Jhumpa Lahiri Quotes
If I stop to think about fans, or best-selling, or not best-selling, or good reviews, or not-good reviews, it just becomes too much. It's like staring at the mirror all day.
Quotes to Explore
-
We need more people working in the publishing industry itself who are people of colour.
-
Now I'm back home, living in London, running my theater. I just want to enjoy all that.
-
Many financial and industrial companies have been bailed out with the public's money, but very few of those who had run those companies have been punished for their failures. Yes, the top managers of those companies have lost their jobs - but with a fat pension and mostly with a handsome severance payment.
-
I've been called 'Bruce Lee.' I've been called other less offensive, but equally stupid and racist kind of terms.
-
When I get down to Louisiana, I get to have a taste of some of that great food.
-
Once every five hundred years or so, a summary statement about poetry comes along that we can't imagine ourselves living without.
-
Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies.
-
Hungary is, in a word, in a state of WAR against the Hapsburg dynasty, a war of legitimate defence, by which alone it can ever regain independence and freedom.
-
It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence.
-
The man who has no money is poor, but one who has nothing but money is poorer. He only is rich who can enjoy without owning; he is poor who though he has millions is covetous.
-
I believe that my parents did wonderful things for us.
-
I fight because I like challenges.
-
I had throat surgery. We had to check that out and make sure it wasn't cancerous. I had a polyp on my vocal cord, so I had that taken out.
-
In seeking a lawyer, you are looking for an advocate, an expert advisor on the law and on your rights and responsibilities, a strategist, a negotiator, and a litigator.
-
I create fictional narratives, but it's based on literal people.
-
I don't think anyone really is interested in reading about my emotional state. It's not even interesting to me.
-
My mother is a fighter. After she battled polio and learned to walk again, the doctors told her she would be a cripple her entire life. Instead of accepting defeat, she refused this fate and went on to become the West African Women's Singles tennis champion in college.
-
Well I think that, if you want to look at polarizing people right now, I wouldn't look at Palin, I'd look at Barack Obama.
-
We were able to provide housing to all who need it. We've had incredibly generous offers from alumni for housing.
-
It seemed to me that I, the spirit of so many worlds, the flower of so many ages, was the Church Cosmical, fit at last to be the bride of God. But instead I was blinded and seared and struck down by terrible light.
-
Holy cow!
-
I just want to find somebody special, somebody that I click with.
-
If I stop to think about fans, or best-selling, or not best-selling, or good reviews, or not-good reviews, it just becomes too much. It's like staring at the mirror all day.
