Ben Okri Quotes

When you can imagine you begin to create and when you begin to create you realize that you can create a world that you prefer to live in, rather than a world that you're suffering in.

Ben Okri

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

LiveImaginationSufferingWorldYou

Journalism is about results. It's about affecting your community or your society in the most progressive way.

Anas Aremeyaw Anas

CommunitySocietyJournalismResults

I've come more to terms with the fact that I sound like myself. No matter what I do, I sound like myself.

Sondre Lerche

MyselfMatterMoreSoundComeLike

The second you think that all your good fortune is a product of your virtue, you become highly judgmental, lacking empathy, totally without self-awareness, arrogant, stupid - I mean, all the stuff that our ruling class is.

Tucker Carlson

GoodEmpathyStupidThinkYouClass

When you have lived through something as magical as the 2014 World Cup final, you want to relive that experience as many times as possible.

Toni Kroos

ExperienceWorldYouWantPossible

If you find the mirror of the heart dull, the rust has not been cleared from its face.

Rumi

HeartMirrorFaceYouFindRust

I come from this really small town near Nashville, Tennessee, where everything was la-di-da and normal.

Miley Cyrus

SmallSmall TownNashvilleEverything

I cannot live alone.

Dick Van Dyke

LiveAloneCannot

So many things for me are unfortunate in the commercialization of something that is special. It's like when Led Zeppelin appears in Cadillac commercials. There's something that is taken away from your love of this thing and your connection to it.

Chris Carter

LoveMeConnectionSpecialSomething

One of the places where we lived when I was growing up had this big wood out the back. And starting when I was about 8, I used to enjoy just walking alone through the wood late. Eleven p.m. Midnight. Later.

Christian Bale

AloneGrowing UpWalkingEnjoyBack

'Paper Girls' in 1900 would be really cool. The girls could ride those old bicycles with the giant front wheel!

Cliff Chiang

RideCoolWheelOldPaperWould

I dress how I feel. I just go off emotion. I can't prepare my outfit a day before. Everything I wear is spontaneous.

ASAP Rocky

DayDressFeelOutfitGoEmotion

I certainly have opportunities many can only dream of - but in most ways I'm a typical girl in her 20s trying to forge a career and represent herself in what can sometimes seem rather strange circumstances. One of the most attractive has been the chance to publish 'Celebrate.'

Pippa Middleton

GirlCelebrateChanceOpportunities

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