Jhumpa Lahiri Quotes
...that in spite of living in a mansion an American is not above wearing a pair of secondhand pants, bought for fifty cents.
Quotes to Explore
-
The Heisman is the biggest award I've ever won.
-
The people that really were important, that mattered, had a great foundation. I had no training. I had to learn while doing, and it was really difficult.
-
I'm not afraid to learn from my coaches.
-
But things such as 'Harry Potter', all I can do is shape my character, seek the director's approval on that, and basically take it from there. Professor Flitwick in 'Harry Potter', I kind of defined how I saw him from reading the book, and luckily that matched up with the director's vision.
-
Poise: the ability to be ill at ease inconspicuously.
-
I'm very inspired by past music.
-
My daddy, he was somewhere between God and John Wayne.
-
I like to play in the deep register. I was never a high-note specialist. My range goes from the bottom of the horn up to around C or D. High D is about it for me ... about two-and-a-half octaves, I think. But in these two-and-a-half octaves, I can say everything I have to say.
-
I still pinch myself that I ended up in Hollywood. And I am still surprised at the fans.
-
I think I'm speaking for a bunch of girls when I say that the idea that feminism is completely natural and shouldn't even be something that people find mildly surprising. ...I find a lot of feminist reading quite confusing and that often there's a set of rules, and people will be like, 'Oh, this person isn't a true feminist because they don't embody this one thing,' and I don't know, often there is a lot of gray area that can be hard to navigate.
-
Bravery shows up in everyday life when people have the courage to live their truth, their vision and their dreams.
-
Pleasure without Champagne is purely artificial.
-
I discovered I scream the same way whether I'm about to be devoured by a great white shark or if a piece of seaweed touches my foot.
-
The many factors which divide us are actually much more superficial than those we share. Despite all of the things that differentiate us - race, language, religion, gender, wealth and so on - we are all equal concerning our fundamental humanity.
-
There are two views of interpreting the Bible in America: that every word is literally the truth without qualification, and then the other view is, it's called plenary inspiration, which holds that all religious truth taught in the Bible is true from God, but each word is not necessarily interpreted literally.
-
After a year's research, one realizes that it could have been done in a week.
-
When we look back over the landscape of our lives from any particular vantage point, we will find that the most valuable and the most precious things that we have ever enjoyed or experienced are caught up in the quality and quantity of the loving relationships that we have enjoyed. That if any time of life we look back and we have accomplished anything else in the world, financially or materially or politically or any other way, and we do not have high-quality loving relationships to fall back on and to remember and to think about and to enjoy, to that degree we have failed as human beings.
-
The way to write well is to live intensely.
-
When you feel this knowledge and this spark in yourself, you've gotta continue feeding it. The best thing is to spend time around other wise men, that keeps it burning. That keeps it in every degree sharp as steel, but make sure you absorb enough to find out how it sparks from yourself, how the self starts the self. Once you've got that you should be free. That's freedom, to me.
-
Nobody can put a character on paper without - at any rate in part and at times - sitting as a model for it himself.
-
Okay, I know I said I wasn't going to shake things up, but we're going to have to get some pants on this one.
-
...that in spite of living in a mansion an American is not above wearing a pair of secondhand pants, bought for fifty cents.
