Ian Bogost Quotes
This willingness to be frank and plain about the way that the world is, is a good first step. But that doesn't mean that you get what you want.
Ian Bogost
Quotes to Explore
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Hell, I ain't paid to make good lines sound good. I'm paid to make bad lines sound good.
Walter Huston
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Monologues are self-verifying and self-referencing, a world in their own right, one with its own internal logic that strengthens with reiteration.
Samantha Harvey
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I'd rather have one good scene in a movie by a great director than a small role in a mediocre movie.
Tahar Rahim
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If you don't use good ingredients, the outcome is never going to be excellent. But if you buy the freshest ingredients that are in season, at their peak, and you cook with them, you can't really go wrong.
Gail Simmons
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I believe that architecture is fundamentally a public space where people can gather and communicate, think about the history, think about the lives of human beings, or the world.
Tadao Ando
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Hunger and homelessness aren't things we always want to talk about.
K. A. Applegate
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My father is a very successful man in the corporate world, and I am his only son. He had certain dreams for me. I was scared to tell him that I wanted to be an actor.
Ram Kapoor
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I don't want to privatise part of the parliament, like some people in Russia.
Victor Pinchuk
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Basically, our goal is to organize the world's information and to make it universally accessible and useful.
Larry Page
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Are there really good wars and bad wars? We thought so during World War II, and in retrospect, we were right. But in Vietnam, and Iraq we were wrong.
Madeleine M. Kunin
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There are no friends at cards or world politics.
Finley Peter Dunne
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Indians have very good engineering capabilities, and that is why, if an industry focuses on innovation, you will have a far greater chance of success, rather than the model which is based on just being a production machine.
Baba Kalyani
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Being champion is all well and good, but you can't eat a crown.
Althea Gibson
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Your competition is not other people but the time you kill, the ill will you create, the knowledge you neglect to learn, the connections you fail to build, the health you sacrifice along the path, your inability to generate ideas, the people around you who don't support and love your efforts, and whatever god you curse for your bad luck.
James Altucher
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Am I old-fashioned? I think I might be. I am a lucky woman, because I was born with a priceless gift... the ability to laugh at the misfortunes of others.
Barry Humphries
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I want to be a great actress.
Jayne Mansfield
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Books are necessary to correct the vices of the polite; but those vices are ever changing, and the antidote should be changed accordingly should still be new.
Oliver Goldsmith
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This willingness to be frank and plain about the way that the world is, is a good first step. But that doesn't mean that you get what you want.
Ian Bogost
