Jhumpa Lahiri Quotes

'My grandfather always says that's what books are for,' Ashoke said, using the opportunity to open the volume in his hands. 'To travel without moving an inch.'

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• May we be saved from evil thoughts and deed of enemies of world peace who find pleasure in creating havoc and perpetrating all forms of carnage.

  

  Yahya Jammeh
  • World
  • May
  • Peace

• Tremendous changes are taking place in our country, eradicating the concept of second-class citizenship.

  

  Adam Clayton Powell, Jr.
  • Country
  • Place
  • Changes

• I remember all the way back in high school thinking about writing books. And, in fact, I've written a lot of stories. I've got dozens of stories I've written that no one's ever seen.

  

  Patrick Carman
  • Thinking
  • Writing
  • School

• Leaving Egypt and the people I loved so much, and the environment I liked, was definitely worth it, because I also have great love for medicine and science.

  

  Magdi Yacoub
  • People
  • Great
  • Science

• All novels are about crime. You'd be hard pressed to find any novel that does not have an element of crime. I don't see myself as a crime novelist, but there are crimes in my books. That's the nature of storytelling, if you want to reflect the real world.

  

  Carl Hiaasen
  • World
  • Real
  • Nature

• The sound of water is worth more than all the poets' words.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • Words
  • Water
  • Sound

• I love things that are harsh and things that are too loud. And I love lulling people into a false sense of security. That's life.

  

  FKA twigs
  • People
  • Life
  • Security

• Tiny quails may not seem as impressive as a mammoth turkey, but there is something refreshing about a spread of individual birds on the Christmas table.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • May
  • Christmas
  • Birds

• This bill is the legislative equivalent of crack. It yields a short-term high but does long-term damage to the system and it's expensive to boot.

  

  Barney Frank
  • Long
  • High
  • Expensive

• I just love scary movies. I love the thrill.

  

  Odette Annable
  • Movies
  • Scary
  • Thrill

• Whatever I have done so far has led me to 'Kaabil.' It is a big opportunity for me to establish myself more commercially. It is a huge platform.

  

  Yami Gautam
  • Opportunity
  • Me
  • Platform

• Dick Cheney and Bush's rise to power were built on tons of money from corporations and a dulled press.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Money
  • Power
  • Rise

• Obviously, after every film you do, you wonder what you're going to do next.

  

  Madhur Mittal
  • You
  • Wonder
  • Film

• Even though people say Richard Harris and I have been having a great feud, it's not true.

  

  Oliver Reed
  • People
  • Great
  • True

• There's no way I'm going to stand up for bad ingredients. We love seasonal ingredients. It's a false dichotomy to say that modern cooking is at odds with that, but some people want to have a great ingredient and no technique.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • People
  • Up
  • Great

• It's my job, too, to keep up with pop culture and what the kids are into 'cause you don't want to sound like an old man trying to write for kids. I spend a lot of my time spying on them.

  

  R. L. Stine
  • Up
  • Time
  • Trying

• What naturally you want to do if you were a prominent person in the public light and you are disgraced, you want to make a comeback, and normally that begins with somebody saying, 'I want to do something to help people. I want to do something to help the lepers in the Third World. I want to do something to help abandoned wives in India.'

  

  Gail Collins
  • People
  • World
  • Help

• Prayer means that the total you is praying. Your whole being reaches out to God, and God reaches down to you.

  

  E. Stanley Jones
  • God
  • Prayer
  • Down

• All our symbols have the same purpose; words are merely the symbols we use most commonly. The function of words in human thought is to stand for things which are not present to the senses, and allow the mind to manipulate them-things, concepts, ideas, everything that does not have a physical reality in front of us now.

  

  Jacob Bronowski
  • Mind
  • Reality
  • Words

• I think a theater show is a pure version of me doing my material. The theater crowd is a bit more polite, there really aren't hecklers, and there are a lot of people there to see me, and they're excited about the jokes and hanging out with me for a show.

  

  Anthony Jeselnik
  • People

• They say getting a show on the air and having it be a success, literally, the odds are like winning the lottery. For me, I've won the lottery several times, so I've been awfully lucky.

  

  Annie Potts
  • Success
  • Air
  • Winning

• I like acting a lot, but it's not something I get out of bed for every day.

  

  Joe Russo

• I don't deliberately go into comedy or go into indies, but I do deliberately try to keep changing tact, because I think that is the key to longevity in a career.

  

  John C. Reilly
  • Career
  • Comedy

• 'My grandfather always says that's what books are for,' Ashoke said, using the opportunity to open the volume in his hands. 'To travel without moving an inch.'

  

  Jhumpa Lahiri
  • Opportunity
  • Moving
  • Travel