Amos Tutuola Quotes

#1. I've come across a novel called The Palm-Wine Drinkard, by the Nigerian writer Amos Tutuola, that is really remarkable because it is a kind of fantasy of West African mythology all told in West African English which, of course, is not the same as standard English.

William Golding

#2. Is it disapproval or extreme lust? Toby wonders. With some men it's hard to tell the difference.

Margaret Atwood

#3. Then, frighteningly, he said, 'But as you are a man, how are you going to deliver your pregnancy? This is a big problem for you.

Amos Tutuola

#4. We had sold our death to somebody at the door for the sum of £70:18:6d and lent our fear to somebody at the door as well on interest of £3:10:0d per month, so we did not care about death and we did not fear again.

Amos Tutuola

#5. Obedience Brings The Kingdom Of God To Earth

Sunday Adelaja

#6. You are safer here tonight than you would be on the streets of any other city in the world.

Michael Bloomberg

#7. Today is the tomorrow I was worried about yesterday.

Anthony Hopkins

#8. If you could position the best platform media company around the world with the best content, we could get explosive growth.

David Zaslav

#9. In my eyes, making art is very often about something that you don't know.

Lawrence Weiner

#10. Don't sell life insurance. Sell what life insurance can do.

Ben Feldman

#11. clean places are driving a dirty person away as if it will hurt them

Amos Tutuola

#12. Sometimes it is easier to feel the veins wilted and empty than to sense the coldness of blood in fear

Munia Khan

#13. [Death] was not at home by that time, he was in his yam garden.

Amos Tutuola

#14. When we traveled for two and half days, we reached the Deads' road from which dead babies drove us, and when we reached there, we could not travel on it because of fearful dead babies, etc. which were still on it.

Amos Tutuola

#15. In America the imagination is generally looked on as something that might be useful when the TV is out of order.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#16. We could not travel on the Deads' road because of fearful dead babies, etc.

Amos Tutuola

#17. I can assure you that there is no question of us throwing away the tradition of the Grammar Schools.

Hugh Gaitskell