Mo Ibrahim Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
'Pong' is simply a knockoff of the Odyssey Ping-Pong game.
-
Hope is the most important four-letter word in the language.
-
Your outlook upon life, your estimate of yourself, your estimate of your value are largely colored by your environment. Your whole career will be modified, shaped, molded by your surroundings, by the character of the people with whom you come in contact every day.
-
Cosmonauts can keep their word like men and women - particularly women.
-
The question of manuscript changes is very important for literary criticism, the psychology of creation and other aspects of the study of literature.
-
Californians are people who insist on growing their own vegetables, but they won't dig up the pretty lawn, won't plant anything for fear of getting dirty, and they use fragrant bath salts from The Body Shop instead of smelly compost.
-
I hate touchy-feely things.
-
I loved teaching. It was my world. I only left because I was overwhelmed with three careers - teaching, writing, and my family.
-
I have tried Botox, and I don't like it because it stops you being able to move your facial muscles which, as an actress, are essential. But I do have collagen injections.
-
When Fortune knocks, open the door,' they say. But why should one make fortune knock, by keeping the door shut?
-
We should constantly be aspiring to reach higher and higher and higher. We should never be comfortable where we are.
-
I am the odd man out in the family.
-
Number theorists are like lotus-eaters -- having once tasted of this food they can never give it up.
-
I'm not a disciplinarian. I simply enforce other people's decisions.
-
If you do see me in a restaurant, please, just let me eat my dinner.
-
I had one typewriter for 50 years, but I have bought seven computers in six years. I suppose that's why Bill Gates is rich, and Underwood is out of business.
-
For it is probable that when people talk aloud, the selves (of which there may be more than two thousand) are conscious of disserverment, and are trying to communicate but when communication is established there is nothing more to be said.
-
To me the task is a loathsome one. I go in the spirit of the soldier who acts against his best judgment at the orders of his superior.
-
What goes down usually goes back up, if you're willing to be patient and don't hit the panic button.
-
Viola Davis is a perfect example of somebody who's so much better than the parts she has the opportunity to play.
-
There is a crisis of leadership and governance in Africa, and we must face it.
