea wha...
ABBI JACOBSON I'm not super, super religious. If this is okay to say, I'm more culturally Jewish.
ABBI JACOBSON I've been watching 'The Cosby Show' and 'Roseanne' a lot right now, and those wo...
ABBI JACOBSON I just got really into this one girl on Instagram and had her paint little pineapples on my nails du...
ABBI JACOBSON I definitely relate so much to a lot of women in comedy, but I don't love segregating the gender...
ABBI JACOBSON We just sort of thought a Web series would be a cool thing to be able to send to our parents to show...
ABBI JACOBSON I started getting really interested in comedy when I was in middle school.
ABBI JACOBSON We love to start from a real place, whether it's us or our friends or working on a story from a ...
ABBI JACOBSON We couldn't pitch the show without having created one, at least one 20 to 25 minute version of &...
ABBI JACOBSON If people watch 'Broad City' very closely, we just drop lines about people we love, just to ...
ABBI JACOBSON I love comedy, but I was just obsessed with 'SNL' growing up.
ABBI JACOBSON When we make the show, we are always talking about how the show is really in between what we make an...
ABBI JACOBSON You know all those young people watching Comedy Central love 'Frasier.'
ABBI JACOBSON I feel like comedy had a boys'-club label when we were starting.
ABBI JACOBSON When I was in high school, my mom worked at Bed, Bath and Beyond, so I was always there.
ABBI JACOBSON When I lived in Baltimore, I would come down fairly often to go to the Hirshhorn, and one of my good...
ABBI JACOBSON Why does 'writer' have no gender, but 'actor' has a gender? What is that?
ABBI JACOBSON I'm from outside Philadelphia, a town called Wayne, which is, like, 25 minutes northwest.
ABBI JACOBSON I ended up going to college for visual arts but moved up to New York after I graduated from college ...
ABBI JACOBSON I had a weirdly awesome high-school experience.
ABBI JACOBSON I'd think they'd want to make a clean break with Howard. In New York, they threw out the whole K-Roc...
ADAM JACOBSON Most of the ad money will go to the Bay Area and the capital city.
ADAM JACOBSON It's going to take the best basketball that a lot of us have played. We need to make shots.
ADAM JACOBSON This feels real great. To finally have it, it feels great. Now we're looking forward to state.
ADAM JACOBSON We showed a lot more cohesiveness in moving the ball in our last game. We're known for going one-on-...
ADAM JACOBSON Anywhere we go, it'll be tough and we know that. We're up against the wall, but we have nothing to l...
ADAM JACOBSON I feel terrible for those guys that they didn't get in. They deserved to get in.
BEN JACOBSON This one hurts. This is as bad a loss as any I've ever suffered because our chance of winning a conf...
BEN JACOBSON We as seniors have to tell the guys to keep their heads up. We are still tied for the conference lea...
BEN JACOBSON When I worked for him and when I worked for Mac, they really didn't give many orders. We worked toge...
BEN JACOBSON Basketball in the state of Iowa is probably at an all-time high.
BEN JACOBSON In the [NCAA] tournament every year, we've been the underdog and we came in and played [teams] tough...
BEN JACOBSON I am extremely excited to have Coach Glas join our staff as associate head coach. He's a coaching le...
BEN JACOBSON We definitely want to advance. We feel that this is our main goal, and that it is very achievable. S...
BEN JACOBSON I appreciate (athletic director) Rick Hartzell coming to me and not wanting to look anywhere else. H...
BEN JACOBSON I appreciate (AD) Rick Hartzell coming to me and not waiting to look anywhere else.
BEN JACOBSON With all Greenspan's capabilities, with his name recognition domestically and internationally, and w...
ALLEN JACOBSON Deep down, he would probably go along with [the dividend tax cut] 100 percent, but, realistically, h...
ALLEN JACOBSON I don't see this [retirement] as something that's going to create any kind of financial problems.
ALLEN JACOBSON There have been times when Democratic presidents picked Republican Fed chairmen and vice versa. I do...
ALLEN JACOBSON Corporate leaders have indicated to the Fed that, right now, the outlook is murky. Long term, the Fe...
