"I am convinced that Nigeria would have been a more highly developed country without the oil. I wished we'd never smelled the fumes of petroleum."

-- Wole Soyinka

#Country Quotes #Oil Quotes #Nigeria Quotes

“A sound discretion is not so much indicated by never making a mistake as by never repeating it.”
“It is better to be quotable than to be honest.”

Source : Tom Stoppard, Paul Delaney (1994). “Tom Stoppard in Conversation”, p.49, University of Michigan Press
“If you look closely, there is no book more visual than Three Trapped Tigers, in that it is filled with blank pages, dark pages, it has stars made of words, the famous magical cube made of numbers, and there is even a page which is a mirror.”
“Well, if you're looking for me to lead a normal representative life, well good luck finding a foreign secretary who'd be like that - totally dependant on the political system and has never earned any money. Then you'll get the politicians you deserve.”
“That's basically what I'm doing when I'm tapping them - getting my toes to the end of my shoes.”
“I really like the relaxed glamour of the '70s.”
“I wouldn't like to see a chick of mine taking her clothes off and kissing a fellow on screen. And my girls must get very hurt when they see me doing it.”
“Most of the stuff I do is garbage.”

Source : "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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