Adetoun Oyinlola Quotes & Sayings

Magazines devoted to the religion of success appear as Makers of America. They mean just about that when they preach evolution, progress, prosperity, being constructive, the American way of doing things. It is easy to laugh, but, in fact, they are using a very great pattern of human endeavor. For one thing it adopts an impersonal criterion; for another it adopts an earthly criterion; for a third it is habituating men to think quantitatively. To be sure the idea confuses excellence with size, happiness with speed, and human nature with contraption. Yet the same motives are at work which have ever actuated any moral code, or ever will. The desire fir the biggest, the fastest, the highest, or if you are a maker of wristwatches or microscopes the smallest; the love in short of the superlative and the "peerless," is in essence and possibility a noble passion. — Walter Lippmann

They thought we were going to hurt the game, but we just wanted to help ourselves, because the players needed to get together to protect their interests. — Ted Lindsay

Being in a band is a really magical thing because you've got a family and you operate as this one entity. It's very democratic; everyone is involved in the output. But within that, there can be a lot of disagreements and strife. — Jenny Lewis

The English public always feels perfectly at ease when a mediocrity is talking to it. — Oscar Wilde

Animals are being exploited in such an unbelievable way; it's not acceptable. — Alicia Silverstone

It was unrealistic to expect to be constantly in the happiest place. In real life, you're lucky just to be always somewhere nearby. — Sarah Dessen