Abbi Jacobson famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

All my life I've been aware of the Second World War humming in the background. I was born 10 years after it was finished, and without ever seeing it. It formed my generation and the world we lived in. I played Hurricanes and Spitfires in the playground, and war films still form the basis of all my moral philosophy. All the men I've ever got to my feet for or called sir had been in the war.
Is it a particularly British trait to so utterly adore truly appalling men, from Tony Hancock through to Steptoe and Alf Garnett, Captain Mainwaring, Rigsby, Del Boy, Victor Meldrew and on to David Brent from The Office. The most deeply adored characters are all simply vile.
God never can use any man very much till he has grace enough to forget himself entirely while doing God's work; for He will not give His glory to another nor share with the most valued instrument the praise that belongs to Jesus Christ alone.
The soul of the slave, the soul of the "little man," is as dear to me as the soul of the great.
This writing business. Pencils and what-not. Over-rated, if you ask me. Silly stuff. Nothing in it.
The problem with the internet is that anyone can just make stuff up
In bookstores, my stuff is usually filed in the out-of-the-way, additional interest sections.
La mort n'est que pour les meÂ diocres. Death is only for the mediocre.
We are on the track of something absolutely mediocre...
Controversy is what mediocre people start because they can't communicate anything meaningful.

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