Lahiri Author Quotes & Sayings

For millions of years, mankind lived just like the animals. Then something happened which unleashed the power of our imagination. We learned to talk and we learned to listen. Speech has allowed the communication of ideas, enabling human beings to work together to build the impossible. Mankind's greatest achievements have come about by talking, and its greatest failures by not talking. It doesn't have to be like this. Our greatest hopes could become reality in the future. With the technology at our disposal, the possibilities are unbounded. All we need to do is make sure we keep talking. — Stephen Hawking

I can cry all day long - that's easy for me. — Jessica Pare

Strange, the Hebrew noun which means "I am", The English always use to govern damn. — George Gordon Byron

There was no reason to get upset over one missed opportunity when so many more lay ahead. — Andrew Beyer

In 1897, in an extremely direct and decidedly non-Protestant fashion, New Orleans city officials, acknowledging their belief that sins of the flesh were inevitable, looked Satan in the eye, cut a deal, and gave him his own address. — Alecia P. Long

As much as my parents were worried about me moving to London at 17, they could see that I was hungry to find my path. And it probably helped that they saw me succeeding at it, slowly but surely. — Luke Evans

Is it better to part with your introversion or to accept a diagnosis that allows you to have it as long as you see it as a problem? The introverted child's plea for solitude seems to be either unheeded or treated. — Laurie A. Helgoe

Obviously the first roles that you're proud of are the ones that everybody else liked too. — Sam Waterston

I don't realize how badly I've needed to say those words until they've left my mouth. They hang in the air. And all I want now is to be away from them. To leave the truth behind. Because if I can't do anything about it, I certainly don't want to face it. — Lauren DeStefano

In truth, I have always been amazed by a group of people who all work toward putting one person's vision forward - that's an interesting story for me. — Jim Rash

There were no horns sticking out of his head or third eye in between his two gorgeous blue ones. There were only the most kissable lips, set on a perfectly sculpted face, telling me that he would do anything to protect me. — L.J. Kentowski

At some indeterminate point in their life cycles, they cause themselves to be placed in artificial stone or wooden cocoons, or chrysalises. They have an idea that they will someday emerge from these in an altered state, which they symbolize with carvings of themselves with wings. However, we did not observe that any had actually done so. — Margaret Atwood

I mean when I was a kid, parents called the shots. Now I'm a parent, kids call the shots. So we get fucked coming and going. I can't believe this. — Lionel Shriver

The first function of an art student is to observe, to study nature. — Kimon Nicolaides