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Jhumpa Lahiri Quotes

I think it's the small things, the smaller episodes and details that I linger on and try to draw meaning from, just personally.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Small Things Small Think Details Try

Foreign aid, especially when there is a lot of it, affects how institutions function and how they change.

Change Foreign Aid Function Affects

I think all my favorite directors have acted. They understand how an actor thinks.

Think Understand Actor Favorite How

I'm proud to be a Cardinal.

I like making songs and playing '2K.'

Playing Like Songs Making

The person I eventually find will have to like me and my style.

Style Me Find Person Will Like

I do an hour's yoga and go running every day. Then I see a picture of myself and I still look like a skinny, potbellied idiot - and I thought I had turned into this superhunk!

Myself Day Thought Picture Look Go

I believed in raising my children as I had been raised.

Children Been Raised Raising Had

I saw an Elvis Presley movie Jailhouse Rock, where he gets out of jail and makes his own records and takes them to the radio stations himself. And then, he puts records in the store. After seeing that, I made records an put them in stores.

Seeing Jail Rock Radio Out Own

I think that our future has lost that capital F we used to spell it with. The science fiction future of my childhood has had a capital F - it was assumed to be an American Future because America was the future. The Future was assumed to be inherently heroic, and a lot of other things, as well.

Future Science Childhood Think Lost

I've always known I was a genius. But I never thought I was a star.

Thought Genius Never Always Star

Do you realize the FBI filing system from the '50s was much more secure? How could you have stolen that data? It was on notecards. Now someone with a thumb drive, or remotely, can take the equivalent of millions of those notecards.

Drive Someone Data You Now More

But I don't think of any particular viewer in mind other than myself.

Myself Mind Think Than Other Any

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