Ishmael Reed Mumbo Jumbo Quotes & Sayings

Even though I don't write about things that come from my life because I'm lucky, and I live in a great place with great kids and, you know, a great husband, I think you can find threads of me in the characters, so that's really what being a writer is, probably. — Jodi Picoult

I'm fundamentally a positive person. Otherwise, I wouldn't be doing some of the insane movies that I do. — Ridley Scott

Depending on which side of the fence you're on, you could argue that the sexual liberation of the late '60s, led to women being emancipated in some ways. That they found a voice during that time, with feminism. It's complicated. — Steve Coogan

Neo-Hoodoo is the 8 basic dances of 19th century New Orleans' Place Congo- the Calinda the Bamboula the Chacta the Babouille the Conjaille the Juba the Congo and the VooDoo- modernized into the Philly Dog, the Hully Gully, the Funky Chicken, the Popcorn, the Boogaloo and the dance of great American choreographer Buddy Bradley. — Ishmael Reed

A memory is a fine legacy to leave behind. — Roshani Chokshi

There is no such thing as an ugly girl. — Aston Merrygold

Should you find yourself in a chronically leaking boat, energy devoted to changing vessels is likely to be more productive than energy devoted to patching leaks. — Warren Buffett

Our objective in South Vietnam has never been the annihilation of the enemy. It has been to bring about a recognition in Hanoi that its objective - taking over the South by force - could not be achieved. — Lyndon B. Johnson

You always want to come back with an image that's interesting visually, and you hope to get something from the person you photograph that's different than other images you know of these people. — Anton Corbijn

You don't reach points in life at which everything is sorted out for us. I believe in endings that should suggest our stories always continue. — Lauren Oliver

Self-contemplation is infallibly the symptom of disease. — Thomas Carlyle

Don't you touch me again. I will knock you out, junior! — Chris Jericho

The genealogy of fictional characters can become an obsession, like train-spotting, and should be firmly resisted. — Tariq Ali

In Islam religion and politics cannot be separated. Unlike other religions, Islam is political by its very nature. — Ali Sina