Wole Soyinka Quotes

Some of us – poets are not exactly poets. We live sometimes – beyond the word.

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• I turn into a crying, hysterical maniac when I see a spider. It's pathetic.

  

  Kate Dickie
  • See
  • Crying
  • Turn

• I like to act. Every other aspect of show business I find uninteresting.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • Business
  • Find
  • Act

• I'm a proud family man.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • Family
  • Man
  • Proud

• Eventually, I grew out of my interest in motorcycles because they're quite dangerous. I don't ride them anymore. But I have this history.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • History
  • Dangerous
  • Ride

• Sometimes it's so weird just to do an interview. This morning I was back in my parents' house, with my brother, and we went for a jog together, then had breakfast as a family. And a couple of hours later I'm wearing high heels and a dress and makeup, and talking about my job.

  

  Carey Mulligan
  • Family
  • Job
  • Together

• I know my life story sounds too extraordinary to be true.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • Life
  • True
  • My Life

• Hollywood would make a holocaust an animated comedy if people would pay to see it; they don't care... they just want your money.

  

  Adam Green
  • People
  • Money
  • Comedy

• I've had to be tough my whole life.

  

  Karen Handel
  • Life
  • Tough
  • Had

• The one snack I really love is YoCrunch yogurt. It's like an apple pie in a cup! You have your apples on the bottom, your yogurt in the middle, and piecrust crumbs on top.

  

  Gabby Douglas
  • Love
  • Love Is
  • Apple

• 'Independents' - the industry term for companies that have more capital and know-how than the typical 'wildcatter' - can grow either by exploring and finding reserves or by buying a company that already has them.

  

  Tahl Raz
  • Grow
  • Finding
  • Exploring

• I get so nervous before I go on stage that I can never eat very much, so I'm always completely starving afterwards and dying for a bowl of pasta.

  

  Samantha Bond
  • Never
  • Dying
  • Pasta

• The presumption that an extant mode is efficient if the expected net gain is negative can nevertheless be rebutted by showing that the obstacles to implementing an otherwise superior feasible alternative are 'unfair.'

  

  Oliver E. Williamson
  • Obstacles
  • Negative
  • Unfair

• The greatest pride, or the greatest despondency, is the greatest ignorance of one's self.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
  • Pride
  • Ignorance
  • Self

• I love all the attention, people noticing me. 'There's the gymnast. There she is!'

  

  Gabby Douglas
  • People
  • Attention
  • Noticing

• In London, before I set out, I had paid one shilling; another was now demanded, so that upon the whole, from London to Richmond, the passage in the stage costs just two shillings.

  

  Karl Philipp Moritz
  • Stage
  • Now
  • London

• Cancer is awful. It took 10 years until I didn't think about it every day. Nobody should go through this. Nobody.

  

  Hans Rosling
  • Day
  • Everyday
  • Cancer

• If I play a cop, it's always a racist cop or a trigger-happy cop or a crooked cop - but by and large I play cowboys, bikers, and convicts.

  

  M. C. Gainey
  • Happy
  • Play
  • Always

• Nobody wants to retire from football.

  

  LaDainian Tomlinson
  • Football
  • Nobody
  • Retire

• You can be vegetarian and eat fish. It's your choice, just say: 'I am what I am.' There are no hardcore divisions anymore.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Choice
  • Fish
  • Vegetarian

• I've always listened to a lot of rap. It's all, 'Look at this car that cost me so much money, look at this Champagne.' It's super fun.

  

  Lorde
  • Money
  • Fun
  • Always

• I actually cut my sentences a lot. I'm very aware of the actor, giving them too many words - just a mouthful of words - it's difficult sometimes for an actor. So I'm kind of aware of breaking sometimes the line, the sentence with a comma where maybe there wouldn't be a comma there. Just to give a breathing space for the actor, just to be aware of that.

  

  Nilo Cruz
  • Words
  • Space
  • Actor

• A lot of parents tell their children that if they want to be an actor, that's fine, but they should do something else first, so they've got something to fall back on. It doesn't work like that, as far as I'm concerned.

  

  Ewan McGregor
  • Children
  • Parents
  • Actor

• Sometimes you'll laugh. Sometimes you'll cry. Life never tells us, the when's or why's. When you've got friends, to wish you well. You'll find your point when. You will exhale.

  

  Whitney Houston
  • Life
  • Why
  • Friends

• Some of us – poets are not exactly poets. We live sometimes – beyond the word.

  

  Wole Soyinka
  • Sometimes
  • Poet