John Banville Quotes
Interviewer: What would you like carved onto your tombstone? Banville: I'd rather not have a tombstone.
John Banville
Quotes to Explore
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Only weeks after Oslo began, when nearly all the world and most of Israel was drunk with the idea of peace, I argued that a Palestinian society not constrained by democratic norms would be a fear society that would pose a grave threat to Israel.
Natan Sharansky
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Certainly, hunger can bring out the worst in us. But it can also bring out the best.
Hamza Yusuf
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Maybe it's just my own chronic morbidity and melancholia, but I really do think about it a great deal and quite often in the small hours of the night when, it is said, the greatest numbers of people die.
Brian Sibley
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Somehow it's O.K. for people to chuckle about not being good at math. Yet if I said, 'I never learned to read,' they'd say I was an illiterate dolt.
Neil deGrasse Tyson
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This will sound really funny, but I'm so used to shooting in Hindi that shooting in English took a while to get used to.
Jacqueline Fernandez
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In State of the Union addresses, I always look at the foreign policy and military parts first, which are generally pretty minimal.
Phil Klay
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Songs come from all over the place. You can't predict what you're going to like. You might like something that doesn't fit right now. What was working for you at one point, something you've loved for years and years, when you get together with everybody, you think, this doesn't match up with what's going on with you personally.
Alison Krauss
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I know it is one of the most important instruments and inventions, the electric guitar, to me, since television or movies or anything like that.
John 5
LOSER
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The more you love a person, you more you should respect that person. Encourage her to be the best she can be, and you'll both be happier.
Kelsey Chow
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When I wrote 'Savage Season,' it was three years later before I wrote the second Hap and Leonard novel. Whenever I wrote one, I never intended to write the next one.
Joe R. Lansdale
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Interviewer: What would you like carved onto your tombstone? Banville: I'd rather not have a tombstone.
John Banville