Nelson Mandela Quotes
No one truly knows a nation until one has been inside its jails. A nation should not be judged by how it treats its highest citizens but its lowest ones.
Quotes to Explore
-
I love the unexplainable. It would be so boring to me if everything could be explained.
-
Everything is designed to help you sell out.
-
I'm the little dog who goes the wrong way - under the hoop.
-
The good people look for challenges. When teaching becomes a prestigious profession, then you'll get good people.
-
There's more to life than physical and material.
-
Many faux pas of fashion can be avoided if you curb your instinctive desire to buy things with your heart instead of your head.
-
My father taught me photography. It was his hobby, and we had a small darkroom in the fruit cellar of our basement. It was the kind of makeshift darkroom that was only dark at night.
-
Puberty extends into your twenties, for sure, and some people don't get over that until much later in life. I feel like I'm just starting to get over puberty - basically twenty years of insufferable, totally self-obsessed hell.
-
Allah will help him who moves in the way of Allah.
-
Whenever I have tried to write for other people, that's when my writing has failed, when nobody wanted to read it or buy it. But it's only when I've been able to write a story that makes me excited, only then have other people wanted to read it.
-
It is not the simple statement of facts that ushers in freedom; it is the constant repetition of them that has this liberating effect. Tolerance is the result not of enlightenment, but of boredom.
-
It is the nurse that the child first hears, and her words that he will first attempt to imitate.
-
I've always written about adultery because it raises the question of transgression and trouble.
-
I grew up Catholic, so the more non-denominational Christian experience was a new experience for me.
-
I've never read a screenplay in advance. You trust the artist.
-
It has so happened in all ages of the world that some have labored, and others have, without labor, enjoyed a large proportion of the fruits.
-
I like big crowds. I find it easier to focus.
-
Some music comes from a real place; some music comes from your imagination. It's difficult to find out what's real and what's not, especially with the gangster stuff.
-
That's silly talk... Talk to my wife. She'll tell me I need to learn to just put my socks on the hamper.
-
I'd done table reads for my own screenplays, and I always thought they were so much fun. Why couldn't we do these for other classic screenplays and bring them to life? You can experience live theater, where you get to see plays produced by different directors and different casts, but there's really nothing like that for movie scripts.
-
No matter what his crimes were, Alton Sterling did not deserve to be executed for them. Look, guys, the punishment for resisting arrest shouldn't be death. The punishment for selling bootleg CDs shouldn't be death. The punishment for having a gun in an open-carry state shouldn't be death. The punishment for being a black man shouldn't be death.
-
If someone said I had enough money and I could take six months off, I would run in an instant.
-
Creative writing programmes are not very necessary. They just exist so that people like us can make a living.
-
No one truly knows a nation until one has been inside its jails. A nation should not be judged by how it treats its highest citizens but its lowest ones.
