Wole Soyinka Quotes

Next to the commodities of corruption, and religion, however, Nigeria is the world capital of rumour mongering.

Wole Soyinka

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• Time spent on any item of the agenda will be in inverse proportion to the sum involved.

  

  C. Northcote Parkinson
  • Time
  • Will
  • Agenda

• I was mostly an indoor girl at university. Where other students did drama or music or sport alongside their degrees, I wrote. I used to work on essays and classwork during the day and 'The Bone Season' in the evenings.

  

  Samantha Shannon
  • Work
  • Music
  • Girl

• I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps a bit of magic waiting somewhere behind the morning.

  

  J. B. Priestley
  • Day
  • Morning
  • Waiting

• 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

• I'll tell you what's helped me my entire life. I look at baseball as a game. It's something where people can go out, enjoy and have fun. Nothing more.

  

  Harry Caray
  • People
  • Life
  • Fun

• We must honestly face our relationship with Great Britain.

  

  Wendell Willkie
  • Great
  • Relationship
  • Face

• The anxiety I feel when I'm late is nothing like the anxiety I feel when I'm on time.

  

  Sade Adu
  • Time
  • Anxiety
  • Late

• No matter what you do, if there's something you're afraid of, you need to break through it.

  

  Zola Jesus
  • You
  • Matter
  • Afraid

• If there is one thing BP's 'watery improv act' made clear, it is that, as a culture, we have become far too willing to gamble with things that are precious and irreplaceable, and to do so without a back-up plan, without an exit strategy.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • Up
  • Culture
  • Plan

• A woman never forgets her sex. She would rather talk with a man than an angel, any day.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
  • Man
  • Day
  • Woman

• I was planning to study more, but it's a struggle with so many opportunities for film and trying to get better through studying. No matter what, I want to be making more movies.

  

  Zhu Zhu
  • Trying
  • Study
  • Struggle

• I think the most challenging part of being a performer is just making sure that people know that when you get up there every night, it's unique and that you care.

  

  Kate Voegele
  • People
  • Up
  • Night

• I became an optimist when I discovered that I wasn't going to win any more games by being anything else.

  

  Earl Weaver
  • Win
  • Going
  • Optimist

• In order to get what you want, you must first decide what you want. Most people really foul up at this crucial first step because they simply can't see how it's possible to get what they want, so they don't even let themselves want it.

  

  Jack Canfield
  • People
  • Up
  • Want

• When my agents tell me how much I'm going to be paid for a film, instead of quoting a figure, they'll say: 'You're going to make ten pairs of Christian Louboutins.'

  

  Kate Mara
  • Me
  • Film
  • Say

• I once made love for an hour and fifteen minutes, but it was the night the clocks are set ahead.

  

  Garry Shandling
  • Love
  • Night
  • Ahead

• People come up to me sometimes and ask for a picture but don't even say hello. They sort of forget that I'm a person.

  

  Zac Brown Band
  • People
  • Up
  • Me

• To be effective, judicial administration must not be leaden-footed.

  

  Felix Frankfurter

• sì perché l'autorità dell'opinione di mille nelle scienze non val per una scintilla di ragione di un solo, sì perché le presenti osservazioni spogliano d'autorità i decreti de' passati scrittori, i quali se vedute l'avessero, avrebbono diversamente determinato.

  

  Galileo Galilei

• I was set to confront the might of the imperial empire with an M-1 carbine and enough hate to topple the world.

  

  Bobby Sands
  • World
  • Hate

• I don't really mind what people say about my love life or anything like that, but the one thing is that, yes, I do sing and write all my own music. That is something that I hold really dear. And yeah, I made a fool of myself in front of the world, but it was also great to pick myself back up and go on tour.

  

  Ashlee Simpson
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• The 'Stephanie Plums' are very much Jersey books. So you can't get away from attitude and objectionable language.

  

  Janet Evanovich
  • Attitude

• People think that tests only come in the form of hardships. Allah also tests us with ease, it's often in the test of ease that we fail most.

  

  Yasmin Mogahed
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Hardship

• Next to the commodities of corruption, and religion, however, Nigeria is the world capital of rumour mongering.

  

  Wole Soyinka
  • World
  • Corruption
  • Commodity