Mahlatsi Mahlase Quotes & Sayings

The Jew always lives from the blood of other peoples, he needs such murders and such sacrifices. — Julius Streicher

I'm missing my baby's first swim lesson. If I am at my daughter's debut in her school musical, I am missing Sandra Oh's last scene ever being filmed at Grey's Anatomy. If I am succeeding at one, I am inevitably failing at the other. That is the trade-off. That is the Faustian bargain one makes with the devil that comes with being a powerful working woman who is also a powerful mother. You never feel 100 percent okay, you never get your sea legs, you are always a little nauseous. Something is always lost. Something is always missing. And yet. I want my daughters to see me and know me as a woman who works. I want that example set for them. — Shonda Rhimes

I don't see no black and white couples in England or America walking around proud holding their children and going out. — Muhammad Ali

When a shadow flits across the landscape of the soul where is the substance? — Henry David Thoreau

Need covers itself with love, but need ... need is never love. Always beware of the one who needs you. There is always a want behind a need, you see. — Jennifer L. Armentrout

The Strokes can play anything. They could play 'Thriller,' and it would just sound like 'Thriller' as played by the Strokes. — Julian Casablancas

An opulent priest is a contradiction. — Victor Hugo

It was not so much fun. His work became confused with Nicole's problems; in addition, her income had increased so fast of late that it seemed to belittle his work. Also, for the purpose of her cure, he had for many years pretended to a rigid domesticity from which he was drifting away, and the pretence became more arduous in this effortless immobility, in which he was inevitably subjected to microscopic examination. When Dick could no longer play what he wanted to play on the piano, it was an indication that life was bring refined down to a point. He stayed in the big room a long time, listening to the buzz of the electric clock, listening to time. — F Scott Fitzgerald

Dinginess is death to a writer. Filth, discomfort, hunger, cold, trauma and drama, don't matter a bit. — Jeanette Winterson

TELESCOPE, n. A device having a relation to the eye similar to that of the telephone to the ear, enabling distant objects to plague us with a multitude of needless details. Luckily it is unprovided with a bell summoning us to the sacrifice. — Ambrose Bierce