Nnedis Quotes & Sayings

The ultimate cause of human disease is the consequence of our transgression of the universal laws of life. — Paracelsus

Sweet, she thought. He must think I can't bear to hear him say it. That after all I have told him and after telling me how many feet I have, "goodbye" would break me to pieces. Ain't that sweet.
"So long," she murmured from the far side of the trees. — Toni Morrison

When I was in Downing Street, David Cameron saw me and said, "Please, shout it all around and let it penetrate to my cabinet meeting." So I bellowed: "Gordon's alive!" — Brian Blessed

She tells me I'm her best friend and the only reason she is alive is because I listen to her and don't yell at her for something she can't help. — Jake Jacobs

California is the only state in the union where you can fall asleep under a rose bush in full bloom and freeze to death. — W.C. Fields

If I write for myself, I write a song and I bring in the musicians that are best suited to play it. There's a freedom there. — Paul Stanley

There is a big difference between living in a society that hunts whales and living in one that views them. Nature is being reduced to precious demonstrations for entertainment and education, something far less natural than hunting. Are we headed for a world where nothing is left of nature but parks? Whales are mammals, and mammals do not lay a million eggs. We were forced to give up commercial hunting and to raise domestic mammals for meat, preserving the wild ones as best we could. It is harder to kill off fish than mammals. But after 1,000 years of hunting the Atlantic cod, we know that it can be done. — Mark Kurlansky

Standing as a witness in all things means all things - big things, little things, in all conversations, in jokes, in games played and books read and music listened to, in causes supported, in service rendered, in clothes worn, in friends made. — Margaret D. Nadauld

I went through a lot of abuse and a lot of really difficult things growing up - depression, anxiety, attempted suicide. — Pattie Mallette

The surest sign of fitness is success. — Olive Schreiner

The detox phenomenon is interesting because it represents one of the most grandiose innovations of marketers, lifestyle gurus, and alternative therapists: the invention of a whole new physiological process. In terms of basic human biochemistry, detox is a meaningless concept. It doesn't cleave nature at the joints. There is nothing on the "detox system" in a medical textbook. That burgers and beer can have negative effects on your body is certainly true, for a number of reasons; but the notion that they leave a specific residue, which can be extruded by a specific process, a physiological system called detox, is a marketing invention. — Ben Goldacre

as a free woman, I retain the right to be ridiculous whenever I wish. — H.L. Burke

You know you're a hopeless record nerd when your time travel fantasies always come around to how cool it would be to go back to 1973 and buy all the great funk and jazz and salsa records that came out that year on tiny obscure labels and are now really rare and expensive. — Adam Mansbach

How could I live without powder? — Dolores LaChapelle

The whispers were a sound Billy had heard every blighted day since Janie's death, all day and all night. They were terrible and quiet--the dry voices of the dead. — Mark Murphy