Abdellah Taia Quotes
So many people and institutions are against homosexuals that, as a homosexual, you can't waste your time by trying to convince them that you're a good person.
Quotes to Explore
-
I mean, I think we're put here on earth to make your own destiny, to begin with. I don't think there's anything you can do this way or that way to change anything.
-
I've matured since joining United, on and off the field.
-
Save a boyfriend for a rainy day - and another, in case it doesn't rain.
-
The formula for achieving middle-class success is simple: Finish high school; don't have a child before the age of 20; and get married before having the child.
-
I don't look at myself as suffering.
-
We expect 'Narcos' will be an enormous success throughout everywhere in the world and maybe out-index in Latin America, given the Brazilian star and Brazilian director and heavy Latin American cast and that we shot the show entirely on location in Colombia.
-
I would like to thank my colleagues for voting a Social Democrat prime minister and to assure them I will vote a liberal president, as well.
-
The first two books that I did by myself were long stories in verse. I knew I could do that because I'd written a lot in verse. But, verse stories are hard to sell, so my editor encouraged me to try writing in prose.
-
I want to be a mayor who helped, really helped.
-
Life does not accommodate you, it shatters you. It is meant to, and it couldn't do it better. Every seed destroys its container or else there would be no fruition.
-
The fame of Maria Foote's beauty and charm of manner had reached London, and in May 1814, she made her first appearance at Covent Garden Theatre and personated Amanthis in 'The Child of Nature' with such grace and effect that the manager complimented her with an immediate engagement.
-
Nature hates calculators.
-
The Church does not pretend to be scientists. It teaches based upon what science tells it.
-
In the 1960s, there was a forward way of speaking and inflection.
-
It is important to make the fans that support me feel supported.
-
We don't want to give a business that is not going to come through the troubled waters a loan that they can't pay back.
-
I'm not trying to emulate William Faulkner. I never said I was.
-
Bradbury would have said his plots are myths and metaphors that tell stories about the human condition. That's what sets him apart from other science-fiction writers: He doesn't write about technology, but about the human heart and psyche.
-
Here is Edward Bear, coming downstairs now, bump, bump, bump, on the back of his head, behind Christopher Robin. It is, as far as he knows, the only way of coming downstairs, but sometimes he feels that there really is another way, if only he could stop bumping for a moment and think about it.
-
My life is full of mistakes. They're like pebbles that make a good road.
-
You never know the opportunity you're going to get, and you're never going to know how good anyone can be without the best opportunities, just as it goes with time.
-
Fame is very agreeable, but the bad thing is that it goes on 24 hours a day.
-
I don't have any regrets about not having kids. I've just never had those maternal feelings. I am a nurturer by nature, but I nurture adults: my friends, the people I work with. I don't want to nurture children.
-
So many people and institutions are against homosexuals that, as a homosexual, you can't waste your time by trying to convince them that you're a good person.
