Oyeleye Oyetunji Quotes & Sayings

Because I think that by beauty, you don't just meaning something thats pretty. You mean something that makes us human. The urn, you say, is a 'friend to man'. It will live beyond its generation, and the next ones, and your poem is like that, too. You died almost two hundred years ago, when you were only twenty-five. But the words that you left are still alive — Ava Dellaira

Forgiveness is for yourself because it frees you. It lets you out of that prison you put yourself in. — Louise L. Hay

As a journalist and observer of mankind, I have more questions than answers. Sort of like an inquisitive child, still eager to learn... — BubbaHarold

The capacity of humans to believe in what seems to me highly improbable- from table tapping to the superiority of their children- has never been plumbed. — Robert A. Heinlein

I'd never want a piece of someone else's brain," Kele had said. "I mean, you don't know where it's been. — Neal Shusterman

Nobody watched people that much, and for that long, except me, and I had serious emotional problems. — Dan Wells

All pasts are like poems; one can derive a thousand things, but not live in them. — John Fowles

Not exactly what the world was looking for, a musical on 'Don Quixote.' It was required reading in high school. — Mitch Leigh

His prose, like the thinking it reveals, is full of cloudy suggestions of something beyond the range of mere cognition. He has been given power, if not over the entities and dyads, certainly over the ignorant and superstitious. — Richard Mitchell

During the day I don't wear much makeup. — Denise Richards

What a museum chooses to exhibit is sometimes less important than how such decisions are made and what values inform them. To have the crucial role of museum professionals usurped by self-serving tycoons in the name of economic imperative threatens not only the integrity of individual institutions but the very principle of art held in public trust. — Martin Filler

I think an overwhelming portion of the intensely demonstrated animosity toward President Barack Obama is based on the fact that he is a black man, that he's African American. — Jimmy Carter

Want to know how I know I'm happy?
Everything before is fading [He smiles and it hurts so good] That's how I know it's real.When I can't remember a past before you and I fear a future without you. — Cynthia A. Rodriguez

She's not going to eat. "Don't rain on my parade, Anastasia." "I'll eat later, when my stomach's woken up. About seven thirty, okay?" "Okay." I can't force her. She looks defiant and stubborn. "I want to roll my eyes at you," she says. Oh, Ana, bring it on. "By all means, do, and you will make my day. — E.L. James