Things Fall Apart Okonkwo Masculinity Quotes & Sayings

All discourse of which others cannot partake is not only an irksome usurpation of the time devoted to pleasure and entertainment, but, what never fails to excite resentment, an insolent assertion of superiority, and a triumph over less enlightened understandings. The pedant is, therefore, not only heard with weariness but malignity; and those who conceive themselves insulted by his knowledge never fail to tell with acrimony how injudiciously it was exerted. — Samuel Johnson

If you're a kid who's not necessarily attractive, and you don't have money, and you're not hip and cool, chances are you're not going to feel good about yourself and want to be an actor. — Jim McKay

Love will kill us all." He said sadly. "First it makes us lie furiously so we can be what me must in order to appear deserving. Then, it tears us apart with raw truth. Whether we are man, exile or angel - It doesn't matter. For us all, the nature of truth is unforgiving. — Jessica Shirvington

You can't recapture your past anymore than you can speed up your future. Stop lamenting summer and stop trying to hurry winter. Just enjoy the fall. — Debbie Viguie

We've created more wealth in the past 30 years than the rest of human of human history combined. But half of Americans make less than $17 an hour. — David Rolf

If you try to make a silent movie with a normal script and you just pull out the dialogue, you will have big problems with the actors because you will ask them to tell a story that you don't know. — Michel Hazanavicius

There are two great classes of men: the people and the scholars, the men of science. For the former, nothing exists but that which directly leads to action. It is for the latter to see beyond. They are the free artists who create the future and its history, the conscious architects of the world. — Johann Gottlieb Fichte

Sometimes good choices are really bad ones, wrapped up in so much fear you can't even see straight. — Deb Caletti

Clothes are unique sculptures, dependent on a supporting human form and created to move. — Virginia Postrel

The hearing ear is always found close to the speaking tongue. — Ralph Waldo Emerson