John Banville Quotes

Certain moments remain in the mind with such force and clearness that one suspects they must be invented; that they are not held in the memory but generated out of the imagination.

John Banville

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• When I write, I create really absurd situations which become false because I am after the joke.

  

  Sally Phillips
  • Write
  • Create
  • Joke

• I think it's always easy to be sympathetic to parts of the government in detail; in their concrete manifestations. Because obviously, we don't have government for no reason.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Think
  • Government
  • Easy

• If you take away the gift of reading, you create the gift of listening.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • Reading
  • Listening
  • Gift

• When you're young and queer and closeted, you can end up in this place where you regard your straight peers as the enemy.

  

  Dan Savage
  • Up
  • You
  • Enemy

• If you're on a road trip, you need driving music.

  

  Edgar Wright
  • Music
  • Road
  • Driving

• I think a lot of playwrights have a script in their bottom drawer that hopefully no one will ever see about a bunch of young people sharing a flat and getting up to crazy stuff.

  

  Laura Wade
  • People
  • Up
  • Think

• When I did 'Alien: Resurrection', a lot of the guys worked on planned production, and one of them was really into comic books and would draw all sorts of characters, and I was impressed with his sketches.

  

  Gary Dourdan
  • Books
  • Alien
  • Resurrection

• How movies are financed, it's a world market now... I feel like, you know, the independent film way of working is something that was in my bones. It's like being a part of a punk band, but no one's singing punk rock anymore. Only a few bands are able to play, and Woody Allen is one of them.

  

  Parker Posey
  • World
  • Band
  • Rock

• If I was doing 'The Hunt' constantly, I would get very old, very fast.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • Doing
  • Old
  • Fast

• Education is at the heart of achieving your dreams.

  

  Patrice Motsepe
  • Heart
  • Education
  • Dreams

• I rarely think about myself that much. I really don't.

  

  Nancy Reagan
  • Think
  • Myself
  • Really

• Women are the strong people in this world, not men. I think TV is finally catching up with that reality, and thank God.

  

  Finn Jones
  • People
  • Up
  • World

• If people don't like me for whatever I do, for being me, then that's too bad. I don't want to change to be something that I'm not for other people to like me.

  

  Vanessa Hudgens
  • People
  • Bad
  • Want

• Cinematic icons of the police detective are more male role models than female.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Police
  • More
  • Detective

• I was definitely nervous for the combine. You train for three months to go out there and perform for three days.

  

  Malik Jackson
  • Three
  • Train
  • Nervous

• As professional soccer players, we take our bodies to the extreme. We're the people at the gym that look like we're breaking the machines. Pushing our bodies to the limits is what makes us so strong and capable and Olympians. It's not an easy thing to consistently do over and over again to your body.

  

  Abby Wambach
  • People
  • Strong
  • Professional

• Let me tell you that I love the United States.

  

  Vicente Fox
  • You
  • Tell
  • Let

• Wine is something to enjoy. We get sick and tired of people who pick it apart and talk about its 'saucy nuances.'

  

  Pat Paulsen
  • People
  • Enjoy
  • Tired

• Unfathomable mind, now beacon, now sea.

  

  Samuel Beckett
  • Mind
  • Sea

• To resign oneself or to blow out one's brains, that is the choice one faces at certain moments. In any case, the only real dignity is that of exclusion.

  

  Emil Cioran
  • Real
  • Moments
  • Blow

• I learned that if I put my mind to something vocally, I can pull it off. You just have to get your head-space right.

  

  Joe Bonamassa Black Country Communion
  • Mind
  • Learned
  • Just

• ..bear in mind that, in general, it is the object of our newspapers rather to create a sensation-to make a point-than to further the cause of truth." Dupin in "The Mystery of Marie Roget

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • Mind
  • Newspapers
  • Bear

• I think whenever you have a common goal with someone, you're going to bond. It's really hard to get two people together and be like, 'Hey guys, why don't you just bond!' But if you say, 'Listen, I need you guys to build this house, or I need you to do this or I need you to make this movie,' you'll get to work and you'll get close.

  

  Ben Schnetzer
  • People
  • Work
  • Why

• Certain moments remain in the mind with such force and clearness that one suspects they must be invented; that they are not held in the memory but generated out of the imagination.

  

  John Banville
  • Mind
  • Moments
  • Imagination