Adewale Adeleke Quotes

#1. Certainly, I read a lot and follow the news. But as a writer, I am not interested in a political story. I am searching for the humanity of the characters. I never set out to write a book about an 'issue.'

Cristina Henriquez

#2. There is no great invention, from fire to flying, which has not been hailed as an insult to some god.

John B. S. Haldane

#3. To be a successful boxer, the last thing you need to be doing is turning up to the gym stoned. You're going to get beaten up if you do that.

David Haye

#4. Musicians and journalists are the canaries in the coalmine, but, eventually, as computers get more and more powerful, it will kill off all middle-class professions.

Jaron Lanier

#5. Can I start by asking why your drawings abnormally suck?

Tite Kubo

#6. I tried to find a language for the film - not just telling stories. I picked the Picasso painting because it said more than I could explain. I need images, I need representation which deals in other means than reality. We have to use reality but get out of it. That's what I try to do all the time.

Agnes Varda

#7. No one but Night, with tears on her dark face, watches beside me in this windy place.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

#8. Most variables can show either an upward or downward trend, depending on the base year chosen.

Thomas Sowell

#9. Life isn't long enough to enjoy and understand all at the same time. You have to decide which is more important

Pedro Juan Gutierrez

#10. Twelve years ago, if someone attacked me, I wouldn't let them get away with it. I'd take them on. I now perceive my job to include allowing people to vent their rage.

Ed Koch

#11. I would be opposed to any kind of totalitarian control.

B.F. Skinner

#12. Don't wear that boxy trouser suit because you feel like you have to. Wear whatever you want.

Ruzwana Bashir