Wole Soyinka Quotes
I know there are other writers who sit down religiously every morning, they take their espresso, they put a clean sheet of paper there and they sit looking at that paper until they've finished or covered at least a number of those pages. No, I'm not like that. I have to be ready. It has to gestate it for quite a while and then it's ready to burst forth.Wole Soyinka
Quotes to Explore
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Islam is antiauthoritarian, sex-positive monotheism.
G. Willow Wilson -
Dancing is the last sport with no sponsor.
Carine Roitfeld -
I get people being frightened of me. One time I did this photo shoot where I had hairy armpits – I was really digging it, but they were like, 'We'll airbrush that out.'
Bat for Lashes -
Within thirty years, we will have the technological means to create superhuman intelligence.
Vernor Vinge -
Love is just such a crucial, wonderful thing, and if you are lucky enough to find somebody who genuinely loves you, grab that person and hold on to that person, and nothing else matters.
Randall Kennedy -
I enjoy roles that are quite physical.
Maika Monroe
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The electronics industry expanded rapidly and the seeds for the semiconductor and software revolution were planted. The postwar period also saw the suburbanization of America, the rise of the homeowner, the build-out of the interstate highway system, and the rise of automobile culture. Credit availability expanded dramatically.
Barry Ritholtz -
To keep your secret is wisdom; but to expect others to keep it is folly.
Samuel Johnson -
I have a fierce temper. I've mastered it over the years, but when I'm angry, no one can force me to do anything I don't want to.
Lata Mangeshkar -
I've said what I'm prepared to say in my poems, and then journalists think that you're going to tell them a whole lot more.
Wendy Cope -
It wasn't about the money. I just wanted them to admit it was their fault.
Barry Sheene -
May God so fill us today with the heart of Christ that we may glow with the divine fire of holy desire.
Albert Benjamin Simpson
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The Rum Turn Tugger is a terrible bore: When you let him in, then he wants to be out; He's always on the wrong side of every door, And as soon as he's at home, then he'd like to get about.
T. S. Eliot -
Being true to yourself means living in truth with each person in your life. It means refusing to say or do something that you don't believe is right. Living in truth with other people means that you refuse to stay in any situation where you are unhappy with the behavior of another person. You refuse to tolerate it. You refuse to compromise.
Brian Tracy -
If it were proven that there is no God there would be no religion. ...But also if it were proven that there is a God, there would be no religion.
Ursula K. Le Guin -
Light was first Through the Lord's word Named day: Beauteous, bright creation!
Caedmon -
The least degree of heat, as long as it is slightly higher than boiling water, suffices for uniting oxygen and hydrogen and carbon and for forming oil and water.
Antoine Lavoisier -
Death does not trouble me. I have no fear of supernatural punishments, of course, nor could I enjoy an eternal life in which there would be nothing left for me to do, the task of living having been accomplished.
B. F. Skinner
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You may find that when you try to live in two worlds you are at home in neither of them.
Elizabeth Haydon -
At this, Constance sat down on a rock and covered her face. She seemed smaller than ever now - so small the harbor breeze might catch her up like a scrap of paper and carry her away, carry her into nowhere.
Trenton Lee Stewart -
I know there are other writers who sit down religiously every morning, they take their espresso, they put a clean sheet of paper there and they sit looking at that paper until they've finished or covered at least a number of those pages. No, I'm not like that. I have to be ready. It has to gestate it for quite a while and then it's ready to burst forth.
Wole Soyinka