Wole Soyinka Quotes

For me, a writer is already being the deuce of his mission, his occupation to society.

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• Music is an important part of our culture and record stores play a vital part in keeping the power of music alive

  

  Chuck Berry
  • Music
  • Important
  • Power

• There are people that I didn't like, but I saw them suffer and it changed me. I promised myself that I would never tell a lie, never hurt another human being, and I would try to make the world as positive as I could.

  

  Jack Kirby
  • People
  • World
  • Positive

• Maybe General Groves was right. Maybe we should just banish thinking forever.

  

  J. Robert Oppenheimer
  • Thinking
  • Forever
  • Right

• Shakespeare might have met Rosencrantz and Guildenstern in the white streets of London, or seen the serving-men of rival houses bite their thumbs at each other in the open square; but Hamlet came out of his soul, and Romeo out of his passion.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Men
  • Soul
  • Passion

• Jazz, I mean, music will always move, because it can't become stagnant. Because if it becomes stagnant, it's like a river, it'll kill us all. It has to keep moving, music will always flow.

  

  Art Blakey
  • Music
  • Moving
  • River

• My imagination creates my reality.

  

  Walt Disney
  • Reality
  • Imagination
  • Creates

• All empires are created of blood and fire.

  

  Pablo Escobar
  • Fire
  • Blood
  • Empires

• The most welcome joke to me is the one that takes the place of a heavy, not altogether innocuous thought, at once a cautionary hint of the finger and a flash of the eye.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Joke
  • Finger
  • Flash

• Nay if even in the house of Hades the dead forget their dead, yet will I even there be mindful of my dear comrade.

  

  Homer
  • House
  • Forget
  • Comrade

• Because what a temporary worker program would do is help relieve pressure on the border. It will allow our law enforcement officials and Border Patrol agents to focus on those who are coming here for the wrong reasons, the criminals and the drug dealers and the terrorists.

  

  Scott McClellan
  • Focus
  • Reason
  • Helping

• One aspect of my mum's personality that has influenced me is her love of Hollywood and the golden era of black – and – white films.

  

  Rebecca Hall
  • Personality
  • Hollywood
  • Films

• I don't know why, but I respond well to tortured characters.

  

  Halle Berry
  • Why
  • Know
  • Well

• When I went into Fiddler, I wondered about the response I'd get - the backlash because I'm openly gay. There was none. I toured Canada and America, and not one single review suggested that I played the role gay or that I seemed anything but Tevye.

  

  Harvey Fierstein
  • America
  • Gay
  • Canada

• Some people wonder why they can't have faith for healing. They feed their body three hot meals a day, and their spirit one cold snack a week.

  

  F. F. Bosworth
  • People
  • Why
  • Faith

• It's always a pleasure to see John. I'm fond of telling people that when I was a young actor in NY and had no work ,no money, you know the story because you're heard it before.

  

  Harvey Keitel
  • Work
  • Money
  • Story

• Luneta and her parents started and whirled around, to see Terence standing just inside Luneta's door. "Deuce it, Terence!" Luneta's father expostulated. "You'll kill someone that way someday! How did you get inside without any of us hearing you?" "I came in the door, of course," Terence replied, stepping forward. He held two swords in scabbards, which he tossed onto Luneta's bed as he approaced. "For anyone else, the hinges would have squeaked," Luneta's father muttered.

  

  Gerald Morris
  • Courses
  • Standing
  • Someday

• For me, a writer is already being the deuce of his mission, his occupation to society.

  

  Wole Soyinka
  • Occupation
  • Missions
  • Deuces