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Wole Soyinka Quotes

England is the breeding ground of fundamentalist Muslims. Its social logic is to allow all religions to preach openly. But this is illogic, because none of the other religions preach apocalyptic violence. And yet England allows it.

Wole Soyinka

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: dramatist
Nationality: nigerian
Birth: July 13, 1934

Topics

Logic Violence Religions Ground None

The purpose of The Motherhood Manifesto is mothers really need to be given the ability to parent.

Joan Blades

Purpose Motherhood Parent Need Given

We need to focus on getting people back to work, focus on jobs, the economy, the debt and the spending. That's what will improve the quality of life for American families and for hard-working taxpayers.

John Barrasso

Life Work Focus Quality People Back

I loved the High Line when it was just mine, when I was the only person up there, and I had a private park in New York City. I had to make an appointment to see it... I'd walk around. I was all alone.

Joel Sternfeld

Alone Walk New York City Loved New

The first essence of journalism is to know what you want to know, the second, is to find out who will tell you.

John Gunther

You Journalism Find Know Want Will

The cure until the late 1940s, when there was an antibiotic discovered for tuberculosis, was basically rest. It was fresh, cold air, lots of food - five meals a day, lots of sleep, not very much talking, and for some people, complete stillness.

Andrea Barrett

Food Day Sleep People Cold Rest

Words are beautiful but restricted. They're very masculine, with a compact frame. But voice is over the dark, the place where there's nothing to hang on: it comes from a part of yourself that simply knows, expresses itself, and is.

Jeff Buckley

Beautiful Words Yourself Voice Dark

Life - a spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.

Ambrose Bierce

Life Spiritual Body Pickle Decay

Every day, I need to get better. I need to get stronger. I need to get faster.

Robbie Lawler

Day Better Stronger Every Day Need

I always designed clothes from a very young age because I didn't like the way they were. They were paralyzing; they were stilted.

Mary Quant

Age Clothes Young Way Always Like

One wonders whether the Obama re-election campaign may be on the right track as it seeks to apply the you-break-it-you-own-it rule to Bush and the American economy. Hardly a day goes by without President Obama or his surrogates arguing that it takes longer than four years to recover from an economic crisis so long in the making.

Jon Meacham

Day American Long Crisis Economy

I don't maybe follow the normal star profile, and it's not something that I particularly want to embrace in terms of the publicity thing and wanting to be famous and known.

Brendan Gleeson

Famous Want Embrace Follow Normal

Oh, the Irish were building the railroads down through Mexico, through Chihuahua. They finished the railroads when they finished out in the West Coast, and they went down and put the trains into Mexico.

Anthony Quinn

Building Down Irish Mexico Out West