Ivan Sertima Quotes & Sayings

He selected one of these incantations and began to chant in a loud, wailing voice. All the clocks in the house suddenly went off at once, though it was only three-twenty; the copper pots hanging in the kitchen clanged and whanged against each other; and a couple of the wizard's books fell off their shelves with a clump. But nothing else happened. Prospero slammed the magic book shut and slumped into an overstuffed chair. He fumbled in his smoking stand for his pipe and tobacco. "I learned that spell fifty years ago," he mumbled as he lit his pipe. "And I still don't know what it's for. — John Bellairs

I must yield to you, for you are irresistible. — Plato

The Small Faces was such a different band than the Faces. I know three of us are the same, but when you take Steve Marriott out, it's a very different band. — Ian McLagan

The more Vince and I got back to how we used to be, the more I got high. I — Jessica N. Watkins

You can not make yourself whole again by brooding one hundred percent of the time on the darkness of the world. We are the light of the world. — Ivan Van Sertima

I have to tell you I never in my life anticipated getting this old, this fast. It seems as if I were 25 just a few days ago. — Ben Stein

The band would play on the night off for the local hotel bands and we'd back all the different acts. So I'd been advised by good friends of mine to come back to Hawaii. Oh, I loved Honolulu, playing at a place right on the beach at Waikiki! — Martin Denny

The AK-47 is not a device of aggression ... I devised this machine-gun for the security of my country. — Mikhail Kalashnikov

I stand in my own way on a daily basis. I don't know if this is something I will ever overcome completely, and I'm oddly okay with that. — Josh McDermitt

You cannot really conceive of how insulting it is to Native Americans to be told they were discovered. — Ivan Van Sertima

One must not give way altogether, and, because others have died, want to die too. You must pull yourself together, Monsieur Bovary. It will pass away. — Anonymous

I have always loved animals, and as a child, I read a lot of horse books. I had a particular favorite called 'Silver Snaffles' that my mother gave away. — Drew Gilpin Faust

'Hugo' is made in the classical style of the 1940s. — Howard Shore