Adesola Osakalumi Quotes & Sayings

Now I see that night does something to a person's identity, even when asleep. — Djuna Barnes

That's probably because they said a lot of other things, as well. — Donna Leon

I once heard Jerry Yang, the cofounder of Yahoo!, quote a senior Chinese government official as saying, "Where people have hope, you have a middle class." I think this is a very useful insight. The existence of large, stable middle classes around the world is crucial to geopolitical stability, but middle class is a state of mind, not a state of income. That's why a majority of Americans always describe themselves as "middle class," even though by income statistics some of them wouldn't be considered as such. "Middle class" is another way of describing people who believe that they have a pathway out of poverty or lower-income status toward a higher standard of living and a better future for their kids. — Thomas L. Friedman

When fear overwhelms truth and love, we call it pain. Our spirit as women has all the knowledge and power we need to give birth and to nurture our babies. It is in our genetic coding. It has been there since the beginning of time. You can trust its wisdom. — Gurmukh Kaur Khalsa

You are the only person I can talk with about the shade of a cloud, about the song of a thought ... — Vladimir Nabokov

In the dust of defeat as well as the laurels of victory there is a glory to be found if one has done his best. — Eric Liddell

I don't want to be in some big beautiful place that nobody want me, because I play the blues. — Luther Allison

There is nothing like the smell of books, both new and old. If someone ever bottled the smell, I would be all over it . — Tiffany King

I was scared. Do you know what it's like to hold someone else's life in
your hands? It's like playing God. Can you think of anything scarier than
that? — Sidney Sheldon

Who's to say I'm not an entirely different person? Because I am. You have to understand, five years ago I was a waitress. — Lady Gaga

I don't generate a storyline and then fill it out in the course of writing. The story actually generates in the course of the writing. It's one of the reasons I've never been comfortable doing screenplays, because in order to get the contract for the screenplay, you have to sit down and tell them what's going to happen. — William Gibson