Jhumpa Lahiri Quotes

I wanted to pull away from the things that marked my parents as being different.

Jhumpa Lahiri

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• There's nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It's a thing no married man knows anything about.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • World
  • Man
  • Woman

• I was born in San Diego, and we moved to Los Angeles when I was seven. A couple of years later, I started acting!

  

  Danica McKellar
  • Couple
  • Acting
  • Born

• Unfortunately, anti-Darwinism keeps playing minor variations on the same negative themes and adds nothing to our understanding of life.

  

  Ian Hacking
  • Life
  • Understanding
  • Negative

• I think it's unfair that people can't give assets to whoever they want. When I die, my assets can go to my wife. And a gay person - you ought to have a system where maybe you can just say, 'You can give your assets to anybody you want.'

  

  Foster Friess
  • People
  • Die
  • Wife

• It is the most important contribution we can make to speeding up reunification.

  

  Walter Ulbricht
  • Up
  • Important
  • Contribution

• I don't view my memory as accurate or static - and, in autobiographical fiction, my focus is still on creating an effect, not on documenting reality - so 'autobiographical,' to me, is closer in meaning to 'fiction' than 'autobiography.'

  

  Tao Lin
  • Reality
  • Me
  • Focus

• The drummer is stereotypically the dumb guy. Maybe that's why I always respect drummers who do more than drum.

  

  Taylor Hawkins Foo Fighters
  • Why
  • Guy
  • Respect

• My parents are my major supporters. I look up to Denzel Washington, Jack Nicholson and Jim Carrey. They have all opened my mind and helped me with my craft.

  

  Adam Hicks
  • Mind
  • Parents
  • Helped

• There is a point at which everything becomes simple and there is no longer any question of choice, because all you have staked will be lost if you look back. Life's point of no return.

  

  Dag Hammarskjold
  • Life
  • Lost
  • Question

• Steaming maintains some of the aubergine flesh's texture, which doesn't happen if you cook it in any other way.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Way
  • You
  • Happen

• Armenians and Azerbaijanis in Stepanakert, capital of the Nagorno-Karabakh autonomous region, rioted over much needed spelling reform in the Soviet Union.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Riot
  • Armenians
  • Azerbaijanis

• One of the annoying things about believing in free will and individual responsibility is the difficulty of finding somebody to blame your problems on. And when you do find somebody, it's remarkable how often his picture turns up on your driver's license.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Up
  • Free
  • Responsibility

• You know, the way I'm accepted, I almost feel like Judy Garland, truly. It makes no sense to me because I don't think that I've been any more outspoken... Or maybe I have, I don't know. But everyone I know supports anything that has to do with raising money or with AIDS.

  

  Bea Arthur
  • Money

• Bart's voice Yo, what’s happenin' man, this is Bart Simpson laughs, normal voice ... Bart's voice Just kidding, don’t hang up, this is Nancy Cartwright.

  

  Nancy Cartwright
  • Up

• Portability is for people who cannot write new programs.

  

  Linus Torvalds
  • People

• But I must own that I am much in the Dark about Light. I am not satisfy'd with the doctrine that supposes particles of matter call'd light continually driven off from the Sun's Surface, with a Swiftness so prodigious!

  

  Benjamin Franklin
  • Light
  • Dark
  • Sun

• There is a horrible misconception that you can either act or not. But experience is everything.

  

  Charlie Cox
  • Experience

• In general, I'm pretty shy and nervous about a lot of things. For me to get on stage for the first time took so many times at an open mic before I finally got on stage and did it.

  

  Tyler Hilton
  • Time
  • Pretty

• I try to give positive energy in all my shows.

  

  Curtis Jones
  • Energy
  • Positive

• It was the case for a number of years that I was doing a book a year, but that was back when I was part-time teaching - and since 1991, I've been a parent, so that cuts into the time!

  

  Chris Van Allsburg
  • Time
  • Book

• Worry destroys the ability to write.

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • Writing
  • Worry
  • Ability

• There are limits beyond which your folly will not carry you. I am glad of that. In fact, I am relieved.

  

  Isaac Asimov

• Apples, grapes... any kind of fruit gives me the energy I need to get through my busy day.

  

  Kristin Chenoweth
  • Energy

• I wanted to pull away from the things that marked my parents as being different.

  

  Jhumpa Lahiri