Cheikh Anta Diop Quotes

European languages must not be considered diamonds displayed under a glass ball, dazzling us with their brilliance

Cheikh Anta Diop

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• I am an optimist about the UK. We have been involved in trade with our European partners, which we will always be doing whatever this relationship is. We are a member of the EU. That gives us benefits. But we have to figure out where that is going. In the world, we are a global trader already.

  

  Iain Duncan Smith
  • Relationship
  • Optimist
  • European

• Diamonds are nothing more than chunks of coal that stuck to their jobs.

  

  Malcolm Forbes
  • Nothing
  • More
  • Diamonds

• I would love to learn other languages, maybe French? My uncle speaks German so maybe also German? Chinese seems to be too difficult.

  

  Rafael Nadal
  • Learn
  • Difficult
  • Languages

• Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its value only to its scarcity.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Value
  • Gold
  • Diamonds

• I don't want to be alone at 80 years old, dripping in diamonds - having never helped anyone. That's not my path. That's not what I care about. That's not what excites me.

  

  Kat Graham
  • Alone
  • Path
  • Diamonds

• Performance stands out like a ton of diamonds. Nonperformance can always be explained away.

  

  Harold S. Geneen
  • Like
  • Performance
  • Diamonds

• I am constantly swimming on the margin, neither 100% American, French, nor Lebanese. I am none of those. I am the result of those three. Sometimes it's an asset: no one can put you in a category. That I do not make typical Lebanese, European or American films does not bother me.

  

  Ziad Doueiri
  • American
  • Films
  • European

• I never think in terms of gold, currency, diamonds. I'm not clever enough for that.

  

  Lars Larsen
  • Think
  • Gold
  • Clever

• I love to put on diamonds and beautiful evening gowns and make my girl-friends upset.

  

  Zsa Zsa Gabor
  • Friends
  • Beautiful
  • Girl

• I'm Russian: I'm into men, diamonds, and caviar.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • Men
  • Diamonds
  • Caviar

• I never hated a man enough to give him diamonds back.

  

  Zsa Zsa Gabor
  • Man
  • Back
  • Diamonds

• I speak a number of languages, but none are more beautiful to me than English.

  

  Maya Angelou
  • English
  • Speak
  • Languages

• A land may be said to be discovered the first time a European, presumably an Englishman, sets foot on it.

  

  Vilhjalmur Stefansson
  • Time
  • May
  • Said

• speaking in unknown languages, showing a disproportionate physical strength beyond one's natural capacity, the repulsion to sacred things, such as crucifix and prayers, and knowledge of events that have happened far away, in terms of times and places.

  

  Walker Evans
  • Knowledge
  • Unknown
  • Physical

• Look at the chaos of European history. Europeans cannot believe in certainty. But Americans believe in certainty. Americans think this can go on like this forever. Just as it is. No change.

  

  Carl Andre
  • Believe
  • History
  • Forever

• We think only through the medium of words. Languages are true analytical methods. Algebra, which is adapted to its purpose in every species of expression, in the most simple, most exact, and best manner possible, is at the same time a language and an analytical method. The art of reasoning is nothing more than a language well arranged.

  

  Antoine Lavoisier
  • Time
  • Art
  • True

• Man is used to the fact that there are languages which he does not at first understand and which must be learned, but because art is primarily visual he expects that he should get the message immediately and is apt to be affronted if he doesn't.

  

  Edward T. Hall
  • Art
  • Fact
  • Message

• Voltaire expected that within fifty years of his lifetime there would not be one Bible in the world. His house is now a distribution center for Bibles in many languages.

  

  Corrie Ten Boom
  • World
  • House
  • Bible

• Apologies come in all shapes and sizes. You can give diamonds, candy, flowers, or just your deepest heartfelt sentiment.

  

  Sarah Dessen
  • Candy
  • Flowers
  • Diamonds

• Sam is a truly competitive driver. Yes, I want to beat him and he wants to beat me. But at the end of the day, we want both cars up there and we want to make the boss happy.

  

  Helio Castroneves
  • Boss
  • Wants
  • Beat

• I think “The Book of Mormon” has made that difference in its field. It changed the game. It’s something that 20 years from now people will still be talking about, hopefully. That’s my goal as an artist, as a creator, as a work for hire, is to choose projects that make people think, make people talk, and make people interested in having a dialogue.

  

  Josh Gad
  • Book
  • Artist
  • Goal

• European languages must not be considered diamonds displayed under a glass ball, dazzling us with their brilliance

  

  Cheikh Anta Diop
  • Languages
  • Diamonds
  • European