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Chinua Achebe Quotes

When suffering knocks at your door and you say there is no seat for him, he tells you not to worry because he has brought his own stool.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: nigerian
Birth: November 16, 1930 - March 21, 2013

Topics

Suffering Door Worry You Say Him

I love to read about what my love life is really like.

Jennifer Aniston

Life Love Love Life Like Read About

In Asia, a lot of successful economies that had been living on their own saving, decided to open up their financial markets to international capital in the early 1990s. So here were countries doing quite well, but they decided they'd borrow a bit more and do even better.

Financial Better Doing Early Living

Somebody is going to have to do fancy footwork to make sure Elizabeth and John Edwards get their prime-time shot .

Jeff Greenfield

Fancy Going Get Sure Somebody Shot

The great mystery is why robots come off so well in science-fiction films when the human characters are often so astoundingly wooden.

Great Mystery Robots Why Human Well

I'm a creature of adaptation. I take advantage of the second and the moment. My comedy breathes; it's not really that predictable. I do have a linear style, but other than that, there's a lot of abstract. I just go off on what I'm thinking. I'm not that topical. I like to talk about me and my experiences.

Style Moment Me Thinking Comedy Go

I feel like kids are the perfect psychic investigators of their parents, and kids understand their parents' unconscious better than the parents ever do.

Parents Better Feel Perfect Kids

I'm always so impressed by people who can just stay super mellow and still be extremely funny.

Funny People Always Stay Just Still

We usually get what we anticipate.

Claude M. Bristol

I don't know where to find a good guy. I just think that they're around and I think you have to be good and at some point you'll attract that. I really believe that. First, people should stop looking. The looking thing does not work. Just let love find you.

Work Love Good People Believe Think

My two sisters were always cooking. I wanted to be in the police force, but I didn't get in because I just so happened to procrastinate a bit, and I hadn't gotten my application in at the right time.

April Bloomfield

Time Cooking Police Right Time Right

I met an internationally esteemed writer at a literary party being given in her honor. She was wearing a beautiful pink, flouncy, frilly dress. I complimented her on it. She said, 'Ach, it's my nightgown. I couldn't decide what else to wear.'

Beautiful Dress Pink Honor Party

I entered the diocesan seminary. I liked the Dominicans, and I had Dominican friends. But then I chose the Society of Jesus, which I knew well because the seminary was entrusted to the Jesuits. Three things in particular struck me about the Society: the missionary spirit, community and discipline.

Community Discipline Me Society Well

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