Chinua Achebe Quotes

We shall all live. We pray for life, children, a good harvest and happiness. You will have what is good for you and I will have what is good for me. Let the kite perch and let the egret perch too. If one says no to the other, let his wing break.

Chinua Achebe

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• Not to oversimplify it, somebody once said a good rule of thumb in interpreting a character is to find the good in the bad people that you portray and the bad in the good.

  

  Gabriel Byrne
  • People
  • Good
  • Character

• I love making movies, but a movie becomes your entire life for, like, two to two and a half years. There's no way around it; if you're really going to be serious about a movie, it has to be your life.

  

  Gary Sherman
  • Life
  • Movie
  • Way

• Do our children now have to choose between getting an education and dying? Some of us cannot move on and accept that kind of society.

  

  Obiageli Ezekwesili
  • Children
  • Society
  • Education

• Life's a bit like mountaineering - never look down.

  

  Edmund Hillary
  • Life
  • Look
  • Down

• When the divine vision is attained, all appear equal; and there remains no distinction of good and bad, or of high and low.

  

  Ramakrishna
  • Good
  • Bad
  • High

• Good fiction is about asserting the beauties of the world, inventing a new, positive thing. Where am I going to get that? And it should be original; it should not be cliched. So the way I looked at history was not to accuse it of failure.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
  • World
  • Good
  • History

• I'm not really into method acting - the way I was taught was the good old-fashioned British way of just doing your research and getting on with it.

  

  Laura Donnelly
  • Good
  • Acting
  • Research

• You don't have to stick with these recipes. They're guides. As I say, they're a way in. Have fun with them. It's an easier way to cook in a busy life, once you get the hang of it.

  

  Sally Schneider
  • Life
  • Fun
  • Busy

• Learn about the world, the way it works, any kind of science and anthropology, it's really an interesting place we live in. Evolution is a really fantastic idea, even more than the idea of God I think.

  

  Randy Newman
  • World
  • God
  • Live

• I'm surprised how hot it gets in the Moab Desert. I knew it got hot, but I didn't think it got, like, Mercury-hot.

  

  Adam Ferrara
  • Think
  • Desert
  • Hot

• Very few persons go through life without at least one big chance. The fact that so many do not grasp it is due more often to fear than to any other one thing.

  

  Vash Young
  • Life
  • Fear
  • Chance

• I've been vegetarian for virtually all of my adult life, and I do adopt a very strict health regime.

  

  Kate O'Mara
  • Life
  • Health
  • Vegetarian

• I wouldn't take a directing job if I didn't think it was enriching life.

  

  Baz Luhrmann
  • Life
  • Job
  • Think

• The destructive character lives from the feeling, not that life is worth living, but that suicide is not worth the trouble.

  

  Walter Benjamin
  • Life
  • Character
  • Feeling

• The good thing about execution issues are that they are within our control.

  

  N. Robert Hammer
  • Good
  • Control
  • Execution

• Sometimes I have these fantasies of just moving to a foreign country and coming back with a full head of hair. Or not even come back! Make a new life there with hair... Change my name, just see what happens.

  

  Larry David
  • Life
  • Country
  • Change

• The one thing I know is, if I play good ball, things have tended to come along with it. Everything that I've ever done in my career has come off of playing good football. And so I realize I need to go out there, and I need to take care of my business; then everything else - all these cool, great things - come along with it.

  

  J. J. Watt
  • Good
  • Great
  • Done

• If we ensure access to health care and 'best practice' asthma treatment for children, especially those at high risk, there is the potential to save the health care system billions of dollars.

  

  Irwin Redlener
  • Children
  • High
  • Health

• Make friends with the angels, who though invisible are always with you. Often invoke them, constantly praise them, and make good use of their help and assistance in all your temporal and spiritual affairs.

  

  Saint Francis de Sales
  • Good
  • Friends
  • Help

• I don't mind having these relatives. I'll give them a little, since they all prayed for my victory.

  

  Manny Pacquiao
  • Mind
  • Victory
  • Give

• The government in a revolution is the despotism of liberty against tyranny.

  

  Maximilien Robespierre
  • Revolution

• Watson, ... if I can get a mechanism which will make a current of electricity vary in its intensity, as the air varies in density when a sound is passing through it, I can telegraph any sound, even the sound of speech.

  

  Alexander Graham Bell
  • Sound
  • Mechanism
  • Density

• There are three conditions which often look alike Yet differ completely, flourish in the same hedgerow: Attachment to self and to things and to persons, detachment From self and from things and from persons; and, growing between them, indifference, ... .

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Growing

• We shall all live. We pray for life, children, a good harvest and happiness. You will have what is good for you and I will have what is good for me. Let the kite perch and let the egret perch too. If one says no to the other, let his wing break.

  

  Chinua Achebe
  • Life
  • Good
  • Live