Markus Zusak Quotes

As a fan of both media, I never had any qualms about an adaptation. I've always been able to separate books I've loved from their movies, no matter how the film turns out.

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• All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Time
  • Given
  • Decide

• I learned that instead of relying on and imitating American music, there is a better chance for an Asian artist to succeed if he or she follows his or her own culture.

  

  Rain
  • Music
  • She
  • American

• And for the few that only lend their ear, That few is all the world.

  

  Samuel Daniel
  • World
  • Few
  • Ear

• I am prepared to do whatever I can do and whatever is reasonable to make sure that it is Hillary who makes it to the White House and not Trump.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • House
  • Trump
  • Reasonable

• I love sport because I love life, and sport is one of the basic joys of life.

  

  Yevgeny Yevtushenko
  • Life
  • Love
  • Love Life

• We're all idealistic when young.

  

  Pat Oliphant
  • Young
  • Idealistic

• I've had horrible days where you wake up with a zit, and you have to film, and it's terrible.

  

  Ed Oxenbould
  • Up
  • You
  • Film

• I knew that life isn't always just about the Olympic gold medals and the sponsors.

  

  Nastia Liukin
  • Life
  • Always
  • Gold

• I never intended to be in show business; I intended to be an extremely grounded person.

  

  Vicki Lawrence
  • Business
  • Never
  • Person

• An old African leader says about leadership, he says that leadership should never be shared; it should always remain in the hands of the dispossessed people. We will lead the revolution.

  

  H. Rap Brown
  • People
  • Leadership
  • Revolution

• Blaming alleged victims is not okay, no matter whose side starts it.

  

  Dana Perino
  • Matter
  • Side
  • Okay

• I have to have coffee in the morning.

  

  Olivia Culpo
  • Morning
  • Coffee

• There ain't any news in being good. You might write the doings of all the convents of the world on the back of a postage stamp, and have room to spare.

  

  Finley Peter Dunne
  • World
  • Good
  • News

• Several particular maxims... are as powerful, although false, in carrying away belief, as those the most true.

  

  Blaise Pascal
  • True
  • Powerful

• I was supported from every side by my family and by the ministers, but so much also by the people.

  

  Margrethe II of Denmark
  • People
  • Family

• But, as it is, this pied collectionbegs your indulgence - it's been spunfrom threads both sad and humoristic,themes popular or idealistic,products of carefree hours, of fun,of sleeplessness, faint inspirations,of powers unripe, or on the wane,of reason's icy intimations,and records of a heart in pain.

  

  Alexander Pushkin
  • Heart
  • Fun
  • Pain

• He who perceives death perceives a sense of the human comedy, and quickly becomes a poet.

  

  Lin Yutang
  • Death
  • Comedy

• When I wanted to become a serious actor, this girl told me, 'You should go to Juilliard.' And I said, 'Okay.'

  

  Nelsan Ellis
  • Girl
  • Serious

• I've decided to run for the U.S. Senate because I believe Wisconsin families need a senator who will work hard to deliver results for the middle class - a leader with the courage to do what's right, no matter how tough the odds or how powerful the special interests we have to fight.

  

  Tammy Baldwin
  • Work
  • Believe
  • Powerful

• Fifteen is around the time when my parents broke up, and all I was listening to was 2Pac.

  

  Ty Dolla Sign
  • Up
  • Time
  • Parents

• It is really quite amazing that all of the folks supporting privatization, from the president on down, keep invoking the name of my grandfather, Franklin Delano Roosevelt.

  

  James Roosevelt
  • Amazing

• If you think art is a competitive forum, then you're going to stop doing it if you're not good. But if it's not competitive, it's something that you'll keep doing.

  

  Zephyr Teachout
  • Good
  • Art
  • Stop

• Astronomy says: the sun will rise tomorrow, Zoology says: on rainbow-fish and lithe gazelle, Psychology says: but first it has to be night, so Biology says: the body-clocks are stopped all over town and History says: here are the blankets, layer on layer, down and down.

  

  Albert Goldbarth
  • History
  • Psychology
  • Astronomy

• As a fan of both media, I never had any qualms about an adaptation. I've always been able to separate books I've loved from their movies, no matter how the film turns out.

  

  Markus Zusak