Wole Soyinka Quotes
I grew up in an atmosphere where words were an integral part of culture.
Wole Soyinka
Quotes to Explore
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I'd love to see a good script of one of my books, in these years of animations and comic book sequels, and had so many written over the years, but none quite clicked.
Carl Hiaasen
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Cherish your mistakes, and you won't keep making them over and over again. It's the same with heartbreaks and girls and everything else. Cherish them, and they'll put some wealth in you.
Quincy Jones
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If you got what it takes, you'll make it. If you don't, Shakespeare couldn't help you.
Jack L. Chalker
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'Course, that doesn't work when 'a' contains parentheses.
Larry Wall
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'I think it is so glorious,' said the American. 'There is no such mischievous nonsense in all the world as equality. That is what father says. What men ought to want is liberty.'
Anthony Trollope
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Whoever sincerely believes that elevated and distant goals are as little use to man as a cow, that 'all of our problems' come from such goals, is left to eat, drink, sleep, or, when he gets sick of that, to run up to a chest and smash his forehead on its corner.
Anton Chekhov
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I'm not a natural runner. I'm friends with Ellie Goulding, and she'll be like, 'I've just done a 10K run' and I'm like: 'Why would you do that? How do you just do that?' But I will do that. I will do it.
Jessie J
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People say I manipulate the media. Well, duh. We live in a media culture, so why on earth wouldn't I?
Paul Watson
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One hundred years from now Beatles songs may be so well known that every child will learn them as nursery rhymes, and most people will have forgotten who wrote them. They will have become sufficiently entrenched in popular culture that it will seem as if they've always existed, like Oh Susannah, This Land Is Your Land, and Frère Jacques.
Daniel Levitin
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Look at 4chan culture, which is the ultimate version of shedding your IRL in real life identity - you don't even keep a consistent screen name from thread to thread. That's very important to them, this belief in the possibility that what I do online is completely separate from who I really am.
Arthur Chu
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I grew up in an atmosphere where words were an integral part of culture.
Wole Soyinka
