Jay Asher Quotes

There's no way to know exactly what someone's dealing with, no matter how open you are. You're just never going to know everything.

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• Surprisingly, I'm not a fan of guns or anything like that!

  

  Caitlin Stasey
  • Like
  • Fan
  • Guns

• If you don't want to get bored with what you're doing, you have to change.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Want
  • Change
  • Doing

• Wait a minute, I'm a fan of yours; you can't be a fan of mine!

  

  Adam Lambert
  • You
  • Wait
  • Minute

• I think art comes from some sense of discomfort with the world, some sense of not quite fitting with it.

  

  Yann Martel
  • World
  • Art
  • Think

• I feel really connected to antiquity for some reason.

  

  Nazanin Boniadi
  • Reason
  • Feel
  • Connected

• I'm often accused of being prudish, but the opposite is true.

  

  Ian Hislop
  • True
  • Being
  • Often

• I'm a provincial. I live very much like a hermit: reading, listening to music, working in the cutting room, writing, commercial work - which doesn't take up that much time.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Up
  • Time
  • Work

• It is the nurse that the child first hears, and her words that he will first attempt to imitate.

  

  Quintilian
  • Words
  • Child
  • First

• I think about death a lot, I really do, because I can't believe I won't exist. It's the ego isn't it? I feel that I should retreat into a better form of Zen Buddhism than this kind of ego-dominated thing. But I don't know, I mean, I want to come back as a tree but I suspect that it's just not going to happen, is it?

  

  Kate Atkinson
  • Believe
  • Death
  • Tree

• In a time where there are divides between cultures and races, I would love to use my position to show that we are all the same inside and working together is the key to moving forward.

  

  Nargis Fakhri
  • Time
  • Moving
  • Working

• Having learnt my basics in theatre, I always feel film is a collaborative effort. If you do your part well and help the person in front of you in realising his or her potential, the film invariably comes out good.

  

  Randeep Hooda
  • Good
  • Help
  • Effort

• It is always challenging bowling abroad - you don't get much spin, bounce. You do get bounce, but you don't get sideways spin. It is always drifting kind of spin you get.

  

  Harbhajan Singh
  • Kind
  • Always
  • Bounce

• It's our own small voice within that is our oppressor; it says we are not worthy and not powerful enough. Our limited beliefs are the real foes we need to fight and conquer.

  

  Yehuda Berg
  • Real
  • Small
  • Powerful

• Little by little, not without astonishment, I rediscovered the great names of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, who had been the master thinkers of my grandfather and other Mexican liberals. They did no offer me a doctrine or a catechism: they were and they are a source, an inspiration.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • Inspiration
  • Names
  • Mexican

• I knew the people who worked for me. When you know people, you have to behave towards them like human beings.

  

  Oskar Schindler
  • People

• Be good at something. It makes you valuable.

  

  Randy Pausch
  • Good

• Harvard has been almost as important to the American Jewish community as the pork-sausage industry.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Important
  • American
  • Community

• As a kid, I watched a lot of TV.

  

  Ari Graynor

• Let every birthday be a festival, a time when the gladness of the house finds expression in flowers, in gifts, in a little fête. Never should a birthday be passed over without note, or as if it were a common day, never should it cease to be a garlanded milestone in the road of life.

  

  Margaret Elizabeth Sangster
  • Life
  • Time
  • House

• I had an exciting, interesting childhood, to be sure, with all of the challenges that ghetto life provides - but had loving parents.

  

  Michael Eric Dyson
  • Interesting
  • Childhood
  • Challenges

• Being at the pinnacle of my career is not to turn up in some multiplex blockbuster.

  

  Kelly Reilly
  • Up
  • Career

• I usually say the aim of life is to be happy. Our existence is based on hope. Our life is rooted in the opportunity to be happy, not necessarily wealthy, but happy within our own minds. If we only indulge in sensory pleasure, we'll be little different from animals. In fact, we have this marvellous brain and intelligence; we must learn to use it.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Life
  • Different
  • Happy

• There's no way to know exactly what someone's dealing with, no matter how open you are. You're just never going to know everything.

  

  Jay Asher