Adore Quote by Teju Cole Download Open image “I adore imaginary monsters, but I am terrified of real ones.” — Teju Cole ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.5 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Adore Imaginary Monsters Real Real ones
Monsters can be scary, and they're great, but they're only really scary when they're reflections of us and they show you the things you're… — Scott Snyder Copy Share Image
Monsters are a departure from 'reality' in a way that allows for a range of fantastic possibilities. I mean this within the world of… — Emil Ferris Copy Share Image
Monsters are very real. But they're not just creatures. Monsters are everywhere. They're people. They're nightmares...They are the things that we harbor within ourselves.… — C. Robert Cargill Copy Share Image
I'm still scared of monsters, for God's sakes! When my girlfriend goes out of town, I sleep with the TV on. — Seth Rogen Copy Share Image
Monsters almost always are culture's way of working out their fears and are thus inherently incredibly interesting and powerful. — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
I'm not really afraid of things that are imaginary. I enjoy it. I enjoy big narrative, and I enjoy big feelings. Having a feeling… — Julianne Moore Copy Share Image
Real-life things, like spiders and snakes, that doesn't scare me, but if it's a monster or a ghost or an alien, that will always… — Claire Coffee Copy Share Image
My mommy always said there were no monsters - no real ones - but there are. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Monsters are real, and ghosts are too. They live inside us, and sometimes, They win. — Patience Copy Share Image
One of the difficulties of photography is that it is much better at being explicit than at being reticent. — Teju Cole Copy Share Image
Note-taking is important to me: a week's worth of reading notes (or "thoughts I had in the shower" notes) is cumulatively more interesting than… — Teju Cole Copy Share Image
It's an Obama book, certainly. I was delighted, and astonished, to hear recently that he was reading it. It's a book about a new… — Teju Cole Copy Share Image
Because I'm an art historian, I have some experience of writing that comes out of close attention. That's what really art history is. You're… — Teju Cole Copy Share Image
For purposes of marketing, writers are designated as poets, novelists, or something else. But writing is about matchmaking, an attempt to marry sensations with… — Teju Cole Copy Share Image
“Most of the people around me yesterday were middle-aged or old. I am used to it, but it never ceases to surprise me how… — Teju Cole Copy Share Image
“The mind roams more widely in the dark than it does in light. It is no surprise, then, stepping out of the unlit house into the unlit compound to find myself with the sudden thought, What if I inhabited another body and had a different destiny? We have all had these notions, perhaps while standing on a porch over a… — Teju Cole Copy Share
“Each person must, on some level, take himself as the calibration point for normalcy, must assume that the room of his own mind is not, cannot be, entirely opaque to him. Perhaps this is what we mean by sanity: that, whatever our self-admitted eccentricities might be, we are not the villains of our own stories. In fact, it is quite… — Teju Cole Copy Share
Writing as writing. Writing as rioting. Writing as righting. On the best days, all three. — Teju Cole Copy Share Image
“The site was a palimpsest, as was all the city, written, erased, rewritten...Generations rushed through the eye of the needle, and I, one of… — Teju Cole Copy Share Image
“As I contemplated the silent world before me, I thought of the many romantic ideas attached to blindness. Ideas of unusual sensitivity and genius were evoked by the names of Milton, Blind Lemon Jefferson, Borges, Ray Charles; to lose physical sight, it is thought, is to gain second sight. One door closes and another, greater one, opens. Homer’s blindness, many… — Teju Cole Copy Share
“I am happier when I love than when I am loved. I adore my husband, my son, and my grandchildren, my mother, my dog,… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
I don't like the word celebrity. If I become a good actress and be in movies where I'm expected to be a good actress,… — Kelly Reilly Copy Share Image
We are going to die, as is everyone we adore - I hate this! But the question is, how do we live as women and men in the face of this? Why do we let ourselves be so distracted and obsessed by meaningless B.S. in light of having one short, precious life? When are we going to wake up and… — Anne Lamott Copy Share
She dotes on poetry, sir. She adores it; I may say that her whole soul and mind are wound up, and entwined with it.… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
It isn't called TV money for nothing. There was a time where I paid my rent by doing theater for years, and I was able to buy groceries and pay my electric bill. I considered myself to be making a living as an actor. This kind of money that we make is a whole other level, of course. But it… — Jim Parsons Copy Share
I'm sorry I can't give you the normal life you wanted, but I promise to adore you every day for the rest of your… — Jeaniene Frost Copy Share Image
You could at least complain,” I say. “I adore complaining. It calms the nerves. — Franny Billingsley Copy Share Image
I'm massively inspired by Janet Jackson, and I adore Whitney Houston and Madonna. — Shura Copy Share Image
Emily and I have some funny scenes where we quarrel and it gets quite heated, the mother-daughter relationship. You know, film mothers and daughters… — Jacki Weaver Copy Share Image
