Olayinka Akinnuoye Quotes & Sayings

One epoch's "popular culture" is another's esoterica. — Alfred Appel Jr.

I turn my head and stare out the casement window at the royal gardens instead, wet and slippery and dark as the center of a body, where the roses twitch an extinguished red. — Alexandra Kleeman

I am the the type to have a personal experience with a celebrity, but I'm too classy to bring that up. — Todd Barry

(for memory and clairvoyance, which are the same thing in two different directions). — Maggie Stiefvater

As much as I try to make the past keep still and mind its manners, it moves and murmurs with me through every day. — Deborah Levy

A moment of truth is very powerful. Instead of smiling to be polite, just frown. Instead of laughing when you are nervous or uncomfortable, just speak your truth. Instead of acting like everything is all right, proclaim it isn't alright, and talk about your feelings! Honor your truth. Honor yourself. Be real. — Bryant McGill

A lot of bad music sells a million copies; I don't think it's a good litmus test for whether things are going well. — Ben Lovett

If I die, I just want you to know that you have never looked hotter than you do right now, and that is the only reason I'm about to risk my life."
Tate raised a hand, and before he shut the visor, he promised, "I'll look even hotter in fifteen minutes when I'm naked. So, quit bitching, and get on the bike, Logan. — Ella Frank

I don't put myself above anyone, and I have as many shortcomings as any non-believer. I just choose to turn to a higher power to help me gain wisdom and, I hope, improve over time. — Van Jones

Dorothy looked at everything as though it might vanish. The bright daily pottery, the spice-jars, the sweep of the staircase, the pigeons in the stable yard. What had been real was now like a thick film, a coloured oilcloth, spread over a cauldron of vapours which shaped and reshaped themselves into shadowy forms, embracing, threatening, glaring. — A.S. Byatt

The imposing edifice of science provides a challenging view of what can be achieved by the accumulation of many small efforts in a steady objective and dedicated search for truth. — Charles H. Townes

The word has not been recognized as a virus because it has achieved a state of stable symbiosis with the host. — William S. Burroughs

I wonder if I will ever have the strength to hold onto something. Or if I will always be someone who destroys. — Ally Condie

The music we play is kind of hard to explain. It's music that we really feel. — Lester Bowie

I can get inspired just off the energy of Soulja Boy, just his energy, you have to take something from an artist. Everyone may not look at an artist the same way, but it's something that artist is doing that's creating his success. — Nelly