Yoruba Birthday Quotes & Sayings

Are you thinking? Are you creating? Ask yourself whenever you feel boring? — Debasish Mridha

No sooner does man discover intelligence than he tries to involve it in his own stupidity. — Jacques-Yves Cousteau

Next time we're on the couch, zoning out in front of the tube, we'll be wondering why we're wasting precious time when we could be making extraordinary moments. — Carrie Firestone

I never know how a novel is going to end, because you don't really know what's going to be at the bottom of a novel until you excavate it. — Janet Fitch

There is nothing dictators hate so much as that unassailable, eternally elusive, eternally provoking gleam. One of the main reasons why the very gallant Russian poet Gumilev was put to death by Lenin's ruffians thirty odd years ago was that during the whole ordeal, in the prosecutor's dim office, in the torture house, in the winding corridors that led to the truck, in the truck that took him to the place of execution, and at that place itself, full of the shuffling feet of the clumsy and gloomy shooting squad, the poet kept smiling. — Vladimir Nabokov

What nobody tells you about getting engaged is he asks you and you're delirious for about 2 days and then it tapers. He asks you and you're running around telling grocery clerks and ordering subscriptions to bride magazines and discussing prong settings, and then after 2 days this ebullience passes. And instead of looking ahead you are suddenly struck by everything you are leaving behind. — Suzanne Finnamore

Learn lots. Don't judge. Laugh for no reason. Be nice. Seek happiness. — Sean Plott

Net - the biggest word in the language of business. — Herbert Newton Casson

People judge you by the way you play in the playoffs. — Jaromir Jagr

Be in your LIMIT ... event it's a DREAM — Arafath Shanas

This was the kind of moral dilemma Pauline often got her into. Mr. Someone-or-Other, Pauline had mouthed. Adele at lunch with him, crying. But Mr. Who? She turned to her typewriter, Pauline's eyes still on her. She would like to ask "Who?" - but to do so, in that same mouthing whisper Pauline had used, would be to enter too fully into Pauline's tale, Pauline's bitter triumph, and, in some way, into Pauline's unhappy life. But Mr. Who? — Alice McDermott