Idiot Elif Batuman Quotes

#1. Perhaps what you call conventionality, I call decency.

Dodie Smith

#2. International awareness of his deceptive practices is the reflection of the frustration that is prevailing in Sri Lanka which the President is trying to undermine by the traditional emotive and hate mongering politics.

Nilantha Ilangamuwa

#3. Ezra, you're being ridiculous. I'm over it. That's what girls do; they get angry, and then they get over it. Haven't you ever been friends with a girl before?

Robyn Schneider

#4. I like to find what's not found at once, but lies within something of another nature, in repose, distinct.

Denise Levertov

#5. With the destruction of history, contemporary events themselves retreat into a remote and fabulous realm of unverifiable stories, uncheckable statistics, unlikely explanations and untenable reasoning.

Guy Debord

#6. If not exactly raging against the dying of the light, I was at least a little cross with it.

Mark Gatiss

#7. People tend to comment on my feet a lot. In daily life.

Toks Olagundoye

#8. What I really want to shout, and want in big letters on that grave, too, is FUCK YOU ALL. Don't all women feel the same? The only difference is how much we know we feel it, how in touch we are with our fury. We're all furies, except the ones who are too damned foolish,

Claire Messud

#9. I will stay in jail to the end of my days before I make a butchery of my conscience.

John Bunyan

#10. Those who die will live but the question is a matter of location!

Jonah Books

#11. Holiness has never been the driving force of the majority. It is, however, mandatory for anyone who wants to enter the kingdom.

Elisabeth Elliot

#12. The Transcontinental Railroad Act is the first step in creating a continental common market.

Charles R. Morris

#13. So, congratulations, you're finally getting what you dreamed of." I take the key from around my neck, drop it into his hand, and say, "I understand perfectly.

Jillian Dodd

#14. The seasons do not push one another; neither do clouds race the wind across the sky. All things happen in their own good time.

Dan Millman

#15. Every job I do, I like to think it makes me better or I learn things. It's all about how much something's going to stretch me or test me.

Daniel Radcliffe