Wole Soyinka Quotes

How do I feel when I am invited to a congregation of scientists? I feel quite at home. When they break into their cultic scientific argot, I know when I'm not wanted and step out for a drink.

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• We as women have a voice and we are decision makers in what film to see. We always support our boyfriends and husbands by going to see the male dominated films, but we don't compel them to see films with female casts.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Women
  • Support
  • Decision

• A lot of people go in and have to create their own characters, and they do fine with it.

  

  D. B. Weiss
  • People
  • Create
  • Go

• It is not the punishment but the cause that makes the martyr.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Punishment
  • Cause
  • Martyr

• I still have my original social security card signed when I was 13.

  

  Vernon L. Smith
  • Security
  • Social
  • Original

• Don't underlook the Sixties; we started eating more vegetables, respecting women, and we shut down Vietnam. We did a lot of good stuff. But it shouldn't shut you down from the moment.

  

  Wavy Gravy
  • Good
  • Women
  • Moment

• An individual voice can be heard in a choir that otherwise sings in unison. This is something that is not excused.

  

  Tahar Ben Jelloun
  • Voice
  • Individual
  • Choir

• No individual, regardless of where they live or whom they love, should suffer discrimination.

  

  Kate Brown
  • Live
  • Love
  • Discrimination

• I believe in working with the hearts of people, and not locking them up.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • People
  • Up
  • Believe

• I played soccer when I was a kid. I started when I was 8 and played for 8 more years. I was pretty good. I used to train with Atletico Nacional, which is one of the most important teams in Colombia. I used to train every day.

  

  Maluma
  • Good
  • Important
  • Pretty

• My husband and I have been involved with foster youth since our early 20s. Right out of college and not yet married, we spent weekends mentoring a family of young girls.

  

  Vanessa Diffenbaugh
  • Family
  • College
  • Husband

• When I was young I used to listen to other people and to try and understand what they thought and where they were coming from. I listened and didn't speak.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • People
  • Thought
  • Speak

• We do need different types of propulsion to get to Mars. I wrote one of the first Ph.D. theses on that in the 1960s.

  

  Edgar Mitchell
  • Different
  • Need
  • First

• Sometimes, promoting economic development means accepting the Herculean task of moving and modernizing a prison.

  

  Gary Herbert
  • Moving
  • Development
  • Prison

• L'imitazione del male supera sempre l'esempio; comme per il contrario, l'imitazione del bene è sempre inferiore.

  

  Francesco Guicciardini

• O Woman, you are not merely the handiwork of God, but also of men; these are ever endowing you with beauty from their own hearts … You are one-half woman and one-half dream.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • God
  • Men
  • Dream

• I'm going to write a book someday and the title will be I'm an Ass, You're an Ass. That's the most liberating, wonderful thing in the world, when you openly admit you're an ass. It's wonderful. When people tell me, 'You're wrong' I say, 'What can you expect of an ass?'

  

  Anthony de Mello
  • People
  • World
  • Book

• Write down the thoughts of the moment. Those that come unsought for are commonly the most valuable.

  

  Francis Bacon
  • Thoughts

• I've always been really into action movies. Since I was little, that was my favorite type of film.

  

  Austin Butler
  • Action

• Monti is a person who is an expert on both the political and professional level.

  

  Mark Rutte
  • Political
  • Professional

• Writing is like anything else - the more you do it, the better you get at it, the easier it comes, and the less concerned you'll be about what's going to happen to it, where it's going, what it sounds like, whether it's right.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Writing
  • You
  • Better

• I'd like to say that I'm a rock star, but I'm not - I'm honestly more of a relationship kind of guy. I'm a guy you could take home to meet your mum rather than a guy your mum wouldn't like.

  

  Ed Sheeran
  • Home
  • Guy
  • Relationship

• That's the music that I play at home all the time, Joni Mitchell. Court and Spark I love because I'd always hoped that she'd work with a band. But the main thing with Joni is that she's able to look at something that's happened to her, draw back and crystallize the whole situation, then write about it. She brings tears to my eyes, what more can I say? It's bloody eerie. I can relate so much to what she says. "Now old friends are acting strange/They shake their heads/They say I've changed."

  

  Jimmy Page Led Zeppelin
  • Music
  • Home
  • Play

• Stress exacerbates any problem, whether it's diabetes, heart trouble, MS, or whatever.

  

  Mary Ann Mobley
  • Heart
  • Stress

• How do I feel when I am invited to a congregation of scientists? I feel quite at home. When they break into their cultic scientific argot, I know when I'm not wanted and step out for a drink.

  

  Wole Soyinka
  • Home
  • Break
  • Drink