Ian Mcewan Quotes

What idiocy, to racing into this story and its labyrinths, sprinting away from our happiness among the fresh spring grasses by the oak.

Ian Mcewan

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• I drove long distances like the 24 hours of Le Mans for years. But even this racing is now over. I retired.

  

  Jacky Ickx
  • Long
  • Now
  • Racing

• Here's the thing: I left Ion Storm and Eidos in the spring of 2004 frankly because I felt out of place at that company.

  

  Warren Spector
  • Spring
  • Company
  • Storm

• I got to the big leagues when I was 20. I thought I had it all figured out. Went to spring training that next year and started off well, got sent down, and I pouted pretty much all of 2000. And it wasn't the right way to handle it.

  

  Vernon Wells
  • Pretty
  • Training
  • Thought

• He, who every morning plans the transactions of the day, and follows that plan, carries a thread that will guide him through a labyrinth of the most busy life.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Life
  • Day
  • Morning

• Let peace, descending from her native heaven, bid her olives spring amidst the joyful nations; and plenty, in league with commerce, scatter blessings from her copious hand!

  

  Daniel Boone
  • Peace
  • Hand
  • Heaven

• A racing tipster who only reached Hitler's level of accuracy would not do well for his clients.

  

  A. J. P. Taylor
  • Racing
  • Clients
  • Accuracy

• The Polish freedom movement of 1968 lost its confrontation with police violence; the Prague Spring was crushed by the armies of five Warsaw Pact members. But in both countries, 1968 gave birth to a new political consciousness.

  

  Adam Michnik
  • Political
  • Freedom
  • Lost

• It's all about racing on the track.

  

  Adam Petty
  • Track
  • About
  • Racing

• No matter what's happening in the Middle East - the Arab Spring, et cetera, the economic challenges, high rates of unemployment - the emotional, critical issue is always the Israeli-Palestinian one.

  

  Abdullah II of Jordan
  • High
  • Always
  • Emotional

• I went to Rosemary Beach, Florida, for the first time in the spring of 2012.

  

  Abbi Glines
  • Time
  • Spring
  • Beach

• Between work and the kids, I never see anyone anymore. I mean, when I first met with ABC last spring, and they asked me what I'd been doing lately, I said: 'Gee, I have two kids. I'm usually covered with food, wrinkled and feel guilty all the time.

  

  Felicity Huffman
  • Time
  • Work
  • Kids

• That strategy of racing for the top five and racing for the win is where everybody wants to be.

  

  Dale Earnhardt
  • Win
  • Strategy
  • Racing

• I don't do ski racing to be famous.

  

  Ted Ligety
  • Famous
  • Racing
  • Ski

• The library, with its Daedalian labyrinth, mysterious hush, and faintly ominous aroma of knowledge, has been replaced by the computer's cheap glow, pesky chirp, and data spillage.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Knowledge
  • Library
  • Mysterious

• The main difference between the Prague Spring and the Velvet Revolution was that the former was mostly the work of Communist party members and others who wanted to bring about 'socialism with a human face.'

  

  Adam Michnik
  • Work
  • Party
  • Revolution

• The excitement of automobile racing did not compare with what I knew must come with aeroplane fighting in France.

  

  Eddie Rickenbacker
  • Fighting
  • France
  • Racing

• It is only the farmer who faithfully plants seeds in the Spring, who reaps a harvest in the Autumn.

  

  B. C. Forbes
  • Spring
  • Autumn
  • Farmer

• I would have probably stolen cars – it would have given me the same adrenaline rush as racing.

  

  Valentino Rossi
  • Racing
  • Cars
  • Adrenaline

• I thought I'd do everything on four-track, and then I'll record every instrument myself in a studio, and then I'll have a solo album released by spring.

  

  Kim Deal The Breeders
  • Spring

• It turns out that if you're a 24-year-old whose only line on their resume says CEO, you are totally unemployable.

  

  Sam Yagan
  • You
  • Line
  • Resume

• A fan sent me a pair of fluffy winter socks, and I was like, 'Oh, that's cool. I'll wear them to bed. It's cold; it's winter.' But they were worn. They were black underneath, and they stunk, and I hate feet. She was like, 'I'm giving you my favorite pair.'

  

  Ella Henderson
  • She
  • Black
  • Giving

• The enormous expectation having to do with sexual love and the shame involved in this expectation degrades all a woman's perspectives from the start.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Shame
  • Expectation
  • Sexual Love

• The men who are great live with that which is substantial, they do not stay with that which is superficial; they abide with realities, they do not remain with what is showy. The one they discard, the other they hold.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Live
  • Realities
  • Discard

• What idiocy, to racing into this story and its labyrinths, sprinting away from our happiness among the fresh spring grasses by the oak.

  

  Ian Mcewan
  • Spring
  • Racing
  • Labyrinth