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

• 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

• If you were building a real-time game like one of Zynga's games, the WordPress model wouldn't work well for that.

  

  Matt Mullenweg
  • Time
  • Work
  • Real

• I love the Middle East. My earliest childhood memories are of Jerusalem. I love the colors and smells and cadence of Arabic spoken in the streets of Cairo or Beirut. I also love the modernity and verve of Tel Aviv.

  

  Kai Bird
  • Childhood
  • Memories
  • Spoken

• Unlike others who have been caught swearing on camera, I apologised immediately. And yet I am the only person banned for swearing. That doesn't seem right.

  

  Wayne Rooney
  • Camera
  • Caught
  • Banned

• I have finally perfected my signature. It took hours of practicing... I decided early on just to write Pippa, not Middleton.

  

  Pippa Middleton

• Illegal immigration is a genuinely national issue, and resolving it requires a national commitment not just on health care but also border control, law enforcement and other resources.

  

  Jon Kyl
  • Control
  • Immigration
  • Resources

• Many different planets are many different distances from their host star; we find ourselves at this distance because if we were closer or farther away, the temperature would be hotter or colder, eliminating liquid water, an essential ingredient for our survival.

  

  Brian Greene
  • Different
  • Water
  • Star

• 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