Okumu Quotes

#1. I started meeting the right people, like [producer] Dave [Okumu], who explained to me how songwriting is really simple - "just like shitting," he said. "You gotta let it all out." When he put it like that, however disgusting it is, it made a lot of sense to me.

Jessie Ware

#2. The primary paradox that man is superior to all the things around him and yet is at their mercy.

G.K. Chesterton

#3. We were ready to launch Barry White, but the record company wouldn't put it out. Said it wouldn't sell.

Barry White

#4. No man is above the law.

William H. Pryor Jr.

#5. As developing countries became bigger traders, it was clear that the old way of doing business wouldn't fly. To get them back to the bargaining table, the wealthy countries had to offer something more: a new round of talks that would use trade as a tool to help developing countries grow.

Daniel Altman

#6. Do you know how hard it is to get stupid people to do smart things?

Terri Anne Browning

#7. Could today's construction worker married to a clerical worker guarantee four children a college education and buy a house? That's what we're fighting about.

Xavier Becerra

#8. If you think too much about being re-elected, it is very difficult to be worth re-electing.

Woodrow Wilson

#9. Lass, doona fear me. No matter what happens, promise me you will not fear me. I am a good man, I vow I am.

Karen Marie Moning

#10. Example is better than precept.

Margaret Halsey

#11. In high school I was very much involved in poetry. You cannot read a poem quickly. There's too much going on there. There are rhythms and alliterations. You have to read poetry slow, slow, slow to absorb it all.

Eugene H. Peterson

#12. She can be ornery now and then, vain for sure, petulant and impetuous, silly at times, ill disposed toward the help, even malicious and malevolent when angry, but, still, she has always been the one for me.

Rabih Alameddine

#13. I live in a shrinking world where the only thing I can trust is Maven's obsession. Like the manacles, it is a shield and a slow, smothering death.

Victoria Aveyard

#14. Much of the success of our thinking will depend upon just how we divide our big problems into subsidiary problems, and just what our subsidiary or subordinate problems are.

Henry Hazlitt