The Other Americans Laila Lalami Quotes

#1. I went into broadcast journalism. I loved every class I took, I just got anxious because I came to the realization that you're groomed in high school to get good SAT scores to get into a good college or else you're done for.

Chace Crawford

#2. Very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank, and of having

Anonymous

#3. I've spent a good deal of time in the Middle East over the years, lecturing at universities in places like Egypt, Jordan, Israel, and Morocco.

Jay Parini

#4. The reason why books endure is because there are enough people who like them. It's the only reason why books last.

Salman Rushdie

#5. In short, and this is a highly important point to grasp, the depression is the "recovery" process, and the end of the depression heralds the return to normal, and to optimum efficiency.

Murray N. Rothbard

#6. Ninety-five percent of my audience was white.

Jimmy Smith

#7. The most important political office is that of private citizen.

Louis D. Brandeis

#8. The rights we have as free individuals is the right to choose as we please.

Steven Redhead

#9. With a hoarse moan, he swept her against him, kissing her wildly, passionately, his mouth promising and teasing, as if her kiss had broken the dam that had held back his passion.

Karen Hawkins

#10. Laila Lalami has fashioned an absorbing story of one of the first encounters between Spanish conquistadores and Native Americans, a frightening, brutal, and much-falsified history that here, in her brilliantly imagined fiction, is rewritten to give us something that feels very like the truth.

Salman Rushdie

#11. How old are you?" Isa gasped. Okay, so she hadn't gotten around to asking some things.
"One hundred and forty-three," Chance supplied, giving her a quick kiss. "But don't worry, darling. I don't feel a day over the century mark.

Jeaniene Frost

#12. By the time you get to your ball, if you don't know what to do with it, try another sport.

Julius Boros