Zanzibar quotes

  • I consulted a Chinese herbalist and spent two weeks on an island off the coast of Zanzibar. I was away from any kind of contemporary technology.
    -- Francesca Annis

    #Technology #Islands #Zanzibar

  • I had intended to have gone into Africa incognito. But the fact that a white man, even an American, was about to enter Africa was soon known all over Zanzibar.
    -- Henry Morton Stanley

    #Men #Zanzibar #White

  • You should hear what my parents wanted to call me. It was between Brown Rice, Neon Hitch and Z. Ziggurat Zanzibar Zandorf. I'm not joking. Imagine fitting that on my passport!
    -- Neon Hitch

    #Zanzibar #Parent #Neon

  • You know how I came up with the name 'Road to the Super Bowl?' It's an homage to the old Bob Hope - Bing Crosby buddy movies - you know, like 'Road to Zanzibar' or 'Road to Morocco.' Can you tell? All I've done my whole life is go to movies.
    -- Steve Sabol

    #Names #Zanzibar #Done

  • I have been writing in spurts, bit by bit. It is incredibly difficult. Everything is corroded, broken, dismantled; everything is covered with hardened layers of accumulated insensitivity, deafness, entrenched routine. It is disgusting.

  • I've got my fingers in many pies and I'm very excited about creating stuff and watching it blossom and bloom and harvest it and get on with the next thing.

  • In many ways Nazism was antithetical to what the great mass of Germans said they admired - and certainly to what they paid homage. It was noisy, undisciplined, vainglorious; its leader was a half-educated posturing foreigner. For a decade the National Socialists were regarded as hoodlums, as part of the breakdown of what had been, if anything, an excessively ordered society before.

  • I believe in a visual language that should be as strong as the written word.

  • He would have liked to know that somebody wanted to keep him alive, that someone remembered him. He used to say that we exist as long as somebody remembers us.

  • You know, that's the reality, but I always shoot movies for the screen, because that's just the experience that I want to get out of it.

  • Fame is only good for one thing - they will cash your check in a small town.

  • Opinion has caused more trouble on this little earth than plagues or earthquakes.

  • All restraints upon man's natural liberty, not necessary for the simple maintenance of justice, are of the nature of slavery, and differ from each other only in degree.

  • You can choose what you do, you cant choose what you like to do.