Atmosphere Quote by Wole Soyinka Download Open image “I grew up in an atmosphere where words were an integral part of culture.” — Wole Soyinka ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.3 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Atmosphere Atmosphere Words Culture Grew Grew Atmosphere Grew up Integral Culture Language Words Words Integral
I have always, privately and humbly, thought it a pity that so good a word [as culture] should go out of the best vocabularies;… — Katharine Fullerton Gerould Copy Share Image
Words outlive people, institutions, civilizations. Words spur images, associations, memories, inspirations and synapse pulsations. Words send off physical resonations of thought into the nethersphere.… — Inga Muscio Copy Share Image
Words are like leaves,. . .like people really, fond of their own society. — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
I was fascinated by the shape of words even before I knew what they meant. — Susie Dent Copy Share Image
Words are small shapes in the gorgeous chaos of the world. ... they bring the world into focus, they corral ideas, they hone thoughts,… — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
Most words evolved as a description of the outside world, hence their inadequacy to describe what is going on inside me. — Hugh Prather Copy Share Image
There are expressions and bulls-eyes of the spirit, there are epigrams, a little handful of words, in which a whole culture, a whole society… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I know a lot about words. I get paid to write stories, so I get to talk with people about the meaning behind words… — Marti Noxon Copy Share Image
Writers and intellectuals have a duty to humanity. It is to insist that the human entity remains the primary asset in overall development; thus,… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
When I tried to create a new political party, which I stressed that this is not my party. I believe very much that there… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
Each time I think I've created time for myself, along comes a throwback to disrupt my private space. — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
I began writing early - very, very early... I was already writing short stories for the radio and selling poems to poetry and art… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
My horizon on humanity is enlarged by reading the writers of poems, seeing a painting, listening to some music, some opera, which has nothing… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
Under a dictatorship, a nation ceases to exist. All that remains is a fiefdom, a planet of slaves regimented by aliens from outer-space. — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
The phenomenon of creativity, we know, is closely related to the ability to yoke together separate, and even seemingly incompatible, matrices. — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
One, a mass movement from within, which, as you know, is constantly being put down brutally but which, again, regroups and moves forward as… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
We wasted a lot of creative energy in that immediate post colonial era, when there was a struggle between, you know, the Cold War… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
The Egba kingdom was one of the very last to be ceded to the British protectorate. It remained almost an independent entity within what… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
“The global population of Earth are involved in the following corporate government experiments: The long term effects of - 1. Nuclear bomb fallout radiation.… — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
If I had my brothers I think with just a little bit of the correct marketing, I'd like to be almost exclusively in small… — Terry Bozzio Copy Share Image
My mind rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work, give me the most abstruse cryptogram, or the most intricate analysis, and I… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
Man will not always stay on Earth; the pursuit of light and space will lead him to penetrate the bounds of the atmosphere, timidly… — Konstantin Tsiolkovsky Copy Share Image
Pause before you get home and prepare your heart. A peaceful heart leads to a peaceful atmosphere. — Jim Burns Copy Share Image
Sometimes a minute is really the difference between success and failure. There are times when you finish with ten seconds left, and one extra… — Michael Symon Copy Share Image
Christianity does not oppose debauchery and uncontrollable passions and the like as much as it opposes... flat mediocrity, this nauseating atmosphere, this homey, civil… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
Washington bureaucrats have classified the very air we exhale as a pollutant and have gone unchallenged in this incredible assertion. The logical consequence is… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
“Atmosphere" is a massive song. A lot of people say it's their favorite Joy Division song, but it's not mine; it reminds me too… — Peter Hook Copy Share Image
Establish an atmosphere that energizes you. Some creative people flourish in confusion; others need to be free from interruption. Many prepare themselves for work… — Nita Leland Copy Share Image
Each year we pump at least six billion tons of heat-trapping carbon into the innermost layer of our atmosphere, whose outer extent is only… — Ross Gelbspan Copy Share Image
It was clear to me that the White House's solemn atmosphere would not civilize Trump. But the merciless nepotism with which he conducts politics,… — Martin Schulz Copy Share Image
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