Ato Quotes & Sayings

Jason Bourne is supposed to be really sneaky and spry, but as soon as he walks by, everybody pulls out their cell phones and starts recording. That level of fame is wild to see. — Ato Essandoh

I have taught my students not to apply rules or mechanical ways of seeing. — Josef Albers

But despite the scarcity of confrontation with whites in our neighborhood, race and racism permeated every aspect of our lives. Our parents taught us that in order to succeed, we 'had to be twice as good as white folks.' We were constantly being prepared to enter a world dominated by whites. — Junius Williams

What's nice about having an engineering degree is everybody thinks you are smart. — Ato Essandoh

Soon it began to drizzle for the second time that night. The drops grew heavier and became visible in the headlights of the cars. It was said by some of the police on the scene that God was crying for the girl in the garden. To others, it was only rain. (final lines) — George Pelecanos

Every culture feels like their parents are the most stringent as far as, "We came to this country to work hard, we want you to be a doctor or a lawyer." — Ato Essandoh

Another benefit of going to Cornell is that 90 percent of your friends are doctors. — Ato Essandoh

I aspire to be the president of all Venezuelans. The message is clear. Venezuelans are fed up with confrontation, with division. — Henrique Capriles Radonski

I think I'm so low key. — Ato Boldon

Allow me to tell you, Mr Taylor", said I, but quietly as the occassion demanded, "that one gentleman does not rejoice at the misfortune of another in public". — William Golding

Someone 'big' will get thrown out of their Trials or at the Olympics. I would bet my house on it. — Ato Boldon

This is the best thing that could've happened for the 2011 season - Bolt losing like this and having to go away. — Ato Boldon

Quentin Tarantino and Sam Jackson are the reasons I'm an actor. — Ato Essandoh

Don't get hung up on the hard times, the challenges. Tell your story by highlighting the victories. Because it's your victories that will inspire, motivate, encourage other people to live their stories in grander ways. — Iyanla Vanzant

I want businesses and government systems and certainly churches to be led more and more often by women. I believe that men and women would both benefit from it in dozens of ways. But if that's going to happen, I think we have to declare a princess-free zone. No tiaras, no Girls Gone Wild, no pretending we can't carry things. No fairytales, no waiting around to be rescued, and absolutely no playing dumb. — Shauna Niequist

The real cause of the great upheavals which precede changes of civilisations, such as the fall of the Roman Empire and the rise of the Arabian Empire, is a profound modification in the ideas of the peoples ... The memorable events of history are the visible effects of the invisible changes of human thought ... The present epoch is one of these critical moments in which the thought of mankind is undergoing a process of transformation. — Gustave Le Bon

Peterson was the most coachable athlete I have had in my life, and I coach many athletes. — Ato Boldon

The first few weeks football players look at you like you are speaking a foreign language. My job is to get them to trust me, trust the system. I ask them to run in a way that makes no sense to them. — Ato Boldon

I feel like the torch has been passed to me. The question is what am I going to do with it. — Ato Boldon

I was in chemical engineering at Cornell University. My girlfriend at the time dared me to do a play. I knew there was something I wanted, not necessarily engineering. — Ato Essandoh

A girl asks her doctor, "Doctor, I've forgotten to take my contradictory pill!" The doctor says: "Are you ignorant?" The girl says: "Yes, three months!" — Frank Carson

Myself, Marion Jones and Michael Johnson all got married on the same day because it was the only point on the athletics' schedule we could fit in. October 3, 1998. — Ato Boldon

I've been way too blessed. Had too much fun, too many rewards. — Ato Boldon

Love is happy when it is able to give something. The ego is happy when it is able to take something. — Rajneesh

I am basically turning football players into sprinters for a while. When we first talked about it, I didn't know how my expertise could be used. — Ato Boldon

It's not about 'if', it's about 'when.' — Ato Boldon

I grew up listening to blues and rock 'n' roll and other music, but, legitimately, the Stones is one of my favorite bands in the world. — Ato Essandoh

At night ghosts come In rivers of grief, To claw away the sand Beneath a man's feet — Steven Erikson

My performances have finally caught up with my ego. — Ato Boldon

Never would I have thought that I would meet Mick Jagger, much less be working on the same project. — Ato Essandoh

We are making a little portion of their brains be sprinters; they are 100 percent football players, but for these purposes, they must learn the proper way to run. — Ato Boldon

The process of truly learning is laborious, monotonous, and at times down right bitter and boring. Therefore, obtaining a truly higher education will require of you a determined mind and a will to stick and stay. In short, it will take discipline. But in the end, it will be worth it all. — Daniel Whyte III

My parents are from Ghana. Until I was 17, I thought you had to go to college. I had no idea. I didn't know it was not an option. — Ato Essandoh

When the gun shoots, you got to go. — Ato Boldon

Unless you are rich, and can con vales center in a sanatorium estate (where visitors came down a tiered, oceanside lawn to found you ato your easel) you have to keep going when you're depressed. That means phone calls, appointments errands, holidays, family, friends, and colleagues. — Virginia Heffernan