Virginia Woolf Quotes
There is the strange power we have of changing facts by the force of the imagination.
Quotes to Explore
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I always wanted to do creative things, but I was really interested in entrepreneurship. My family comes from a very entrepreneurial culture, so business was always something I was interested in.
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Woodstock had a tremendous impact on American artistic life.
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When I write, I create really absurd situations which become false because I am after the joke.
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To me, eyewear goes way beyond being a prescription. It's like makeup. It's the most incredible accessory. The shape of a frame or the color of lenses can change your whole appearance.
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In 1958, my father invested everything he had in a business venture and became the largest automobile dealership in Chicago for Ford's new Edsel line. But Edsel sales plummeted and my father fell into bankruptcy. I watched him struggle; working long hours to protect us from poverty.
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I can't seem to help writing love stories. I definitely crave romance. When I was young, I craved romance in books, but I didn't want to read just romance - love plays such a big part in our lives, it shouldn't be cut out and restricted to its own fiction.
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The truth is, there's an information blockade in America, and it must be broken. In order to find crucial facts, numbers and outside perspectives, a person must spend an hour searching and cross-searching on the computer.
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I can't understand artists that don't want to perform and, like, get on stage and do their songs for all their fans every night.
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Sharing is the essence of social media.
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An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it.
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It's mad what each generation vilifies. It's not necessarily to do with logic.
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Men always do leave off really thinking, when the last bit of wild animal dies in them.
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I grew up playing hockey and some football, and I always think about the first time you walk into the locker room on a new team. The cliques are looking at you funny, and you make one friend, but then they're trying to stab you in the back.
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If I was doing 'The Hunt' constantly, I would get very old, very fast.
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Zach Galifianakis is hilarious. I worked with him on a pilot before; he's hilarious and such a nice person.
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I don't like to look typical.
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Being Somali, being Muslim, it's always something I've been very proud of.
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I literally left school and went straight into music via art college for a year, and I've been so involved in my job of writing songs that the more actively involved part became channeled into standing on the stage and saying things that way.
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In programming when you're making a change you have to know all the affected places, and you have to be able to model in your head what the performance impact will be.
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Everyone suffers; life is pain; and death is the final punctuation at the end of that sentence, so deal with it. I really think you can manage pain and suffering by living in fullness and being true to yourself and all those seemingly vapid platitudes.
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I've never thought too much of 'Rolling Stone.' The first thing I'd do is look at about 50 or 60 of the drummers they have ahead of me and go, 'Oh yeah, right!'
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I have this disease-like need to try to create something new. When you're kind of being chased, and everything you do goes so well, you develop this sickness and a sense of need to constantly do something different.
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Every child is born blessed with a vivid imagination. But just as a muscle grows flabby with disuse, so the bright imagination of a child pales in later years if he ceases to exercise it.
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There is the strange power we have of changing facts by the force of the imagination.
