Ian Mcewan Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
It wouldn't be fair to drag a child round the world, touring.
-
I try to live my life in a holistic way, show that all of it intersects because I'm coming from the same place. Now, at the core of it, I'm just trying to connect and be there, so I'm trying to be there for my family, my wife, my kids, my friends.
-
I don't jog, if I die I want to be sick.
-
These activists who support immigrants inadvertently become part of this international human-smuggling network.
-
You know what I like? I like classic stuff. I like 'The Andy Griffith Show' – the variety of characters was so amazing to me.
-
I have to think about how to not spread myself too thin. It's a really great problem to have.
-
My sister married an American and took his name, and my brother has shortened Sayrafiezadeh to Sayraf. So now he's Jacob Sayraf, or sometimes Jake Sayraf. He made the change when he was a teenager, prior to the Iranian revolution and the hostage crisis. So I don't think it was motivated by any anti-Iranian sentiment in the United States.
-
You know, I've had an incredible career and I'm blessed.
-
I would like every Jew to be as comfortable in his skin as I am in mine.
-
We think of the Marine Corps as a military outfit, and of course it is, but for me, the U.S. Marine Corps was a four-year crash course in character education. It taught me how to make a bed, how to do laundry, how to wake up early, how to manage my finances. These are things my community didn't teach me.
-
Because of lies, we can produce and invent a possible world.
-
Look, maybe I'm just not good at multi-tasking and am, therefore, jealous of those of you who can get in a workout while yammering on your cell phone, but for the love of all that is good and pure, shut your yap!
-
I love doing voice-over. It's one of my favorite things.
-
That's a comic cover's job: Attract someone's attention and persuade them to try the issue out.
-
I have no doubt I was someone very interesting in a past life.
-
I'm not quite as cool as I would like to be, really.
-
Great men lose somewhat of their greatness by being near us; ordinary men gain much.
-
There are people doing yoga in New York, dancing around; that's the power of India. You go to a nightclub somewhere in Spain and there's Amitabh Bachchan on the screen there, dancing around. That's the power of India. That's the power of Indian people.
-
Ronda Rousey changing the game for MMA, you know? Dana White said he'd never have a girl in the Octagon. Ronda Rousey comes along, and she's the main event any time she's on. The women, I feel, in the UFC are stealing the show.
-
I just coach and get my guys ready.
-
People actually tell me that I'm living my dream. And I'm like, 'It's a little more nuanced than that.'
-
One of the things I did in my book, I start off with, is explaining how great our grace was: the things we were able to accomplish after the first one-hundred years from slavery.
-
I don't think it's an incredibly radical premise to try and have sympathy for someone who has made a mistake.
-
I'm quite good at not writing.
