Mda Quotes

#1. Our elders say that an elephant does not find its own trunk heavy.

Zakes Mda

#2. I was thinking; my mind was running at top speed, scanning and sorting my options. They ranged all the way from Dumb and Dangerous to Crazy, Evil, and utterly wrong from the start.

Hunter S. Thompson

#3. Acting is about acting, not about being a movie star.

Tyler Christopher

#4. Proper worship in any age is critically predicated upon adequate and accurate knowledge of the God worshiped. No matter how ceremonially elaborate, emotionally rousing, or sermonically eloquent, worship that is not offered from a proper understanding of who God is falls short.

Andreas J. Kostenberger

#5. Everybody laughed for a long time, for it was the kind of joke that seemed to grow on you. You would laugh and eventually stop. But after a few minutes you would think of the joke again, and you would burst out laughing all over again.

Zakes Mda

#6. And through the gloom I saw that mortal boy watching me, and I smelled the hot aroma of his flesh.

Anne Rice

#7. Along with all those who left their countries for other shores, I belong in neither land. We are unmoored and disconnected, like these poplar seeds blown into the crevices of the buildings, into the corners of the world.

Elena Gorokhova

#8. My plays have been translated into all of the official languages of South Africa except Afrikaans.

Zakes Mda

#9. The song of the umrhubhe creates a world of dreams.

Zakes Mda

#10. If you are truly telling a South African story then it will be political - because you are dealing with people who lead political lives in an environment which is highly politically charged.

Zakes Mda

#11. Millions of Americans have contributed to building a stronger Israel; I've been proud to be one of them. Last year, I went to Jerusalem to help dedicate in my father's name a new MDA medical facility which treats people of all faiths and all nationalities absolutely equally.

Michael Bloomberg

#12. Television has accustomed us to brief, intimate, telegraphic, visual, narrative messages. Candidates are learning to act, speak, and think in television's terms. In the process they are transforming speeches, debates, and their appearances in news into ads.

Kathleen Hall Jamieson

#13. I always laugh when people ask me about rebounding techniques. I've got a technique. It's called just go get the damn ball.

Charles Barkley

#14. YOU ARE STRONGER AND BIGGER AND BRAVER THAN WHAT THEY DID, AND YOU DON'T HAVE TO LET IT DEFINE YOU ANY LONGER. FORGIVE. LET GO. MOVE ON. DON'T LOOK BACK. YOUR NEW BEGINNING IS WAITING.

Mandy Hale

#15. But there were some things they didn't agree on.

Stan Berenstain

#16. It's illegal, you know," he murmurs. "Stealing."
I clear my throat. "Stealing?"
"My heart. I could have you arrested."
I snort. "For that tiny thing? I'd get a misdemeanor at most.

Eliza Crewe

#17. Pity? [If] you don't want to be pitied because you're a cripple in a wheelchair, stay in your house!

Jerry Lewis

#18. There can never be enough writers anywhere in the world.

Zakes Mda