Zanzibar Quotes

• It's supposed to be automatic but actually you have to press this button.

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  John Brunner

  Technology   Zanzibar   Buttons  

  "Stand on Zanzibar". Book by John Brunner, 1968.

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• It is not worth while to go round the world to count the cats in Zanzibar.

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  Henry David Thoreau

  Work   Cat   Zanzibar  

  Henry David Thoreau (2009). “Walden”, p.208, Cosimo, Inc.

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• 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.

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  Francesca Annis

  Technology   Islands   Zanzibar  

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• 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!

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  Neon Hitch

  Zanzibar   Parent   Neon  

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• 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.

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  Steve Sabol

  Names   Zanzibar   Morocco  

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• 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.

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  Henry Morton Stanley

  Men   White Man   Zanzibar  

  Henry Morton Stanley (1872). “How I Found Livingstone: Travels, Adventures and Discoveries in Central Africa: Including an Account of Four Months' Residence with Dr. Livingstone”, p.34

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• It is not worth the while to go round the world to count the cats in Zanzibar. Yet do this even till you can do better, and you may perhaps find some "Symmes' Hole" by which to get at the inside at last.

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  Henry David Thoreau

  Cat   Zanzibar   World  

  Henry David Thoreau (2016). “Walden”, p.228, Xist Publishing

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• The Europeans and Americans residing in the town of Zanzibar are either Government officials, independent merchants, or agents for a few great mercantile houses in Europe and America.

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  Henry Morton Stanley

  Independent   Europe And America   Government  

  Henry Morton Stanley (1873). “How I Found Livingstone: Travels, Adventures, and Discoveries in Central Africa; Including Four Months' Residence with Dr. Livingstone”, p.12

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