John Banville Quotes

Let's not despise story-telling. Like all novelists, I have this low desire to tell people stories.

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• It is easy to remove the mind from harping on the lost illusion of immortality. The disciplined intellect fears nothing and craves no sugar-plum at the day's end, but is content to accept life and serve society as best it may.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Life
  • Mind
  • May

• I don't even own a television. I don't watch network television.

  

  Jack Falahee
  • Television
  • Own
  • Watch

• I was quite nervous about meeting William's father, but he was very, very welcoming, very friendly, it couldn't have gone easier really for me.

  

  Kate Middleton
  • Father
  • Me
  • Friendly

• There was just a lot of comedy on the TV in the house, and my parents are both very funny.

  

  Kate McKinnon
  • House
  • Parents
  • Funny

• Once you make it to your point of making it, you'll appreciate the struggle.

  

  Nas
  • You
  • Struggle
  • Appreciate

• There aren't traditions of freedom in a place like Iraq. They're going to have to come to grips with a concept that they hadn't been allowed to conceive before.

  

  Malcolm Wallop
  • Freedom
  • Place
  • Traditions

• It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like.

  

  Jackie Mason
  • Health
  • Question
  • Healthy

• A disposition to preserve, and an ability to improve, taken together, would be my standard of a statesman.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Together
  • Taken
  • Ability

• Well, I - you know, the scripture says that God works by faith. And you have to have faith. You have to have trust in God so that God can work.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • Work
  • God
  • Faith

• Write something beautiful and honest and that makes you very proud.

  

  Karen Bender
  • Beautiful
  • You
  • Proud

• I worked with HBO on 'Recount,' and we had a wonderful experience together. I'm such a fan of HBO and how much flexibility they give in character as well as schedule.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Character
  • Experience
  • Together

• A Pike, in the California dialect, is a native of Missouri, Arkansas, Northern Texas, or Southern Illinois. The first emigrants that came over the plains were from Pike County, Missouri; but as the phrase, 'a Pike County man,' was altogether too long for this short life of ours, it was soon abbreviated into 'a Pike.'

  

  Bayard Taylor
  • Life
  • Long
  • Man

• In a lot of ways, I envy someone like Omar Sharif who lived in a hotel for decades.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Envy
  • Lived
  • Hotel

• I've always thought that it's good to watch the news to find out what everybody else is looking at and believing, if only because that's how consensus is constructed.

  

  Barbara Kruger
  • Good
  • Thought
  • Looking

• Whatever its flaws, the United Nations is still the only institution that brings together all the countries of the world. And it is the best forum for the United States to spur countries to act - and to hold them accountable when they don't.

  

  Samantha Power
  • World
  • Together
  • Best

• I'm not afraid of special effects, but I see them very much as a means to an end.

  

  Daniel Barber
  • End
  • See
  • Special

• I've lived in New York for 40 years. I came right after college.

  

  R. L. Stine
  • College
  • Years
  • New York

• I grew up with a pet iguana named Willy. We had a very contentious relationship. It turns out that iguanas are not meant to live in suburban homes.

  

  Kate McKinnon
  • Up
  • Live
  • Relationship

• THE soul should always stand ajar, That if the heaven inquire, He will not be obliged to wait, Or shy of troubling her. Depart, before the host has slid The bolt upon the door, To seek for the accomplished guest, -- Her visitor no more.

  

  Emily Dickinson
  • Soul
  • Heaven
  • Troubling

• The SAS is the most elite of the special forces in the world. They are not people who go out and advertise; they keep it inside. They don't want anybody to know about them.

  

  Taylor Hackford
  • People
  • World
  • Want

• I've been lucky enough to, for the most part, surround myself with a lot of people who are more talented than me and who I can learn from, and it makes me up my game.

  

  Dave Franco
  • People
  • Up
  • Game

• The true virtue of human beings is fitness to live together as equals; claiming nothing for themselves but what they as freely concede to everyone else; regarding command of any kind as an exceptional neccessity, and in all cases a temporary one.

  

  John Stuart Mill
  • Virtue
  • Human Beings
  • Regarding

• It is an incredible thing to see how many crazy things get thrown out that people then often write commentaries about how happy they are or how disappointed they are about something that's completely false. But, it's a lot of noise, frankly.

  

  J. J. Abrams
  • People
  • Happy
  • Crazy

• Let's not despise story-telling. Like all novelists, I have this low desire to tell people stories.

  

  John Banville
  • People
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