Nkiambi Quotes & Sayings

I remember when Martin Luther King was assassinated. I was up early watching television and watched the announcement. I didn't understand what the word 'assassinated' meant. — Henry Rollins

Of all the butterflies that chose to stay,
I'm in love with the one that got away. — Laura Miller

The sum and substance of the preparation needed for a coming eternity is that you believe what the Bible tells you, and do what the Bible bids you. — Thomas Chalmers

I went through some tough years when I first moved to Los Angeles, and 'The Riches' was my first major success. — Noel Fisher

Businessmen have a different set of delusions from politicians; and need, therefore, different handling. They are, however, much milder than politicians, at the same time allured and terrified by the glare of publicity ... You could do anything you like with them, if you would treat them (even the big ones) not as wolves and tigers, but as domestic animals by nature, even though they have been badly brought up and not trained as you would wish. — John Maynard Keynes

I trimmed my lamp, consumed the midnight oil. — William Shenstone

You have to really concentrate on piano or acting. You can't do both. — Alicia Witt

Writing stories is the habit of lying put to good use. — Julianna Baggott

No matter what, the day didn't feel like Christmas to her.

She remembered years ago, when she had been just a little kid, and the word had been enough to make her happy. Nothing stirred in her now. Her childhood felt like it had been in another life. As she sat alone in her room with tears drying to her face, she resolved that no matter what the calendar said, it wasn't Christmas.

If it was, she'd feel happy, not depressed. — Kayla Krantz

Poetry is the most direct and simple means of expressing oneself in words: the most primitive nations have poetry, but only quitewell developed civilizations can produce good prose. So don't think of poetry as a perverse and unnatural way of distorting ordinary prose statements: prose is a much less natural way of speaking than poetry is. If you listen to small children, and to the amount of chanting and singsong in their speech, you'll see what I mean. — Northrop Frye

I can't survive,' he once told me of his refusal to come indoors,'if I can't hear the orchestra the way I like to hear it. — Steve Lopez

Carry laughter with you wherever you go. — Hugh Sidey

Give me a reason, to end this discussion, to break with tradition, to fall and divide. So let's not get carried, away with the process, of healing relations, I don't want to waste your time! — Aurelien Budynek