Wole Soyinka Quotes

My understanding of the creative process is simply that all cultures and all concerns meet at a certain point, the human point in which everything is related to one another. That has been my creative experience. I never know who's influencing me at any time.

Wole Soyinka

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Until the Eighties, Oslo was a rather boring town, but it's changed a lot, and is now much more cosmopolitan. If I go downtown, I visit the harbour to see the tall ships and the ferries, and to admire the modern architecture such as the Opera House or the new Astrup Fearnley Museum on the water's edge.

Jo Nesbo

WaterArchitectureHouseMuseumEdge

Flower was a good metaphor for growth. The song is obviously about sexual responsibility, so that was the main metaphor. Also, it's like knowing who someone has been and remembering and appreciating that, but really appreciating what they are now even more.

Jody Watley

FlowerGoodGrowthResponsibility

The forties, seventies, and the nineties, when money was scarce, were great periods, when the art world retracted but it was also reborn.

Jerry Saltz

GreatArtMoneyWorldSeventies

I believed then - in a deep, easy way that is impossible for me as an adult - that there was more to this world than meets the eye. Trees had spirits; the wind spoke. If you followed a toad or a raven deep into the heart of the forest, they were sure to lead you to something magical.

Jennifer McMahon

HeartMeWindWorldEyeImpossible

Marines dying or being seriously wounded is commonplace in combat.

John F. Kelly

SeriouslyMarinesDyingBeingCombat

The IRS should and must focus on the most important and most egregious and the most in need.

Ander Crenshaw

FocusImportantNeedMustIRSMost

With a bad script and even the best cast, the most you can hope for is to turn a sow's ear into a silk purse.

John Rhys-Davies

HopeBestYouBadTurnPurse

The key is, if you're not monkeying around with the script, then everything usually goes pretty well.

Steven Soderbergh

KeyYouEverythingPrettyWellGoes

I started collecting aerial photographs of Native American and South Pacific architecture; only the African ones were fractal. And if you think about it, all these different societies have different geometric design themes that they use. So Native Americans use a combination of circular symmetry and fourfold symmetry.

Ron Eglash

ArchitectureThinkDesignAmerican

Art is not an end in itself, but a means of addressing humanity.

Modest Mussorgsky

ArtEndHumanityMeansAddressing

I don't want to make any judgments, and I don't want to preach, but I'm hoping that marriage can work: that when people do fall in love, when people do find their soul mate, everyone sticks to it. It has the potential to be a very powerful thing, marriage.

Jonathan Silverman

WorkLoveMarriageSoulPeopleFall

There are two things that I hate: getting up at 6 in the morning and making my bed. I'm as neat as a pin, but I will not make beds. Period. I don't care if I get into them and they're messy. I just don't care.

Brigid Berlin

MorningHateCareBedMessyWill

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