Konate Mariam Quotes & Sayings

I am what I eat and drink, that's why my sweat smells like bacon and beer. — Skip Clark

Whence is thy learning? Hath thy toil O'er books consumed the midnight oil? — John Gay

Genuine polemics approach a book as lovingly as a cannibal spices a baby. — Walter Benjamin

He was obsessed with obituaries. She'd never read them before, he couldn't believe it, to him it was like someone who'd never read the funnies...Michael always wanted to know what they died of- accidental gunshot wounds, overdose, cancer. 'Was it suicide?' That's what he really wanted to know. — Janet Fitch

Conquer the heart of the enemy with truth and love, not by violence. — Mahatma Gandhi

Bribery is against the law, and you know it. But it's not against the law to make a profit, is it? So it can't be against the law for me to bribe someone in order to make a fair profit, can it? No, of course not! — Joseph Heller

Giving education away for free is a really good idea, but it can't be the future of education. There has to be a business model around it that actually works. — Sebastian Thrun

I try to work hard. I try to set a good example. I don't look at it as though I've got to be a leader. I just try to behave the way I think I should behave. If that results in a leadership role, great. — Matt Holliday

I had hoped that foreboding economic circumstances would have caused the ultra-rich to think not just of themselves and increasing their own personal affluence. Unfortunately, however, too many of them lack concern, and without this concern, the divisive imbalance will only worsen with recession. — Jamie Johnson

Where did Gabriel get a lily,
In the month of March,
When the green
Is hardly seen
On the early larch? — Grace James

Poverty of young men alone behind the
stairways, who practice
alchemy inside bottle caps, who know
the altruism of a last syringe. — Jim Carroll