Jhumpa Lahiri Quotes

Literature is such a profound and deep way to look into someone else's life, his mind, his hopes and thoughts. Books have opened so many doors for me, taking me to places where my normal life and its finite limits could never have.

Jhumpa Lahiri

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: July 11, 1967

Topics

LifeMindMeThoughtsLimitsDeep

I feel like when you perform in a period drama, it's so easy to transform yourself into someone else because the costumes are so different.

Jodie Comer

YourselfFeelSomeoneYouDrama

It's brilliant having loads of girls running after you. It's also a shock when you realise just how much attention you're getting. Eventually, you start to think, 'I'd rather settle down and be normal.'

Joe Gilgun

StartThinkAttentionYouDownJust

The most common and most important result of them is that the nature and size of the effect on corresponding series of different elements are largely an expression of the peculiarity of their atomic structure - or, at least, of the structure of the surface.

Johannes Stark

NatureResultImportantSizeSurface

Leanness of body and soul may go together.

John Owen

TogetherSoulBodyGoMay

You know, I'm really not interested in someone telling me that something's good or bad.

John Malkovich

GoodMeSomeoneYouBadKnow

The beauty of cable is you could program for 18-year-old twins and get a hit show on cable.

Robert Greenblatt

BeautyYouTwinsShowGetHit

Any working composer or painter or sculptor will tell you that inspiration comes at the eighth hour of labour rather than as a bolt out of the blue. We have to get our vanities and our preconceptions out of the way and do the work in the time allotted.

John Williams

WorkTimeBlueYouWillWay

Driverless pods could have people who want to watch the same movie. Or there could be Tinder pods.

John Zimmer

PeopleWantSameWatchWhoMovie

In high school, I was so painfully self-aware that how I thought of myself was probably very different from what other people thought of me. I thought of myself as just painfully awkward and dorky. I had a lot of hair and was kind of weird. I sang a lot in the hallways.

Amy Adams

MyselfSchoolPeopleMeHairWeird

I was also lucky to play for an owner, Bud Selig, who truly cared about his players. He'd call me into his office once in a while when he knew things weren't going so well. And it's funny. Every time I left there I always felt like something good was about to happen.

Robin Yount

FunnyGoodTimeMePlayLucky

History is full of times when the inevitable front-runner is inevitable right up until he or she is no longer inevitable.

Martin O'Malley

HistoryInevitableSheRightUpHe

You might have a great fence, a great shoot, run, and swim, but you might get a dodgy horse. Each country supplies the horse; you get 20 minutes to warm up with it, and then you have to do the jumping course. Pentathlon's difficult because everything has to come together.

Chloe Esposito

GreatTogetherWarmHorseFenceYou

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