Jhumpa Lahiri Quotes

If you grow up in a place, and you're small, even if the place is itself also small, it's huge to you. It's what's out there: it's the world outside of your door.

Jhumpa Lahiri

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

DoorWorldSmallGrowYouPlace

I think we are ready to know that there are going to be people who are ready to save the world, who come out when you're in trouble and make sure that you're okay.

Jennifer Love Hewitt

PeopleWorldThinkYouReadyKnow

I remember seeing 'Snow White' and saying to my mother, 'Will there ever be a Chocolate Brown?' She said 'Probably. Why not?' I just never thought the first black princess would be me.

Anika Noni Rose

MotherSnowMeSayingBlackThought

I've met some smart people doing security work in the government, and they're starting to reach out to a broader audience, which I think is a good thing.

Jeff Moss

WorkGoodGovernmentSmartPeople

I prefer to write about what we refer to as 'the supernatural' versus everyday life. Humans, by themselves, bore me.

Amelia Atwater-Rhodes

LifeMeEverydayWriteEveryday Life

It was my care to make my life illustrious not by words more than by deeds.

Sophocles

LifeWordsCareMy LifeMoreDeeds

Regardless of any title I'll ever hold, the most important job I'll ever have is spelled D-A-D.

Mike Pence

JobImportantHoldThe Most Important

What we can do is to explain as clearly as possible what the benefits would be of him going down one path, and what the potential consequences would be if he chooses another path.

Mitchell Reiss

PathPotentialConsequencesDownHim

A voice can also repel, infuriate or actually make a listener ill.

Johnny Olson

VoiceMakeListenerActuallyRepel

I'm always reaching for something we really haven't done, and War of the Worlds has a lot of this sort of documentary look to it and first-person camera view that is a new thing for me. I've done some stuff like that before, but nothing like the extent of this and digitally.

Dennis Muren

WarMeViewCameraLookNew

Every actor thinks he can do comedy, and it's not true.

Denis Leary

ComedyTrueActorThinksHeEvery

Men are always like, 'You're so intimidating.' I don't find myself to be. But whatever - I'm not going to try to be less intimidating. It's just a matter of finding a guy who's able to deal with it.

Chelsea Handler

MyselfMenFindingYouFindMatter

I never start out with any kind of connecting theme or plan. Everything just falls the way it falls. I don't ever think about what kind of fiction I write or what I am writing about or what I am trying to write about. When I'm writing, what I do is I think about a story that I want to tell.

Alice Munro

I AmWritingStartStoryThinkPlan

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