Thembelani Ngcobo Quotes & Sayings

My nan was a nursery maid. Most people weren't in big houses. They were maids of all work. — Sarah Waters

Memory heaps dead leaves on corpse-like deeds, from under which they do but vaguely offend the sense. — John Galsworthy

When you're building a character, or at least when I'm building a character, you start saying, 'How am I going to make people like him?' — John Sandford

According to the mystics, the obscure matter that creation presupposes is nothing other than divine potentiality. The act of creation is God's descent into an abyss that is simply his own potentiality and impotentiality, his capacity to and capacity not to ... In this context, "abyss" is not a metaphor ... It is the life of darkness in God, the divine root of Hell in which the Nothing is eternally produced. Only when we succeed in sinking into this Tartarus and experiencing our own impotentiality do we become capable of creating, truly becoming poets. — Giorgio Agamben

I enjoy giving money away. The more you give, the more you get. — Michael Hintze

What used to be edgy (divorces) has become mainstream and what used to be mainstream (racism and sexism) has become shocking. — Sara Sheridan

I'm in no rush. One day I'll find a nice guy. — Bristol Palin

Does not all the world know that when in autumn the Bismarcks of the world, or they who are bigger than Bismarcks, meet at this or that delicious haunt of salubrity, the affairs of the world are then settled in little conclaves, with grater ease, rapidity, and certainty than in large parliaments or the dull chambers of public offices? — Anthony Trollope