Yorubas Quotes & Sayings

If a scene doesn't work on three levels - it's not advancing the story, the characters, and telling me something new - then put it in the trash. — Catherine Hardwicke

Those strange creepy people, all picking at their little ... scabs," she had complained to me when Nathan was not around. "I hate this type of - and here I thought she used a lovely gem of a phrase - "unearned unhappiness! — William Styron

Toyin Falola has given us what is truly rare in modern African writing: a seriously funny, racy, irreverent package of memories, and full of the most wonderful pieces of poetry and ordinary information. It is a matter of some interest, that the only other volume A Mouth Sweeter Than Salt reminds one of is Ake, by Wole Soyinka. What is it about these Yorubas? — Ama Ata Aidoo

There's more to being an environmentalist than occasionally signing an online petition and mailing your check to the Sierra Club. Really the most effective environmental actions you can take have to do with crafting your home and surroundings, your workplace decisions and your investment habits. — Alex Steffen

Beloved, it is not office - it is earnestness; it is not position - it is grace which will enable us to glorify God. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Falling thirty-three stories wasn't nearly as frightening as falling in love. — Jill Archer

You can't allow other people to put a price on what you do, otherwise you don't consider what you do to have any value at all, and that's nonsense. — Robert Smith

My seventeen years of teaching inform my sense of audience in every line I write. — Will Hobbs

Are they moved by a sense of human need for silence, for reflection, for inner seeking? So they want to get away from the noise and tension of modern life, at least for a little while, in order to relax their minds and wills and seek a blessed healing sense of inner unity, reconciliation, integration? — Thomas Merton

Sublime Minds have noble visions ; Average Minds, by contrast, are trying to conformity. — Kristian Goldmund Aumann

I have a really basic uniform: in winter, black tights and any old dress that I can throw on. In summer, high-waisted jeans and this shirt, or that shirt, and a cashmere cardigan just in case. — Claudia Schiffer

The Yorubas have a saying, here, my translation in English
a poor fool is a bigger fool rich. In other words, money only allows and enables you to be more of who you are. My bigger translation? You don't jump essence, you jump environs! — Dew Platt

I guess what I'm passionate about is, I see so many things that I find that there's no real solution to, and you're only here for such a brief moment in time, even if you live to be a hundred years old. Yet, what happens within that time frame? So many things happen. — Annie Lennox

All marketers are storytellers. Only the losers are liars. — Seth Godin

Humans can see the world as it is not. It is why your lies can be so strong. You are able to not admit that they are lies. — Brandon Sanderson

Bad thoughts can be dangerous if left to simmer and weaken the heart slowly and invisibly. Like termites that destroy the beams of a house, secretly, in the dark until it's too late and everything collapses. — Massimo Marino

Let us remember that postponement of tapering is only that-a postponementLet's not lose the chance, the warning that we have been given, because this is going to come back and what we need to do is put our house in order before. — Raghuram Rajan