Okumu Quotes & Sayings

No one recovers from the disease of being born, a deadly wound if there ever was one. — Emil Cioran

Drive Nature out with a pitchfork, yet she hurries back, And will burst through your foolish contempt, triumphant. — Horace

This thing that haunts you, that never seems satisfied, the cravings in your soul that you are unable to satiate through all the success that the world can bring this is your soul screaming for God. — Erwin McManus

Life was a cake that looked good on the bakery shelf but turned to sawdust and salt when I ate it. — Maggie Stiefvater

I had a small-town life - I worked at the local McDonald's for three years. I'm not sure why they kept me: I am something of a daydreamer and a dawdler, so they would only let me be the 'friendly voice' that greeted you when you entered the restaurant. — Rachel McAdams

The most intolerable pain is produced by prolonging the keenest pleasure. — George Bernard Shaw

'The Indian Runner' was easy. It had been incubating in me for eight years, and by the time I sat down to write the thing, I had all the pictures in my head. — Sean Penn

I love traveling, but I love the bum I married, and the bums I gave birth to, more. And the dogs. I love them, too. — MaryJanice Davidson

Leonard Woolf's endurance of Virginia's famous frigidity is, we must suppose after the fact, altogether to his credit. Their honeymoon did not bring the amelioration they had hoped for and it is incredibly innocent and moving to think of them discussing it with Vanessa. They wanted to know when she had first had an orgasm. She said she couldn't remember but she knew she had been "sympathetic" from the age of two. Vita Sackville-West said about Virginia, "She dislikes the possessiveness and love of domination in men. In fact she dislikes the quality of masculinity. — Elizabeth Hardwick

I started meeting the right people, like [producer] Dave [Okumu], who explained to me how songwriting is really simple - "just like shitting," he said. "You gotta let it all out." When he put it like that, however disgusting it is, it made a lot of sense to me. — Jessie Ware

The betterment of a community directly depends on the betterment of lives in that Community. — Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

Oft the cloud that wraps the present hour serves but to brighten all our future days. — William Browne

To feel the pure joy of life, donate yourself for the betterment of others. — Debasish Mridha

"He preaches well that lives well," quoth Sancho, "that's all the divinity I can understand." — Miguel De Cervantes