Jhumpa Lahiri Quotes

My reasons for coming to get married in Calcutta are complicated, and it's very hard to put it into a sentence. People ask me why. To me, it just felt like a very natural and exciting decision.

Jhumpa Lahiri

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

DecisionPeopleMeComplicatedWhy

My friends make me laugh: funny Instagram videos, but mostly people falling over. It's so bad, but it never gets old. I just love how people cover up their falls. The whole experience of 'Oh, I just fell, and I'm going to run out of the fall and pretend I did this on purpose.' I just like to see how people cover up their mishaps.

Jillian Hervey

FunnyLoveExperiencePurposePeople

I don't hate being compared with female musicians. I don't mind that at all. I have no problem with seeing connections between women's work.

Ani DiFranco

WorkWomenHateMindConnections

So Whitehead's metaphysics doesn't fit very well on to physics as we understand the process of the world.

John Polkinghorne

WorldProcessPhysicsUnderstandFit

The dynamic of a relationship changes when one person gets sober.

Trent Reznor

RelationshipPersonSoberChanges

One of the worst things about ageing is the waning of your physical powers. I live in a house with 64 stairs, and I cannot run up and down them any more; my knee has conked out.

Miriam Margolyes

LiveHouseDownStairsRunWorst

My grand uncle was a traditional priest, and he would always say to me as a kid, 'We stand in our own light,' which essentially for him meant we were entirely responsible for a lot of what happens to us and for the ways in which our lives play out.

Chris Abani

LightMeStandUnclePlaySay

It is important to find worth in yourself.

Chyler Leigh

YourselfWorthFindImportant

People in minority religious communities, like Paganism, often feel isolated and even marginalized by others because of the lifestyle differences associated with their spiritual path.

Brendan Myers

PathSpiritualPeopleFeelLifestyle

My family's very, very mixed. I am, I guess, a kind of melting pot in a person.

Brian Stokes Mitchell

FamilyI AmPersonKindMelting Pot

Democracy! Bah! When I hear that I reach for my feather boa!

Allen Ginsberg

DemocracyReachFeatherHearBoa

I am angry that the international community has failed to find a permanent solution to the plight of the Rohingya. I am also ashamed that, in not speaking out loudly enough, we - humanitarians - have been complicit.

Winnie Byanyima

CommunityAngryI AmEnoughSolution

People tell me being a perfectionist is a fault, but I find that's what drives me.

Paula Garces

PeopleMeFindFaultTellBeing

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