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.
Quotes to Explore
-
The Arab world also won the Nobel with me. I believe that international doors have opened, and that from now on, literate people will consider Arab literature also. We deserve that recognition.
-
You've got the Trump water and Trump Steaks and Trump's very so-called dodgy university. And so many of the towers, the Trump towers around the world, the Trump resorts around the world, those are not owned by the Trump Organization.
-
I think that ballet is very good for the body. It's very similar to yoga, because you have to hold a position.
-
If I hadn't spent many years trying to be as compassionate as Mother Teresa, as positive a thinker as W. Clement Stone, as prolific a writer as Stephen King, and as good a speaker as many of the legends I have studied, I would not be as successful as I am today.
-
Disneyland will never be completed. It will continue to grow as long as there is imagination left in the world.
-
I don't pray because I don't want to bore God.
-
I practice on the roads of Gaza as we don't have good stadiums and tracks so I gave my best.
-
Hell, I ain't paid to make good lines sound good. I'm paid to make bad lines sound good.
-
My autobiography is a digressive illustration and exemplification of what race has meant in the world in the 19th and 20th centuries.
-
Monologues are self-verifying and self-referencing, a world in their own right, one with its own internal logic that strengthens with reiteration.
-
I'd rather have one good scene in a movie by a great director than a small role in a mediocre movie.
-
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.
-
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.
-
Hunger and homelessness aren't things we always want to talk about.
-
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.
-
I don't want to privatise part of the parliament, like some people in Russia.
-
Basically, our goal is to organize the world's information and to make it universally accessible and useful.
-
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.
-
I'd love to get pajamas. Good, nice and warm flannel ones.
-
No man or woman of the humblest sort can really be strong, gentle and good, without the world being better for it, without somebody being helped and comforted by the very existence of that goodness.
-
[Andrea] Leadsom has compassion ... a real steel and a real determination and that velvet glove of compassion that she really cares about people.
-
Why do women get paid less money? It doesn't make any sense.
-
The authentic Gullah dialect is actually very clipped, and so it would sound almost Jamaican and be very odd to an American audience's ears. It's not the typical Southern dialect that we're used to.
-
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.
