John Banville Quotes
I suppose many people in Ireland would regard me as being more a European writer than an Irish writer. I don't think this is so.John Banville
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Even if gas prices fall, consumers will continue to be gouged at the pump the only thing that we can be sure rises faster that the price of gasoline is the skyrocketing profits of oil companies.
Major Owens -
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 -
The fallacy of the neoclassicals is their tenet that total employment, though hit by shocks, can be said always to be heading back to some normal level.
Edmund Phelps -
You might think the thinner version of yourself is going to be the most positive or confident, but that's not how it is for me. When I'm over 200 pounds, that's when I'm the most confident version of myself.
Garrett Hedlund -
Medicine, anything academic, is a very Persian Iranian route to take in life, in one's career.
Nazanin Boniadi -
It always annoys me when stars grumble about fans coming up to them in the street. I love it. These young stars today with all their airs and graces, they need to remember it is an honour and a privilege to make money from acting. How hard is it?
Larry Hagman
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When men are romantically interested in you, it's really simple. Just ignore everything they say and only pay attention to what they do.
Randy Pausch -
I was a huge comic book fan as a kid. The only problem I had with comic books is how expensive they got. I didn't have a lot of money, so I had to be very specific about what I wanted to collect. I think they're all somewhere in the basement of my folks' house.
Nathan Fillion -
I want to expand the compassionate conservative agenda. I believe life begins in the womb, and we should protect it. But it extends to a child in Darfur or someone living in poverty.
Sam Brownback -
I didn't record any additional dialogue for this CD, they are excerpts pulled from existing episodes.
Tara Strong -
I was a good bartender. I wouldn't say I was the best bartender in New York, but I could hold my own.
Samira Wiley -
If I don't eat something after I work out, I get shaky and cranky - not a good combination when you're a television host.
Lara Spencer
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It's a weird scene. You win a few baseball games and all of a sudden you're surrounded by reporters and TV men with cameras asking you about Vietnam and race relations.
Vida Blue -
Ireland and America, music-wise, are very closely related. The Irish came over with their fiddles in hand, and you can hear it in the bluegrass and rockabilly. I love it when music from different countries combine.
Imelda May -
If you come to a fork in the road, take it.
Yogi Berra -
If we look at the fact that record covers are essentially advertisements for the music, we acknowledge a function and purpose to draw in the prospective buyer.
Beck -
I'm not being outspoken or pro or con abortion.
Barbara Bush -
Loving a child doesn't mean giving in to all his whims; to love him is to bring out the best in him, to teach him to love what is difficult.
Nadia Boulanger
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I never knew a writer yet who took the smallest pains with his style and was at the same time readable.
Samuel Butler -
There is no horizon in Toledo. There are too many trees.
P. J. O'Rourke -
New Yorkers are predatory about real estate. When they sense softening, they move in for the kill.
Anderson Cooper -
I don't want to impose on anyone else and make anyone else emotional or anything. I tend to quietly cry, kind of turn away.
Milo Ventimiglia -
You read [Bill ] Maher's book, and he didn't take Econ 101. All his arguments about gasoline, it's not that they're right or wrong - they're just not informed.
P. J. O'Rourke -
I suppose many people in Ireland would regard me as being more a European writer than an Irish writer. I don't think this is so.
John Banville