Yinka Shonibare Quotes

#1. In Europe and Australia, there is something called the Tall Poppy Syndrome: People like to cut the tall poppies. They don't want you to succeed, and they cut you down - especially people from your own social class.

Mark Burnett

#2. The candles burned The moon went down The polished hill The milky town Transparent, weightless, luminous Uncovering the two of us On that fundamental ground Where love's unwilled, unleashed, unbound And half the perfect world is found.

Leonard Cohen

#3. Liberating oneself from the addiction of consumerism and careerism promotes inner peace.

David Shi

#4. Facebook will figure out ways to allow people to have good businesses.

Jonah Peretti

#5. The lines of his face were the longitude and latitude of his life.

Louise Penny

#6. Historic Amsterdam, that old part you first see when you turn up at Centraal Station, may have its monuments, but it's also the most tawdry and overcrowded part of the city.

David Hewson

#7. And his mother, especially as Botticelli had painted her and Auge carved her, seemed like a perfectly nice goddess.

Jo Walton

#8. People first. Technology second.

Biz Stone

#9. At these moments I took refuge in the most perfect solitude. I passed whole days on the lake alone in a little boat, watching the clouds, and listening to the rippling of the waves, silent and listless.

Mary Shelley

#10. I wrote 'The Match,' my cricket novel, between 2002 and 2005. In retrospect, almost an age of innocence in cricket and a time when it was rare to find the game deep in fiction.

Romesh Gunesekera

#11. In reading and writing, you cannot lay down rules until you have learnt to obey them. Much more so in life.

Marcus Aurelius

#12. When was the last time you spent a quiet moment just doing nothing - just sitting and looking at the sea, or watching the wind blowing the tree limbs, or waves rippling on a pond, a flickering candle or children playing in the park?

Ralph Marston

#13. This at least hasn't changed, the way men caress good cars.

Margaret Atwood

#14. The theft potentially of data does create this image of sort of cloak and dagger politics that we sort of imagine when we think of underhanded politics.

Tamara Keith