Baba Mthethwa Quotes

#1. It isn't that you subordinate your ideas to the force of the facts in autobiography but that you construct a sequence of stories to bind up the facts with a persuasive hypothesis that unravels your history's meaning.

Philip Roth

#2. Rino's mother is named Raffaella Cerullo, but everyone has always called her Lina. Not me, I've never used either her first name or her last. To me, for more than sixty years, she's been Lila. If I were to call her Lina or Raffaella, suddenly, like that, she would think our friendship was over.

Elena Ferrante

#3. In 1962, my injury wasn't because of violence; I just kicked the ball and it happened. And that was OK because Brazil won; I didn't have any difficulty in accepting that. I still got a medal because I'd played two games.

Pele

#4. I find that the history books that we teach our kids with are not fully truthful, in my opinion.

Jesse Ventura

#5. I loved Japan. I used to read a lot about it when I was a child. And I always wanted to go. And it was delightful. I absolutely loved it. What a smashing place.

Billy Connolly

#6. You can be in Tokyo or Alberta at four in the morning in your hotel and you can still practice if you feel like it. A trombone cannot do that at four in the morning.

Toots Thielemans

#7. An echo of his misery rang in me and confused itself with my own. That tear might have been for little Emy - it might have been for me - it probably was for me, but I'll tell myself it was for both of us, and perhaps one day I'll believe it.

Mark Lawrence

#8. Fear can paralyze us and keep us from believing God and stepping out in faith. The devil loves a fearful Christian!

Billy Graham

#9. Man needs a guru. But a man must have faith in the guru's words. He succeeds in spiritual life by looking on his guru as God Himself.

Ramakrishna

#10. I really woke up one morning and said, you know, 'I haven't seen a good film about the American Revolution. And all the ones I have seen haven't been successful, but I'm going to make a successful one.' Well, I wasn't able to do that.

Irwin Winkler

#11. You could have thrown her into the fire, that's what you could have done. Then it would save me the task of killing her myself! -Ben Deverill

Alexandra May

#12. A month went by quickly. It didn't want to hang around.

Terry Pratchett

#13. You wreck me, Grace. You're truth and beauty. You're power and passion. You're my drug, my clarity. And you are fucking mine.

Heidi Joy Tretheway

#14. The English were notoriously unenthusiastic about burning witches. I suppose ours were too soggy.

Terry Pratchett