Kazuo Ishiguro Never Let Me Go Quotes

#1. You're always in a rush, or else you're too exhausted to have a proper conversation. Soon enough, the long hours, the traveling, the broken sleep have all crept into your being and become part of you, so everyone can see it, in your posture, your gaze, the way you move and talk.

Kazuo Ishiguro

#2. But Ruth and Tommy never did anything gross in front of people, and if sometimes they cuddled or whatever, it felt like they were genuinely doing it for each other, not for an audience.

Kazuo Ishiguro

#3. Can it be, husband, you still fear the mist's fading, never mind the promise I made you?

Kazuo Ishiguro

#4. When you're lucky enough to have a good film made of your novel - and 'Never Let Me Go' is, believe me, a heartbreakingly good film indeed - you get wonderfully talented individuals each focusing on their special area.

Kazuo Ishiguro

#5. I've always loved acting with adults versus like the whole High School feel.

Alison Lohman

#6. I for one will never doubt that a desire to see 'justice in this world' lay at the heart of all his actions.

Kazuo Ishiguro

#7. The problems of aging present an opportunity to rethink our social and personal lives in order to ensure the dignity and welfare of each individual.

Daisaku Ikeda

#8. Never eat a heavily sugared doughnut before you go on TV.

John Cheever

#9. It was almost as if he had become, in his inveterate goodness, a little bit of a simpleton as is bound to happen, I think, if and when one gives oneself absolutely to God.

Anne Rice

#10. It had never occurred to me that our lives, which had been so closely interwoven, could unravel with such speed.

Kazuo Ishiguro

#11. Because maybe, in a way, we didn't leave it behind nearly as much as we might once have thought. Because somewhere underneath, a part of us stayed like that: fearful of the world around us, and no matter how much we despised ourselves for it
unable quite to let each other go.

Kazuo Ishiguro

#12. You have to accept that sometimes that's how things happen in this world. People's opinions, their feelings, they go one way, then the other. It just so happens you grew up at a certain point in this process.

Kazuo Ishiguro

#13. Holes in my heart
Yeah.
That was about right

Lisa Schroeder

#14. I have nothing but respect for the Lakers. So many of their legends shaped who I am as a person and player.

Bill Walton

#15. We have the satisfaction of knowing that whatever we did, we did at the time in the best of faith. Of course, we took some bold steps and often did things with much single-mindedness; but this is surely preferable to never putting one's convictions to the test, for lack of will or courage.

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#16. As I say, I have never in all these years thought of the matter in quite this way; but then it is perhaps in the nature of coming away on a trip such as this that one is prompted towards such surprising new perspectives on topics one imagined one had long ago thought throughly.

Kazuo Ishiguro

#17. Lawrence immediately saw that it was a trick question. You would have to be some kind of idiot to make the facile assumption that the current would add or subtract 5 miles per hour to or from the speed of the boat.

Neal Stephenson

#18. If you are under the impression you have already perfected yourself, you will never rise to the heights you are no doubt capable of.

Kazuo Ishiguro

#19. My donors have always tended to do much better than expected.

Kazuo Ishiguro

#20. A speech without a specific purpose is like a journey without a destination.

Ralph C. Smedley

#21. Money and ownership alone aren't enough. Set high goals, encourage competition, and then keep score.

Sam Walton