Mphahlele Quotes & Sayings

I got three letters today telling me that I'm god. Why can't I pay the rent? — Henry Rollins

Political awareness without activism means looking at the devastation, your face turned toward the center of things. Activism can generate hope because in itself it constitutes an alternative and turns away from the corruption at the center to face the wild possibilities and the heroes at the edges or at your side. — Rebecca Solnit

All the critics who could not make their reputations by discovering you are hoping to make them by predicting hopefully your approaching impotence, failure and general drying up of natural juices. Not a one will wish you luck or hope that you will keep on writing unless you have political affiliations in which case these will rally around and speak of you and Homer, Balzac, Zola and Link Steffens. — Ernest Hemingway,

He moved closer and threw his arm around my shoulders, murmuring, Why are the beautiful ones always so troubled, huh? — L. H. Cosway

I'm not into writing many more books or more pages. My goal is to increase the value of each sentence I write. And for that, I have to just erase my past and bring only forward what matches the new me, things I can easily rewrite and adapt to my new perspective. — Robin Sacredfire

Delay leads impotent and snail-paced beggary. — William Shakespeare

[My wife] is a great student of the Bible. Her life is ruled by the Bible more than any person I've ever known. That's her rule book, her compass. — Billy Graham

Hitting is an art, but not an exact science. — Rod Carew

Becoming a comedienne was my way of adjusting to puberty. — Phyllis Diller

I've never been part of a tie. You didn't lose, but you didn't win. — Andy Dalton

To get it first is important - but more important is to get it right. — Jessica Savitch

New media are new archetypes, at first disguised as degradations of older media. — Marshall McLuhan

Stay positive and love your life. — Nick Hexum

We are on the side of religion as opposed to religions, and we are among those who believe in the wretched inadequacy of sermons and the sublimity of prayer. — Victor Hugo