Ian Bogost Quotes

We're used to thinking of fun as a sort of synonym for light pleasure.

Ian Bogost

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• It may be assumed as a fixed truth that the prosperity and riches of the farmer must depend on the prosperity and good national regulation of trade.

  

  Oliver Ellsworth
  • Good
  • May
  • Truth

• Anti-inflammatories always seemed to work well for my joints, but the problem was you couldn't take them all the time.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • Time
  • Work
  • Problem

• Life is not always not always what one wants it to be., but to make the best of it as it is the only way of being happy.

  

  Lady Randolph Churchill
  • Life
  • Happy
  • Best

• I think comedy is one of the hardest things to do.

  

  Faith Ford
  • Think
  • Comedy
  • Things

• I have been a Republican, and I've worked in Republican circles for so long, and I know that there are really smart, good policy ideas that are grounded in conservative ideology that could be persuasive for women, especially in an election where no one was really excited about either candidate.

  

  Dana Perino
  • Good
  • Long
  • Women

• I can assure you we are all strong-willed, forceful personalities and the president encourages vigorous debate.

  

  Karen Hughes
  • Strong
  • You
  • I Can

• All Hollywood corrupts; and absolute Hollywood corrupts absolutely.

  

  Edmund Wilson
  • Hollywood
  • Corrupts

• There's so much you can do with laying words on a bed of music. You can completely change their meaning with the type of music or the way they're sung.

  

  P. J. Harvey
  • Music
  • Words
  • Change

• A lot has happened over the years. And while this nation has been tested by war, and it's been tested by recession and all manner of challenges - I stand before you again tonight, after almost two terms as your president, to tell you I am more optimistic about the future of America than ever before.

  

  Barack Obama
  • America
  • War
  • Future

• Those edges and turns teach control and discipline, just like finger exercises on the piano.

  

  Barbara Ann Scott
  • Control
  • Discipline
  • Teach

• Sure, men like a challenge - but so do women. And nobody likes to be challenged all the time. I know plenty of long-standing happy couples who slept together right away, spent hours yakking on the phone, split checks down the middle, and lived together for years before the wedding.

  

  Katha Pollitt
  • Time
  • Men
  • Long

• I always would dream of making music videos. Whenever I make music, I always have a visual in my mind. I always see things.

  

  Dan Reynolds Imagine Dragons
  • Music
  • Mind
  • Dream

• Youth is really in your attitude, not in what you look like.

  

  Walt Handelsman
  • Attitude
  • Look
  • Youth

• I think when you're a TV presenter, you have to have a reason for doing it, and a lot of them have been around a long time and grafted for that. The reason why it works with me on 'The Xtra Factor' is because I was a contestant on it, and I have a relationship with the viewers at home.

  

  Olly Murs
  • Time
  • Long
  • Why

• I'm the same kid who used to hop the trains with headphones and just go to downtown Manhattan, walk around and listen to music or walk through the city. The fame restricts that. It's a small complaint in comparison to the benefits I get from it, but the restrictive part is what I don't like - and the fact that it's not reversible.

  

  J. Cole
  • Music
  • Small
  • City

• You could time a suburban story by your watch: it lasts as long as it takes a small furry animal that's lonely to find friends, or a small furry animal that's lost to find its parents; it lasts as long as a quick avowal of love; it lasts precisely as long as the average parent is disposed on a Tuesday night to spend reading aloud to children.

  

  Rachel Cusk
  • Time
  • Children
  • Friends

• The Champions League is the one thing missing from my career. When I look at the history of the competition and the people that have taken part, the top, top players have all won it. For many, it is why they have been regarded as top players.

  

  Eden Hazard
  • People
  • Why
  • History

• You got to expand the sound to expand your horizon and your fanbase.

  

  Quavo Migos
  • You
  • Sound
  • Horizon

• I don't know why there aren't more Depression buffs.

  

  Ben Bernanke
  • Why
  • Depression
  • Buffs

• If I've done anything I'm sorry for, I'm willing to be forgiven.

  

  Edward Noyes Westcott
  • Sorry
  • Forgiven

• When you cut human beings down to size, we're really quite simple creatures; food, shelter, warmth, light, heat and you build it up from there really until you finally go Gucci shoes or whatever it is or whatever your consumer desires are. All those desires are ultimately, they're about gratification.

  

  Bruce Dickinson Iron Maiden
  • Up
  • Food
  • Light

• When I was thinking of people for the Space Twins, I wanted people who were sort of space cadets in the first place. I consider myself to be one.

  

  Brian Bell Weezer
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Space

• Science can destroy religion by ignoring it as well as by disproving its tenets. No one ever demonstrated, so far as I am aware, the non-existence of Zeus or Thor - but they have few followers now.

  

  Arthur C. Clarke
  • Science

• We're used to thinking of fun as a sort of synonym for light pleasure.

  

  Ian Bogost
  • Thinking
  • Fun
  • Light