Ben Okri Quotes

The poem is never complete in the mind. It emerges, and then it's like an act of unveiling. The unveiling is the longest and most difficult part of it.

Ben Okri

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

MindNeverDifficultActComplete

I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order.

John Burroughs

NatureGoOrderSensesHealedPut

I was that kind of kid that was going to the movies every weekend, I couldn't get enough of the movies, and now I get to make them. So I kind of have a one-track mind.

Andrew Stanton

MindEnoughWeekendNowMoviesKind

Advances in technology and in our understanding of illness and disease together with an expanded workforce and greater resources will allow us to provide more services to a higher quality.

John Hutton

TechnologyQualityTogetherWill

I know what people think I am. People think I'm dumb. People think I party all the time. People think I'm ignorant.

Michael Beasley

TimeI AmPeopleThinkPartyDumb

Our society has gotten to the point where we might soon become less and less shocked by any kind of violence.

Stanley Crouch

SocietyViolenceKindBecomePoint

There is no formula for winning any show. One just has to be at ease and mentally stable.

Rithvik Dhanjani

WinningShowEaseJustMentallyAny

We've continued to expand the overall footprint of Ulta Beauty both physically and digitally in so many ways.

Mary Dillon

BeautyExpandManyBothPhysically

For 'Twisted Fantasy,' I probably spent 180 days in the studio.

Mike Dean

FantasyDaysTwistedStudioSpent

The very women who object to the morals of a notoriously beautiful actress, grow big with pride when an admirer suggests their marked resemblance to this stage beauty in physique.

Minna Antrim

BeautyWomenBeautifulPrideGrow

After college, I went on a real big classics kick. Read everything by Faulkner, Hemingway, Woolf, Proust, Dostoevsky. And that classics train dropped me off at 'Dracula.' Halfway through it, I understood I'd never be going back, never 'leaving' the genre again. Since then, I've been on a fairly strict horror diet.

Josh Malerman

CollegeMeDietBackTrainLeaving

I think it was hard for people to cast me as an ethnic, as an Asian American woman.

Chloe Bennet

WomanPeopleMeThinkAmericanHard

The sweetest noise on earth, a woman's tongue; A string which hath no discord.

Bryan Procter

LoveWomanTongueEarthNoiseWhich

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