Old Nigerian Quotes & Sayings

I never saw 'Titanic' as a springboard for bigger films or bigger pay cheques. I knew it could have been that, but I knew it would have destroyed me. — Kate Winslet

Other people's failures are just that: other people's failures. If — Jason Fried

I love playing sport. — Damian Lewis

Engaging with creativity in a serious way is a shamanistic activity, and by extension when you choose to follow a mystical path you cannot have a "normal" life within the community. Your job is to stand outside the community and hold up the mirror. — Kevin Keck

I want to move to Hollywood and audition for parts just so I can say, I'm not an actor. I just play one on TV. — Jarod Kintz

Apparently, now, though, we writers and artists are not allowed to give offence. We must not question, criticise or insult the other, for fear of being hounded and murdered. These days a writer without bodyguards can hardly be considered serious. A bad review is the least of our problems. — Hanif Kureishi

But isn't the knowledge that comes from experience more valuable than the knowledge that doesn't? It seems fairly obvious to some of us that a lot of scholars need to go outside and sniff around - walk through the grass, talk to the animals. That sort of thing. — Benjamin Hoff

The intelligence activities undertaken by the United States government are lawful, necessary and required to protect Americans from terrorist attacks — Dana Perino

When we drink coffee, ideas march in like the army — Honore De Balzac

My mother passed at the end of the Circus tour. After that I really needed to take some time and just chill out and get my head together. — Lenny Kravitz

To say yes to your dreams means the internal and external war, battle, confrontation and warfare. But it doesn't mean you should give up on your dreams because you were already given the capacity and ability to overcome the adversary, before the foundations of the earth. — Euginia Herlihy

Nigerians are everywhere. There's an old joke, particularly about the Ibos, that when you finally land on Mars, you're going to find a Nigerian there who has a shop that is selling Coca-Cola
who took a speculative trip 20 years ago and has been waiting for everyone else to arrive. — Chris Abani