Jeremiah P. Ostriker Quotes

I think we're tremendously different than the series, if they were to tune in to the series after seeing the movie they might be disappointed. That there was, you know, that they might have some kind of adverse reaction.

A problem only exists if there is a difference between what is actually happening and what you desire to be happening.

Mind the gap - it's the distance between life as you dream it and life as it is.

What you want, my lad, and what you're going to get are two very different things.

The space between the idea of something and its reality is always wide and deep and dark. The longer they are kept apart—idea of thing, reality of thing—the wider the width, the deeper the depth, the thicker and darker the darkness.

At the end of every year, I add up the time that I have spent on the phone on hold and subtract it from my age. I don't count that time as really living. I spend more and more time on hold each year. By the time I die, I'm going to be quite young.

Changes occur because there’s a gap between what is and what should be.

Everybody strains after happiness, and the result is that nobody's happy.

Things just seem so much better in theory than in practice.

Wanting more is just a recipe for heartache.

I am sick of the disparity between things as they are and as they should be. I'm tired.I'm tired of the truth and I'm tired of lying about the truth.

You know the old adage: Plant an expectation, reap a disappointment.

The first twenty years of my life were wasted. I didn't fit my environment, and I didn't know any other.

Pain is the difference between what is and what I want it to be.

Whoa. If high school was suppose to be the best years of my life - at least so far - I was truly destined to have a sucky adulthood.

There's always people who came 600 miles to hear the song you didn't play.

I guess there's a lot we hope for that never happens.

What does not satisfy when we find it, was not the thing we were desiring.

Frustration is out of expectation; expectation is our projection. All kinds of love frustrate unless love is based in meditation.

Hopefully I can just have another terrible year with only the one Grand Slam and that will be just fine.

There's nothing like it, but it's not as good as you think it's going to be. . . . I was disappointed because there are records of people finding things that have been there for years. I was hoping for a shirt button, or my club's badge - but not a sausage.

I hated waiting. If I had one particular complaint, it was that my life seemed composed entirely of expectation. I expected — an arrival, an explanation, an apology. There had never been one, a fact I could have accepted, were it not true that, just when I had got used to the limits and dimensions of one moment, I was expelled into the next and made to wonder again if any shapes hid in its shadows.

Expectation improperly indulged in must end in disappointment.

I don't think there's anything more tiring ... than expecting people who don't turn up.

It's hard to be natural in a scene when you pick up the phone and no one is there.