Emile Ratelband Quotes & Sayings

Goals must never be from your ego, but problems that cry for a solution. — Robert H. Schuller

I realised that all one really had to do was just observe. Observe and slightly exaggerate, and you had comedy. Instead of creating a mythical premise for a stupid joke, I found playing off truth got the best result. — Mel Brooks

When are you coming?"
"Uh, we're actually in the car right now. It's a road trip, because y'know, vampires don't do really well with the flying, suprisingly. I guess it's the fear of people opening up the window shades and all the frying and screaming. Plus, it seems like a lot of them have a fear of heights." Claire heard Michael's indistinct voice in the background, and Eve added, "Not him though. He says." -Fall of Night — Rachel Caine

I think that storytelling and creation are very close to what the center of what magic is about. I think not just for me, but for most of the cultures that have had a concept of magic, then the manipulation of language, and words, and thus of stories and fictions, has been very close to the center of it all. — Alan Moore

Stay true to yourself and listen to your inner voice. It will lead you to your dream. — James Ross

It is only the oppressed who, by freeing themselves, can free their oppressors. — Paulo Freire

Next to creating a life the finest thing a man can do is save one. — Abraham Lincoln

Rumor is a vagrant without a home, and lives upon what it can pick up. — Josh Billings

We have looked into the general problems with adoption in the United States, and we discovered - on the basis of the reports written by American NGOs - we discovered that not only Russians but kids from other countries and the American-born kids have been subject to very unfortunate behavior on the part of their adopted parents. — Sergei Lavrov

Disagreements are one of the fundamental positive aspects of science. — Anthony Fauci

Nothing goes on forever. If it did, there wouldn't be anything else, would there? — M.R. Carey

The impulse for me to want to make sculpture is because I want to make statements, really, on a purely emotional level. And it's also somewhat of a challenge to see how that can be done with materials and objects that really are not emotional, in and of themselves. — Arthur Ganson