Kazuo Ishiguro Quotes

We all live inside bodies that will deteriorate. But when you look at human beings, they're capable of very decent things: love, loyalty. When time is running out, they don't care about possessions or status. They want to put things right if they've done wrong.

Kazuo Ishiguro

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

LoveLiveLoyaltyTimeCareLook

My sexuality, in terms of 'Strictly' or whatever else I do in my life, ought to be as irrelevant as the length of my big toe.

Robert Rinder

LifeMy LifeWhateverSexualityBig

For a book publisher, there is hardly a more dangerous category than that of celebrity autobiography. Forget who it's by, most books of this kind not only fail but fail big, since they are invariably expensive.

Michael Korda

BookDangerousForgetKindCelebrity

My family history, like that of many Polish, German and Jewish families from Central Europe in the 20th century, is complex.

Donald Tusk

FamilyHistoryJewishEuropeComplex

If I stayed in this game for individual achievements, I don't think I'd still be playing.

Chili Davis

GameThinkIndividualPlayingStill

I'm not a normal person with normal tastebuds, so I'll save you all from cringing/dissing on my late night flavour pairings, but I will say when I was a kid, with little to no access to anything but my mother's pantry, I'd dip everything in ranch dressing, Miracle Whip, katsup, barbecue sauce, honey, mustard, etc.

Christina Tosi

MotherNightYouHoneyLatePerson

If I write the song, I get to name it.

Britt Daniel

SongNameWriteGetI Write

I was planning to stay in the Army all my life, but I ended up being posted to a training camp in Wales and was so bored there, I wrote a novel.

Antony Beevor

LifeTrainingPlanningArmyMy Life

With the draft, everybody was involved. Everybody was fodder. When you got to be 21, 22 and graduated from college, for two years your life stopped. If you had been running in the direction of your life, you had to stop and do this other thing which was, if not menacing, just plain boring.

Philip Roth

LifeCollegeDirectionYouStopTwo

Character in leadership is the most important balance for leadership. Without character, leaders have no safety. Leadership has no protection without character.

Myles Munroe

LeadershipCharacterBalanceSafety

The election of the nationalist Chen Shui-bian as president in 2000 and his re-election in 2004 was a nadir in the relationship between Taiwan and the mainland.

Martin Jacques

RelationshipElectionPresidentHis

I was really tired of words like 'plus size,' 'round' and 'large.' I thought, 'Come on, we're fat.'

Kirstie Alley

WordsTiredThoughtFatSizeCome

I just live my life. I go where I feel God is calling me.

Jurnee Smollett-Bell

LifeLiveGodMeFeelMy Life

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