Lagos Life Quotes

#1. The energies of Lagos life- creative, malevolent, ambiguous- converge at the bus stops

Teju Cole

#2. Fashion is merely a saying: I belong to your world. I'm wearing the same uniform as your army, so don't shoot.

Paulo Coelho

#3. Life itself is the proper binge.

Julia Child

#4. So many people appreciate what you've done, the doors you've opened, but some people realise they're not going to be able to make as much money as they thought possible when you first started.

Nelly

#5. I think I'm a songwriter. I grab an instrument to make my body a song, but I'm not a player as such, maybe a little more on guitar, but certainly not piano.

P.J. Harvey

#6. A love affair with knowledge will never end in heartbreak.

Michael Marino

#7. You have to separate what needs to be done to avoid the fiscal cliff and what needs to be done longer range. It's a mistake to essentially collapse those two - they're not the same. I don't think you can achieve everything at once.

Sander Levin

#8. The way we are, we are members of each other. All of us. Everything. The difference ain't in who is a member and who is not, but in who knows it and who don't.

Wendell Berry

#9. I thought it was a cool parallel. Being replaced by the young thing. I know that definitely happens in Hollywood. It's harder to find good roles, and suddenly there's new girls. I'm at that age I've been warned my whole life about.

Winona Ryder

#10. You may travel the whole world, but you'll not find true religion anywhere. Whatever there is, it is in your own mind.

Abhijit Naskar

#11. My impression is that Putin feels that he can basically manipulate the West to do what he ultimately wants to achieve, and that he feels he's gotten away with it so far, and that all he has to do is basically play the same game.

Leon Panetta