| I would have answered your letter sooner, but you didn't send one. (Goodman Ace (88)) | |
| Moon rocks are OK when everyone is eating. (Goodman Ace (88)) | |
| Politics makes estranged bedfellows. (Goodman Ace (88)) | |
| TV - a clever contraction derived from the words Terrible Vaudeville. However, it is our latest medium - we call it a medium because nothing's well done. (Goodman Ace (88)) | |
| A man who makes trouble for others is also making trouble for himself. (Chinua Achebe (88)) | |
| Art is man's constant effort to create for himself a different order of reality from that which is given to him. (Chinua Achebe (88)) | |
| Democracy is not something you put away for ten years, and then in the 11th year you wake up and start practicing again. We have to begin to learn to rule ourselves again. (Chinua Achebe (88)) | |
| Nigera is what it is because its leaders are not what they should be. (Chinua Achebe (88)) | |
| One of the truest tests of integrity is its blunt refusal to be compromised. (Chinua Achebe (88)) | |
| People create stories create people; or rather stories create people create stories. (Chinua Achebe (88)) | |
| Stories serve the purpose of consolidating whatever gains people or their leaders have made or imagine they have made in their existing journey thorough the world. (Chinua Achebe (88)) | |
| The damage done in one year can sometimes take ten or twenty years to repair. (Chinua Achebe (88)) | |
| The only thing we have learnt from experience is that we learn nothing from experience. (Chinua Achebe (88)) | |
| The whole idea of a stereotype is to simplify. Instead of going through the problem of all this great diversity - that it's this or maybe that - you have just one large statement; it is this. (Chinua Achebe (88)) | |
| They have not always elected the best leaders, particularly after a long period in which they have not used this facility of free election. You tend to lose the habit. (Chinua Achebe (88)) | |
| When old people speak it is not because of the sweetness of words in our mouths; it is because we see something which you do not see. (Chinua Achebe (88)) | |
| 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. (Chinua Achebe (88)) | |
| Advertising men and politicians are dangerous if they are separated. Together they are diabolical. (Phillip Adams (88)) | |
| The book can produce an addiction as fierce as heroin or nicotine, forcing us to spend much of our lives, like junkies, in book shops and libraries, those literary counterparts to the opium den. (Phillip Adams (88)) | |
| The Internet provides a delivery system for pathological states of mind. (Phillip Adams (88)) | |
| Unless you're willing to have a go, fail miserably, and have another go, success won't happen. (Phillip Adams (88)) | |
| We are living at a time when creeds and ideologies vary and clash. But the gospel of human sympathy is universal and eternal. (Samuel Hopkins Adams (88)) | |
| If you're always battling against getting older, you're always going to be unhappy, because it's going to happen anyhow. (Mitch Albom (88)) | |
| People are only mean when they're threatened, and that's what our culture does. That's what our economy does. (Mitch Albom (88)) | |
| The way you get meaning into your life is to devote yourself to loving others, devote yourself to your community around you, and devote yourself to creating something that gives you purpose and meaning. (Mitch Albom (88)) | |
| This is a story about a man named Eddie and it begins at the end, with Eddie dying in the sun. (Mitch Albom (88)) | |
| You have to be strong enough to say if the culture doesn't work, don't buy it. (Mitch Albom (88)) | |
| You have to work at creating your own culture. (Mitch Albom (88)) | |
| You're not a wave, you're a part of the ocean. (Mitch Albom (88)) | |
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