Ben Okri Famished Road Quotes

#1. Empty canvas. In appearance - really empty, silent, indifferent. Stunned, almost. In effect - full of tensions, with thousand subdued voices, heavy with expectations. A little frightened because it may be violated

Wassily Kandinsky

#2. Our one certainty in life is death.

Jean P. Sasson

#3. Leadership is self-made. People who have deliberately decided to become problems solver lead better.

Israelmore Ayivor

#4. The best spiritual instruction is when you wake up in the morning and say, 'I wonder what's going to happen today.' And then carry that kind of curiosity through your life.

Pema Chodron

#5. I realized I was good at developing young people. Eventually I started to believe in young people. I think when you give a young person an opportunity, he always believes who gave him his first chance. You create a loyalty that lasts a lifetime.

Alex Ferguson

#6. God wants us to lament. Complaint doesn't see the goodness of the character of God. Lament is authentic about the feelings but knows the goodness and benevolence of God.

Ann Voskamp

#7. At the heart of 'The Famished Road' is a philosophical conundrum - for me, an essential one: what is reality? Everybody's reality is subjective; it's conditioned by upbringing, ideas, temperament, religion, what's happened to you.

Ben Okri

#8. I have a dream:
One day we will get to the promised land.
Then the president will be me,
The government will be Shabaam, Mos and Kweli ... that's it!
All wackness is now banned.

Pharoahe Monch

#9. I've always loved fashion so much and I didn't have access to the kind of fashion I really wanted, so I would do vintage shopping.

Rachel Roy

#10. Fail, fail again, fail better

Samuel Beckett

#11. I was born left-handed, but I was made to use my other hand. When I was writing 'Famished Road,' which was very long, I got repetitive stress syndrome. My right wrist collapsed, so I started using my left hand. The prose I wrote with my left hand came out denser, so later on I had to change it.

Ben Okri

#12. And that will increasingly dawn on people. The demand for controlling the commanding heights will grow.

Barbara Castle

#13. I'd gotten high enough to fly through time.

S.A. Tawks