Okoroji Henry Quotes & Sayings

The gap between verse and poetry is enormous. Between good poetry and good prose the gap is much narrower — Michael Longley

It is all very well and it sounds very seductive to say we are going to have harmonisation of regulations, but for example the way that funds are distributed around the states these days, you are positively penalised if you actually want to have say a lower payroll tax or sort of conditions. — Campbell Newman

An unskilled middle-aged man can work in the mines, and it pays well. — Richard Flanagan

Dogs are gonna take over the world. It's a known fact for those who believe it, kinda like the Bible. — Green Day

The next day the two sisters went to the ball, and so did Cinderella, but dressed more magnificently than before. The King's son was always by her side, and his pretty speeches to her never ceased. — Charles Perrault

I come from not just a household but a country where the finesse of language, well-balanced sentence, structure, syntax, these things are driven into us, and my parents, bless them, are great custodians of the English language. — Daniel Day-Lewis

Mr. Blatchford says that there was not a Fall but a gradual rise. But the very word "rise" implies that you know toward what you are rising. Unless there is a standard you cannot tell whether you are rising or falling. But the main point is that the Fall like every other large path of Christianity is embodied in the common language talked on the top of an omnibus. Anybody might say, "Very few men are really Manly." Nobody would say, "Very few whales are really whaley." — Gilbert K. Chesterton

Great is his faith who dares believe his own eyes. — Coventry Patmore