Mbali Mlotshwa Quotes & Sayings

I watch a lot of TV, but I find that recently it's largely oddball stuff ... Scripted stuff sometimes feels like homework, like I'm scoping out the competition or something. — Jane Espenson

You can tell I don't like this book, because I drew in it. And that's better than anything else that's in this book. — Dan Bergstein

It was bad enough to be swallowed up by the intrinsic anger of New York City traffic and its seemingly mad competition between cars, cabs, the ubiquitous delivery trucks, the kamikaze bike messengers and the always-in-a-damn hurry pedestrians. — Nora Roberts

When young, one learns his craftsmanship, may become a young master, and it is youth that is most auspicious for developing certain skills. — Robert Schumann

Did you ever want something really bad and then when you finally got it all you could do was stand there and grin at it? — Pete Seeger

For years I have been mourning and not for my dead, it is for this boy for whatever corner in my heart died when his childhood slid out of my arms. — William Gibson

Sometimes there's just no justice. The bad guys do live, if not happily ever after, then certainly conspicuously. — Ken Bruen

Stories take a person away. If they're good ones, that is. — Stephen King

I'm actually taking advantage of my time off. You know, I had a film that was pushed, so I'm home spending time with my family, going to the gym and actually enjoying taking care of myself ... This year has been great for me because I've learned how to relax. The last three years have been amazing but kind of crazy. So I don't know, I feel grounded. I feel really good. — Eva Mendes

They were inconveniently reasonable, these women. — Charlotte Perkins Gilman

The last scroll was rolled so tight it seemed almost solid. Likely it was the oldest. As I forced it open it broke in pieces: two, three, and eventually five. I regretted doing it, but it was the only way to read it. If it had stayed coiled much longer, it would have crumbled into bits, never to be read again. — Robin Hobb

The novelist screws up his courage in order to invest another two or three years in another attempt to float a boat of original design upon an invented ocean. — Edward Hoagland

One deed from a sage achieves more than a thousand deeds from warriors. — Matshona Dhliwayo

Here and gone. That's what it is to be human, I think - to be both someone and no one at once, to hold a particular identity in the world (our names, our place of origins, our family and affectional ties) and to feel that solid set of ties also capable of dissolution, slipping away, as we become moments of attention. — Mark Doty

Today Americans, who used to feel welcomed wherever we went, travel abroad with trepidation. We know we are not trusted or liked, that we are even hated, by millions of people around the globe. We must ask ourselves why this is so and do the work of discovering our historical behavior toward the other countries and peoples of the planet. As disturbing as this will be, it is a first step toward a peaceful existence. Not because we can make peace for our country, but because we can make peace without ourselves by changing any harmful behavior or attitudes that contribute to our present predicament. Choose any country on the map that appears to hate America. Listen to what people are shouting at their rallies and read what their banners proclaim in the street. Sit with their anger until you can see America through their eyes... Remember that you, yourself, are America. The U.S. Behave as if you are the entire country and carry yourself with humility and dignity. — Alice Walker