Top 1034 Quotes & Sayings by South African Authors - Page 13

A woman should be allowed to be whoever and whatever she wants to be and she should be respected for that.

I just go out there and play the game; I get on with things. Golf is not everything in life.

When I stay athletic with good posture and get the club away in a good position, I get through it better.

The reason I stopped music for a while and concentrated on theatre was that it was more conducive to parenting; having the days free was quite handy. I love them both. I hope I don't have to compromise one for the other.

If I don't make heritage visible and the strength of mother tongue important for my grandchildren, it scares me that they might say in 20 years from now, 'Well, it is rumoured that we used to be Africans long ago.' And in many urban areas, it's already happening.

For my part, I am not a great believer in bad luck on the cricket field, in business - in fact, in any walk of life.

Swimming is my passion and something that I love.

The most important thing is to teach children to cook at schools. And not only to cook but to understand about where their food comes from.

I'm a shocker. I like to create controversy. It's my trademark.

I've made storylines through dance to complement the music. It's all about enhancing the singing and acting. It's been an amazing learning curve for me.

I usually have a few coins in my pocket when I'm playing, but the one I use to mark my ball on the green is a special silver coin that my wife designed for me. It has our wedding date inscribed on it.

I play to inspire people and give confidence to young kids who might shy away because of their size.

My children are my life. They're so spectacular.

Europeans ridicule Muslim culture because they don't understand the wisdom behind it. Take swine flu for instance: all the sudden you've got Europeans scared of pigs - we've been saying that for years!

The most followed chef is Delia Smith. She is my age and doesn't try to be entertaining, she encourages people to learn the basics.

Shareholders need to have a real interest in the companies they own. Too many are simply too busy - they are asleep at the wheel.

I do take seriously and am grateful to the ANC that, in the face of its revolutionary mission to ensure a better life for all and the creation of a non-racial, non-sexist and democratic South Africa, it deployed me at the pinnacle of its role in government.

I have to say that I have developed a real passion for Pakistan cricket.

If you get up in the morning and think the future is going to be better, it is a bright day. Otherwise, it's not.

Mbeki began to write a study of the workings of apartheid policy in the reserves - the areas set aside in law for African occupation - as early as 1959 and 1960.

When the opportunities come, we may not want to buy another nickel asset, but if something comes cheap enough, we're all about return on equity.

At Tesla, we don't go into a community and think we're going to sell one or two cars.

I have confidence in mining. I see exciting opportunities in it.

As you see, I do not treat the creation of fiction, that to say the invention and development of fantasies, as a form of abstract thought. I don't wish to deny the uses of the intellect, but sometimes one has the intuition that the intellect by itself will lead one nowhere.

The condition of the wounded touched my heart deeply.

When I was born, my mother was very disappointed. She wanted a son. I knew that from a very early age. So I was a tomboy.

The very first role I ever played was as a 17-year old South African girl who dreamed of being a star and left home to meet her mother in the big city so that she could pursue that dream. I left South Africa and met my mother in Vancouver and not long after that was given the opportunity to perform on the stage and have people chant my name.

All autobiography is storytelling; all writing is autobiography.

Before sight and sound hijacked our attention, we shared with all life a sort of common sense, a chemical sense that depended on direct contact with matter in the water or the air.

I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.

People say I'm a celebrity chef, and I am on telly a lot but that's because I judge contests. Perhaps I'm more of a celebrity eater than a cook.

Criminality is always the result of poverty. Countries that experience such a fundamental change as we have - we had the apartheid regime and must now develop a multicultural democracy - must necessarily pass through a phase of high crime rates.

When I first met Mandela, we did not discuss anything of substance; we just felt each other out. He spent a long time expressing his admiration for the Boer generals and how ingenious they were during the Anglo-Boer war.

I have a Woody Allen Jewish attitude to life: that it's all going to be disastrous. That it hasn't all been that way is simply down to some random quirk of fate.

Once your dream is fulfilled you face another one.

I guess I started writing poetry and stuff and then decided to set it to music.

I want my music to be accessible to every listener because I know that I really have something to say in terms of really, you know, removing thorns from people, thorns that really makes us unaware that we are bleeding with these thorns, like pain, grief, jealousy and so on.

I like really bad puns - proper, red-top, nasty puns - I find them funny.

I don't believe in handouts, I believe in working hard for what you want.

My track record is that I have always sought to work with warmth and in a constructive way with the leaders of other components of the Jewish faith.

If we are to put a stop to corruption and state capture, those responsible must be brought to book.

A child understands fear, and the hurt and hate it brings.

I was married to the ANC. It was the best marriage I ever had.

St. Lucia was a place were we used to go on vacation - not every year, but we went there a couple of times. I remember the last time that I went there, I was really small, and the only memory that I have is that my dad was going swimming or fishing one day - and I really, really wanted to go - but I was too young.

The vibe of my wedding is kind of going to be ethereal. Simple and modern, in a way, but with a lot of greenery. So, eucalyptus, olive branches, moss, and candles - it's going to be very... I want it to feel very comfortable, but obviously sleek.

I am not the kind of leader who pontificates about what should be done - I don't operate on scenarios, and I am not a prophet.

We must listen to the concerns of our people without dismissing them. When people see something wrong, there is something wrong. When our people see corruption, it means there is corruption. When our people see that their resources are being stolen by certain people, it means this is happening, and we should listen.

You can sustain visual beauty and innovative visual ideas for a certain length of time, but in a two-hour experience, which is really what movies are, usually audiences - whether they know it or not - most want an emotional connection to character.

42% of our management team are women. So we've reset the goal to 50% by 2017. Because that's when Westpac becomes 200 years old as an institution - the oldest bank, and indeed the oldest company in Australia. So that's a lovely point to reflect on.

God's dream is that you and I and all of us will realize that we are family, that we are made for togetherness, for goodness, and for compassion.

While apartheid was in operation, the set-up was a gift for writers if you were looking for a big theme.

I grew up in South Africa and I would look at maps and we were at the bottom of the world. There was this whole thing up there. I was always reading encyclopedias about the world. So travel was something I was always attracted to.

I'm not looking to be a trophy. When not acting, I spend my time studying metaphysics and quantum mechanics to keep my life as grounded as I can.

I'm literally driving in the middle of the night, and my phone rings, and my manager says, 'How would you like to be the host of the Daily Show?' I get out the car, and I didn't have legs. You know in those movies where there's an explosion? But instead of the sound of the explosion, you hear the silence. That's literally what happened.

The first prize for any production is, if you can find a location that means you don't have to build sets, that will serve, and is not excessively expensive to hire, then it can save you a lot of money.

Inclusive, good-quality education is a foundation for dynamic and equitable societies.

Tea-shops were to become my favourite haunts in England.

Israel has incredible entrepreneurial spirit and a deep bench of technology talent.

I always knew I had to find a way to be a catalyst for positive change.

I like to look for patterns in science and life. It's what I do.