Achebes Family Quotes & Sayings

Just understanding that if you're not growing up, you're just moving backwards, and I'm a person that I always want to grow and learn and not be the smartest person in the room, because when you're not the smartest person in the room, you're always learning things. — Ndamukong Suh

They are presented attractively for the same reason that kittens are cute - so that they can draw you in, then pounce on you for the kill.
Seriously. Stay away from kittens. — Brandon Sanderson

An old dream with a shiny new veneer. It's fascinating, you know, how an obsolete madness is sometimes adopted and stylized in an attempt to ghoulishly preserve it. These are the days of second-hand fantasies and antiquated hysteria.
("The Chymist") — Thomas Ligotti

The ambiguity of flesh made for a vastness of possibility that simply could not exist in a binary world. — Orson Scott Card

Sometimes, we can't help but to shed tears! — Lailah Gifty Akita

I was told to have an ice bath once, which I did once, and it was the most horrific experience. In my head it sounded like a great idea, so I filled my bath with ice and water, and it was absolutely horrendous. — Antony Starr

I always thought that as much as I love 'White Jazz,' it became almost unfilmable at some point, because there are so many strands, so much, and it became so psychotic ... that's what made it such a great book, but those things would not carry over into the filmic realm, I thought, with ease. — Joe Carnahan

Oh, the luxury of lying in the fern night and the grass night and the night of the susurrant, slumbrous voices weaving the night together. — Ray Bradbury

Always remember, however sure you are that you could easily win, that there would not be a war if the other man did not think he also had a chance. — Winston Churchill

Cheap booze is a false economy. — Christopher Hitchens

Hunting is not a proper employment for a thinking man. — Joseph Addison