Ben Okri Quotes

The fact of storytelling hints at a fundamental human unease, hints at human imperfection. Where there is perfection there is no story to tell.

Ben Okri

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: poet
  • Nationality: nigerian
  • Birth: March 15, 1959

Topics

PerfectionStoryImperfectionHuman

I really wanted to be veterinarian, but I got a 410 on my math SATs.

Meg Cabot

MathVeterinarianGotWantedReally

You can take the boy out of Philly but not the Philly out of the boy. It shapes my world view. It was a great place to grow up.

Steve Capus

GreatWorldGrowViewYouPlace

I like to bring my kids to the voting booth to show them how it works. I'll let them draw their own conclusions as to how worthwhile it is.

Stephen J. Dubner

VotingConclusionsOwnBringKids

It's not winning or losing. It's the friends and the people that you meet along the way.

Summer Altice

LosingPeopleWinningFriendsYou

I can't do everything obviously although sometimes I know that all of us wish that we could.

Minoru Yamasaki

WishKnowSometimesEverythingUs

The test of a vocation is the love of the drudgery it involves.

Logan Pearsall Smith

LoveTestVocationDrudgeryInvolves

I don't think of Storefront Hitchcock or Stop Making Sense as documentaries, I think of them more as performance films.

Jonathan Demme

PerformanceThinkStopMoreSense

We've always had a dual role in the region - friend of Israel, and honest broker. We've given up the honest broker role completely.

Chris Matthews

FriendAlwaysUpHonestIsraelRole

I remember when I was first time in Serie A, we were down the bottom, no one was speaking about Cagliari. And we were safe, one day before the final match. With Parma, we went down, but we were positive right to the end. There are the little details, but you have to continue.

Claudio Ranieri

PositiveTimeDayEndDetailsYou

Boys in bands are more difficult to deal with than one-year-old babies. I've been one of them, and I am one of them, but it is the truth.

Pete Wentz

TruthI AmMoreDifficultDealBeen

Marriage can be expensive, and if I lose millions then it'll be the best millions I've spent.

Seth Rogen

MarriageBestLoseExpensiveThen

Currently, Boston has only nine percent of the state's population - but we provide more than 16 percent of the jobs and 19 percent of the state's revenues.

Thomas Menino

MoreBostonPopulationOnlyPercent

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