Ben Okri Quotes

One of the greatest gifts my father gave me - unintentionally - was witnessing the courage with which he bore adversity. We had a bit of a rollercoaster life with some really challenging financial periods. He was always unshaken, completely tranquil, the same ebullient, laughing, jovial man.

Ben Okri

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

LifeFatherAdversityCourageMan

The first man gets the oyster, the second man gets the shell.

Andrew Carnegie

LeadershipManFirstOysterShell

And I think detente had manifestly failed, and that the pursuit of it was encouraging Soviet expansion and rendering the world more dangerous, and especially rendering the Western world in greater peril.

Jeane Kirkpatrick

WorldThinkDangerousMoreExpansion

I played football in the ninth and 10th grade. I looked a lot like Joe Namath, so I think my looks got me there more than my abilities.

John Travolta

FootballMeThinkLooksMoreGot

As long as you are being true to yourself, you will always find happiness.

Amber Riley

HappinessYourselfLongYouFind

You don't rehearse jazz to death to get the camera angles.

Stan Getz

DeathCameraYouJazzAnglesGet

Performing live is a part of who I am.

Tracy Lawrence

LiveI AmWhoPerformingPartAm

I love kids, but they are a tough audience.

Robin Williams

LoveToughAudienceKidsI Love

Ignore all advice about writing. Leave your blood on every page. Every page!

Miriam Toews

WritingAdviceIgnorePageBlood

When a nation is over-reliant on one or two commodities like oil or precious minerals, corrupt government ministers and their dodgy associates hoard profits and taxes instead of properly allocating them to schools and hospitals.

Bono

GovernmentOilTwoNationTaxes

An idea not coupled with action will never get any bigger than the brain cell it occupied.

Arnold H. Glasow

PoliticsBrainActionWillNever

After doing 'War and Peace,' I suddenly got lots of seductress roles. It's easy to put people into a category after you've seen them in one thing that you feel fits with them. But I'm trying to make a conscious decision to do different things.

Tuppence Middleton

DecisionPeaceWarPeopleDoingYou

I remember being a kid and praying in the hell of my house to have somebody love me and somebody that I could love.

Tyler Perry

LoveMeHellRememberLove MeHouse

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