Wafa Wanaka Quotes

#1. Wafa Wanaka, our elders say. Not only does this mean that death is the ultimate peace, it also means that we are not to speak ill of the dead. Once a person has crossed over to the real of the spirits, he takes his transgressions with him, and we speak only of the good. - 'Something Nice from London

Petina Gappah

#2. That's me: an old kazoo with some sparklers.

Bette Davis

#3. I've not cooked Christmas dinner since 1982.

Lesley Nicol

#4. Never guess your wife's size. Just buy anything marked petite and hold on to the receipt.

Rodney Dangerfield

#5. I've been blessed because every single role I've done has been an educated person. I've never done the stereotypical Latina, even though I have an accent - I've always been able to play educated people. That's a good thing!

Roselyn Sanchez

#6. If you want to know what a man's character is really like ... ask him to tell you the living person he most admires - for hero worship is the truest index of a man's private nature.

Sydney J. Harris

#7. At the end of the sky I am a swimmer. In the water I can become a child again, splashing, sighing, holding my breath until enough is enough, I come up choking, my lungs needful of a fresh supply of air.

Abigail George

#8. Community cannot for long feed on itself; it can only flourish with the coming of others from beyond, their unknown and undiscovered brothers.

Howard Thurman

#9. Someday I'd change my name to Shut Up and save everybody a lot of time.

Jonathan Lethem

#10. Stuff that used to be hard just isn't hard anymore!

Robin Sloan

#11. Beneath it all, desire of oblivion runs:
Despite the artful tensions of the calendar,
The life insurance, the tabled fertility rites,
The costly aversion of the eyes from death-
Beneath it all, desire of oblivion runs.

Philip Larkin

#12. If we keep our eyes open and our hearts clear, we can realize that life gives us adequate opportunities to experience both love and hope

John Moriarty

#13. We worked on solving the problem of voice communications in a noisy military environment. We established military codes that are highly audible and invented selection tests for personnel who had a superior ability to recognize sound in a noisy background.

M.H. Abrams

#14. Honey from the devil's fingers tastes bitter.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#15. I once saw a photograph of a large herd of wild elephants in Central Africa Seeing an airplane for the first time, and all in a state of wild collective terror ... As, however, there were no journalists among them, the terror died down when the airplane was out of sight.

Bertrand Russell