Adrian Tan Quotes

Life is complicated. It wtarts before we're ready, it continues while we're still trying to figure out the point of it. And it ends long before we've worked out just what to do.

Adrian Tan

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• The divorce was the toughest thing in my life. It still hurts.

  

  Edd Byrnes
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Divorce

• Self-censorship is a lie to yourself; if you are going to be trying to seriously create art, to create literary art, and you decide to hold back, to censor yourself, then you are a fool to yourself and it would be better that you kept your mouth shut and did not speak.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Trying
  • Art
  • Yourself

• I've always been a fan of sci-fi, fantasy, and horror. I like working with larger-than-life characters in fascinating worlds - places where the rules are different.

  

  Gale Anne Hurd
  • Life
  • Different
  • Always

• Nevertheless, this one fact should be apparent: turning the other cheek is a bribe. It is a valid form of action for only so long as the Christian is impotent politically or militarily.

  

  Gary North
  • Long
  • Action
  • Christian

• Standing as I do, with my hand upon this staff, and under the folds of the American flag, I ask you to stand by me so long as I stand by it.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Long
  • American
  • Hand

• Educational institutes can no longer be prizes in church politics or furnish berths for failure in other walks of life.

  

  E. Franklin Frazier
  • Life
  • Church
  • Failure

• Written by the ancient Chinese philosopher of the same name, the 'Zhuangzi' is one long perplexing puzzle of a rambling collection of enigmatic short stories. It's a strange feeling to laugh at a joke written by someone in the 4th century B.C.

  

  Patrick Stump Fall Out Boy
  • Long
  • Feeling
  • Chinese

• In my life, I've never really listened to when people start forming opinions on how you should be doing things.

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • People
  • Life
  • My Life

• You must go after your wish. As soon as you start to pursue a dream, your life wakes up and everything has meaning.

  

  Barbara Sher
  • Life
  • Up
  • Dream

• You want to have a toy and another toy, and that's not maturity. The biggest things in life are not materials.

  

  Carlos Slim
  • Life
  • Want
  • Maturity

• Time dissolves in summer anyway: days are long, weekends longer. Hours get all thin and watery when you are lost in the book you'd never otherwise have time to read. Senses are sharper - something about the moist air and bright light and fruit in season - and so memories stir and startle.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Time
  • Long
  • Book

• BoomTown has long been a big fan of Martha Stewart.

  

  Kara Swisher
  • Long
  • Fan
  • Big

• Never permit a dichotomy to rule your life, a dichotomy in which you hate what you do so you can have pleasure in your spare time. Look for a situation in which your work will give you as much happiness as your spare time.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Life
  • Rule
  • Dichotomy

• I'm mostly influenced by life, what's around me, and my own childhood.

  

  Jack Prelutsky
  • Life
  • Me
  • Childhood

• Most of my recipes start life in the domestic kitchen, and even those that start out in the restaurant kitchen have to go through the domestic kitchen.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Life
  • Start
  • Kitchen

• The scene is dull. Tell him to put more life into his dying.

  

  Samuel Goldwyn
  • Life
  • Dying
  • Tell

• I have found human nature a bit contradictory in my living of it. Human life is incredibly strange.

  

  Pat Conroy
  • Life
  • Nature
  • Human Nature

• 'The ruckus' is different experiences you go through throughout your life which builds your ruckus points up - your tolerance. You've got to have a high tolerance for dealing with stuff all the time.

  

  J. B. Smoove
  • Life
  • Up
  • Time

• Reason tells us that creation never can be perfectly happy. So long as it is incomplete it must put up with imperfection and sorrow. It can only be perfect when it ceases to be creation, and is God. Do our prayers dare go so far?

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • Up
  • God
  • Long

• An essay is a thing of the imagination. If there is information in an essay, it is by-the-by, and if there is an opinion, one need not trust it for the long run. A genuine essay rarely has an educational, polemical, or sociopolitical use; it is the movement of a free mind at play.

  

  Cynthia Ozick
  • Long
  • Mind
  • Free

• Reth looked exasperated. “When is something ever not wrong in your life?” I frowned. “That’s my line.

  

  Kiersten White
  • Life
  • Line

• Even clingfilm - if it's gone over a salad bowl, take it off, use it again. I wash out carrier bags; I save brown paper from parcels. I save string; I save ribbons. I separate all my bits and pieces.

  

  Joanna Lumley

• I didn't hate being 60 as much as I had 50.

  

  Sammy Davis, Jr.
  • Hate
  • Being
  • Had

• Life is complicated. It wtarts before we're ready, it continues while we're still trying to figure out the point of it. And it ends long before we've worked out just what to do.

  

  Adrian Tan
  • Life
  • Long
  • Trying