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

• 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 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

• It's almost embarrassing to go back into my liberal background because it was about as shallow a belief system as humanly possible.

  

  Andrew Breitbart
  • Belief
  • Backgrounds
  • Embarrassing

• A lot of people don't believe in the Valley. It's up to us to prove them wrong and keep winning.

  

  Tony Bennett
  • People
  • Up
  • Believe

• Find your own Calcutta. Find the sick, the suffering and the lonely right there where you are in your own homes and in your own families, in your workplaces and in your schools. You can find Calcutta all over the world, if you have the eyes to see. Everywhere, wherever you go, you find people who are unwanted, unloved, uncared for, just rejected by society completely forgotten, completely left alone.

  

  Mother Teresa
  • People
  • School
  • Home

• May you grow to be proud, dignified, and true, and do unto others as you'd have done to you.

  

  Rod Stewart
  • True
  • Proud
  • Dignified

• To the garden of the world anew descending, Potent mates, daughters, sons, preluding, The love, the life of their bodies, meaning and being, Curious here behold my resurrection after slumber, The revolving cycles in their wide sweep having brought me again, amorous, mature, all beautiful to me, all wondrous, My limbs and the quivering fire that ever plays through them, for reasons, most wondrous, Existing I peer and penetrate still, Content with the present, content with the past, By my side or back of me Eve following, Or in front, and I following her just the same.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Love
  • Fire
  • Garden

• When you read a script, you get a feeling from it.

  

  Sasha Alexander
  • Script

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

  

  Bill Jay
  • Meaning
  • Photograph
  • Interpretation