My Name Is Asher Lev Quotes & Sayings

Friends are the best anti-depressants; with only positive effects, no side-effects. — Piyush Kaviraj

The job of the poet (a job which can't be learned) consists of placing those objects of the visible world which have become invisible due to the glue of habit, in an unusual position which strikes the soul and gives them a tragic force. — Jean Cocteau

I think that most people, and by people I mean journalists, think that I pre-conceive everything and that I spend my afternoons dreaming up self-mythologizing points of interest. — Jack White

For example, I noticed that every single kid in the high school in 'The Death-Ray' is based on somebody I went to high school with. — Daniel Clowes

Yes, there is some thought about making a film of My Name Is Asher Lev. — Chaim Potok

It's not a pretty world, Papa.'
'I've noticed,' my father said softly. — Chaim Potok

My name is Asher Lev ... I am a traitor, an apostate, a self-hater, an inflicter of shame upon my family, my friends, my people; also, I am a mocker of ideas sacred to Christians, a blasphemous manipulator of modes and forms revered by Gentiles for two thousand years. — Chaim Potok

For all that the papers would say I was a liar, I took the words I was saying at briefings as seriously as Tony Blair took what he would say at the Despatch Box. I find it very difficult not to tell the truth. I felt I was accountable for what I said. — Alastair Campbell

Aragorn: Gentlemen! We do not stop 'til nightfall.
Pippin: But what about breakfast?
Aragorn: You've already had it.
Pippin: We've had one, yes. But what about second breakfast?
[Aragorn stares at him, then walks off.]
Merry: Don't think he knows about second breakfast, Pip.
Pippin: What about elevensies? Luncheon? Afternoon tea? Dinner? Supper? He knows about them, doesn't he?
Merry: I wouldn't count on it Pip. — Peter Jackson

Chaim Potok wrote two novels that I think are indispensable to understanding the Hasidic and Orthodox American Jewish communities following the Holocaust: The Chosen and My Name Is Asher Lev. — Nancy Pearl

If you kill someone, it shows that you are afraid of that person. — Malala Yousafzai

Something that is yours forever is never precious — Chaim Potok

I'm not terribly happy about rock and roll. Certain rock music is uninspiring, numbing; it makes you feel like an idiot. — Manuel Puig

He stood between death and life as between night and morning, and thought with a soaring rapture, 'I am not afraid. — Mary Renault