Afifi Al Akiti Quotes & Sayings

The premise of my book is that everyone is a bit ideological to some extent. Everyone comes from a ideological perspective. — Jonah Goldberg

Los Angeles is like a beauty parlor at the end of the universe. — Emily Mortimer

How awful," he said, "the way time passes! — Gabriel Garcia Marquez

It will be another million years, at least, before we understand the primes. — Paul Erdos

I can't inhabit my characters until I know what kind of work they do. This requires research because my jobs for the last decade have been author and professor, and I'd like to spare the world more author or professor novels. — Victor LaValle

A work should contain its total meaning within itself and should impress it on the spectator before he even knows the subject. — Henri Matisse

I like dark places. — James Gandolfini

Every time I want to impress someone about samples and hip-hop, I play 'Portrait of Tracy.' It's one of the greatest bass players ever doing a whole composition with only the two harmonics of electric bass; then a three-second loop in it became every great R&B song in five-year intervals. — Diplo

Typically, you learn how to cook, but you don't know why. We were looking for a deeper understanding of what was happening to our food as we roasted it, boiled it, grilled it, chopped it, etc. And it turned out, as we began to really say what is cooking, what does it mean to cook, there's a lot of science involved. — Wylie Dufresne