Nkopane Mathibela Quotes & Sayings

Impersonal things that dominate our time and imagination offer extravagant promises of control and knowledge. But they also squeeze all sense of mystery and wonder and reverence out of our lives. — Eugene H. Peterson

Writing is the most cathartic experience of my life. — April Wood

But every living soul is a book of their own history, which sits on the ever-growing shelf in the library of human memories. — Jack Gantos

Well, I thought that I should let this young man here know that I was a Seal. I know how to go into places and get out unnoticed. I know how to kill someone before they even know I'm there. And I know how to - — Aurora Rose Reynolds

All my dreams are beautiful. But none as beautiful as you. You are the reason I return here each morning. — Pleasefindthis

Her only worry sometimes was that she didn't look different enough, that people mistook her for part of a crowd. She'd see a girl in patterned Doc Martens or with a dyed red pixie cut and wish she had the balls. — Mark Haddon

Once, a union job at GM or AT&T was a bridge to success. Now, a nonunion Wal-Mart job is a bridge to nowhere. — Andy Stern

Maybe they're not scared of different. Maybe they're scared of same. If we turn out to be too much like them, who can they be? — Richard Powers

It was like a journey into space. I was standing on Mars, knee-deep in thyme, under a sky that seemed never to have known dust or cloud. — John Fowles

A drama critic is a person who surprises the playwright by informing him what he meant. — Wilson Mizner

My constant focus is on being better. Should I be doing multimedia video production? Or seminars on the Internet? How can I do what I'm already doing in a more forceful way? — Oprah Winfrey

It's the accent. Women always swoon for an accent." I rolled my eyes.
"And does the accent work on you? — Nichole Chase

There is a direct union of oneself with a motorcycle, for it is so geared to one's proprioception, one's movements and postures, that it responds almost like part of one's own body. Bike and rider become a single, indivisible entity; it is very much like riding a horse. A car cannot become part of one in quite the same way. — Oliver Sacks

[ ... ] and after those big strokes, what's to tell? We run out of things that make us individual very quickly; all of us have far more in common than we do not have in common. — Douglas Coupland

He was surprised by this absence of reproaches. He stood there all bewildered, the glass globe held arrested in mid-air. He did not understand this quiet sweetness. — Antoine De Saint-Exupery