Ben Okri Quotes

Some of my reactions are very Nigerian. I still believe that words are things.

Ben Okri

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

WordsBelieveThingsStillSome

Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires.

Sigmund Freud

StrengthReligionIllusionDesires

See, at a certain point it becomes cool to be boy crazy. That happens in sixth grade, and it gives you so much social status, particularly in an all-girls school, if you can go up and talk to boys.

Rosalind Wiseman

SchoolCoolCrazyYouGoTalk

Hollywood can be brutal, inhuman, the opposite of what the theatre is, and I had little desire to be part of it.

Joyce DeWitt

TheatreDesireHollywoodLittlePart

Sky Harbor may be a city airport, but it's an Arizona vital resource used by citizens all over the state, and our economy is dependent on its success.

Doug Ducey

SuccessSkyCityAirportEconomy

I think Varga is a manifestation, certainly, and someone who can thrive and profit from the world's failure and has worked out the operation, whatever the operation may be, that he's about, which will remain a mystery.

David Thewlis

FailureWorldThinkSomeoneThrive

I read certain articles about how all of the new filmmakers are immediately being given massive tentpoles, and there's a lot of original movies that we have now lost as a result of this. I don't want to call it a fad because I think it's a good thing. I think the movies are better as a result.

Colin Trevorrow

GoodThinkBetterResultLostNew

I'm a registered independent. I don't really believe in political parties. Bottom line: Mitt Romney's tax policy helps me. But I can't stomach seeing somebody go hungry or somebody not being able to get an education because I want more. So, I'm supporting Barack Obama.

Brian J. White

EducationMeBelievePoliticalWant

Patriotism demands the ability to feel shame as much as to feel pride.

Anne-Marie Slaughter

PatriotismPrideFeelShameAbility

I like SF environments that seem used, and lived in, every day; not just rolled off a props truck. Look around you! Everything is scuffed, scratched, dinged, faded, even rusty.

Antony Johnston

DayTruckYouEvery DayLookLived

Just do your schoolwork, focus on a sport if you're good at it, do what I did.

Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce

GoodFocusYouJustYourDid

No action hero is more closely associated with cars than James Bond.

Richard Hammond

CarHeroActionBondMoreThan

We're going to reserve our efforts and our national solidarity for the most humble, the most modest, and the most poor among us.

Marine Le Pen

HumbleSolidarityPoorUsGoingOur

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