Quotes About Robben

#1. The 'Robben Island Bible' has arrived at the British Museum. It's a garish thing, its cover plastered with pink and gold Hindu images, designed to hide its contents. Within is the finest collection of words generated by human intelligence: the complete works of William Shakespeare.

Daniel Hannan

#2. The purpose of freedom is to create it for others. Prison desk calendar, written on Robben Island, June 2, 1979

Nelson Mandela

#3. Do you realize, when Mandela was inaugurated president, he invited as his special guests the white jailers from his Robben Island prison? He literally did forgive everybody.

Rush Limbaugh

#4. I did not have an unlimited library to choose from on Robben Island. We had access to many unremembered mysteries and detective novels and all the works of Daphne du Maurier, but little more.

Nelson Mandela

#5. [I] read Anne Frank's diary [while imprisoned] on Robben Island and derived much encouragement from it.

Nelson Mandela

#6. I was first imprisoned in Pretoria, and then, thereafter, I was taken to Robben Island. I stayed there for a couple of weeks. I was taken back to Pretoria when I was charged in the Rivonia trial, when I was then sent to Robben Island for life.

Nelson Mandela

#7. the human body is also an organised system, it lives as long as it keeps organised, and death is only the effect of disorganisation, And how can a society of blind people organise itself in order to survive, By organising itself, to organise oneself is, in a way, to begin to have eyes

Jose Saramago

#8. I have a really strong passion for what I do. I don't see myself doing anything else.

Zendaya

#9. We already have posterity," I said.
"When?'
"We were babies and we grew old

Edwidge Danticat

#10. Maybe Louis does have a golden willy.

Arjen Robben

#11. Whatever the "real" differences between the sexes may be, we are not likely to know them until the sexes are treated differently, that is alike.

Kate Millett

#12. I am a big admirer of Paul Scholes, he is one of the best players of his generation.

Arjen Robben

#13. The dead are not always so dumb as you think, it takes much more to die than you would believe.

E.J. Koh

#14. I really don't see myself in the Europa League and don't want to play in it. I couldn't care less about winning the trophy.

Arjen Robben

#15. Messi is on another planet.

Arjen Robben

#16. I was able to apply ukulele to whatever I'm trying to write. It's become part of songwriting for me, the knowledge I gained from hearing the melodies come out, and then applying that to guitar or vocals.

Eddie Vedder

#17. When God wanted to create the horse, he said to the South Wind, "I want to make a creature of you. Condense." And the Wind condensed.

Abdelkader El Djezairi

#18. Manchester United? That's not an option. I am staying at Bayern Munich. Period. I had a great time under Van Gaal at Bayern, he has been very important for my career but I am very happy at my current club.

Arjen Robben

#19. There is no reason at all why there aren't enough people to guard New Orleans and to help stabilise Baghdad.

Christopher Hitchens

#20. In many ways Roy Keane is bigger than One Direction.

Kevin Kilbane

#21. I think of improvising as composing - fo me it's all about playing melodies. When I improvise, there's not a lot of real thinking going on, per se - it's more like riding a wave. and I know how to stand on the board

Robben Ford

#22. Inside him, in a broth of blood and water, organs bumped softly, organically into one another, like fish in an aquarium.

Karan Mahajan

#23. The ocean would be nothing but salt water without her by his side.

Jeyn Roberts

#24. I think a lot of the more successful artists of our time basically have barracudas for managers

Robben Ford

#25. Don't be afraid to screw up ! ... one of the key issues to learning is making mistakes ... if you're not making mistakes, you're probably not having a very good time

Robben Ford

#26. You have to acquire a personal peace of mind which comes with understanding.

Sandy Woodward

#27. Whenever two hypotheses cover the facts, use the simpler of the two.

William Of Ockham

#28. I don't find a lot of people actually saying things through music any longer. They are not trying to say anything with their music, they just want to make money with it. I think it's important to actually say something real, something meaningful, rather than just write some trash and try to sell it.

Robben Ford

#29. I have two speeds. Fast and faster. I don't just run. I take it.

Arjen Robben

#30. When things are going good they just keep going good.

Fuzzy Zoeller

#31. Nowhere in the world do supporters love their clubs more than in England. England is paradise to play in.

Arjen Robben