Ivorian Food Quotes & Sayings

I'm not too keen on talking. I always have the feeling that the words are getting away from me, escaping and scattering. It's not to do with vocabulary or meanings, because I know quite a lot of words, but when I come out with them they get confused and scattered. That's why I avoid stories and speeches and just stick to answering the questions I'm asked. All the extra words, the overflow, I keep to myself, the words that I silently multiply to get close to the truth. — Delphine De Vigan

I am an infidel today. I do not believe what has been served to me to believe. I am a doubter, a questioner, a skeptic. When it can be proved to me that there is immortality, that there is resurrection beyond the gates of death, then will I believe. Until then, no. — Luther Burbank

Men need to know the elemental challenges that sea and mountains present. They need to know what it is to be alive and to survive when great storms come. They need to unlock the secrets of streams, lakes, and canyons and to find how these treasures are veritable storehouses of inspiration. They must experience the sense of mastery of adversity. They must find a peak or a ridge that they can reach under their own power alone. — William O. Douglas

Because there are a lot of big cities in the world, people who live in cities have become more isolated than ever. — Toyo Ito

All tyrannies rule through fraud and force, but once the fraud is exposed they must rely exclusively on force. — George Orwell

On the heights above the river Xzan, at the site of certain ancient ruins, Iucounu the Laughing Magician had built a manse to his private taste: an eccentric structure of steep gables, balconies, sky-walks, cupolas, together with three spiral green glass towers through which the red sunlight shone in twisted glints and peculiar colors. — Jack Vance

My mother is a very big cinema buff, so as a kid, we watched a lot of Indian and Malay films. — Michelle Yeoh

Science gave us forensics. Law gave us crime. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Just as you have come to know, the false discrimination of yourself, apply this mentally to all phenomena — Gautama Buddha

The acquisitive instinct is incompatible with true appreciation of beauty — Anne Morrow Lindbergh