Menu

 Authors
A B C D E F
G H I J K L
M N O P Q R
S T U V W S
Y Z
Get Socialize
My Account
Make Free Wallpaper

" Quotes and Sayings About id

I'm fascinated by power, especially veiled power. Shadow power. The National Security Agency. The National Reconnaissance Office. Opus Dei. The idea that everything happens for reasons we're not quite seeing.

Agency Everything Fascinated Happens
  Favorite Make wallpaper

The only thing I consider appalling would be to suddenly become a vegetable and a burden on other people. A soul slowly dying out, trapped in a body in which the insides gradually sabotage me - that, I think, would be terrifying.

Appalling Become Body Burden
  Favorite Make wallpaper

When I first started to get into writing, it was via music. I'd generate ideas for songs that would turn into stories, then they'd turn into novels. I was biased toward music.

Biased First Generate Get
  Favorite Make wallpaper

When people start writing there is this idea that you have to get everything right first time, every sentence has to be perfect, every paragraph has to be perfect, every chapter has to be perfect, but what you're doing is not any kind of public show, until you're ready for it.

Any Chapter Doing Every
  Favorite Make wallpaper

If you believe the people who love you, you get lazy. And if you believe the people who hate you, you become... maybe intimidated, or whatever the word might be, and you don't write as well.

Become Believe Lazy Hate
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Futurists don't consider overpopulation one of the issues of the future. They consider it the issue of the future.

Future Issue Consider Issues
  Favorite Make wallpaper

We have to give feminism a shot. Out of sheer self preservation, we have to stand aside and let women run the show.

Aside Feminism Give Out
  Favorite Make wallpaper

I grew up in a very religious household. My mom was a church organist. I was a religious kid.

Church Grew Kid Very
  Favorite Make wallpaper

When I left school at 16, I became an apprentice television and radio technician, and was paid £17 a week, which was decent money in 1976. But the job turned sour when I gave myself an electric shock while repairing a television set.

Apprentice Became Decent Electric
  Favorite Make wallpaper

The idea is not enough. And the most annoying thing for me as a writer is that people will come up to me and say, 'Hey, I've got a great idea for a book. I'm not a writer, but I've got a great story.'

Annoying Book Come Enough
  Favorite Make wallpaper

The idea of just sitting at home on Facebook worries me. I think we should all get out more.

Facebook Get Home I Think
  Favorite Make wallpaper

I think the novel is at one end of the art-entertainment continuum - the play in the middle - while TV and cinema veer a bit more towards entertainment.

Bit Cinema Continuum End
  Favorite Make wallpaper

I did not become a vegetarian for my health, I did it for the health of the chickens.

Become Chickens Did Health
  Favorite Make wallpaper

I am thankful, of course, for the prize and thankful to God for each story, each idea, each word, each day.

Am Course Day Each
  Favorite Make wallpaper

It is utterly false and cruelly arbitrary to put all the play and learning into childhood, all the work into middle age, and all the regrets into old age.

Age Arbitrary Childhood False
  Favorite Make wallpaper

We always regret that we did not ask our parents more, really get to know them while they were alive.

Alive Always Ask Did
  Favorite Make wallpaper

From an early age onward, it was said that 'Ingmar has no sense of humor.'

Age Early Early Age Humor
  Favorite Make wallpaper

We didn't know that Mother had gone through a passionate love affair or that Father suffered from severe depression. Mother was preparing to break out of her marriage, Father threatening to take his own life.

Affair Break Depression Father
  Favorite Make wallpaper

The smallest wound or pain of the ego is examined under a microscope as if it were of eternal importance. The artist considers his isolation, his subjectivity, his individualism almost holy.

Almost Artist Considers Ego
  Favorite Make wallpaper
I am normally afraid of birds and have never dreamt of any bird in my life.
Afraid Am Any Bird
  Favorite Make wallpaper

If I didn't have my profession, I think I would be sitting in a nuthouse. But I have been unceasingly at work, and this has been very healthy for me. So I had no need for therapy.

Been Had Has Been Healthy
  Favorite Make wallpaper

I have no regrets. I wouldn't have lived my life the way I did if I was going to worry about what people were going to say.

About Did Going Life
  Favorite Make wallpaper

I was the shyest human ever invented, but I had a lion inside me that wouldn't shut up!

Ever Had Human Inside
  Favorite Make wallpaper

I can do everything with ease on the stage, whereas in real life I feel too big and clumsy. So I didn't choose acting. It chose me.

Acting Big Choose Chose
  Favorite Make wallpaper

I remember one day sitting at the pool and suddenly the tears were streaming down my cheeks. Why was I so unhappy? I had success. I had security. But it wasn't enough. I was exploding inside.

Cheeks Day Down Enough
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Remember the sunshine, and walk confidently in the direction of some shade.

