Ian Bogost Quotes

My lawnmower can't change in the way that my son can or that I can.

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• I write in a small office at home.

  

  Walter Dean Myers
  • Home
  • Small
  • Office

• Stars arrive on their own timetable.

  

  Cameron Crowe
  • Stars
  • Own
  • Arrive

• Lucha libre culture was part of my wrestling upbringing. I'm Filipino, so it wasn't a part of my normal upbringing, but it's what gave me my start. I get a lot of my technical and high-flying wrestling from that.

  

  T. J. Perkins
  • High
  • Culture
  • Me

• There has to be a balance between power and vulnerability. That's something I feel I have in my own life, something I struggle with and - on a good day - like about myself.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • Life
  • Good
  • Power

• I work with the Carl Lewis Foundation focusing on youth from high school down.

  

  Carl Lewis
  • Work
  • School
  • High

• History is not hatred.

  

  Malcolm X
  • History
  • Hatred

• I laugh at what I used to think was cool when I was growing up. In all seriousness, I thought having braces was cool.

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Cool

• For me, California is all about rest, relaxation, space.

  

  Karen O
  • Space
  • Rest
  • California

• I knew that the artists that I loved the most had something about them that was very unfiltered and very rough.

  

  Gallant
  • Something
  • Loved
  • Very

• When you're 14, anything with a sword and a dragon is pretty cool. But when you're 21 and you've read 2,000 fantasy novels, you start to realize that some of those books, well, they weren't really good. OK, let's be honest. A lot of them were crap.

  

  Patrick Rothfuss
  • Good
  • Pretty
  • Cool

• I think every woman should have a one-night stand. If it's done right, it can be liberating.

  

  Rachel Perry
  • Done
  • Think
  • Night

• Every real thought on every real subject knocks the wind out of somebody or other.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
  • Real
  • Thought
  • Wind

• I don't think anybody's really been successful with theorizing about value or creating a price theory.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Think
  • Value
  • Successful

• The Committee supports the idea that there should be, within the University of California, a campus which puts particular emphasis on the education of undergraduates within the framework of a College system.

  

  Abraham Robinson
  • Education
  • College
  • California

• I love theater. I love the idea that you can transform, become somebody else, and look at life with a completely new perspective. I love the idea that people will sit in one room for a couple of hours and listen.

  

  Natasha Tsakos
  • People
  • Life
  • Idea

• Common Core isn't a test, but for some people it is, because they don't like the testing piece of it.

  

  Brown Campbell
  • People
  • Test
  • Testing

• If I didn't have a girlfriend, I'd have 10 girls at the studio, and they would make me not rap.

  

  Young Thug
  • Me
  • Rap
  • Girlfriend

• You can never get complacent because a loss is always around the corner.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Always
  • Never
  • Loss

• Working women wore hats. It was the only way they would take you seriously.

  

  Bella Abzug
  • Women
  • Way
  • Hats

• I don't create poetry, I create myself, for me my poems are a way to me.

  

  Edith Södergran
  • Way
  • Poetry
  • Create

• These 'messengers' will not be hindered from accomplishing at their best speed the distance which they have to go, either by snow, or rain, or heat, or by the darkness of night.

  

  Herodotus
  • Night
  • Distance
  • Messengers

• I have supported affirmative action, I do support affirmative action and I will support affirmative action.

  

  Joe Lieberman
  • Action
  • Support
  • Actions

• I wake up from dreams and go, 'Wow, put this down on paper.' The whole thing is strange. You hear the words, everything is right there in front of your face. ... I am always writing a potpourri of music. I want to give the world escapism through the wonder of great music and to reach the masses. ... And I remember going to the record studio and there was a park across the street and I'd see all the children playing and I would cry because it would make me sad that I would have to work instead.

  

  Michael Jackson
  • Music
  • Dreams

• My lawnmower can't change in the way that my son can or that I can.

  

  Ian Bogost
  • Way
  • Son
  • Can't Change