Wole Soyinka Quotes

Wole SoyinkaMy horizon on humanity is enlarged by reading the writers of poems, seeing a painting, listening to some music, some opera, which has nothing at all to do with a volatile human condition or struggle or whatever. It enriches me as a human being.

Wole Soyinka

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• I do know that you have to choose between the logic of reconciliation and the logic of justice. Pure justice leads to new civil war. I prefer the negotiable revolution.

  

  Adam Michnik
  • War
  • Justice
  • Revolution

• I ain't never nervous. Never nervous.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • Never
  • Nervous

• There's a danger in romanticizing what it means to be a writer. Because what it really means is hard, hard work. It means tearing your hair out. Feeling like your head is about to explode.

  

  Dani Shapiro
  • Work
  • Feeling
  • Hair

• I design flats like I design heels: They must be seductive, beautiful and comfortable.

  

  Edgardo Osorio
  • Beautiful
  • Like
  • Design

• Music is my first love.

  

  Mandy Moore
  • Music
  • Love
  • First Love

• Maybe people have no idea how much work is behind a picture. It can seem very effortless, but there is a lot of work. It's exactly like doing ballet. It's hours and hours, but when you go onstage, it's just the pleasure of dancing.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • People
  • Work
  • Picture

• A general belief seems to prevail in the colony that the Indians are little better, if at all, than the savages or natives of Africa. Even the children are taught to believe in that manner, with the result that the Indian is being dragged down to the position of a raw Kaffir.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Believe
  • Children

• We are, even now, killing ourselves over ancient literature. Who would have thought something so tragically absurd could be possible?

  

  Sam Harris
  • Literature

• When you come to see you are not as wise today as you thought you were yesterday, you are wiser today.

  

  Anthony de Mello
  • Today
  • Wise

• The preacher's work is to throw sinners down in utter helplessness, that they may be compelled to look up to Him who alone can help them.

  

  Charles Spurgeon
  • Up
  • Work
  • May

• Hospitality is present when something happens for you. It is absent when something happens to you. Those two simple prepositions - for and to - express it all.

  

  Danny Meyer
  • Simple
  • Present

• 'Good Times' was with a live audience, three camera, and that was really intimidating. Because there were people on both sides, moving from set to set, and it was pretty scary. As I say, I didn't have a foundation in Hollywood. I hardly knew anybody. Just at the social level. I felt pretty isolated here, I really did.

  

  Philip Baker Hall
  • People
  • Good
  • Live

• Like Yoga, the spiritual life is actually very difficult.

  

  Sting The Police
  • Life
  • Spiritual
  • Yoga

• I filed the ethics complaint against Tom DeLay not because I'm a Democrat and he's a Republican or even because he drew me out of my congressional seat but because he engaged in corruption to further his plans to disenfranchise voters in Texas.

  

  Chris Bell Big Star
  • Texas
  • Ethics

• An animal that is very abundant, before it gets extinct, it becomes rare. So you don't lose abundant animals. You always lose rare animals. Therefore, they're not perceived as a big loss.

  

  Daniel Pauly
  • Animal

• Clearness ornaments profound thoughts.

  

  Luc de Clapiers
  • Thoughts
  • Profound

• After doing Johnny I wanted to just do something, I wouldn't say innocent, but to not have any care in the world. Lots of setups and horrible happenings but its funny.

  

  Jhonen Vasquez
  • World
  • Funny
  • Innocent

• 'Chitty Chitty Bang Bang' was a movie that I repeatedly turned down. The movie's producer, Albert 'Cubby' Broccoli, known for his tight-fisted control of the James Bond movie franchise, desperately wanted to re-team Julie Andrews and me after the success we'd enjoyed with 'Mary Poppins.'

  

  Dick Van Dyke
  • Movie
  • Success
  • Team

• I work everywhere. If there is a nice adventure in South Korea, for example, why not? Russia, Brazil, whatever. I'm ready for almost anything.

  

  Vincent Cassel
  • Work
  • Why
  • Nice

• Adultery is the injury of nature.

  

  Plato
  • Nature
  • Injury
  • Adultery

• I didn't become an impressionist. As long as I can remember I always have been one.

  

  Claude Monet
  • Remember
  • Impressionist

• An Associated Press report called the President's antics 'Bible-thumping politics.' Clinton's message was decidedly religious and partisan, as was Governor's Cuomo's remarks as he 'also cited religious themes and maxims.' Why didn't the press, the ACLU, and People for the American Way cry foul?

  

  Gary DeMar
  • People
  • Christian
  • President

• For me, my realism has stood me over 15 years, so the kind of films that I have done has garnered enough respect for me to be able to survive the industry.

  

  R. Madhavan
  • Respect
  • Films
  • Survive

• Wole SoyinkaMy horizon on humanity is enlarged by reading the writers of poems, seeing a painting, listening to some music, some opera, which has nothing at all to do with a volatile human condition or struggle or whatever. It enriches me as a human being.

  

  Wole Soyinka