Wole Soyinka Quotes
We live in a materialist world, and materialism appeals so strongly to humanity, no matter where.
Quotes to Explore
-
I don't mind you thinking I'm stupid, but don't talk to me like I'm stupid.
-
I love playing live, I don't like studios all that much. I need the reaction of the audience.
-
I've never had a study in my life. I'm like Jane Austen - I work on the corner of the dining table.
-
A man who stands for nothing will fall for anything.
-
Probably the biggest influence on my career was the late John Hersey, who, while he was at 'The New Yorker,' wrote one of the masterpieces of narrative non-fiction, 'Hiroshima.' Hersey was a teacher of mine at Yale, and a friend. He got me to see the possibility of journalism not just as a business but as an art form.
-
Boy, I'll tell you, when the Rams drafted me No. 1, it surprised me. I was walking on air for days.
-
I like my body, I like to have fun with what I put on, but I also want to remain classic. So I guess my signature is sexy and eclectic but classic.
-
Make no mistake, adolescence is a war. No one gets out unscathed.
-
Let me be very honest and just say that if any airline would let me take the violin and the laptop on board I would fly that airline all the time.
-
I don't understand why you have to wear a wedding ring to warn people off. You should be able to be faithful to that person without anything on your body to show that you are with someone.
-
It seems to me that at this time we need education in the obvious more than investigation of the obscure.
-
I try to eat healthy for the most part. When I cut weight, I cut pretty much everything out. I don't have protein when I cut weight other than what I might get from something like chicken breast. So I don't eat any extra protein, just because I'm trying to get the weight off. That's the only real diet I have.
-
To read a poem is to hear it with our eyes; to hear it is to see it with our ears.
-
I love tap!
-
I'm always so amazed by which performances work really, really well and which ones don't. But I think it's just mostly, 'She's Out Of My League,' so many people saw that movie on DVD and on the plane. Just millions of people saw that movie. That's the reason I'm somewhat famous.
-
My next book is Scene by Scene: as Seen by Fay Wray. It'll be about different incidents. Just my feelings about quite a few people. Attitudes. My thoughts about the universe and simple things like that.
-
After having seen the job done on that first show of mine, I realized that I felt like I wanted to work again for a short while. Two, three years, then stop.
-
Socrates used to call the opinions of the many by the name of Lamiae, bugbears to frighten children.
-
I went to Hong Kong in '97 to witness the handover after graduating university, and then I was gonna backpack around Asia and then come back here and look for a job.
-
The part of me which wanders through my mind and never sees or feels actual objects, but which lives in and moves through my passions and my emotions, experiences this world as a horrible nightmare.
-
I like to give people novels I think they would like, on no particular occasion - just when we're in a bookstore together. I like to receive reference books on my birthday.
-
Tradition is no longer a continuity but a series of sharp breaks. The modern tradition is the tradition of revolt.
-
We live in a materialist world, and materialism appeals so strongly to humanity, no matter where.
