Famous Quotes & Sayings

Chinua Achebe

I think once you have done all you can to a manuscript, let it find its way in the world.

Chinua Achebe

I think writers are not only writers, they are also citizens.

Chinua Achebe

Unoka went into an inner room and soon returned with a small wooden disc containing a kola nut, some alligator pepper and a lump of white chalk. "I have kola," he announced when he sat down, and passed the disc over to his guest. "Thank you. He who brings kola brings life. But I think you ought to break it," replied Okoye passing back the disc. "No, it is for you, I think," and they argued like this for a few moments before Unoka accepted the honor of breaking the kola. Okoye, meanwhile, took the lump of chalk, drew some lines on the floor, and then painted his big toe.

Chinua Achebe

You don't ever want to say to a young person, You can't, or, You are no good. Some people might be able to do it, but I don't think I am a policeman for literature. So I tell them, Sweat it out, do your best.

Chinua Achebe

There is a moral obligation, I think, not to ally oneself with power against the powerless.

China Machado

I am China, pronounced as Chee-na. And I think it's time the world lets older women age gracefully.

Chick Hearn

Anybody who doesn't think I want the Lakers to win is a fool. But I'm no homer.

China Mieville

I think the role of science fiction is not at all to prophesy. I think it is to tell interesting, vivid, strange stories that at their best are dreamlike intense versions and visions of today.

China Mieville

I think science fiction is very bad at prediction.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

If you followed the media you'd think that everybody in Africa was starving to death, and that's not the case; so it's important to engage with the other Africa.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

And it's wrong of you to think that love leaves room for nothing else. It's possible to love something and still condescend to it.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

I have many problems in my life, but I don't think that identity is one of them.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

If you start thinking about being likable you are not going to tell your story honestly.

Chet Baker

People said I'd never make 35, then I'd never make 40, 45; now I'm almost 50, so Im beginning to think maybe they might be wrong.

Chet Baker

I like to play in the deep register. I was never a high-note specialist. My range goes from the bottom of the horn up to around C or D. High D is about it for me ... about two-and-a-half octaves, I think. But in these two-and-a-half octaves, I can say everything I have to say.

Cheyenne Jackson

People either love me or they think I'm obnoxious. I get that.

Cheyenne Jackson

I think God has a plan for all of us, and even if that plan includes Hell, its still a plan.

Chiaki Kuriyama

I didn't understand the American fascination with the Japanese schoolgirl. No, I don't think I can, really.

Chiaki Kuriyama

I think the biggest difficulty is that when I'm here in America, there's a necessity of using English, so I really have a great sense of really wanting to learn, but unfortunately when I head back to Japan, the necessity vanishes and so does my enthusiasm about learning.

Chevy Chase

Socialism works ... [and] Cuba might prove that. I think it's conclusive that there have been areas where socialism has helped to keep people at least stabilized at a certain level.

Chevy Chase

I made about 28 movies, and I think about five of them were good.

Chevy Chase

I'm going to give you a little advice. There's a force in the universe that makes things happen. And all you have to do is get in touch with it, stop thinking, let things happen, and be the ball.

Chetan Bhagat

I think original voices get noticed. But most importantly, I think you should have a story to tell.

Chesley Sullenberger

I think it's become an economic necessity for people to be able to learn and grow throughout their lives, because most people can't get through their entire career with one skill set. We have to keep reinventing ourselves.

Chesley Sullenberger

You know, I think when people are in important positions in big organizations, they often get tied up with the minutia of managing money, managing things. They often forget that people deserve to be led.

As far as women who are being abused by pimps, I think if you see women who do incalls or outcalls rather than work on the street, they are less likely - from what I've heard - to have pimps. But you can't be sure.

With each of those projects I wasnt thinking about how the layout would really affect the story I was working on - it wasnt the content that was affecting the layout, it was, how I wanted to draw at that point in time.

Almost every scene, I re-think as Im about to start drawing it, and at least half of the time Im changing dialogue or whatever, or adding scenes or different things.

I'm against government giving money to artists, but I'm not against artists taking money. Just like I don't have a moral problem with people taking healthcare from the government, but I don't think government should give it.

Chester Bennington

For me, you say the words 'concept record,' and the first thing I think of is theater or the opera or something.

Chester Bennington

We'd like to think that our music will always be bigger than any one of our individual personalities.

Cheryl Richardson

Our thinking absolutely affects the physical body.

Cheryl Richardson

Stop worrying about what others think. At the end of the day, you have to live with you. Trust yourself. No one has to tell you when it's right. Do what you need to do.