Remember Sunshine Walk Confidently
  Favorite Make wallpaper

It’s at the heart of everything we struggle with in life: longing to be valuable, to be accepted, to be prized, to be worth something to somebody, to have a life that matters, and God’s saying ‘You matter! I didn’t make anyone else like you. You’re not a reprint or a lithograph. You’re a one-of-a-kind, original creation of God.

Struggle Heart Long Life
  Favorite Make wallpaper

If one is not appreciated where he comes from, it would be hard for outsiders to support you.

Appreciated Comes-from Outsiders Support
  Favorite Make wallpaper
I can’t wait for Nigeria to be declared Covid-19 free and for us to resume our normal lives back.
Wait Declared Free Resume
  Favorite Make wallpaper

If a Journalist doesn’t know how to “Kill Stories” , “destroy or finish an opposition”, fabricate or exaggerate the achievements of leaders in Government, he or she becomes an enemy of the media aide.

Journalist Kill Stories Fabricate Government
  Favorite Make wallpaper
In all you do and achieve in this life, please be thankful to the Creator and don’t take pride to yourself.
Achieve Life Please Thankful
  Favorite Make wallpaper

The world has lots of people created to support your vision and ideas… Never think you can do it alone… Don’t be afraid to ask for help.

World People Created Support
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Stop seeking people’s validation. The value you place on yourself will determine the value people place on you.

Stop Validation Value Place
  Favorite Make wallpaper

How much do you believe in yourself? How much do you believe in what you carry on the inside? This is where success starts from. Believe in yourself, let it become a state of mind. Everything is foreign.

How-much Believe Yourself
  Favorite Make wallpaper

When you are one dimensional you are common. When you become multidimensional you become rare. When you become rare, you are in high demand.

Dimensional Common Multidimensional
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Identity is a funny thing, just when you think you have defined yourself. There is always another chapter or another challenge. It is all about getting out of your comfort zone. Until you do you’ll never know what you are capable of.

Identity Funny Defined Comfort-zone
  Favorite Make wallpaper

There ain't nothing from the outside that can lick any of us.

Any Lick Nothing Outside
  Favorite Make wallpaper

No man for any considerable period can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.

Another Any Bewildered Considerable
  Favorite Make wallpaper
Every individual has a place to fill in the world and is important in some respect whether he chooses to be so or not.
Chooses Every Fill He
  Favorite Make wallpaper

I am a filmmaker who dreams big realizations, so passionate about my craft to break barriers and present bridges to connect other parts of Africa and the world.

Filmmaker Dreams Realization Passionate
  Favorite Make wallpaper

When you humbly know who you are, you ooze self confidence…It’s powerful.

Humbly Self-confidence Powerful
  Favorite Make wallpaper

It's a terrible thing to go through life thinking that you have a rock on your side when you haven't.

Go Life Rock Side
  Favorite Make wallpaper

The only sensible ends of literature are, first, the pleasurable toil of writing; second, the gratification of one's family and friends; and lastly, the solid cash.

Cash Ends Family First
  Favorite Make wallpaper

My fortune somewhat resembled that of a person who should entertain an idea of committing suicide, and, altogether beyond his hopes, meet with the good hap to be murdered.

Altogether Beyond Committing Entertain
  Favorite Make wallpaper

The sad part about our past is that religions, ironically enough, are responsible for creating the most destructive idea that has ever been visited upon the human race: the idea that there is such a thing as 'better.'

About Been Better Creating
  Favorite Make wallpaper

It is said that the 1966 coup that failed was strictly an Igbo coup, but then the irony of history is that it was the late General Aguiyi Ironsi, an Igbo who single-handedly dismantled the coup in Lagos, while my humble self, another Igbo-man rendered it immobile in the north.

1966 Coup Igbo Aguiyi Ironsi
  Favorite Make wallpaper

We are humans. We live. We fight, fight because the decision to be free is a decision taken freely and collectively, because to become involved in violent struggle for freedom is the only honor left to an oppressed people threatened with genocide, because in the final analysis the only true bulwark against death is to live.

Humans Decision Freely Genocide
  Favorite Make wallpaper

We make no apologies for the social phenomenon known as the Biafran revolution; rather, we proclaim with pride the inevitability of our struggle, the indestructibility of our people, and the assured finality of our success.

Biafran Apologise Revolution Phenomenon
  Favorite Make wallpaper

People should stop defending the absurd by saying it is media houses that leaked the President's DRAFT speech.

Draft People Defending Absurd
  Favorite Make wallpaper

No painstakingly perfected air brushed picture can hide it.A prognosis of nature.A disease from birth.It glares no matter your best efforts.

Painstakingly Perfected Air brushed Picture
  Favorite Make wallpaper