Bankole Olumide Quotes

#1. It's always better to deliver the news yourself rather than allow your boss to be surprised.

Mary Cheney

#2. My mother and father have also raised five boys so they know there's only so much that can be controlled.

Henry Cavill

#3. I can only write about personal stuff, about my point of view.

Henry Rollins

#4. I think I give the impression of being a romantic, and I think inside I'm quite severe. But some might say they had the opposite impression of me.

Tom Stoppard

#5. When you're winning the grass is greener, the cigars are sweeter and the girls are better looking!

Mark Grace

#6. It's possible to have an awesome life, but it's up to ourselves to do it.

Lee Hammond

#7. At the end, the realization is that she had to get to a place in her life where she could drop her guard and make peace with the fact that whether she had a small amount of time, that she had to kind of live it completely through, instead of living by the rules.

Charlize Theron

#8. Adopt your own view and adapt with others' views

Mohammed Sekouty

#9. I just operate on the assumption that all phone conversations are bugged.

Terry McAuliffe

#10. God sends us pieces of art so that we may see ourselves in them

Vincent Van Gogh

#11. And I was holding someone who was destined to be my best friend, or possibly my worst enemy.

Rick Riordan

#12. Our culture is what we did together. What did Walt Whitman represent for all of us? What was his message to us? That is an inheritance, and when we squander that inheritance we act outside. We don't know who we are; we don't know where we are.

Wynton Marsalis

#13. I think part of a hero construct is overcoming loss, or being abandoned, or having to make your own way in the world.

Susan Orlean