Namesake Quotes

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  • Somehow, bad news, however ridden with static, however filled with echoes, always manages to be conveyed.

    Echoes   News   Namesake  
    FaceBook post by Jhumpa Lahiri from May 08, 2011
  • You are still young, free.. Do yourself a favor. Before it's too late, without thinking too much about it first, pack a pillow and a blanket and see as much of the world as you can. You will not regret it. One day it will be too late.

    FaceBook post by Jhumpa Lahiri from Jul 23, 2012
  • In many ways, I feel like having the opportunity to play Gogol in 'The Namesake' really was my dream role in many ways.

    "Kal Penn–From Hollywood to the White House and back to the big screen". Interview with Kam Williams, www.philasun.com. November 6, 2011.
  • She has the gift of accepting her life.

    Jhumpa Lahiri (2003). “The Namesake”, p.138, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • You remind me of everything that followed.

    Jhumpa Lahiri (2004). “The Namesake: A Novel”, p.124, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • Earlier the world was bi polar. Foreign policy would be centered around two super powers. India was a little late in realizing that this bi polar situation was for namesake. Now the entire world, in changed circumstances, especially in 21st century, it is more interdependent and inter connected, earlier, the foreign policy was possible between governments, but today it is not possible just between governments. Government relations are important but increasing people to people contact is equally important. There's been a shift in paradigm.

    Government   Two   People  
    Source: www.huffingtonpost.in
  • Try to remember it always," he said once Gogol had reached him, leading him slowly back across the breakwater, to where his mother and Sonia stood waiting. "Remember that you and I made this journey together to a place where there was nowhere left to go.

    Jhumpa Lahiri (2004). “The Namesake: A Novel”, p.187, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • If we do what Allah (God) has asked us to do - to unite on the basis of truth, to reform our lives, to civilize ourselves and others, and to form a nation for His glory - and we are attacked by the government and maligned and evil spoken of, that is exactly why Jesus in his Sermon on the Mount said, "Blessed are ye when men shall revile you and persecute you and say all manner of evil against you falsely for My namesake."

    Jesus   Blessed   Men  
    Source: www.finalcall.com
  • When they launch snakes you'll have your namesake.

  • Pack a pillow and blanket and see as much of the world as you can.You will not regret it.

    Regret   World   Namesake  
    FaceBook post by Jhumpa Lahiri from Apr 11, 2011
  • We loved being in Russia and would love to go back again, especially to visit my namesake

  • That's what books are for... to travel without moving an inch.

    Travel   Moving   Book  
    "The Namesake". Book by Jhumpa Lahiri, September, 2003.
  • She is stunned that in this town there are no sidewalks to speak of, no streetlights, no public transportation, no stores for miles at at a time.

    Towns   Speak   Namesake  
    Jhumpa Lahiri (2004). “The Namesake: A Novel”, p.49, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • On a sticky August evening two weeks before her due date, Ashima Ganguli stands in the kitchen of a Central Square apartment, combining Rice Krispies and Planters peanuts and chopped red onion in bowl.

    Squares   August   Two  
    FaceBook post by Jhumpa Lahiri from May 13, 2012
  • Joan of Arc is my namesake. I played her character while still in my teens, at a music festival held at the University of Colorado in Boulder.

  • I always think first about the nature of the story. When I had the idea for 'The Namesake,' I felt that it had to be a novel - it couldn't work as a story.

  • Pet names are a persistant remnant of childhood, a reminder that life is not always so serious, so formal, so complicated. They are a reminder, too, that one is not all things to all people.

    FaceBook post by Jhumpa Lahiri from Dec 20, 2010
  • But she has gathered that Americans, in spite of their public declarations of affection, in spite of their miniskirts and bikinis, in spite of their hand-holding on the street and lying on top of each other on the Cambridge Common, prefer their privacy.

    Lying   Hands   Bikinis  
    Jhumpa Lahiri (2004). “The Namesake: A Novel”, p.3, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • Michael Eisner contacted me once and asked me if he could change the name of Disneyland to 'Braffland.' I said no, because whenever I go to Disneyland there's always fat people everywhere wearing tight clothes. Disneyland, frankly, has a lot of improving to do before it gets my namesake.

    Names   Clothes   People  
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