Emecheta The Bride Quotes & Sayings

One's self-image and image of the future have a great deal to do with what that person is motivated to do and able to do, as well as the extent to which he is able to change his behavior. — Ellis Paul Torrance

Since the future is unknown, nobody can really know where he is going! When asked, tell them you know not where you are going! You can only say where you wish to go! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

I grew up in a bookish family, so I read very widely. I was omnivorous, really. — Guy Gavriel Kay

The first book I wrote was The Bride Price which was a romantic book, but my husband burnt the book when he saw it. I was the typical African woman, I'd done this privately, I wanted him to look at it, approve it and he said he wouldn't read it. — Buchi Emecheta

I believe that the future will learn more from the spirit of Gesell than from that of Marx . — John Maynard Keynes

Love in my case is not indispensable to pleasure, nor is respect. Is it possible, therefore, that the disgust, the humiliation begin afterward, when a man subdues you and violates you at his pleasure solely because now you belong to him, love or not, respect or not? — Elena Ferrante

It is a fitting irony that under Richard Nixon, "launder" became a dirty word. — William Zinsser

I was being honest - I have nothing to hide. All I do, all the time, with everybody, is tell them what I am thinking, what I am feeling. — Leelee Sobieski

I came to England in 1962 as a very young bride, in my teens, hoping just to stay two years and go back. — Buchi Emecheta

Bravery is a complicated thing to describe. You can't say it's three feet long and two feet wide and that it weighs four hundred pounds or that it's colored bright blue or that it sounds like a piano or that it smells like roses. It's a quality, not a thing. — Mickey Mantle

I have an amazing metabolism. I'm sure that'll be gone one day. But I like to exercise, too, so I don't think I'll ever get really fat. — Aziz Ansari

One year later, I got beat up at a Neil Diamond concert by a guy named Scrunchie! — Matt Groening

You are aware only of a small amount of the total information your eyes take in, and even less is processed by your conscious mind and remembered. — David McRaney

For inspiration you go to the archives, you go to things of the past, but you still need to be contemporary for today. You can never forget the time you're living in because the past is the past and it will never come back. — Nicki Minaj