Wole Soyinka Brainy Quotes & Sayings

Getting air may have determined the way we got our bodies. — Christopher McDougall

The voices would not stop. They were a torment, Her past became a kaleidoscope of shifting images that kept racing through her mind. — Sidney Sheldon

You can grow softly, lovely and delicately amidst the hard surfaces. Not all who passed tougher times in life have a hard heart, kindness and tenderness do breathe despite of worse times. — Angelica Hopes

I never knew what basketball was. I started playing on the playground. People used to laugh at me and joke at me because I was so tall and I didn't know the game and couldn't play it. — Patrick Ewing

FROM TIME TO TIME, there was talk among the astronauts that it might be nice to have a drink with dinner. Beer is a no-fly, because without gravity, carbonation bubbles don't rise to the surface. "You just get a foamy froth," says Bourland. He says Coke spent $450,000 developing a zero-gravity dispenser, only to be undone by biology. Since bubbles also don't rise to the top of a stomach, the astronauts had trouble burping. "Often a burp is accompanied by a liquid spray," Bourland adds. — Mary Roach

Ooh, I know! You took a course of action so circumlocutious that it would've been faster AND easier for all parties if you just killed yourself? — Brian Clevinger

We all own a beast called anger. It — Sara Pennypacker