Ishiguro Novels Quotes

#1. My wife is the most savage critic. She doesn't feel intimidated by my reputation. As far as she's concerned, she's just criticising a boyfriend who'd recently had a go at fiction. She can tell me to abandon whole novels.

Kazuo Ishiguro

#2. When I write a novel, I want it to be completely different from a screenplay. I'm very conscious of the difference, and I want novels to work purely as novels. Otherwise I don't see how they'll survive - why don't we just all go to the movies or watch television.

Kazuo Ishiguro

#3. The gross profits in many workouts appear quite small. It's a little like looking for parking meters with some time left on them. However, the predictability coupled with a short holding period produces quite decent average annual rates of return after allowance for the occasional substantial loss.

Warren Buffett

#4. In the '50s, critics used to say I had a 'dangerous' act.

Eartha Kitt

#5. We shape our lives around words, words whose meanings are always changing.

Marty Rubin

#6. If imagination is your wealth, then ideas are your abode.

Debasish Mridha

#7. I want you to use me as you see fit,

Yolanda Olson

#8. For every thing that lives is Holy.

William Blake

#9. I was strictly a college-ruled man myself, having no talent for illustration and a microscopic scrawl that made wide-ruled seem roomy. The blank pages were usually the most popular

Rachel Cohn

#10. Life's too short to just breeze on by.

David Chang

#11. We pay a price when we deprive children of the exposure to the values, principles, and education they need to make them good citizens.

Sandra Day O'Connor

#12. It's not really like you have a thing like a supermodel anymore. It's more of a word than a real existence. I think, also, looking at it from a designer's point of view, at one point maybe they felt the stars took too much attention away from the clothes.

Carmen Kass

#13. We all have the means to be prosperous. We have to find the balance between our wealth and our needs

Robert Bourassa