Nuruddin Farah Quotes

No writing is good enough until you, as an author, make a small contribution, the size of a drop, into the ocean of the world’s literature.

Nuruddin Farah

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• I almost laughed about the Machiavellian plans of the presidents of the United States.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • United States
  • Plans
  • Almost

• You just can't let anything or anyone get in the way of who you are.

  

  AJ McLean
  • Way
  • You
  • Just

• We're changing the way people are going to look at wrestling, women's wrestling, forever. Forever. And we're at the start of it? That's unbelievable. That's unbelievable! Unbelievable.

  

  Becky Lynch
  • People
  • Women
  • Forever

• Uncertainty will always be part of the taking charge process.

  

  Harold S. Geneen
  • Always
  • Process
  • Uncertainty

• I love Gwen Stefani. I'd watch what she'd wear over and over again and think, 'How do I nail this style?' And then, I like that classic beauty, too. Audrey Hepburn, she's so elegant.

  

  Yuna
  • Love
  • She
  • Style

• I loved rock and roll when that came in, Bill Haley, Little Richard, Fats Domino, Buddy Holly, Elvis Presley, all those great records. So I begged my mom and dad for a guitar, which eventually they did get me for Christmas, but it went out of tune very quickly, and it hurt my fingers.

  

  Ian McLagan Small Faces
  • Great
  • Dad
  • Mom

• The Admiral says that he never beheld so fair a thing: trees all along the river, beautiful and green, and different from ours, with flowers and fruits each according to their kind, many birds and little birds which sing very sweetly.

  

  Christopher Columbus
  • Different
  • Beautiful
  • Green

• As a comedian, you have everything working against you.

  

  Billy Crystal

• At the age of 18 all young poets are sure they will be dead at 21 - of old age.

  

  Marguerite Young
  • Age

• When someone is bothered by someone claiming lack of drinking water, lack of medicine for the sick, and lack of food for the hungry, that person has problems too deep to be explained in an interview.

  

  Carmen Yulin Cruz
  • Food
  • Water
  • Deep

• I love to go to the playground and watch the children jumping up and down. They don't know I'm firing blanks.

  

  Emo Philips
  • Up
  • Children

• Living is dangerous. The important thing is to know the limits.

  

  Andrea Bocelli
  • Important

• I've learned how to make a nice souffle, a little mac and cheese.

  

  Kevin Dillon
  • Nice

• No, I don't run all the way. I'm not like an Olympic class runner.

  

  Bruce McCulloch

• My trust in a higher power that wants me to survive and have love in my life, is what keeps me moving forward.

  

  Kenny Loggins
  • Life
  • Power
  • Moving

• Games are a compromise between intimacy and keeping intimacy away.

  

  Eric Berne
  • Intimacy

• There's obviously a lot of tragedy in comedy; I really enjoy the paradox of what a really good comedy is.

  

  Elliot Page
  • Good
  • Comedy

• I really feel that most things are difficult at the beginning and they become fun, something you love, only after you've worked at them. Making children do something hard can, in the long run, be a great parental service.

  

  Amy Chua
  • Great
  • Long
  • Children

• I do not think there was anything abusive in my house. Yet, I stand by a lot of my critiques of Western parenting. I think there's a lot of questions about how you instill true self-esteem.

  

  Amy Chua
  • True
  • House

• That's why I make mixtapes. That's why I work with Don Cannon; that's why i work with Big Sean. Even though I don't rap, I got love and acceptance in that community, and that's something that I really take seriously and hold close to my heart.

  

  Mike Posner
  • Work
  • Heart
  • Why

• In 2007, early in the improbable presidential candidacy of Barack Obama, the young first-term senator began a series of foreign-policy speeches that seemed too general to provide a guide to what he might do if elected.

  

  Elliott Abrams
  • Presidential

• All I want to say is that life is very fragile. We should live every moment and cherish what we have been given.

  

  Li Bingbing
  • Life
  • Live
  • Want

• Heaven, Kiwi thought, would be the reading room of a great library. But it would be private. Cozy. You wouldn't have to worry about some squeaky-shoed librarian turning the lights off on you or gauging your literacy by reading the names on your book spines, and there wouldn't be a single other patron. The whole place would hum with a library's peace, filtering softly over you like white bars of light.

  

  Karen Russell
  • Light
  • Reading
  • Heaven

• No writing is good enough until you, as an author, make a small contribution, the size of a drop, into the ocean of the world’s literature.

  

  Nuruddin Farah
  • Writing
  • Literature
  • Contribution