Jay Parini Quotes

It's not unusual for socio-economic, even racial or ethnic, groups to cluster.

Jay Parini

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• A rolling stone gathers no moss, but it gains a certain polish.

  

  Oliver Herford
  • Stone
  • Rolling
  • Moss

• I have always been interested in politics. I was in the student union before, very active.

  

  Abdullah Ahmad Badawi
  • Always
  • Politics
  • Student

• My character Saurabh Singhania is a rich, bad guy who is driven by revenge, so much that you feel like scratching his face or throwing stones at him. The intimate scenes in the trailer are creating quite a buzz... I wish they had shown more of the story instead of the sizzling scenes. The film is not about boldness or intimacy.

  

  Karan Singh Grover
  • Character
  • Bad
  • Guy

• After defining an idea of what I want to achieve, through a series of storyboard images, I'll go to the ends of the earth to create it, whether that involves obscure camera lenses or the latest electronic techniques.

  

  Daniel Barber
  • Want
  • Earth
  • Camera

• I don't think I'm the world's most die-hard sci-fi fan, but I definitely grew up watching 'Star Trek' religiously - all of them: the original, 'Next Generation,' 'Deep Space Nine,' 'Voyager.' I think sci-fi has an important place in the cinema world. Fantasy is a big part of why films actually exist.

  

  Olivia Thirlby
  • Up
  • World
  • Important

• The nice thing about Reddit is, we don't have to sell your data or build a profile of you or do stuff that makes people feel uncomfortable.

  

  Sam Altman
  • People
  • Nice
  • Uncomfortable

• Where I come from, deeds mean a lot more than words.

  

  Zell Miller
  • Words
  • Mean
  • Where

• I have all of these lives that I want the music to live, but at the end of the day, it's out there.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • Music
  • Live
  • Day

• An ethical action, like an unethical action, is usually analyzed by politicians purely in pragmatic terms.

  

  Adam Michnik
  • Action
  • Ethical
  • Pragmatic

• Those who give themselves to prayer should in a special manner have always a devotion to St. Joseph; for I know not how any man can think of the Queen of the angels, during the time that she suffered so much with the Infant Jesus, without giving thanks to St. Joseph for the services he rendered them then.

  

  Saint Teresa of Avila
  • Time
  • She
  • Man

• I like to think of myself as a 'Mord the jailer' type.

  

  D. B. Weiss
  • Think
  • Myself
  • Type

• I am always relaxed.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Relaxed

• I didn't want to go to Chelsea, because I wanted to play the Champions League and they were sixth in the league.

  

  Eden Hazard
  • Want
  • Play
  • Champions

• It only worked for a little while; the morning after I agreed to go with Universal, an article came out in the Hollywood trade papers, and the secret was out.

  

  Laura Hillenbrand
  • Morning
  • Hollywood
  • Trade

• It is reasonable to have perfection in our eye that we may always advance toward it, though we know it can never be reached.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • May
  • Know
  • Eye

• He tries by a peculiar speech to speak The peculiar potency of the general

  

  Wallace Stevens

• I thought I was in loveA couple of times beforeWith the girl next door.But that was long before I met you.Now I'm sure that I won't forget you.And I thank my lucky starsThat you are who you are.And not just another lovely ladySent down to break my heart.

  

  James Taylor
  • Long
  • Heart
  • Girl

• As we are pursuing economic growth and economic development, we have to make sure it happens with and by and for everyone. That everyone gets opportunity.

  

  Betsy Hodges
  • Opportunity
  • Growth

• Human beings have a physical need to tell themselves when at work: 'Let’s have done with it now,' and it’s having constantly to go on thinking in the face of this need when philosophizing that makes this work so strenuous.

  

  Ludwig Wittgenstein
  • Work
  • Thinking
  • Done

• Rich white people show up in a poor country to pursue their leisure-time fun, get served by black and brown people, and live in relative - or absolute - comfort. In the water, that situation can get turned on its head, though. Local kids learn to surf, know the breaks, and take most or all of the best waves, fuming turistas be damned.

  

  William Finnegan
  • People
  • Country
  • Kids

• Patrick and Joe were so young when we started the band. As slow as it was, with all the touring and crappy clubs we played, we still never had time to stop and reflect. When we took a break, it finally gave us time to reflect and grow up.

  

  Andy Hurley Fall Out Boy
  • Band
  • Played
  • Reflect

• It's not enough to look for the truth, however a noble journey that might be. [...] You must be able to say "yes" to what you see. [...] He is the yeasayer who could look upon evil, disease and suffering, all the worst incarnations of the Eternal No, and not fall insane. He is the great-souled one who can affirm the truth of the Universe.

  

  David Zindell
  • Universe
  • Suffering
  • Worst

• It's not unusual for socio-economic, even racial or ethnic, groups to cluster.

  

  Jay Parini