ALLEN JACOBSON There's as much great authorship in the filmmaker community as in the literary community, and I&...
NINA JACOBSON Someone like Amy Poehler, I don't know, but I feel like I know her. I think everyone feels like ...
ABBI JACOBSON Suzanne Collins, it was such a big thing for me to make the handshake with her and to say, 'You ...
NINA JACOBSON Katie has really taken ownership of the catcher's position. She's the unsung hero of our team.
DAN JACOBSON It is a belt-tightening budget. We cut where we could cut.
FRANK JACOBSON Because you don't get to choose your parents, K, and at some point you realise that maybe your paren...
MEGAN JACOBSON Because you don't get to choose your parents, , and at some point you realise that maybe your parent...
MEGAN JACOBSON I'm still shy," I admit, pulling the sleeves over my hands, "and I might always be, I don't know, bu...
MEGAN JACOBSON Do not define me by my gender or my socio-economic status, Noah Willis. Do not tell me who I am and ...
MEGAN JACOBSON It's almost worthless. I don't think the word soda pop is mentioned anywhere in these materials, eve...
MICHAEL JACOBSON We rely on five players who step up, do their roles and help us win.
TARA JACOBSON Oh, yeah. Our coach told us that it's very hard to come into a section title (game) undefeated, and ...
TARA JACOBSON Weeding out the right people comes into understanding our culture and that goes into the work ethic ...
DAVID JACOBSON Columbus is about to become the diarrhea capitol of the nation,
MICHAEL JACOBSON We didn't think they could guard our big guys inside. We just kept pumping it in there.
BEN JACOBSON In the second half I kind of got it going a little bit. Coach put the ball in my hands and ran some ...
BEN JACOBSON Our focus has been on winning the conference title.
BEN JACOBSON Sometimes, with teams from the power conferences, people look at what it says across the front of th...
BEN JACOBSON This is as big a game as we'll have all year.
BEN JACOBSON We've been playing great basketball of late. Tonight it wasn't there.
BEN JACOBSON This is a game we really wanted to get. Maybe we put a little too much pressure on ourselves.
BEN JACOBSON It's two of the premier mid-major teams going at it. A lot of eyes will be on this game.
BEN JACOBSON Great teams can play defense. If our offense had been better in those two losses, we could be 12-0. ...
BEN JACOBSON It was a little redemption after the Creighton game.
BEN JACOBSON In general, those who came to the open house were not in disagreement with our recommendations. At t...
STEVE JACOBSON For them, it's unexpected territory and it's nice to have that guide.
MELISSA JACOBSON We are more than bunch of nerds. We can kick butts, too.
RYAN JACOBSON In the Deep South, states traditionally have not welcomed this kind of regulation. This suggests to ...
PETER JACOBSON The buyers like the rate, they like the credit union, they like the simplified process in buying a c...
DAVID JACOBSON In the past six months, we've gotten a much larger piece of a much smaller pie.
DAVID JACOBSON We had asked for the FDA to consider two other options. One is to get rid of these colorings complet...
MICHAEL JACOBSON It's got to be tempting to allow yourself to be flattered, buttered-up, helped, given favors and so ...
GARY JACOBSON Their overall mix of products is still way too high in saturated and trans fats, salt and sugar. But...
MICHAEL JACOBSON If there is really any evidence of insider trading, then he's in very serious trouble, and so is his...
GARY JACOBSON I don't know if the Democrats are capable of having a coordinated theme like that.
GARY JACOBSON It will help to define him as just another Republican, and that's not good for him in this state.
GARY JACOBSON There's a lot of competition for a kid's time. You have the Internet. You have video games. Kids are...
GARY JACOBSON Gore has the economy on his side and the statistics he will be able to produce will be an impressive...
GARY JACOBSON It makes sense there would be a letdown after impeachment. People are tired of scandals and want pea...
GARY JACOBSON It seems like a bald-faced lie. The whole point of the initiative is to prevent the part of the budg...
GARY JACOBSON They see this as their opportunity.
