Thiongo Wa Quotes

#1. I think very often the price paid for a work is the trophy itself.

Arne Glimcher

#2. How wretched is the person who hangs on by the favors of the powerful.

Robert Burns

#3. a real sport." The waiter popped the cork and

Judy Blume

#4. I wake up every morning in a cold sweat, regardless of how well things went the day before. And put that I said that in a somewhat but not completely tongue-in-cheek way.

Harvey Pekar

#5. A great White Bear waits outside. He has faithfully promised to make us all rich if he can but have our youngest daughter.

Peter Christen Asbjornsen

#6. Dearest Shell,
If you let me I'd always keep you 400 miles away and write you pretty poems and letters ... I'm afraid to live anywhere but in expectation.

Leonard Cohen

#7. Lasting peace is sought, it is essential to adopt international measures to improve the lot of the masses. The welfare of the entire human race must replace hunger and oppression. People of the world must be taught to give up envy, avarice and rancour.

Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

#8. Twins need to know that they can be alone without their twin.

Joan A. Friedman

#9. What are the thorns really telling her? It's why she won't let us see them, why she clings to them
or they cling to her
as though she got herself buried in a bramble thicket and she can't get out and we can't get in to free her.

Patricia A. McKillip

#10. As an actor I suppose you're constantly observing. I don't sit in restaurants making notes, I don't live my life in order to then feed it into my work.

Cate Blanchett

#11. The task is not so much to solve problems as to propose questions.

Donald Barthelme

#12. I am always doing what I can't do so I may learn how to do it.

Vincent Van Gogh