Kourouma Quotes

#1. The Six Ways of Ruling are about being benevolent, true, genuine, fearless, artful, and rejoicing.

Lodro Rinzler

#2. Then suddenly, he was struck by a powerful but simple little truth, and it was this: that English grammar is governed by rules that are almost mathematical in their strictness!

Roald Dahl

#3. The ultimate affront, that neither hurries, grows weary nor forgets, is called death.

Ahmadou Kourouma

#4. The law of diminishing returns is something I really believe in.

Thomas Keller

#5. I don't mean I'd mind being rich and famous. That's very much on my schedule, and someday I'll try to get around to it; but if it happens, I'd like to have my ego tagging along. I want to still be me when I wake up one fine morning and have breakfast at Tiffany's.

Truman Capote

#6. Ten or twelve men, especially between brothers and between fathers and sons; but the offspring of these unions are counted as the children of the man with whom a particular woman cohabited first.

Winston S. Churchill

#7. We estimate that by 2010 China will have added another 250 million subscribers, strengthening its position as the single largest mobile market in the world,

Jorma Ollila

#8. Richmond has fallen - and I have no heart to write about it ... They are too many for us. Everythign lost in Richmond, even our archives. Blue-black is our horizon.

Mary Boykin Chesnut

#9. Life's not a one-shot special. It's a friggin' on-going series. Live it!

Arnold Arre

#10. If you don't like smoking don't even bother getting sober, just stay drunk.

Augusten Burroughs

#11. This I know; the spirit of Man cannot be stopped.

Walter Reisch

#12. People don't fall in love so easily. So they don't hate so easily, either.

Arina Tanemura