John Banville Quotes

I'm very much against the notion of the Great Man, the Great Figure who is telling us all how to behave. Writers are just like other people, except slightly more obsessed.

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• I just have a connection with sign language. I always thought the deaf community was a different community to be a part of. In high school, me and my friend took sign language.

  

  Zach LaVine
  • Different
  • School
  • High

• Being Bob Marley's son has done many things for me, in terms of having a career in music. I'm very proud of my music, and I'm very proud of where I'm from. People hear that I'm Bob Marley's son, and they turn on my music to listen just out of curiosity.

  

  Damian Marley
  • People
  • Music
  • Done

• Portland, Oregon won't build a mile of road without a mile of bike path. You can commute there, even with that weather, all the time.

  

  Lance Armstrong
  • Time
  • Road
  • Path

• My son's a West Point cadet.

  

  Victor Mitchell
  • Son
  • Point
  • West

• I'm still number one and I just recently won a major tournament ahead of my toughest rivals so I think I had a few years ahead of me if I decided to stay.

  Garry Kasparov
  • Think
  • Won
  • Tournament

• I've been around tennis, and I have a feeling for the sport. I still play tennis, and I can still do a lot of harm to a lot of people.

  

  Oleg Cassini
  • People
  • Feeling
  • Play

• I love nothing better than immersing myself in different street cultures; exploring all those neighbourhoods in Tokyo was quite amazing, or visiting Morocco to see an Inditex factory.

  

  Imran Amed
  • Myself
  • Street
  • Cultures

• I'm the most Colombian of the Colombians, even though I've lived 47 years outside of Colombia. I've lived 13 years in New York, and I never did a painting about New York. I've lived in France more than 30 years, and I've never painted Paris.

  

  Fernando Botero
  • Painting
  • New York
  • Paris

• When I won the belt, it was kind of a precedent... The only Canadian to have ever held it.

  

  Owen Hart
  • Kind
  • Ever
  • Belt

• Right now I'm so old that if I had a big gush of money, I don't know what I'd do with it. I don't travel anymore. I don't need anything, don't want anything. I'd give it to my son, I guess, and let him enjoy it.

  

  Jack Vance
  • Money
  • Travel
  • Son

• There's a policy now of opening the doors to the outside world.

  

  Hanoi Hannah
  • World
  • Doors
  • Opening

• There are moments when I am really not happy with how I look, or I think it would be an easy way out to try and do the conventionally attractive thing. But part of it is that I don't have the energy to put on, like, makeup. If people want to do that, that's fine. But I've learned that it's not for me.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • People
  • Happy
  • Energy

• The spirit of L.A. is untamed wilderness. It's earthquakes and wildfires and oceans and mountain lions and fog. There's great physical beauty.

  

  Dan Gilroy Breakfast Club
  • Great
  • Beauty
  • Mountain

• I believed or thought I was disoriented and the victim of a bizarre dream and I believe I paced in and out of the room and possibly into one of the other rooms. I may have re-examined her, finally believing that this was true.

  

  Sam Sheppard
  • Believe
  • May
  • True

• Moderate doesn't mean that you're a wimp - far from it. It means that you've chosen a path because you believe that's the only way for global harmony and peace.

  

  Najib Razak
  • Believe
  • Peace
  • Path

• I appreciate the constant evolution in refining food, but not in making food gimmicky.

  

  Daniel Boulud
  • Food
  • Appreciate
  • Evolution

• A theory is no more like a fact than a photograph is like a person.

  

  E. W. Howe
  • Person
  • Theory
  • Fact

• We are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we refuse.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Rich
  • Poor
  • Through

• I love you, what star do you live on?

  

  Conrad Aiken
  • Live
  • Star

• Choosing to arm and train the Islamist opposition against dictator Moammar Gadhafi unleashed its most ruthless terrorist elements.

  

  Pete Hoekstra

• A lot of people bring it to me at conventions. At first I was going, "I can't sign that. That's not me." And now I just say, "Eh, whatever."

  

  Cassandra Peterson
  • People
  • Sign
  • Conventions

• I think the biggest difficulty is that when I'm here in America, there's a necessity of using English, so I really have a great sense of really wanting to learn, but unfortunately when I head back to Japan, the necessity vanishes and so does my enthusiasm about learning.

  

  Chiaki Kuriyama
  • Great
  • America
  • Learning

• Losing your capital is like losing your trousers. It is a real humiliation, and one not to be soon repeated.

  

  James Buchan
  • Real

• I'm very much against the notion of the Great Man, the Great Figure who is telling us all how to behave. Writers are just like other people, except slightly more obsessed.

  

  John Banville
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