Wole Soyinka Quotes

I believe that each writer must decide in which language he or she is most comfortable.

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• I don't think Adam Sandler or Will Ferrell fear competition from me in their arena.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Fear
  • Me
  • Competition

• The only difference between a dead skunk lying in the road and a dead lawyer lying in the road is that there are skid marks around the skunk.

  

  Patrick Murray
  • Road
  • Dead
  • Lawyer

• My plan is just to love harder than I've ever loved before, hide nothing, and embrace that I'm an imperfect human being. Oh, and sadness - sadness is everything.

  

  Sam Smith
  • Love
  • Human
  • For Him

• My most joy that I have is dancing.

  

  Camila Alves
  • Joy
  • Dancing
  • Most

• I thought, 'OK, Melissa Gilbert is playing my mom, and I'm playing her old role - no pressure.' So I went up to Melissa and said, 'It's such an honor playing your daughter,' and she smiled and said, 'Oh, shut up.' I thought, 'Great, a normal person.'

  

  Kara Lindsay
  • Mom
  • Daughter
  • Honor

• I used to wonder if it was God's plan that I should be alone for so much of my life. But I found peace. I found happiness within people and the world.

  

  Lana Del Rey
  • People
  • Life
  • World

• It's really hard to compete with Apple on pure coolness, and if you do, you're probably going to use some of the things they pioneered.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • You
  • Going
  • Apple

• The greatest sin for a writer is to be boring.

  

  Carl Hiaasen
  • Sin
  • Greatest
  • Boring

• Young people in Israel are encouraged to design, produce and sell their products from high school. Technical universities also matter. Teach and introduce entrepreneurship courses in technical universities.

  

  Dan Shechtman
  • People
  • School
  • High

• I don't put boundaries on myself when I sit at the piano.

  

  Vanessa Carlton
  • Myself
  • Piano
  • Boundaries

• It is of the utmost importance that our service members are adequately compensated for their duties, and that we offer them a quality of life that will enable them to continue to serve and to live comfortably.

  

  Carl Levin
  • Life
  • Live
  • Quality

• Having personally kissed in zero gravity, I was initially amazed by the unexpected lack of attraction, from the sheer perspective of the mass magnetism.

  

  Vanna Bonta
  • Perspective

• The rainy Pleiads wester,Orion plunges prone,The stroke of midnight ceases,And I lie down alone.

  

  A. E. Housman
  • Alone

• Madame Chairman, I presume this is to sweep Britain clean of socialism

  

  Margaret Thatcher

• I wish I could rap! I wish I could rap like Azealia Banks or Lil Wayne or someone like that... Twista. He's super fast.

  

  Charli XCX
  • Wish
  • Rap

• If I was having a bad day, eating was like self-medicating. But if you abuse food, you still have to use that substance that you abuse every day. You have to learn to use it responsibly.

  

  Al Roker
  • Bad
  • Food
  • Abuse

• I'm not trying to prove myself, and I'm not trying to shock anyone.

  

  Jameela Jamil
  • Trying

• I think that the problem is that people fear so many things and they don't live life to its fullest. And for me as an artist, if God should want me to come this Wednesday to the end of my life, so be it.

  

  Criss Angel
  • People
  • Life
  • God

• I feel like I'm always looking to continue improving myself. I'm always looking to win. I'm super competitive, so going into the Olympics, I feel like that's nothing different.

  

  Alex Morgan
  • Different

• Expanded credit access has helped households maintain living standards when suffering job loss, illness, or other unexpected contingencies.

  

  Janet Yellen
  • Job
  • Suffering

• What has become clear to me is that it is not the inherent nature of being gay that causes such a reduced life; it is, rather, the social circumstances around being gay: the perceptions of it and the cultural norms that it is said to violate. As some of those norms have changed, I have been able to be gay, to have a marriage, to have a family, and to have - if there is wood to knock on - a fortunate and happy life.

  

  Andrew Solomon
  • Life
  • Family
  • Happy

• A good leg will fall; a straight back will stoop; a black beard will turn white; a curl'd pate will grow bald; a fair face will wither; a full eye will wax hollow: but a good heart, Kate, is the sun and the moon; or, rather, the sun, and not the moon, — for it shines bright, and never changes, but keeps his course truly.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Heart
  • Black
  • Fall

• Be a free thinker and don't accept everything you hear as truth. Be critical and evaluate what you believe in.

  

  Aristotle
  • Believe
  • Free
  • Critical

• I believe that each writer must decide in which language he or she is most comfortable.

  

  Wole Soyinka
  • Believe
  • Language