Ongala Festival Quotes

#1. To celebrate man is to celebrate God

Sunday Adelaja

#2. To have a sense of history one must consider oneself a piece of history ...

Alfred Kazin

#3. The average human looks without seeing, listens without hearing, touches without feeling, eats without tasting, inhales without smelling, and talks without thinking." - Leonardo da Vinci Benefits

Dharma Hazari

#4. Gabriel's malignant star was assuredly setting fast.

Thomas Hardy

#5. I will not interfere with a male dragon while he is rutting.

Katie Reus

#6. I remain Mistress of mine own self and mine own soul

Alfred Lord Tennyson

#7. Everything we are is anchored in our childhoods. The drama comes in how we deal with it. Are we slaves to our past, or can we rise above it? This is the stuff of great stories.

Robert Crais

#8. Seek not to grow in knowledge chiefly for the sake of applause, and to enable you to dispute with others; but seek it for the benefit of your souls.

Jonathan Edwards

#9. There's no room for failure performing [stand-up] for a black audience. If you don't get them right away it's tough winning them back even if you're doing top-notch material. If you didn't win them right when you walked out there, it's tough.

Hannibal Buress

#10. For many weeks after [my wife] died, I could not get used to the feeling of coldness and lifelessness on her side of the bed - and it was even worse when they took the body away and buried her.

Jonathan Coe

#11. Close your eyes," he said, low and soft. "Look inside yourself and don't think for a second, just ... tell me, how did you feel when I kissed you?"
[...]
"Unbroken.

Ramona Wray

#12. He was officially a lunatic, she decided. Strangely, that didn't make him less attractive.

Kate Atkinson

#13. I'm very bad, but I like to dance.

Eric Ripert

#14. My life is what a salmon must feel like. They are always going upstream, against the current.

Laura Schlessinger