Teju Cole Quotes

Not explicitly, no. Compared to this enormous, relentless evolutionary activity in the built environment, writing is small potatoes.

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• Let us go forward in this battle fortified by conviction that those who labour in the service of a great and good cause will never fail.

  

  Owen Arthur
  • Good
  • Great
  • Service

• Unfortunately, there is still much to mine in this world and explore creatively.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • World
  • Explore
  • Still

• I had no interest in sports so I didn't make friends in that traditional way where kids are in public school and they go and they join clubs, and play sports. So I kind of had to find my own way to make friends and get attention and so I just was the class clown.

  

  Zach Braff
  • School
  • Kids
  • Friends

• Public opinion is a permeating influence, and it exacts obedience to itself; it requires us to drink other men's thoughts, to speak other men's words, to follow other men's habits.

  

  Walter Bagehot
  • Men
  • Words
  • Opinion

• I've had many incidents in my life of racism. I've been thrown on the ground. I've been frisked. I've been arrested so many times I couldn't tell you. I have no need to talk about it.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Racism

• I always loved Sam Cooke, because he seemed very versatile. He sang gospel, soul, blues, pop music.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Music
  • Soul
  • Blues

• They call me Fearless Felix.

  

  Felix Baumgartner
  • Me
  • Fearless
  • Call

• I have learned so much from God that I can no longer call myself a Christian, a Hindu, a Muslim, a Buddhist, a Jew.

  

  Hafez
  • God
  • Myself
  • Christian

• I hope I did it the way my peers did it before me. I didn't do anything but try to play hard.

  

  Karl Malone
  • Hope
  • Way
  • Me

• There are Katy-Perry-in-concert-type pieces that I look at and am like, 'This dress has a hundred cupcakes on it – I want it!' My mom will always talk me down.

  

  Ireland Baldwin
  • Want
  • Me
  • Mom

• I am fortunate enough with my career that I can speak out to the masses and hopefully be a part of initiating change.

  

  Lance Bass NSYNC
  • Career
  • Change
  • Speak

• There is talk that badminton may not make it as a sport in the 2020 Olympics. We must bear in mind that other sports are strongly lobbying to be included.

  

  Taufik Hidayat
  • Mind
  • May
  • Sports

• I'm surprised sometimes at how some of my actions are misinterpreted.

  

  Larry David
  • Sometimes
  • Actions
  • Some

• I think the virtue I prize above all others is curiosity. If you look really hard at almost anybody, and try to see why they're doing what they're doing, taking a dig at them ceases to be what you want to do even if you hate them.

  

  A. S. Byatt
  • Why
  • Hate
  • Doing

• The Sphinx, the Pyramids, the stone temples are, all of them, ultimately, as flimsy as London Bridge; our cities but tents set up in the cosmos. We pass. But what the bee knows, the wisdom that sustains our passing life - however much we deny or ignore it - that for ever remains.

  

  P. L. Travers
  • Life
  • Up
  • Wisdom

• Generations to come, it may well be, will scarce believe that such a man as this one ever in flesh and blood walked upon this Earth.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Believe
  • Man
  • Earth

• It is sad when people can't connect, and the sense of desperation that you feel when there is nothing to look forward to.

  

  David Frankel
  • People
  • Sad

• Sometimes, you might meet somebody that you love that's turning into a 'they.' My key is invite them to Miami and take them to the ocean and let them jump off the boat in the ocean, on the sand bar, and cleanse off and pray and then go take a shower, and hopefully the 'they' is out of you.

  

  DJ Khaled
  • Ocean
  • Jump
  • Boat

• I still believe that the mission of Business 2.0 is very strong, very fundamental, and we're really at the beginning of where they're going to take us.

  

  James Daly
  • Believe
  • Business
  • Strong

• I started writing it the day after Sept. 11. I was living in New York City. We didn't have any phone service and we didn't have any mail. Like a lot of writers do, I started to write in a voice that I missed.

  

  Kathryn Stockett
  • Writing
  • City
  • Service

• If you do an American TV series, before the audition you sign away the next five years of your life.

  

  Dominic West
  • Life
  • American

• I definitely have a little attraction to bad guys, but they have to be sweethearts underneath. After all, I like to be treated well.

  

  Carly Rae Jepsen
  • Bad
  • Like
  • Attraction

• I have tried to help build a framework that recaptures the First Amendment as a principle to empower all Americans, politically and personally, through access to plentiful, diverse communications spaces.

  

  Marvin Ammori
  • Help

• Not explicitly, no. Compared to this enormous, relentless evolutionary activity in the built environment, writing is small potatoes.

  

  Teju Cole
  • Writing
  • Environment
  • Activity