Jhumpa Lahiri Quotes

Language and identity are so fundamentally intertwined. You peel back all the layers in terms of what we wear and what we eat and all the things that mark us, and in the end, what we have are our words.

Jhumpa Lahiri

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

WordsIdentityEndLanguageYouEat

To look back and know that I have had a pivotal role in the development of comics is something I'm very proud of, although it's not something I think about unless someone brings it up.

Joe Simon

ProudThinkSomeoneLookBackKnow

Being 90 is not simple, but it's interesting, very interesting. Before I was 90, I could walk, I could see well, I could hear terrific, and now, I can't hear or see or walk.

Jerry Lewis

WalkSimpleInterestingNowSee

As long as global financial conditions normalize in an orderly fashion, EMEs should have sufficient time to adjust.

Jerome Powell

TimeFashionFinancialLongAdjust

If you ask me where do I belong, it would be somewhere in the Irish Sea almost - born in Hong Kong, Chinese mother, Portuguese father from Macao, lived in Europe most of my life.

John Rocha

LifeFatherMotherSeaMeMy Life

I'm not one who's big on accolades and all those things. I did my job and I'm proud of what I did and how I did it.

Troy Brown

JobProudThingsBigDidHow

Laziness works. And the simple way to incorporate its health benefits into your life is simply to take a nap.

Tom Hodgkinson

LifeHealthSimpleLazinessNapWay

Obviously, the World Cup is nice and the Euros is really nice as well, but I have always dreamed of the Champions League.

Romelu Lukaku

WorldChampionsNiceAlwaysCup

In Psycho IV, the time is five years after III, and Norman is out of the hospital. He's a married man, and he's finally learned how to love somebody and have natural sex without killing his lover.

Joseph Stefano

LoveTimeManSexHospitalOut

It's all kinds of these profound things crashing on you when your child arrives into the world. It's like you've met your reason to live.

Johnny Depp

LiveChildWorldYouProfoundKinds

In the 'Garnethill' trilogy, people always forget that Maureen O'Donnell's dad was a journalist and she did art history at uni and her brother did law, but no-one ever thinks they're middle-class - they're just working class because they speak with accents.

Denise Mina

HistoryArtBrotherPeopleLawShe

If you're going to break the rules, you have to live with the consequences.

Brandon Webb

LiveYouConsequencesRulesBreak

The debt ceiling is not something to toy with.

Austan Goolsbee

DebtCeilingSomethingToy

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