Ismail Kadare (Ismail Halit Kadare) Quotes

The writer is always to some extent in exile, wherever he is, because he is somehow outside, separated from others; there is always a distance.

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• If it's hard for Blue America to see Red America as anything other than a bunch of dumb, racist rednecks; it's hard for Red America to recognize that many minorities are legitimately worried about what a Trump presidency means for their family.

  

  J. D. Vance
  • Family
  • America
  • Red

• I would not drink bottles of water at my mom's house because I never knew how long she'd been refilling them from the sink and putting them back in the refrigerator.

  

  Dan Fogelman
  • Long
  • She
  • House

• I can say with a level of confidence that Islam is not a religion of war, only because the majority of Muslims don't subscribe to that perspective, not because there's something inherent in the text that tells me it's a religion of peace.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • War
  • Peace
  • Confidence

• I hate abortions, but just could not make that choice for someone else.

  

  Barbara Bush
  • Hate
  • Choice
  • Just

• Keeping in touch with the people that matter is important.

  

  G-Eazy
  • People
  • Important
  • Touch

• I come by writing dialogue fairly naturally, I've got a chatty family; I'm a bit of a voyeur, and if I'm ever in a public place, I automatically find myself listening.

  

  Patrick deWitt
  • Writing
  • Family
  • Myself

• There are so many misconceptions about me, and it gets frustrating no matter how thick skinned.

  

  Tamara Ecclestone
  • Matter
  • Frustrating
  • Gets

• I think it's an enormous blessing to be the child of an immigrant who fled oppression, because you realize how fragile liberty is and how easily it can be taken away.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Taken
  • Child
  • Liberty

• As long as I have ambition, maybe I can achieve something for my country.

  

  Dana Hussein
  • Long
  • Country
  • Ambition

• That's why I think the 'Scarpetta' series has worked so well because people like spending time with this character.

  

  Patricia Cornwell
  • People
  • Time
  • Why

• Honestly, I grew up in pretty modest circumstances. We were a middle-class family.

  

  Larry Gagosian
  • Up
  • Family
  • Pretty

• I can't run my career based on someone else's ideology.

  

  Yami Gautam
  • Career
  • Run
  • Someone

• Music truly heals, and I am so grateful to have learned that through Musicians on Call.

  

  Rachel Platten
  • Music
  • Grateful
  • Musicians

• Man must feel the earth to know himself and recognize his values... God made life simple. It is man who complicates it.

  

  Charles Lindbergh
  • Life
  • God
  • Earth

• When I met my wife, my whole life changed on a dime, really quickly and for the better.

  

  Henry Olusegun Adeola Samuel
  • Life
  • Wife

• Crime is the biggest genre in libraries and in bookshops, and it is hugely varied.

  

  Mark Billingham

• It is by doubting that we come to investigate, and by investigating that we recognize the truth.

  

  Peter Abelard
  • Truth

• I didn't realize until I was doing commentary what a gladiator-like competition tennis is - other than no one dies. The crowd is waiting for the players to come, and they walk through the tunnel, and they get on the court, and they get out their rackets, their weapons, and now they start.

  

  Martina Navratilova
  • Waiting
  • Competition
  • Tennis

• In your cocoon, occasionally you shout complaints, such as, "Leave me alone!" "Bug off!" "I want to be who I am!"... which comes from fighting against your environment... You can raise your head and just take a little peek out of the cocoon... The environment is friendly. It is called "Planet Earth.

  

  Chogyam Trungpa
  • Earth
  • Alone
  • Fighting

• My father always said, 'Do your best and piss on the rest.' And I think there's a lot of truth to that, because if you've done your best, there's not a hell of a lot more you can do about something.

  

  KaDee Strickland
  • Done
  • Truth
  • Father

• Fine words! I wonder where you stole them.

  

  Jonathan Swift
  • Words
  • Stole
  • I Wonder

• Because in some men it is in them to give up everything personal at some time, before it ferments and poisons--throw it to some human being or some human idea. They have to.

  

  Carson McCullers
  • Men
  • Giving
  • Humans

• A writer is like a bean plant - he has his little day, and then gets stringy.

  

  E. B. White
  • Day
  • Writer
  • Plant

• The writer is always to some extent in exile, wherever he is, because he is somehow outside, separated from others; there is always a distance.

  

  Ismail Kadare
  • Distance
  • Writer
  • Exile