Bill Jay Quotes

My point is that meaning is always personal, changeable and subjective. There is no 'correct' interpretation of a photograph.

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• In America, people think being South Asian is still kind of exotic. When you go outside New York and Chicago and L.A., there are people who have never tried Indian food... they've never even tasted it!

  

  Aasif Mandvi
  • People
  • America
  • Food

• Traveling is one expression of the desire to cross boundaries.

  

  A. B. Yehoshua
  • Desire
  • Boundaries

• The deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge.

  

  F. H. Bradley
  • Knowledge
  • Virtue
  • Self-knowledge

• I would play my Dungeons and Dragons songs and watch people's eyes glaze over, and then I would start joking around between songs, and all of a sudden people were lighting up and engaging.

  

  J. Tillman
  • People
  • Up
  • Eyes

• I didn't have many girlfriends in my youth. I was an active young man, jumping from one girl to the next, but never with anyone for more than three or four months.

  

  Vincent Cassel
  • Man
  • Girl
  • Youth

• No one should ever be forced to choose between food and education, or medicine and shelter when they don't have the resources. It's very unfair.

  

  Rachel Brosnahan
  • Education
  • Food
  • Medicine

• Well, an actor is an actor is actor, to paraphrase someone or other and the opportunity to work, to have a steady engagement, certainly seemed like an appealing concept to me.

  

  Walter Koenig
  • Work
  • Opportunity
  • Me

• Obviously I will promote 'Vaalu.' It is my film. I am the lead actress in it; I play a major part, and I will promote the film.

  

  Hansika Motwani
  • Play
  • Film
  • Actress

• I look at singing and acting as one career, and I love the chance to do both in the same project. I need to do both. When I'm doing one, I miss the other.

  

  Vanity
  • Career
  • Singing
  • Chance

• I did telemarketing for years, starting at the age of 16, just selling steak knives to old people. Old people go through a weird amount of steak knives. I also sold straight meat over the telephone.

  

  Adam DeVine
  • People
  • Age
  • Weird

• I started modelling quite late, at 20. In this industry, girls start when they're barely even 14 or 15.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • Start
  • Industry
  • Late

• The press is like the peculiar uncle you keep in the attic - just one of those unfortunate things.

  

  G. Gordon Liddy
  • You
  • Like
  • Uncle

• Wrinkles are hereditary. Parents get them from their children.

  

  Doris Day
  • Children
  • Parents
  • Get

• I felt that from my end, I should deal with the thing itself, which is the event. I pretty much functioned like the media itself.

  

  Garry Winogrand
  • Pretty
  • Media
  • Ends

• I'm a New Yorker. Matter of fact, the more I'm in places like Texas and California, the more I know I'm a New Yorker. I have no confusions. About that.

  

  Garry Winogrand
  • Facts
  • California
  • Texas

• Peace is only better than war when it's not hell too. War being hell makes sense.

  

  Walker Percy
  • War
  • Peace
  • Sense

• Until we see love as the meaning of life, life seems to have no meaning at all. The sense of meaninglessness produces chaos, and the chaos produces fear. There is only one way out of this, and that is to see every moment and every situation as an invitation to love.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Life
  • Love
  • Fear

• There are certain pictures I can never take. We turn on the TV and are smothered with cruelty and suffering and I don't need to add to it. So I just photograph peaceful things. A vase of flowers, a beautiful girl. Sometimes, through a peaceful face, I can bring something important into the world.

  

  Edouard Boubat
  • Girl
  • Suffering
  • Photograph

• Yes, Gonzales said theres a contract, ... But he did not explain it and said, Sir, Ill just put this in writing. Ill report to you so we will know what it is that can be divulged as far as that particular contract is concerned.

  

  Eduardo Ermita
  • Writing
  • Explain
  • Contract

• My point is that meaning is always personal, changeable and subjective. There is no 'correct' interpretation of a photograph.

  

  Bill Jay
  • Meaning
  • Photograph
  • Interpretation