Jhumpa Lahiri Quotes
She watched his lips forming the words, at the same time she heard them under her skin, under her winter coat, so near and full of warmth that she felt herself go hot.
Quotes to Explore
-
Jewish existence in the Land of Israel depends only on the Jews, and on what the Jews think of themselves.
-
No matter how much money I make, no matter how many hit songs. I still perform like a street performer.
-
Literatures, like trees and plants, are born of a land and in it flourish and die. But literatures, also like plants, may be carried abroad to take root in a foreign soil.
-
I'm married. I've been with my husband for six years. Now that I know what a healthy relationship is, I find I can write better about the unhealthiness of relationships.
-
In my novels, there are twelve ancient 'memory tools,' all now lost. Each of the 'Reincarnationist' books revolves around a different tool.
-
There was no blueprint or how-to manual for fixing a global financial meltdown, an auto crisis, two wars and a great recession, all at the same time.
-
Feeling passionate about something doesn't mean you have to be angry.
-
I love working with the right actor, and if the right actor happens to be unknown, that should be allowed, too, I think.
-
I developed a passion for the Middle Ages the same way some people develop a passion for coconuts.
-
Everyone else in the 'iCarly' cast can operate on 5 hours of sleep, but not so for 'Old Man Nathan!'
-
Poets that lasting marble seek Must come in Latin or in Greek.
-
You want to live a life in which the things you have traded your hard-earned money for are quality items that really do uplift your life.
-
God never answers prayers. It is people who answer their own prayers by knowing how to connect and utilize the divine energy of the Creator and the God-like force in their own souls.
-
I fear that I won't work in the theatre again. I'm sad about that. But I won't retire.
-
In our leisure we reveal what kind of people we are.
-
The salvation of this human world lies nowhere else than in the human heart, in the human power to reflect, in human meekness and human responsibility.
-
I love art, but I don't think I'm especially good at it. Fashion I think I could imagine, but I'm not really sure. I think it's easiest for me to picture myself in music.
-
Almost anyone can be an author; the business is to collect money and fame from this state of being.
-
In the Bible it says they asked Jesus how many times you should forgive, and he said 70 times 7. Well, I want you all to know that I'm keeping a chart.
-
A primary object should be the education of our youth in the science of government. In a republic, what species of knowledge can be equally important? And what duty more pressing than communicating it to those who are to be the future guardians of the liberties of the country?
-
I really want to work with Tom Hardy. Christian Bale and Russell Crowe are also on my list. Those are my top three actors. As far as actresses go, Kate Beckinsale, because she's so smokin' hot.
-
The weekends are really important to me; the use of technology is really important to me.
-
A sensible man will remember that the eyes may be confused in two ways - by a change from light to darkness or from darkness to light; and he will recognize that the same thing happens to the soul.
-
She watched his lips forming the words, at the same time she heard them under her skin, under her winter coat, so near and full of warmth that she felt herself go hot.