GARY JACOBSON If a year from now the public mood is similar to what it is now, Republicans will be in trouble, ......
GARY JACOBSON This report confirms for me that the administration has created an ideologically driven program. It'...
JODI JACOBSON It feels amazing, I can't believe it. When the buzzer sounded, I was crying. I'm so happy we got thi...
TARA JACOBSON That's an especially high number for a sleepy market,
ERIC JACOBSON I reviewed this interception and noted Scott Peterson had told Amber Frey he knew that the National ...
STEVEN JACOBSON If you're in the market for guidance, this is probably not a bad way to go. A lot of people will try...
ERIC JACOBSON It's easy to say, 'Throw it all in stocks,' ... A lot of people say that, but they've never been thr...
ERIC JACOBSON You want to understand why a bond manager makes certain strategic decisions,
ERIC JACOBSON Conventional wisdom is you don't need too many bond funds,
ERIC JACOBSON A good bond fund, like a high yield fund, has less credit risk and less interest rate risks -- and a...
ERIC JACOBSON It's fair to say that most of them have lost money,
ERIC JACOBSON If you believe the bond market has already seen the worst hike in yields, then that's a great time t...
ERIC JACOBSON This is like Christmas in the middle of September. We're 2-0 and we're healthy heading into a bye we...
ERIC JACOBSON They really stepped it up. It wasn't so much that we had a let down. They just started playing bette...
ERIC JACOBSON We've had phenomenal residential growth here over the past few decades. We obviously have to provide...
DAN JACOBSON My daughter and I have this thing we call a PMA: 'perfect moment alert.' I try to really not...
NINA JACOBSON We are extremely pleased to have Mr. Marra joining our team, especially with his wealth of experienc...
PETER JACOBSON Today, students returning to the classroom are the rule -- not the exception.
JAN JACOBSON I feel like this is part of something big he is doing, ... Like taking over the world.
DAVID JACOBSON She was there to save us. These people in uniform are there to guard us.
DAVID JACOBSON In a time of tension between the U.S. and Venezuelan governments, we are proud to be involved in cul...
DAVID JACOBSON My friends don't know what it is, ... Some have tried it, but that's about it.
DAVID JACOBSON Some of us feel, yeah, we need a new school, ... towed the hard line. They just feel like if it's no...
DAVID JACOBSON The barbecue was tasty,
DAVID JACOBSON The risk to a given individual from having some saccharin-sweetened soda or coffee is really trivial...
MICHAEL JACOBSON With the universities opening, the demand for student cars is massive. Buyers are looking for model ...
DARRYL JACOBSON Cabrini spends approximately $10 million annually on institutional financial aid, which represents o...
JEAN JACOBSON It's a real nice pace we've got going right now, so it doesn't feel like [either is] throwing too mu...
DAN JACOBSON She was in complete control using both sides of the plate.
DAN JACOBSON I am looking for a 3-2 game or 5-4 game, just something different.
DAN JACOBSON Very shortly we anticipate a big announcement...residential, commercial, office space that will enco...
DAN JACOBSON When you read a book, you create that tonal bandwidth. You set a tone for yourself, as you're re...
NINA JACOBSON The center has a reputation for presenting diverse, high-quality programs. Like every theater, we kn...
FRANK JACOBSON It will probably take a few years for it to boil down to what they think is their niche. Building tr...
FRANK JACOBSON The budget is similar to the past year's budget, but like other businesses, we have increases in sal...
FRANK JACOBSON The city and the community have continued to demonstrate passionate support for this project.
FRANK JACOBSON Behind every man who achieves success, Stands a mother, a wife and the IRS
ETHEL JACOBSON Financial incentives alone have never proven to be long-term, effective solutions to health-care ref...
HARRY JACOBSON We can all agree that performance needs to change. The question is what do we pay for - the infrastr...
HARRY JACOBSON I wanted to make the top 50 in the world, top 15 in Europe, have two wins and score under 63.
FREDRIK JACOBSON I'm disappointed that I couldn't keep it up on the back nine, but it was a good effort. I think I pr...
FREDRIK JACOBSON