Abdullah Ibrahim Quotes

#1. I don't think of myself as a jazz musician but a medicine man.

Abdullah Ibrahim

#2. I think working as an assistant was a part of knowing people who like cinema, and to learn from a movie, you have to watch it.

Claire Denis

#3. They took away time, and they gave us the clock.

Abdullah Ibrahim

#4. I don't read books. I read the Daily Express and The Star.

Tim Sherwood

#5. He had forgotten the most important thing about living in the wilderness, the one thing he'd thought he would never forget-expect the unexpected. What you didn't think would get you, would get you. Plan on the worst and be happy when it didn't come.

Gary Paulsen

#6. When time and space and change converge, we find place. We arrive in Place when we resolve things. Place is peace of mind and understanding. Place is knowledge of self. Place is resolution.

Abdullah Ibrahim

#7. I must be the mate of the man I had chosen; and if he would not come to my level, I must go to his.

Jane Swisshelm

#8. I'd always imagined that I'd come up with something clever and pithy when it came to my last words, but as I stood there staring at those horrifying green eyes, I settled for a little startled profanity.

How embarrassing.

Kate SeRine

#9. I came to Washington with a pledge to be a fiscally conservative.

Candice S. Miller

#10. You can't improve what you won't face and own.

Michael Hyatt

#11. People are not being reached in the context of the body of Christ
they're like newborn babies being left on a doorstep somewhere to feed and care for themselves.

Peter E. Gillquist

#12. Wrap fish fillets, sliced veggies, and other quick-cooking items inside foil packets with bundles of fresh herbs and throw them directly on the grill; the steam will release the herb's perfume and flavor anything contained inside the pouch.

Emeril Lagasse

#13. We're supposed to do all these things which trouble us deeply because it's so against what we naturally would want to do.

Maurice Sendak

#14. It is always the season for the old to learn.

Aeschylus

#15. People say that slaves were taken from Africa. This is not true: People were taken from Africa, among them healers and priests, and were made into slaves.

Abdullah Ibrahim

#16. The biggest problem in South Africa is that we have a disrupted timeline. Historically, politically, spiritually, economically, in people's minds, in people's heads.

Abdullah Ibrahim

#17. The print does not always have the same shape as the body that impressed it, and it doesn't always derive from the pressure of a body. At times it reproduces the impression a body has left in our mind: it is the print of an idea.

Umberto Eco

#18. The more spacious and larger our fundamental nature, the more bearable the pains in living.

Wayne Muller

#19. Music is only a means to an end - it is not the end. The concern is with the condition of man

Abdullah Ibrahim

#20. But whether he be, or whether he be not, I want bread.

Voltaire

#21. Design is coming to grips with one's real lifestyle, one's real place in the world. Rooms should not be put together for show but to nourish one's wellbeing.

Albert Hadley