Ben Okri Quotes

The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering.

Ben Okri

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

InspirationalLoveSufferingCreate

Shakespeare also introduces the supernatural into some of his tragedies; he introduces ghosts, and witches who have supernatural knowledge.

Andrew Coyle Bradley

KnowledgeGhostsWitchesSupernatural

Fracking is an industrial process, but it can be done safely. It's government's job to make sure it can be done safely.

John Hickenlooper

JobGovernmentProcessDoneSure

I like to believe that I got my business knowledge from my dad. He was able to see trends a long way off. And my mom is very good with people and emotional.

John T. Chambers

GoodBusinessKnowledgePeopleMom

I do quite a lot of art, with a small 'a'. I guess that is how I was dredged up, with paints and crayons. Even when I was at nursery, I knew instinctively how to mix colours, how to make purple or orange.

Amanda Harlech

ArtSmallPurpleOrangeUpKnew

Prejudice - a vagrant opinion without visible means of support.

Ambrose Bierce

SupportOpinionPrejudiceWithout

I don't think any writer is a friend to the reader if he or she is not funny.

Amitava Kumar

FunnyFriendThinkSheWriterHe

A Christian school should be a place where young men and young women go through a period of spiritual formation and development so that they come out incredibly more proficient at living out their calling than they would have been had they not gone to school.

Tony Campolo

WomenMenSpiritualSchoolChristian

I am an athlete in every sense of the word. Athlete, martial artist.

Jon Jones

I AmArtistAthleteSenseWordAm

I don't think we need political activists on the Supreme Court or any other level of court.

Dick Mountjoy

ThinkPoliticalNeedSupreme Court

I didn't even know how to judge 'Die Hard 1.' It's not anything I know how to judge. I'd never seen an action movie. I'd never seen a Sly Stallone movie or an Arnold Schwarzenegger movie or a Charles Bronson movie. And that is the truth.

Bonnie Bedelia

TruthActionJudgeDieKnowNever

Knowing what I know of love, I hang back because I don't like to lie to myself.

Anne Parillaud

LoveMyselfLieBackKnowKnowing

Art is the objectification of feeling, and the subjectification of nature.

Susanne Langer

NatureArtFeelingObjectification

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