Brenjacobsentoons

brenjacobsen — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 07:26:19 +0000

“Who is more to be pitied, a writer bound and gagged by policemen or one living in perfect freedom who has nothing more to say?” Kurt Vonnegut

I have never been…

brenjacobsen — Tue, 12 Apr 2011 10:00:02 +0000

"I need to put on my face."

I have never been aware before how many faces there are. There are quantities of human beings, but there are many more faces, for each person has several. Rainer Maria Rilke

I find television to be…

brenjacobsen — Tue, 05 Apr 2011 10:00:40 +0000

I hate reading.

I find television to be very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go in the other room and read a book. ~Groucho Marx

If there’s a book…

brenjacobsen — Fri, 01 Apr 2011 01:00:24 +0000

click, click, click, ding

If there’s a book you really want to read, but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it. ~Toni Morrison
(for sister Linda and other aspiring writers)

God sent his singers upon earth with…

brenjacobsen — Tue, 29 Mar 2011 08:45:58 +0000

God sent his Singers upon earth
With songs of sadness and of mirth,
That they might touch the hearts of men,
And bring them back to heaven again.
~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow quotegarden.com

We used to build…

brenjacobsen — Fri, 25 Mar 2011 01:00:13 +0000

We used to build civilizations. Now we build shopping malls. Bill Bryson- Author of Notes from a Small Island

Cleaning houses and cooking are…

brenjacobsen — Tue, 22 Mar 2011 00:15:59 +0000

Your turn to do the dishes.

“Cleaning houses and cooking are not something to be given more than small passing glances every twenty-seventh Tuesday.” -Drew Lamm-Author and writing teacher extraordinaire.

Have nothing in…

brenjacobsen — Tue, 15 Mar 2011 01:29:41 +0000

“Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful.” – William Morris

Like all the best families…

brenjacobsen — Sun, 13 Mar 2011 10:16:06 +0000

“Like all the best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters and of family disagreements.”
-Elizabeth II

Thank goodness I was…

brenjacobsen — Fri, 11 Mar 2011 01:25:42 +0000

Flopsy, Mopsy,Cottontail,Peter and friends

“Thank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the originality.” Beatrix Potter