Kazuo Ishiguro Quotes

I want my words to survive translation.

Kazuo Ishiguro

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: japanese
  • Birth: November 8, 1954

Topics

WordsSurviveWantTranslation

My goal is to be the best quarterback I can be for the Colts, and hope that it's good enough.

Andrew Luck

GoodHopeBestEnoughGoalI Can

Media wants to know everything. We are in this industry: we have to get used to it; we are still getting used to it. So I have no complaints. They are doing their job.

Sridevi

JobDoingMediaKnowEverythingGet

I don't have anything that I treasure at all. They're just things. I tend to buy an awful lot of stuff, like clothes and things. But I wouldn't be bothered if my house burns down tomorrow.

Robbie Williams

TomorrowClothesHouseDownTreasure

I grew up on a set and saw my family doing it and thought, 'I can do that too.'

Rory Culkin

FamilyThoughtDoingI CanUpSaw

I think people get fixated on the example of an idea.

Josh Homme

PeopleThinkExampleGetIdea

A lot of people say, 'It takes a lot to beat him,' or whatever. I'm trying to show you in the most literal terms, my body is indestructible, whether its glass or fire or barbed wire.

Dean Ambrose

FirePeopleTryingYouBodySay

The effect of the mass media is not to elicit belief but to maintain the apparatus of addiction.

Christopher Lasch

MediaAddictionBeliefMass Media

Slavery was a violent, brutal, immoral system, and in accurately depicting how it worked, you have to include that, obviously. Or else you are lying.

Colson Whitehead

SlaveryYouLyingSystemViolent

Reading can be just feeding, but smart reading takes us further. The classroom is one way to go deeper, but we can't stay in school forever.

Bobbie Ann Mason

SchoolSmartReadingGoWayFeeding

One of my passions is photography. I always carry a camera in my bag whenever I travel. I always take pictures wherever I go, and some of them end up being really crazy ones.

Sunidhi Chauhan

TravelCrazyEndBagPhotographyGo

Now is eternity; now is the immortal life.

Richard Jefferies

LifeNowEternityImmortal

You can have immediate regrets, but if you look at stuff and say, 'Things happen for a reason', there's a fatalistic thing about it. Something will happen that will justify it in some way.

Martin Landau

YouLookThings HappenSayWillWay

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