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Wole Soyinka Quotes

The Lagos of my childhood was a well-laid-out maritime city.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Childhood City Maritime

For the record, I am gay.

I Am Gay Record Am

When I see the Trump supporters on television explaining themselves, I don't get a feeling of supreme confidence. They've created a revolution, and now maybe they're a little scared by it.

Robert J. Shiller

Confidence Revolution Television Now

'Memoirs of a Geisha' is everything you'd expect it to be: beautiful, mesmerizing, tasteful, Japanese. It's just not very hot.

Beautiful You Hot Everything Expect

It betrays hubris on the part of the artist to think his medium is limiting him, and I think we all recognize this.

Think Artist Hubris Him Recognize

There is no time in modern agriculture for a farmer to write a poem or compose a song.

Masanobu Fukuoka

Time Song Farmer Agriculture Write

Acting was never my first choice as a profession, but I came to terms with it when I decided I better buckle down and be the best I can be at it.

Best Better Choice Acting Down

As much as I might decry the students, as much as they're a nightmare, it's a privilege to be among youth.

Youth Privilege Students Might Much

I personally have no shame in saying I am extremely interested in fashion. I am not as interested in trends. I won't go on Style.com unless I'm looking for stuff to wear to an event, or there's a designer I am interested in.

Josephine de La Baume

I Am Fashion Looking Saying Go Wear

You need some time off from baseball. Like, when you have a bad game, or you end up playing really good, you go home, and you need to chill out.

Good Home Time Baseball Game Chill

In my years as the FBI's lead international kidnapping negotiator, I learned an important fundamental lesson: Hostage negotiation is often nothing more than a business transaction.

Christopher Voss

Business Negotiation Lesson Important

A little-known secret is that being a pro athlete is not that great. It's a pretty short lifespan. I know all these parents are out there driving their children to be professionals, but so many pros will tell you, 'No, you don't want to do this.'

Timothy Olyphant

Children Great Parents Short Driving

Mary and I look eerily similar but other than that, the differences are pretty much night and day.

Day Night Differences Look Pretty

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