Okonkwos Wealth Quotes & Sayings

I'm a confident person. I just try to be me. I like to make people laugh, I am a comedienne - so if people find me sexy, that's awesome. — Ashley Tisdale

My parents were very volatile but very loving. My father would get jealous if my mother looked at somebody. I used to be insanely jealous. It comes out of insecurity. It can come and go, but you get to the point in life where you don't have this raging jealousy and protectiveness about your world. — Felicity Kendal

COMPULSION, n. The eloquence of power. — Ambrose Bierce

On the phone
Bookseller: Hello Ripping Yarns.
Customer: Do you have any mohair wool?
Bookseller: Sorry, we're not a yarns shop, we're a bookshop.
Customer: You're called Ripping Yarns.
Bookseller: Yes, that's 'yarns' as in stories.
Customer: Well it's a stupid name.
Bookseller: It's a Monty Python reference.
Customer: So you don't sell wool?
Bookseller: No.
Customer: Hmf. Ridiculous.
Bookseller: ... but we do sell dead parrots.
Customer: What?
Bookseller: Parrots. Dead. Extinct. Expired. Would you like one?
Customer: Erm, no.
Bookseller: Ok, well if you change your mind, do call back. — Jen Campbell

If I ever marry, it will be on a sudden impulse - as a man shoots himself. — H.L. Mencken

A gentle word, a kind look, a good-natured smile can work wonders and accomplish miracles. — William Hazlitt

One cannot escape the world more certainly through art, and one cannot bind oneself to it more certainly than through art — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

The most meaningful engine of change, powerful enough to confront corporate power, may be not so much environmental quality, as the economic development and growth associated with the effort to improve it. — Barry Commoner

It's always hard - if you're not the best player on your team, how can you be the best player in college? — Marcus Allen

I tried real hard to play golf, and I was so bad at it they would have to check me for ticks at the end of the round because I'd spent about half the day in the woods. — Jeff Foxworthy

My stories are full of facts; they have a beginning and an end. For that reason, they will never ... occupy a place in contemporary literature. — Italo Calvino

When there's people on the other side of the room trying to wipe out your life and things are stacked against you, you can get nervous. — Jello Biafra

Be creative enough to dream, brave enough to try, persistent enough to succeed, and humble enough to thank those who helped you along the way. — Elizabeth Parker