Top 982 Quotes & Sayings by Nigerian Authors - Page 6

I grew up on Spielberg and Lucas. That was sort of what inspired me to make movies.

When you don't spend or invest in the future, you can't always get away with it.

You're able to do more when you're not clouded with wasted anxiety.

We've been told the same story for so long. We've seen literally 1,000 'Lord of the Rings' movies.

Non-fiction, and in particular the literary memoir, the stylised recollection of personal experience, is often as much about character and story and emotion as fiction is.

When we say Church of All Nations, it's a vision given to me, that the church will touch all the world.

I dropped out of high school four times between the ages of 12 to 17.

I try to dwell on the positive and not dwell on the negative as much as I can.

Outside' was more of a personal project. This, the 'African Giant', is more of an African project.

People are prospering from being unapologetically offensive, trite, and stupid. And we are tweeting ourselves into high blood pressure and ulcers trying to tell them to do better... Being a pompous nut biscuit is now a publicity strategy, and I don't know what we can do to end the madness.

An active and vibrant railway system confers many benefits on the society.

When I fought in The Ultimate Fighter Finale, I had microfracture surgery, and that's usually eight month's recovery turnaround. I had to fight three months after that, and I fought three months after that. And I had to train through that with that.

I have to plot my path to greatness.

I would come, many years later, to understand why 'To Kill A Mockingbird' is considered 'an important novel', but when I first read it at 11, I was simply absorbed by the way it evoked the mysteries of childhood, of treasures discovered in trees, and games played with an exotic summer friend.

When something happens in Africa, an artist will sing about it and stuff. We have all the records; we have everything. Free Mandela records and all that.

I think you need people who can advise you; that is more important that an agent. They are important because they help players move, but I have some experience of agents working with players who have done things not to help the player but to help themselves.

Music must awaken people to do their duty as citizens and act.

The Connection Machines owned by the United States government laboratories were made available to me because they were considered impossible to program and there was no great demand for them at that time.

A war, with its attendant human suffering, must, when that evil is unavoidable, be made to fragment more than buildings: It must shatter the foundations of thought and re-create. Only in this way does every individual share in the cataclysm and understand the purpose of sacrifice.

When something is not great, I'm not going to eat it. It's not enough to just get full. It's like, how does this make you feel?

What should be driving the conversation is: What's the story? What's the movie about? Is it a compelling story? And if it is, then you make it regardless of the color of the people behind or in front of the camera.

Given the scale of trauma caused by the genocide, Rwanda has indicated that however thin the hope of a community can be, a hero always emerges. Although no one can dare claim that it is now a perfect state, and that no more work is needed, Rwanda has risen from the ashes as a model or truth and reconciliation.

In this time of the Internet and nonfiction, to be on an actual bookshelf in an actual bookstore is exciting in itself.

When I'm having fun, I'm the best in the world.

For readers of color, and especially black readers, black girls, I just want them to feel seen. And not just seen - I want them to feel epic and know that they are epic.

I want to create a TV show that people will watch and say, 'Hey, I have a favorite character,' or 'Hey, that person reminds me of myself,' or 'Hey, I've made some of those same mistakes, or those are some of the things I've dealt with.'

People say that if you find water rising up to your ankle, that's the time to do something about it, not when it's around your neck.

African narratives in the West, they proliferate. I really don't care anymore. I'm more interested in the stories we tell about ourselves - how, as a writer, I find that African writers have always been the curators of our humanity on this continent.

I am a reluctant celebrity, in some ways.

I always said that if I could just find a guy who could chop wood and had a nice smile, it wouldn't bother me if he was a thug or an aristocrat, as long as he was a good guy. And I've ended up with an educated thug.

Old-school hip hop, i.e., whatever was popular when you were nineteen, is great. Everything since then is intolerable.

The return of democracy in our land has indeed thrown the problems of development into bolder relief.

Even among the married, sexual satisfaction must not be sought in a way which disregards man's character as a person and degrades him to the animal level.

It's always nice to be among the best teams but not everyone can do that.

I spent 12 years of my life writing stories without black people. That's insane to me. It's insane that I could have believed in magical portals and dragons and all that stuff, but to believe a black person could be experiencing those things was unimaginable.

Being a black artist, the first thing people want to talk about is your blackness, the importance of your blackness, and your black presence.

I'm real petty. I remember everything like an elephant.

I'm talking to friends so we can do something to create awareness to try to help children in Africa.

There's nothing spectacular about Prophet T.B Joshua. He is just like every other human being. But if there is any difference, it is the grace of God; the righteousness of God. It is a product of the grace of God. So, I am a product of the grace of God.

We want to refocus Nigeria to make sure that basic infrastructure is provided. The environment is created for private investment, both within and direct foreign investment. So jobs will be created. That is my dream for Nigeria.

Throughout his career, W.G. Sebald wrote poems that were strikingly similar to his prose. His tone, in both genres, was always understated but possessed of a mournful grandeur.

My gut feelings and my faith tell me that until God shuts a door, no human can shut it.

If we save people from HIV/AIDS, if we save them from malaria, it means they can form the base of production for our economy.

Even now, we make no apologies for the choice we made. The sacrifices we made were selfless. The options we offered were patriotic while the paths we chose were well thought out.

To not have the wherewithal to give fully to a relationship bothered me.

In film, there's always this looking for the 'If you lay down and burst into tears, you did a good job.'

I'm looking forward to every game that I'm going to be involved in, whether it's the Champions League, Premier League, or anything else.

My mother loved her children, and she had always pushed me to keep working hard, even when it was football and not books.

Educating our young girls is the foundation for Nigeria's growth and development.

How is it that Nigeria's military, which has a good record across West Africa, cannot claim back to 14 out of 774 local governorates from Boko Haram? They have to ask for mercenaries from South Africa? How the mighty has fallen!

I'm not the guy to call the cops.

In all my novels, I deal with the many problems and prejudices which exist for Black people in Britain today.

I felt like I was Ferris Bueller. I wanted to be those kids in 'The Breakfast Club.'

My target is to get as many call-ups as I can, get as many games as I can and win many trophies with Nigeria.

It is the happiest moment of my life, playing for my dream team, the team I supported when I was young.

To me acting originally became an extension of game playing.

I mean I've seen so many kids on the street when we're like in the bus, they're screaming 'go Nigeria, go Nigeria,' so to represent them I'm just proud.

Without Tony Allen, there would have been no Afrobeat.

Yes, the concept that blunt-force trauma of the head causes brain damage is a generally accepted principle of medicine. That is why I was so appalled by the NFL doctors who were denying my work.

The African mind has a lot to contribute, not only to world understanding of the arts, but to an understanding of spiritualism. That is the contribution Africa will make to the world of the future - an injection of sanity into the environment of the universe itself.