We didn't think the library was funny looking in it's faux- Greek splendor, nor did we find the cuisine limited or bland,… — Audrey Niffenegger Copy Share Image
Pound was silly, bumptious, extravagantly generous, annoying, exhibitionistic; Eliot was sensible, cautious, retiring, soothing, shy. Though Pound wrote some brilliant passages, on… — T.S. Mathews Copy Share Image
“If Indian weddings for Indian people are the furthest from “fun,” trips to India for Indian people are the furthest from “vacation.”… — Scaachi Koul Copy Share Image
Haitians do not need development programs imposed on them by expatriates. Instead, they need help in developing as self-assured persons. — Tony Campolo Copy Share Image
I travel backwards and forwards quite a lot. I live very near to the train station. I'm kind of playing at being… — Jarvis Cocker Copy Share Image
I am all for cultural diversity and would be willing to see each recognizable group value its cultural heritage. I am a… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
World Christians are heaven's expatriates, camping where the Kingdom is best served. — David Bryant Copy Share Image
I know my own deficiencies, one of which is that I had lived away from America for such a long time. It's… — James Hillman Copy Share Image
To read 'Happy Talk' is to crash a party as vivid and surreal as Felini's 8. It's the business of show business,… — Monica Drake Copy Share Image
You're an expatriate. You've lost touch with the soil. You get precious. Fake European standards have ruined you. You drink yourself to… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
[The director's idea for the film was:] A young American or English girl goes to Tuscany to visit English expatriates. She is… — Susan Minot Copy Share Image
The west has decided to channel money and effort into studying other customs and practices, but no one has really given other… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
I've just finished a series of Olivia Manning novels. She's best known for two trilogies: Balkan Trilogy and Levant Trilogy. The six… — Sarah Waters Copy Share Image
The loneliness of the expatriate is of an odd and complicated kind, for it is inseparable from the feeling of being free,… — Adam Gopnik Copy Share Image
Such is the nature of an expatriate life. Stripped of romance, perhaps that's what being an expat is all about: a sense… — Sarah Turnbull Copy Share Image
I have to put down roots where I decide to stay. It wasn't enough for me to be an expatriate Indian in… — Bharati Mukherjee Copy Share Image
The realization that he is white in a black country, and respected for it, is the turning point in the expatriate's career.… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
I guess I wanted to leave America for awhile. It wasn't that I wanted to become an expatriate, or just never come… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
I am pleased the Ministry of Culture is protecting the morals of expatriate bankers and their girlfriends. — Mick Jagger Copy Share Image