African Storytelling Quotes

#1. I don't think of myself as funny - I don't fill up a room with my humor ... I would fail miserably as a stand-up comedian.

Steve Carell

#2. As an adult, getting paid thousands of dollars a week to say, "Aye, Sir. Course laid in" is a seriously sweet gig, but when I was a teenager, it sucked.

Wil Wheaton

#3. I felt like love has been underrepresented - unironic love, just actually really falling in love.

Patrick DeWitt

#4. Well, I'm more lopsided than a one-legged badger.

Erin Hunter

#5. Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.

Gautama Buddha

#6. When people can see which direction the leaders are going in it becomes easier to motivate them.

Lakshmi Mittal

#7. I used to write travel essays, and I was struck by how the fact of writing about a place would change my relationship with it. I would make completely different choices, do things I wouldn't have normally, because I had to fill this narrative shape.

Chelsea Cain

#8. Only the balance of the scale, bedded love in the shells, teaches us to find the inner self.

Kristian Goldmund Aumann

#9. The whiskers sticking up from underneath his pancake makeup, and yet he was a beautiful lady.

Frank Zappa

#10. I'm in a very lucky position. You have to remember that 95 percent of all actors aren't working. I'm actually able to go to France and work. It's a situation I couldn't have dreamt up.

Mads Mikkelsen

#11. We are all children, Kheldar.
--Cyradis

David Eddings

#12. I have always enjoyed storytelling, especially narratives told through the voices of the African diaspora. Their influences are so diverse, so vast. I love incorporating elements of fiction and fantasy into their realities.

CO Patrick

#13. You can eliminate, for example, a Brazil nut gene if you know that it will create an allergenic effect.

Jeremy Rifkin