Ian Mcewan Quotes

Love doesn't grow at a steady rate, but advances in surges, bolts, wild leaps, and this was one of those.

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• Passion is the evil in adultery. If a man has no opportunity of living with another man's wife, but if it is obvious for some reason that he would like to do so, and would do so if he could, he is no less guilty than if he was caught in the act.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Man
  • Opportunity
  • Wife

• My mother wrote a couple of romances when I was a kid, and I always saw books in our bookshelf with 'Schroeder' on the spine.

  

  Karl Schroeder
  • Mother
  • Always
  • Couple

• My great fear of being attacked or trivialized by my contemporaries made me concentrate on what I was trying to do as a writer. It forced me to draw some conclusions that were my own.

  

  Pat Conroy
  • Great
  • Trying
  • Fear

• Science progresses best when observations force us to alter our preconceptions.

  

  Vera Rubin
  • Science
  • Best
  • Force

• If I am going to trash others for their dumb predictions, I must at least hold myself to the same sort of accountability.

  

  Barry Ritholtz
  • Accountability
  • Trash
  • Predictions

• When you're 16, the top of the world is directing a gangster movie.

  

  Daniel Espinosa
  • World
  • Movie
  • You

• Girls shouldn't drink because their bodies are not made for drinking and smoking.

  

  Rakul Preet Singh
  • Drinking
  • Drink
  • Smoking

• With every film that you do, you're always so nervous. You feel exposed because you know people will see this eventually. You sort of have to put all that out of your head. What will be will be. But it's nerve wracking.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • People
  • Know
  • Always

• For a number of years in England nobody had any idea what I looked like.

  

  Sacha Baron Cohen
  • Years
  • Idea
  • Nobody

• Motherhood has been an exercise in guilt.

  

  Felicity Huffman
  • Exercise
  • Guilt
  • Motherhood

• I like people who are enthused about things they do, like travel, sports, work. I like being with people who have things they're excited about.

  

  Parker Stevenson
  • People
  • Work
  • Sports

• I'm a walking, talking enigma.

  

  Larry David
  • Walking
  • Talking
  • Enigma

• Look, I had a passion for comic books growing up.

  

  Baz Luhrmann
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Passion

• It is a great compliment to go out and be recognized. Although, because I basically go home and go to work, there isn't much opportunity for that kind of thing to happen.

  

  Lara Flynn Boyle
  • Work
  • Great
  • Home

• My father got a phone call to bring me in to meet with Spielberg for 'E.T.,' partially because they knew I was a physical kid, and I was known in the business somewhat as a stunt kid, and I could do all the bicycle riding.

  

  C. Thomas Howell
  • Business
  • Father
  • Bicycle

• Is power that-an emptiness?

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Power

• L. Frank Baum 'Philadelphia North American', (3 October 1904), as quoted by 'Map of Kansas Literature' Washburn.edu.

  

  L. Frank Baum
  • American
  • Literature
  • October

• Oh, Bertie, if I ever called you a brainless poop who ought to be given a scholarship at some lunatic asylum, I take back the words.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • Words

• In Southeast Asia the world is understood to be a vast, complex network of interdependent relationships. So when global capitalism makes it impossible for small-time rice farmers to feed their families and make a living, it is a natural thing for anyone in the family who can find an alternative source of income to do so.

  

  John Burdett
  • Time
  • World
  • Family

• The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar and is shocked by the unexpected; the eye, on the other hand, tends to be impatient, craves the novel and is bored by repetition.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Hand
  • Eye
  • Bored

• I wanted to be the next Dana Carvey. This was my ultimate goal. If I ever cut into a birthday cake and made a wish, I would wish to be on 'Saturday Night Live.' If I threw a coin into a fountain, I would wish to be on 'Saturday Night Live.' If I saw a shooting star, I would wish to be on 'Saturday Night Live.'

  

  Jimmy Fallon
  • Live
  • Night
  • Wish

• The vague torment of ... ambition.

  

  Emile Zola
  • Ambition
  • Torment
  • Vague

• He that will not when he may, When he would, he should have nay.

  

  Miguel de Cervantes
  • May

• Love doesn't grow at a steady rate, but advances in surges, bolts, wild leaps, and this was one of those.

  

  Ian Mcewan