Mda Quotes & Sayings

I always wanted to be a mom. — Kate Hudson

The girls cannot contain their joy. They must start rehearsing immediately. They teach Saluni a new song that they have composed at the swamps. It is about croaking frogs in their green and brown colours and how the girls caught them and pierced their eyes with sharp sticks and set them free to hop about in wonderful blindness. It is a haunting melody. They tell Saluni that the song is all about the fun they had at the swamps today. The blinded frogs will live peacefully because now they won't be bothered by the bright rays of the sun. They won't have to run from danger, because they won't see it. They will therefore be safe since danger only catches those who run away from it. — Zakes Mda

People think that God wants our offerings. God does not need anything from us. He is the giver. He is like the sun - the giver of light. — Mata Amritanandamayi

Everything else can roast in Satan's left armpit! — Sara Wolf

THEN said Almitra, Speak to us of Love. — Kahlil Gibran

It's illegal, you know," he murmurs. "Stealing."
I clear my throat. "Stealing?"
"My heart. I could have you arrested."
I snort. "For that tiny thing? I'd get a misdemeanor at most. — Eliza Crewe

Pity? [If] you don't want to be pitied because you're a cripple in a wheelchair, stay in your house! — Jerry Lewis

Tabloid discussion of bad children always blames baby-boomer liberals, careerist mothers and fashion-crazed Nathan Barley types who think it's all enormously funny. But the centre-leftish psycho-thinker Oliver James says it's all down to the Thatcher-and-after culture of turbo-capitalism, making people acquisitive and unsatisfied. — Peter York

If I've learned anything in the more than 50 years that I've led MDA, it's that the generosity of the American people knows no bounds. I'm sure that with their fellow citizens in such dire need, they'll dig deep and do everything they can to help. I'm hopeful that many people will be willing to make two phone calls and donate to both causes. — Jerry Lewis

There can never be enough writers anywhere in the world. — Zakes Mda

Business owners have made a strong case to me that they need guest workers. But none has suggested that these workers should be placed on a path to citizenship. — John Shadegg

Everybody laughed for a long time, for it was the kind of joke that seemed to grow on you. You would laugh and eventually stop. But after a few minutes you would think of the joke again, and you would burst out laughing all over again. — Zakes Mda

Millions of Americans have contributed to building a stronger Israel; I've been proud to be one of them. Last year, I went to Jerusalem to help dedicate in my father's name a new MDA medical facility which treats people of all faiths and all nationalities absolutely equally. — Michael Bloomberg

The song of the umrhubhe creates a world of dreams. — Zakes Mda

I'm relating to a period that doesn't exist anymore. — Manolo Blahnik

Our elders say that an elephant does not find its own trunk heavy. — Zakes Mda

My plays have been translated into all of the official languages of South Africa except Afrikaans. — Zakes Mda

In addition to localized neural networks, hallucinogenic drugs have been documented to trigger such preternatural experiences, such as the sense of floating and flying stimulated by atropine and other belladonna alkaloids. These can be found in mandrake and jimsonweed and were used by European witches and American Indian shamans, probably for this very purpose.32 Dissociative anesthetics such as the ketamines are also known to induce out-of-body experiences. Ingestion of methylenedioxyamphetamine (MDA) may bring back long-forgotten memories and produce the feeling of age regression, while dimethyltryptamine (DMT) - also known as "the spirit molecule" - causes the dissociation of the mind from the body and is the hallucinogenic substance in ayahuasca, a drug taken by South American shamans. People who have taken DMT report "I no longer have a body," and "I am falling," "flying," or "lifting up. — Michael Shermer

There are all these people bragging about how they're survivors, as though that's something very special. But the only kind of person who can't say that is a corpse. — Kurt Vonnegut

My mind stopped spinning as I was enveloped in waves of pleasure. Through half-open eyes, I saw fragments of the ancient room, the stone walls, the enormous wooden beams. I smelled history and ancient ground, war, and turmoil and worship. — Giselle Fox

If we fail to root ourselves in Scripture, our souls will be starved for Christ. — Gangai Victor

If you are truly telling a South African story then it will be political - because you are dealing with people who lead political lives in an environment which is highly politically charged. — Zakes Mda

Stand and be true — Stephen King