Ben Okri Quotes

The higher the artist, the fewer the gestures. The fewer the tools, the greater the imagination. The greater the will, the greater the secret failure.

Ben Okri

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

FailureImaginationToolsArtist

In real life, I have mostly gone for nice guys. I definitely had a phase where I was like, "Oh, the bad guy is really cool." It's fun to be bad for a while, and then that ended really terribly - one piece of advice I'll give to people is your mom is always right.

Melissa Ordway

LifeFunPeopleCoolMomAdvice

There are good reasons why natural selection has become widely accepted as an explanation of evolutionary development. When applied to mammals and other large animals, it fits perfectly. But we cannot assume that all evolutionary steps arise from selection, particularly when looking at smaller animals.

John Tyler Bonner

GoodLookingWhyDevelopmentBecome

Even to current-events junkies, the notion of a 24-hour news channel sounded like a gimmick when the Cable News Network launched more than 30 years ago.

Steve Erickson

NewsMoreYearsLikeEvenThan

The problem is, women have stopped setting the bar high.

Steve Harvey

WomenProblemBarHighSetting

When it comes to reforming the way our skies are regulated, we must be certain that as we work to solve specific problems, we do not create others.

Mike Pompeo

WorkProblemsCreateWaySkiesMust

For whatever reason, every project I do becomes sort of a cult, or a cultish show, you know, like 'Battlestar,' or even a film I did years ago, 'Kalifornia,' people refer to it as a cult film.

Michelle Forbes

PeopleYouKnowProjectReasonFilm

I read a bit of the Icelandic sagas. They're fascinating in that they are completely ordinary. The farmer will go off into the hills and fight a troll, and then go back and do ordinary things. It's an odd mix of fantasy and reality.

Jonathan Stroud

FightRealityFarmerBackGoWill

People will try to bring you down, but you gotta go up.

DJ Khaled

PeopleYouDownGoWillTry

Space, time, matter, energy and biological life may be the result of a Source Field that is conscious and alive in its own unique way - on a scale far too vast for the finite mind to fathom.

David Wilcock

LifeTimeSpaceMindEnergyResult

Rock and jazz came together in a very powerful way on 'Barabajagal.'

Donovan

TogetherPowerfulJazzRockWay

Defensively, I could be a lot better; my decision-making at times can be a bit poor.

Dele Alli

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Law is mind without reason.

Aristotle

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