Chinua Achebe Quotes

A man who lived on the banks of the Niger should not wash his hands with spittle.

Chinua Achebe

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• Just be patient. Let the game come to you. Don't rush. Be quick, but don't hurry.

  

  Earl Monroe
  • Game
  • Sports
  • Be Patient

• Well, I decided to stop. And I did. I stopped smoking, and I stopped speed at the same time.

  

  Larry Hagman
  • Time
  • Stop
  • Same

• There have been a lot of exercises and I've had to force myself to go out for walks even when I didn't feel like it, but apart from that, I am a lot better.

  

  Magnus Magnusson
  • Better
  • Walks
  • Exercises

• Life is too short to blend in.

  

  Paris Hilton
  • Life
  • Too
  • Life Is Too Short

• Everything was in stark and dreadful contrast with the trivial crises and counterfeit emotions of Hollywood, and I returned to England deeply moved and emotionally worn out.

  

  C. S. Forester
  • Emotions
  • Hollywood

• In most organizations, change comes in only two flavors: trivial and traumatic. Review the history of the average organization and you'll discover long periods of incremental fiddling punctuated by occasional bouts of frantic, crisis-driven change.

  

  Gary Hamel
  • Long
  • History
  • Change

• We are going to have to discuss with and seek the opinions of other countries. We don't wish to offend anyone, least of all a country we hold in such deep regard as the United Kingdom.

  

  Rafael Correa
  • Country
  • Wish
  • Deep

• I used to have the 'Best Of Eddie Murphy' VHS tape that I wore out completely, watching it over and over again. His 'Buckwheat Sings' is, to this day, one of my all-time favorite sketches on the show. I also loved the one where he plays the Tooth Fairy.

  

  Taran Killam
  • Time
  • Day
  • Best

• Write what you like; there is no other rule.

  

  O. Henry
  • You
  • Like
  • Rule

• You may be right that people say: 'You know what, we had Obama. He was inexperienced. The guy had great rhetoric, sounded good, looked good, but has turned out to be an utter disaster. I want someone where I have confidence and credibility that they're up to the job and that I can trust what they tell me.'

  

  Karl Rove
  • People
  • Up
  • Good

• Kevin Bacon and I went up for the same stuff, and people would say, 'You and Kevin have the same quality.' I was like, 'I do?' I remember seeing 'Footloose' and thinking, 'How do I have any kind of quality that that guy does?'

  

  Zach Galligan
  • People
  • Up
  • Thinking

• There are better starters than me but I'm a strong finisher.

  

  Usain Bolt
  • Strong
  • Better
  • Finisher

• The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.

  

  Vince Lombardi
  • Work
  • Job
  • Success

• When we were on the road, I found out that my greatest hits album went Gold. They freaked out. Things really came to a head when we started arguing about a Van Halen greatest hits package.

  

  Sammy Hagar Van Halen
  • Road
  • Gold
  • Greatest

• The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Truth
  • Simple
  • Never

• I remember when I saw 'X-Men' the first time, I was living in England as an exchange student, and my first boyfriend, who's an Englishman, made me watch the movie... He was very jealous that I liked Hugh Jackman so much.

  

  Tao Okamoto
  • Time
  • Men
  • Remember

• I don't know if I'm able to play a cop for the rest of my life.

  

  Kaniehtiio Horn
  • Life
  • Know
  • Rest

• The Champions League is the one thing missing from my career. When I look at the history of the competition and the people that have taken part, the top, top players have all won it. For many, it is why they have been regarded as top players.

  

  Eden Hazard
  • People
  • Why
  • History

• No one reads my books until they're finished because I don't want feedback. It confuses me, and it changes things; if I get too much feedback, I get thrown off my path.

  

  Zoe Foster Blake
  • Books
  • Feedback
  • Confuses

• I love to sing with different people.

  

  Reba McEntire
  • People
  • Different

• No more pronouncements on lousy verse. No more hidden competition. No more struggling not to be a square.

  

  Louise Bogan
  • Competition

• I just want to live each moment, but it's kind of hard to do that when you are asked to analyze yourself constantly. But it's also good in that you are forced to think about things that you don't ordinarily think about. I think it's strange.

  

  Alexis Bledel
  • Good
  • Live

• I think a lot of it had to do with, you know, I was always a daddy's girl. I was always wanting to please him, and I think he was pleased when he'd walk past my room and I was listening to those records.

  

  Lee Ann Womack
  • Past
  • Girl
  • Listening

• A man who lived on the banks of the Niger should not wash his hands with spittle.

  

  Chinua Achebe