Wole Soyinka Quotes

The hand that dips into the bottom of the pot will eat the biggest snail.

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• I think downloading is both saving and killing the music industry at the same time.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • Time
  • Music
  • Same

• Funny is an attitude.

  

  Flip Wilson
  • Funny
  • Attitude

• I think I'm a lot like other moms out there who feel like if we don't have the pecan pie we have every year, then it just won't be Christmas.

  

  Faith Hill
  • Think
  • Christmas
  • Pie

• When my children were born, I didn't have them baptized because I felt baptism was about erasing Original Sin - something the Church said children got from their mother - and I absolutely refused to believe women carry Original Sin.

  

  Olympia Dukakis
  • Believe
  • Women
  • Children

• Being a woman and being gay is really a unique position in our society. I know in my experience of activism, oftentimes it makes a difference if something is women-focused. It's likely to get the attention of women much more easily.

  

  Laura Ricketts
  • Women
  • Experience
  • Society

• I've already lived one full life, and so now I'm about to endeavor to see what else the good Lord has in store for me, and I'm wide open.

  

  Valerie Simpson
  • Life
  • Good
  • Me

• It is a profound and necessary truth that the deep things in science are not found because they are useful: they are found because it was possible to find them.

  

  J. Robert Oppenheimer
  • Truth
  • Science
  • Deep

• In 1944 James Arthur and Minnie Susan were added to the Marx household.

  

  Harpo Marx
  • Household
  • Arthur
  • Susan

• I was out on the golf course, a guy came riding out in a golf cart and said, Did you know that Elvis died? And I just said, Well, there you go. It was like I had kinda been expecting it.

  

  Mac Davis
  • Guy
  • Know
  • Golf

• The war on terror is the most insane and immoral war of all time. The Americans are doing what they did in Vietnam, bombing villages. But how can a civilised nation do this? How can you can eliminate suspects, their wives, their children, their families, their neighbours? How can you justify this?

  

  Imran Khan
  • Time
  • Children
  • War

• I didn't have a lot of communication with Elvis. You had to go through a barricade to get to Elvis. It was people hanging on every word, and I felt very uncomfortable a lot of times.

  

  Mac Davis
  • People
  • You
  • Communication

• I don't believe in God, but I'm afraid of Him.

  

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • God
  • Believe
  • Afraid

• Israel will not divide its land. We're already too small.

  

  Naftali Bennett
  • Small
  • Land
  • Israel

• Cinema sustains life. It captures death in its progress.

  

  Harmony Korine
  • Life
  • Death
  • Progress

• But the West is trying to weaken Islam from outside and inside. They attack our people and invade our countries from outside, and they weaken us from within with ideas like secularism, liberalism and democracy. This is all designed to contaminate our pure Islam.

  

  Abu Bakar Bashir
  • People
  • Trying
  • Ideas

• Fans tend to get too excited by streaks of either kind and I think the press does too. There should be a happy medium.

  

  Walt Alston
  • Happy
  • Think
  • Kind

• Religious people today are courts and juries. When it comes down to it, Jesus died on the cross so that we could learn to love others like we love ourselves, not judge them or persecute them.

  

  Tammy Faye Bakker
  • People
  • Love
  • Jesus

• Some people say that I have an attitude- Maybe I do. But I think that you have to. You have to believe in yourself when no one else does- that makes you a winner right there.

  

  Venus Williams
  • People
  • Believe
  • Attitude

• Her nakedness was not absolute, for like Manet's _Olympia__, behind her ear she had a poisonous flower with orange petals, and she also wore a gold bangle on her right wrist and a necklace of tiny pearls. I imagined I would never see anything more exciting for as long as I lived, and today I can confirm that I was right.

  

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • Long
  • She
  • Today

• Edgar Sawtelle is a boy without a voice, but his world, populated by the dogs his family breeds, is anything but silent. This is a remarkable story about the language of friendship—a language that transcends words.

  

  Dalia Sofer
  • World
  • Language
  • Anything

• It is still fashionable to believe that how you organize yourself religiously in this life may matter for eternity. Unless we can erode the prestige of that kind of thinking, we're not going to be able to undermine these divisions in our world.

  

  Sam Harris
  • Life
  • World
  • Believe

• We live in our own world , A world that is too small For you to stoop and enter Even on hands and knees, The adult subterfuge.

  

  R. S. Thomas
  • World
  • Live
  • Small

• The hand that dips into the bottom of the pot will eat the biggest snail.

  

  Wole Soyinka
  • Hands
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  • Pot