Chinua Achebe Quotes
I think an artist, in my definition of that word, would not be someone who takes sides with the emperor against his powerless subjects. That's different from prescribing a way in which a writer should write.
Chinua Achebe
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Every industry is going to be affected (by the aging population). This creates tremendous opportunities and tremendous challenges.
Pat Conroy
Sometimes 'Rookie' is written about like, 'Finally! Something for alternative girls!' and I'm like, 'No!' Obviously it's not for everyone, but I used to think that there are cheerleaders, and there are art kids.
Tavi Gevinson
I kind of have my little OCD wood shed at my house where everything is just right when I go write.
Sam Hunt
Sydney's beautiful, the weather's great, and the air's fresh and clean, but it doesn't have the scene and the amount of likeminded people. At home, things are very comfortable, but I feel like putting myself out there a bit.
Flume
The desert Arab found no joy like the joy of voluntarily holding back. He found luxury in abnegation, renunciation, self restraint. He made nakedness of the mind as sensuous as nakedness of the body. He saved his own soul, perhaps, and without danger, but in a hard selfishness.
T. E. Lawrence
It is fairly well-known what has been behind that climate change denial in America: vast sums pumped into an ignorance industry by the oil and gas lobbies.
Naomi Wolf
Close friends consider me a literary snob.
Rabih Alameddine
If we had this back, and in full measure; if society were infused by it, through and through, and men lived its life, and in its life, philosophy would take care of itself and the nature of our institutions would not matter.
Ralph Adams Cram
I don't have any idols, any heroes, nothing, no.
Rafael Nadal
Sales don't always have anything to do with good or brilliant or original. Sales are about appeal.
M. J. Rose
I am not going to stop speaking out on behalf of policies that I think are right - regardless of ideology, party or political expediency.
Harold Ford, Jr.
The idol of today pushes the hero of yesterday out of our recollection; and will, in turn, be supplanted by his successor of tomorrow.
Washington Irving
Taken as a whole, the Cross Correspondences and the Willet scripts are among the most convincing evidence that at present exists for life after death. For anyone who is prepared to devote weeks to studying them, they prove beyond all reasonable doubt that Myers, Gurney, and Sidgwick went on communicating after death.
Colin Wilson
The fans, man, the fans have a little different way of thinking. They really applaud the spirit of fighters, and that put a huge influence on the type of energy I fought with, rather than if I won or lost. America's a real win-or-lose culture, where with the Japanese, fighting with spirit is enough.
Eddie Alvarez
We are in a world that is quite extremist and extremism makes more noise. Normality does not sell.
Vicente del Bosque
I think living in Israel and wanting to change reality is the best prescription for never-ending writer's block.
Etgar Keret
I think an artist, in my definition of that word, would not be someone who takes sides with the emperor against his powerless subjects. That's different from prescribing a way in which a writer should write.
Chinua Achebe
