Ivan Van Sertima Quotes

#1. Our skin is provided as adequately as theirs with endurance against the assaults of the weather: witness so many nations who have not yet tried the use of any clothes. Our ancient Gauls wore hardly any clothes; nor do the Irish, our neighbors, under so cold a sky.

Michel De Montaigne

#2. God's away, God's away, God's away on business. Business!

Tom Waits

#3. When I was trying to find work after drama school in London, it felt like the same actors always got the plum roles, especially in television. We have a smaller market place, vastly fewer drama-producing networks, and they seem to compete for the same established names for those projects.

Jamie Bamber

#4. The Night Times has prided itself throughout its long history in telling the truth, the whole truth, and as much gossip as it could get away with.

Simon R. Green

#5. You have no idea how fragile an actor's self-worth is.

Elia Kazan

#6. You cannot really conceive of how insulting it is to Native Americans to be told they were discovered.

Ivan Van Sertima

#7. Yet we are constantly annoyed, and the legislatures are kept constantly busy, by the people who have made up their minds that it is wise and conducive to happiness to live in a certain way, and who want to compel everybody else to live in their way.

William Graham Sumner

#8. He who cannot see the beautiful side is a bad painter, a bad friend, a bad lover; he cannot lift his mind and his heart so high as goodness.

Joseph Joubert

#9. I truly believe that God has given us few brain cells, and you have to direct them to the right things that make you happy.

Ranbir Kapoor

#10. Worry is useless mulling over of things we cannot change. Worry is not concern, which would motivate you to do everything possible in a situation.

Peace Pilgrim

#11. I have a very highly developed sense of denial.

Gwyneth Paltrow

#12. You put me in a race where there's a lot on the line, especially when people tell me 'you can't win', or 'you're too small', you tell me those things and I'll find a way to prove you wrong.

Mirinda Carfrae

#13. You don't work with spiders very long before you start noticing how important silk is to their life and just how special that is for spiders.

Cheryl Hayashi

#14. I am not saying that I won't do big commercial films.

Esha Gupta

#15. You can not make yourself whole again by brooding one hundred percent of the time on the darkness of the world. We are the light of the world.

Ivan Van Sertima

#16. The great mountains of wars and conflicts in the world can only be removed by picking up tiny stones of hatred and anger bit by bit. We must all be involved!

Israelmore Ayivor

#17. What happened to our friendship? I really think it's our obligation as friends to be brutally honest and be frank with them and say, 'Look, I'm sorry, but your baby is fking boring.'

David Cross