Teju Cole Quotes

I adore imaginary monsters, but I am terrified of real ones.

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• I like to wear shoes that are cool but also practical. The same goes for bags. Your bag is a big deal in New York. You can't just carry around a little clutch, because you don't have a car or anywhere to stash things during the day, so you need to carry your whole life with you. That's why I like big, chunky bags with lots of compartments.

  

  Zoe Kravitz
  • Life
  • Why
  • Day

• It's been so amazing. I've always struggled with this barrier that I felt like I'd had up until blogging came along. Just one comment from somebody really sparks something in me. It doesn't need to be this huge war between me and the listeners anymore. I really thrive on that.

  

  Imogen Heap
  • War
  • Me
  • Amazing

• I think it just came to a point where I made a decision to do better with my life and health. And that is only by God's grace because there are no guarantees.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • Life
  • God
  • Health

• I am only 33, I've got a lot to do. This is the first half of my career. I'm looking forward to the future and I'm proud about the past.

  

  Ice Cube
  • Future
  • Career
  • Past

• I enjoy music wherever it's coming from.

  

  Henry Saint Clair Fredericks
  • Music
  • Enjoy
  • Coming

• When people ask me what the most important thing is in life, I answer: 'Just breathe.'

  

  Yoko Ono
  • People
  • Life
  • Important

• I don't really talk about surgery, because I feel like no one should be judged on their journey.

  

  Candis Cayne
  • Feel
  • Journey
  • Surgery

• While I am busy with little things, I am not required to do greater things.

  

  Saint Francis de Sales
  • Busy
  • Greater
  • Little Things

• Let me just make this point, John...We're not campaigning anymore. The election's over.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Point
  • Elections
  • Campaigning

• Writing a novel is like making love, but it's also like having a tooth pulled. Pleasure and pain. Sometimes it's like making love while having a tooth pulled.

  

  Dean Koontz
  • Writing
  • Pain

• I wrote 'The Kiss' 12 hours a day for six months.

  

  Kathryn Harrison
  • Kiss

• When 'Next to Normal' won the Pulitzer, that was the moment I felt the show was being defined. There's a certain confidence that comes with being selected.

  

  Alice Ripley
  • Confidence

• The Internet offers the ability for people to consume poison and radicalize entirely in private, either through a device they're holding in their hands or inside their house.

  

  James Comey
  • People
  • House

• I was at the University of Miami, and I still had, like, a semester or so left. And through the film school, I found out that Al Gore was launching a new TV network; they were looking for passionate young storytellers to transform television, which was, like, ambiguous but magnificent-sounding.

  

  Jason Silva
  • School

• My food hero has to be Auguste Escoffier. And the villain? The man who's been most responsible for the death of food in my time is Ronald McDonald. He's always scared me, I think he's evil - he's a wolf in sheep's clothing. Him and the Hamburglar.

  

  Arthur Potts Dawson
  • Time
  • Death
  • Food

• I have but one rule at my table. You may leave your cabbage, but you'll sit still and behave until I've eaten mine.

  

  Laurie Graham
  • May

• Longer and more frequent delays for international passengers at Bush will only cede business to Houston's competitors - and the jobs that go along with it.

  

  Kevin Brady
  • Business

• I always say, 'Be anxious for nothing,' because if this is my social media, if this is a platform for me to really get the word out and get my brand out, then why am I gonna be anxious about it?

  

  Ashley Graham
  • Why

• I always found that if you handle a problem in a benevolent way and a transparent way and involve other people, so it's just not your personal opinion, that people get to the other side of these difficult conversations being more enthusiastic.

  

  David M. Kelley
  • People
  • Opinion

• If there is any sense of order to the universe, acting is what I am meant to do. I'm not manufactured. I know acting isn't real, that it's temporary. If there is any theme to the roles I play, it is emotional vulnerability and availability.

  

  DJ Qualls
  • Real
  • Universe
  • Emotional

• We won't ever see another one like Paul Scholes. He is a legend and a real benchmark. He is not interested in the modern-day footballer's life off the pitch, but he is a world-class player on it.

  

  Darren Fletcher
  • World
  • Real
  • Player

• Where there is no temple there shall be no homes.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Where
  • Temple
  • Shall

• I've been a freelancer my entire career, and, at any given time, I have several deadlines for all sorts of things, whether it's some magazine piece or ad copywriting or anything.

  

  Meghan Daum
  • Time
  • Career

• I adore imaginary monsters, but I am terrified of real ones.

  

  Teju Cole
  • Real
  • Monsters
  • Imaginary