Quotes About Timbuktu

#1. The University of Timbuktu never existed. The only thing that existed in Timbuktu was a small mud hut.

Rousas John Rushdoony

#2. This was where i needed to be for the rest of my life and it didn't matter if it was in New York, L.A or Timbuktu. He was home to me and nothing was more important than being with him.

Kahlen Aymes

#3. After I wrapped 'Sons of Anarchy,' I traveled by myself for ten weeks. I started in Jordan and finished in Mali, in Timbuktu.

Henry Rollins

#4. The role of the artist is to be the witness of life, timbuktu.

Abderrahmane Sissako

#5. I've always wanted to go to Timbuktu. First of all I think it has the best name of anywhere in the world.

David Tang

#6. Not just a timely movie, a great one ... Timbuktu feels at once timely and permanent, immediate and essential.

A.O. Scott

#7. The title derived from the fact that all the words between timid and Timbuktu in very small dictionaries relate to time.

Kurt Vonnegut

#8. Timbuktu. The last pure place. Isolation being the mother of purity. All men are jealous of Timbuktu because Timbuktu is removed from men, it's the wholeness men have fractured, the sacred extreme they've traded away.

Tom Robbins

#9. Perchance to dream
"What are you doing here, Ariel? I would have thought you'd be halfway to Timbuktu."
- lisa mantchev perchance to dream

Lisa Mantchev

#10. Most of the planet's terrestrial surfaces are visually accessible through video cameras and satellite imagery, if not physically within reach. Even the approaches to Mount Everest are now littered with human debris. One can drive to Timbuktu, which for centuries was synonymous with inaccessibility.

Alan Huffman

#11. Black men of Carthage, Ethiopia, of Timbuktu and Alexandria gave the likes of civilization to this world

Marcus Garvey

#12. Reputations, like beavers and cloaks, shall last some people twice the time of others.

Douglas William Jerrold

#13. Endless longing; a face you'd known since childhood, since birth almost; a body that moved as though it were your own. These were things you never spoke of, things you never hoped for; things you could never admit to. Things you'd die for, and die of.

Elizabeth Hand

#14. Confidently receive God's abundant blessings. Think abundance, prosperity, and the best of everything.

Norman Vincent Peale

#15. I feel so lucky that I live in a society that lets women be. I think that's the one of the biggest fights to keep having, is to fight for women to have the right to live their life the way they want to live it.

Clemence Poesy

#16. Life is unexchangeable grace.

Lailah Gifty Akita