Jay Asher Quotes

Teens in the '90s had the same basic desires as they do now.

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• You'll probably find most models are incredibly insecure about their bodies.

  

  Caitriona Balfe
  • You
  • Find
  • Most

• Of course people think Washington is arrogant. It is.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • People
  • Think
  • Washington

• I do not take steroids. I never have. It's sad to me that people want to point fingers. I don't do that. That's not me. I wouldn't feel like a human being.

  

  Jackie Joyner-Kersee
  • People
  • Want
  • Feel

• I don't have any plugs or tucks but people do what they want. I look at it as mutilation.

  

  Jack Nicholson
  • People
  • Want
  • Look

• If poetry should address itself to the same needs and aspirations, the same hopes and fears, to which the Bible addresses itself, it might rival it in distribution.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Poetry
  • Bible
  • Same

• All the sounds on 'Trapped in the Closet' - the knockin' on the door, when I grab the keys, when I walk down the stairs, the car horns - we sampled all of those things around my house.

  

  R. Kelly
  • House
  • Car
  • Door

• All the stuff that you visualized that was going to work so beautifully, you discover is trashed, so you jump to something else.

  

  F. Murray Abraham
  • Work
  • You
  • Jump

• Music is art to me, and you don't censor art. You don't go into a museum and censor things.

  

  Iggy Azalea
  • Music
  • Art
  • Museum

• Our bloom is gone. We are the fruit thereof.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Gone
  • Fruit
  • Bloom

• At the side of the everlasting why, is a yes, and a yes, and a yes.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Why
  • Side
  • Yes

• I even sang once at the opening of a supermarket. You name it, I've done it.

  

  Imelda May
  • Done
  • Name
  • Opening

• My mother was a huge influence on me. She was a living example of what a Christian should be. Her conviction, her discipline. She would rather see other people happy than herself.

  

  Barry Sanders
  • People
  • She
  • Happy

• It's been said that astronomy is a humbling and, I might add, a character-building experience.

  

  Carl Sagan
  • Character
  • Experience
  • Said

• I want to be able to have a conversation with people. I don't want to be stupid. I'd like to have a life outside acting.

  

  Callan McAuliffe
  • People
  • Life
  • Stupid

• Another thing I like to do is sit back and take in nature. To look at the birds, listen to their singing, go hiking, camping and jogging and running, walking along the beach, playing games and sometimes being alone with the great outdoors. It's very special to me.

  

  Larry Wilcox
  • Great
  • Nature
  • Running

• I was taught that to create anything you had to believe in failure, simply because you had to be prepared to go through an idea without any fear. Failure, you learned, as I did in art school, to be a wonderful thing. It allowed you to get up in the morning and take the pillow off your head.

  

  Malcolm Mclaren
  • Up
  • Believe
  • School

• These companies are in it for their dollars, and whatever is hot that is what they follow.

  

  Ja Rule
  • Follow
  • Hot
  • Whatever

• You know, this is really a way of cooking. It's not my way. I'm deeply influenced by the Mediterranean way of being. I've spent a lot of time there. And I've sort of translated it; I've tried to make it available to people in this country to whom it might not be familiar.

  

  Sally Schneider
  • People
  • Time
  • Country

• A man cannot tell whether a woman is in love with him or his security blanket until she is financially and psychologically independent enough to leave. Until a woman has learned how to leave, even she cannot be sure she has learned to love.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • She
  • Independent

• Man's will and God's grace rise and fall together.

  

  Evelyn Underhill
  • Fall
  • Will
  • God's Grace

• I guess when somebody offers you a movie, you don't say no. That's what I've learned.

  

  Colleen Haskell
  • Movie

• Did you know that da Vinci was a painter, polymath, engineer, architect, biologist, and writer all rolled into one? He drew sketches of helicopters at a time when they weren't even invented!

  

  Pranav Mistry
  • Time

• 'When did you become a shivering old woman,' Okonkwo asked himself, 'you, who are known in all the nine villages for your valor in war? How can a man who has killed five men in battle fall to pieces because he has added a boy to their number? Okonkwo, you have become a woman indeed.'

  

  Chinua Achebe
  • Men
  • War
  • Fall

• Teens in the '90s had the same basic desires as they do now.

  

  Jay Asher