Ashleigh Murray Quotes

I didn't really feel like I knew who I was until I was 24.

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• At the Museum of Roman Art, the logic of the forms is very much modern. But in spite of that, the idea of the construction could be related to a historical time.

  

  Rafael Moneo
  • Time
  • Art
  • Logic

• We're constantly striving for success, fame and comfort when all we really need to be happy is someone or some thing to be enthusiastic about.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • Happy
  • Success
  • Be Happy

• Lipgloss is my calling!

  

  Vanessa Hudgens
  • Calling

• I'm much more optimistic about this next generation because this is the first global generation.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • First
  • More
  • Generation

• I've been very ill. You just have to trust the Lord.

  

  Tammy Faye Bakker
  • You
  • Trust
  • Just

• If they can't do it in California, it can't be done anywhere.

  

  Taylor Caldwell
  • Done
  • California
  • Anywhere

• Healthy discontent is the prelude to progress.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Progress
  • Healthy
  • Prelude

• My dream was always to win in the Olympic Games, but I never set that next goal, and I have realised now I need to set another goal.

  

  Cameron van der Burgh
  • Dream
  • Goal
  • Win

• Music is my balance... center of my life.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • Life
  • Music
  • Balance

• I think the main reason is that people binge watch because they can. We're like dogs, really. If we like something, we tend to gorge ourselves on it until there's no more left. And as bingeing becomes possible and commonplace, it's only natural that shows should start to take it into account.

  

  D. B. Weiss
  • People
  • Think
  • Start

• Having grown up in the Middle East, eating beans for breakfast always seemed like a bizarre British eccentricity.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Up
  • Always
  • Breakfast

• Writing is very good for household tasks. Because you'd rather fix a dripping tap or paint an old wall - you'd rather do almost anything than sit and write. I have to reach a point of obsession in order to write, and so I find starting a book incredibly difficult.

  

  Damon Galgut
  • Good
  • Writing
  • Book

• For most developers, that kind of situation – a player figuring out how to do something that the designer didn't intend – to most developers, that's a bug. For me, that's a celebration.

  

  Warren Spector
  • Player
  • Situation
  • Celebration

• Everyone seems to see bleakness and despair in my books. I don't read them that way. I see myself as writing comic books, books about ordinary people trying to live ordinary, dull, happy lives while the world is falling to pieces around them.

  

  J. M. Coetzee
  • People
  • World
  • Writing

• He was just Ron and I kinda liked him, mostly because he wrote well, and I never felt he took all that Scientology nonsense seriously but knew how to make a good buck, and he liked me, and... well, he was a friend who died.

  

  Harlan Ellison
  • Good
  • Friend

• Despereaux did not know it, but he would need, very soon, to be brave himself.

  

  Kate DiCamillo
  • Brave

• My brief stay at the hospital had already convinced me that the medical profession was an open door to anyone nursing a grudge against the human race.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • Door

• The commonest and cheapest sounds, as the barking of a dog, produce the same effect on fresh and healthy ears that the rarest music does. It depends on your appetite for sound. Just as a crust is sweeter to a healthy appetite than confectionery to a pampered or diseased one.

  

  Henry David Thoreau
  • Music
  • Dog

• What joins men together, he said, is not the sharing of bread but the sharing of enemies.

  

  Cormac McCarthy
  • Men
  • Together

• Somehow, miraculously, they forced themselves, told themselves they were going to live. They wrote themselves new lives. Fictions, perhaps, but what did it matter? They had kept the chaos at bay. They had managed to stop cursing the darkness. They’d lit a torch.

  

  Benjamin Alire Saenz
  • Chaos
  • Darkness
  • Fictions

• Before men ever wrote in clay they cast their words in verse and line, rythymbound in poets' minds, defying time and age.

  

  Dave Beard
  • Words
  • Before
  • Defying

• Human beings, you see, do absolutely two primary things. We see like and unlike. Like becomes, in literature, simile and metaphor. Unlike becomes uniqueness and difference, from which I believe, the novel is born.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Believe
  • Literature
  • Human

• I didn't really feel like I knew who I was until I was 24.

  

  Ashleigh Murray