Ian Mcewan Quotes

All she had needed was the certainty of his love, and his reassurance that there was no hurry when a lifetime lay ahead of them.

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• It's the technique, I think, of writing a novel that is difficult for a nonfiction writer.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Writing
  • Think
  • Nonfiction

• I worked with the Neville Brothers for 40-some years on the highway, and up and down since I can remember - funk from New Orleans.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Up
  • Remember
  • Years

• Corruption is in society and in every strata of society.

  

  Kapil Sibal
  • Society
  • Corruption
  • Every

• Once a food becomes off-limits, then it takes on this whole other personality. 'Forbidden' is more tempting. And it becomes something evil, but food is food. It's there to nourish your body.

  

  Valerie Bertinelli
  • Food
  • Evil
  • Personality

• In 1993, when I landed in Zimbabwe, there were just 10 psychiatrists in that country of 10 million people. Nine of the 10 were foreigners who spoke no regional language.

  

  Vikram Patel
  • People
  • Country
  • Language

• The existing U.N. can be found in the writings of early Communist leaders.

  

  G. Edward Griffin
  • Found
  • Early
  • Communist

• It would have been fun to have played Tim Robbins' role in Bull Durham.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • Fun
  • Role
  • Bull

• If women's rights are a problem for some modern Muslim men, it is neither because of the Quran nor the Prophet, nor the Islamic tradition, but simply because those rights conflict with the interests of a male elite.

  

  Fatema Mernissi
  • Men
  • Women
  • Conflict

• To all my people back in Nashville who have been there from the start, you put your faith in me. You were there for the long haul.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • People
  • Long
  • Faith

• I myself have already spent a third of my life in Germany, first in Cologne and then, since 1994, in Berlin.

  

  Olafur Eliasson
  • Life
  • Myself
  • My Life

• Political satire is a serious thing. In democratic newspapers throughout the world there are daily cartoons that often are not even funny, as is the case especially in many English-language newspapers. Instead, they contain a political message, and the artist takes full responsibility.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • World
  • Political
  • Funny

• There are a lot of artists in Gowanus, and certain things come into your visual vocabulary from living there - the scale of the subway and the canal, sometimes it almost looks like a de Chirico painting, with the intense angles of the shadows and everything.

  

  Dana Schutz
  • Sometimes
  • Painting
  • Shadows

• Truly to sing, that is a different breath.

  

  Rainer Maria Rilke
  • Different
  • Sing
  • Breath

• I think I usually have quite ordinary dreams. Sometimes my dreams take me to other dimensions. I can travel in my mind especially when I'm dreaming I focus my mind on what I want to dream. If I want to fly, I focus on flying.

  

  Uri Geller
  • Mind
  • Dream
  • Focus

• The feeble soul merely whines and complains.

  

  Taylor Caldwell
  • Soul
  • Complains
  • Feeble

• In English, I'm a little bit limited. I speak English as a second language, and that's a little limitation that I have to work around and I have to use it to my favor. So, yes, that's why I end up wanting to do more things in Latin America.

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
  • Up
  • Work
  • Why

• Jazz is the art of thinking out loud.

  

  Barbara Januszkiewicz
  • Thinking
  • Art
  • Jazz

• Battles are won in the hearts of men.

  

  Vince Lombardi
  • Men
  • Hearts
  • Battles

• Immigration keeps this country young, it keeps it dynamic, we have entrepreneurs and strivers who come here and are willing to take risks, and that's part of the reason why America historically has been successful.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Country
  • Why
  • America

• If it were customary to send daughters to school like sons, and if they were then taught the natural sciences, they would learn as thoroughly and understand the subtleties of all the arts and sciences as well as sons.

  

  Christine de Pizan
  • School
  • Understand
  • Taught

• The mother-in-law had an accident at work. A hot rivet dropped down her drawers and she fell off the oil rig.

  

  Les Dawson
  • Work
  • She
  • Mother

• I was thinking on the rollers today that, before a race, if I could just pick my brain up and put it on the side of the track for four minutes, it would be perfect.

  

  Laura Trott
  • Up
  • Thinking
  • Today

• I'm so free-spirited. Everyone has a me inside them: that loud girl that just wanna go, 'Ayyyy!' No matter if you a doctor, a lawyer, a teacher, it comes out.

  

  Cardi B
  • Free
  • Girl
  • Teacher

• All she had needed was the certainty of his love, and his reassurance that there was no hurry when a lifetime lay ahead of them.

  

  Ian Mcewan
  • She