Ben Okri Quotes
I believe in leavening. You can't have words sticking out too much, like promontories. They disturb the density. You have to flatten them, or raise the surrounding terrain.
Ben Okri
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Afrikaans culture is very right-wing and conservative, very proper, and you get this hidden underbelly, the zef side of Afrikaans which no one knows about.
Watkin Tudor Jones
A feeling of alienation existed in India about life in Pakistan because most of what was known was negative. So, everyone used to believe things in our country are always bad, and we don't lead a happy life. But this has changed to some extent. After watching our dramas, people now know that we lead our lives similar to the way they live.
Umera Ahmad
Palestinian propagandists can say and do anything they please without concern for the truth, in the belief that if they repeat it often enough it will simply become the truth.
Jack Schwartz
I never did a dirty armpit. You can look dirty, but you can't be dirty.
Kate Moss
When the British became Christian, Christianity in no way altered their political organisation.
Sabine Baring-Gould
Honestly, I try and stay away from what's been written about me, because if you let that stuff get to you and it's not true it can drive you crazy. One thing that I have heard recently which is not true, I didn't say it, is that I believe I was quote saying 'I will never take my shirt off for a movie again.' I didn't say that.
Taylor Lautner
There is always a type of man who says he loves his fellow men, and expects to make a living at it.
E. W. Howe
It seems like the good things that have happened in my career are things that you don't try to plan and push, and make it happen, it just seems to happen.
Wanda Jackson
Rituals, anthropologists will tell us, are about transformation. The rituals we use for marriage, baptism or inaugurating a president are as elaborate as they are because we associate the ritual with a major life passage, the crossing of a critical threshold, or in other words, with transformation.
Abraham Verghese
The 'Hercules' role just kind of came to me, but I had a lot of fun trying something new.
Irina Shayk
It takes little talent to see what lies under one's nose, a good deal to know in what direction to point that organ.
W. H. Auden
I never lie to my fans.
Becky G
