Mongo Beti Quotes

#1. Old carts can be repainted but they still keep moving in the same old ruts

Mongo Beti

#2. The only way to go on holiday is with your expectations at ground level. Convince yourself before you go that the weather's going to be dreadful and there will be nylon sheets. You'll then be pleasantly surprised.

Jenny Eclair

#3. Everything becomes ... too late, finally. You know it's going on ... up on the hill; you can see the dust, and hear the cries, and the steel ... but you wait; and time happens. When you do go, sword, shield ... finally ... there's nothing there ... save rust; bones; and the wind.

Edward Albee

#4. This had disaster written all over it. Jack wasn't exactly the picture of discretion-or sanity,for that matter.

Kiersten White

#5. I do not have a 24-year-old girlfriend. I have another life altogether.

Jens Lehmann

#6. I've had fish come up on stage, and it's pretty disgusting. I try and discourage that. I discourage anything flying up on stage, actually.

Les Claypool

#7. Feeling unglued is really all I've ever known. And I'm starting to wonder if maybe it's all I'll ever be.

Lysa TerKeurst

#8. The chance to do it over again is called now.

J.R. Rim

#9. Drugs, cataplasms, and whiskey are stupid substitutes for the dignity and potency of divine mind and its efficacy to heal.

Mary Baker Eddy

#10. You may not possess a body that everyone want to admire.
You may not possess wealth that everyone want to have.
However you should possess a character that will make you worthy to love.

Gloria D. Gonsalves

#11. Each year the big garden grew smaller and Jane - who grew flowers by choice, not corn or stringbeans - worked at the vegetables more than I did. Each winter I dreamed crops, dreamed marvels of canning ... and each summer I largely failed. Shamefaced, I planted no garden at all.

Donald Hall

#12. It's okay to expect more from the people around you. That doesn't make you unreasonable. It makes you smart.

Maya Banks

#13. Some things have to be done. It's better to do them, than to live with the fear of them.

Joe Abercrombie

#14. Come on then," Deeba said. "We haven't got time to waste. You're not the ones who are going to get forgot in a few days' time if you don't phone home.

China Mieville

#15. I designed all the characters, anyway, and Frank Doyle was doing all the writing. I didn't have any more input on what direction they were going to go with Josie.

Dan DeCarlo