Tabia Akintobi Quotes & Sayings

A man, good or bad, was magnificent. It was not possible that this thing that was nothing and would never change [death] could mean the end of everything that moved and changed within him - the good, the bad, the magnificent. Yet it did. — Richard Flanagan

The dog who doesn't bark is about a silence that speaks; it is a good metaphor for the Pariah voice, the dog's voice, that we can sometimes hear only when it does not speak. — Wendy Doniger

Because I want to feel something other than this emotional crap — Melina Marchetta

Be honest about who you are and what your bringing to the table and what your expectations are. — Gabrielle Dennis

These fellow-mortals, every one, must be accepted as they are: you can neither straighten their noses, nor brighten their wit, nor rectify their dispositions; and it is these people
amongst whom your life is passed
that it is needful you should tolerate, pity, and love: it is these more or less ugly, stupid, inconsistent people, whose movements of goodness you should be able to admire
for whom you should cherish all possible hopes, all possible patience. — George Eliot

Chicago gave me more music than any other city in America. — Dave Grohl

There is an access to ... people can now afford very high quality technology, where you can have a very good reproduction of a large picture on a large screen at home. People go out less. I don't know that it's going to stay that way but, I think also, we've got to start making better movies. — Ridley Scott

Emotional states change like the wind, and to indulge them only gives them more power over a person. — A.J. Darkholme

If you try to hold on to something you don't have anymore, you can't be happy in the moment. — Jennifer Grey

That's why I wrote this book: to show how these people can imbue us with hope. I read somewhere that when a person takes part in community action, his health improves. Something happens to him or to her biologically. It's like a tonic. — Studs Terkel

Ambition is like love, impatient both of delays and rivals. — Gautama Buddha