Chinua Achebe Quotes

When a tradition gathers enough strength to go on for centuries, you don't just turn it off one day.

Chinua Achebe

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• There is a solid satisfaction in one's having and being conscious that he merits the good opinion of men of true discernment and real worth. But to have a name among the weak and the wicked is shame and reproach.

  

  Samuel Adams
  • Good
  • Men
  • Real

• I don't have any ill will or ill thought towards anybody.

  

  Adam Carolla
  • Thought
  • Will
  • Anybody

• I was just on the edge of getting married, and I was frenzied at the prospect of this great step in my life after having been a bachelor for so long. And I really wanted to take my mind off of the agony, and so I decided to sit down and write a book.

  

  Ian Fleming
  • Life
  • Great
  • Long

• We are expected to believe that anyone who objects to the Department of Homeland Security or the USA Patriot Act is a terrorist, and that the only way to preserve our freedom is to hand it over to the government for safekeeping.

  

  L. Neil Smith
  • Believe
  • Freedom
  • Hand

• It is not enough to know your craft - you have to have feeling. Science is all very well, but for us imagination is worth far more.

  

  Edouard Manet
  • Science
  • Feeling
  • Imagination

• Every lover is a soldier.

  

  Ovid
  • Soldier
  • Lover
  • Every

• The issue is not that morals be applied to public policy, it's that conservatives bring public policy to spheres of our lives where it should not enter.

  

  Barney Frank

• I love storytelling.

  

  Jennifer Lynch

• I once waited on a group of 10 people, and one guy collected the money from the check and tipped me $20 on $600. I told him in front of everyone, 'Jews like you give Jews like me a bad name.' That was my last waitressing job.

  

  Chelsea Handler
  • People
  • Money
  • Job

• Don't expect Barton Biggs to be offering his market insights on 'Bloomberg News' anytime soon. His plumber, maybe.

  

  Alex Berenson

• Man, I don't got any real fans. Just fair-weather ones and groupies.

  

  Diplo
  • Real

• I was a VP of marketing, I was regional sales manager in fashion, and marketing director in communications and product development. I was always a corporate Fortune 500 girl.

  

  Patti Stanger
  • Girl
  • Fashion
  • Marketing

• I love writing.

  

  Bonnie Hunt
  • Writing

• I went to music school, and I guess I was a difficult, know-it-all type of student.

  

  Bjork
  • Music
  • School

• I grew up in an area that was the typical city that was a racially divided and economically segregated place. And it had a big influence on me.

  

  Ed Kowalczyk
  • Up
  • City

• My days, my years, my life has seen up and downs, lights and darknesses. If I wrote only and continually of the 'light' and never mentioned the other, then as an artist, I would be a liar.

  

  Charles Bukowski
  • Life
  • Up
  • Light

• To sing opera, one needs two things: the voice and the passion - and above all, the passion.

  

  Andrea Bocelli
  • Passion

• Everybody is entitled to solid living wages, which we don't hear from Hillary Clinton. She's quick to talk about parity, but parity at poverty, and that's not adequate.

  

  Jill Stein
  • She
  • Poverty

• More than anything else, though, to anyone who would write about it, golf offers a four-hour drama in two acts, which becomes memorable even in the tape-recorded reminiscenses of old champs, and which - in the hands of someone like Herb Wind - can become a piece of war correspondence as artfully controlled as Alan Morehead's account of Gallipoli.

  

  Alistair Cooke
  • War
  • Drama
  • Wind

• I can have fun anywhere, as long as I'm with good people. But in the offseason, I like to go somewhere warm, a nice spot in the Caribbean.

  

  Derek Jeter
  • People
  • Good
  • Long

• Oh I wish that I could paint again. Paint is an instrument without which I cannot survive for any length of time. Whenever I even think of gray, green and white, I am overcome with quivers of lust. Then I wish that this war would end and that I might paint again.

  

  Max Beckmann
  • Time
  • War
  • Wish

• 'But the man who is ready to taste every form of knowledge, is glad to learn and never satisfied - he's the man who deserves to be called a philosopher, isn't he?'

  

  Plato
  • Knowledge
  • Philosophers
  • Deserves

• When I retired, I was at an in-between age. I wasn't a child anymore, I wasn't really a woman yet, and they weren't really writing scripts for that age.

  

  Mary Badham
  • Writing
  • Age

• When a tradition gathers enough strength to go on for centuries, you don't just turn it off one day.

  

  Chinua Achebe