John Banville Quotes
Saramago is … interesting, but I don't think I would put it higher than that … he ventures too far into the realm of 'magic realism' for my taste. Reality itself is magical enough without inventing whimsicalities.
John Banville
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The Supreme Court is not elected, and it is therefore not a proper arbiter of social policy.
Lamar S. Smith
I was born in San Diego, and we moved to Los Angeles when I was seven. A couple of years later, I started acting!
Danica McKellar
Evolutionary psychology tells us that men, especially powerful men, feel invincible and entitled to spread their seed, and that women can't resist the scent of masculine power. Women, by contrast, are said to be more altruistic and collaborative, seeking power so that they can share it with others.
Hanna Rosin
I do think one should have clean feet.
Manolo Blahnik
I love surprises - champagne and strawberries, all that pampering, romantic stuff. Guys ought to know how to pamper their women properly.
Danica McKellar
My parents played the radio, but music was never an obsession or something that I thought I could call a career.
Abigail Washburn
I'm not really into the political game as far as paying politicians and stuff like that, I'm not into that. You do your job, and I'll do mine.
Ice Cube
You fall out of your mother's womb, you crawl across open country under fire, and drop into your grave.
Quentin Crisp
I took a writing class in college, liked it, and my first year out of school I couldn't get a job, so I wrote a play.
Zoe Kazan
We all know him: everybody has an Archie Bunker in their family, so you love to laugh at him, and you never take it personally; everybody just has a ball laughing at him.
Vicki Lawrence
I've found just the right amount of balance in my life. I'm this pop artist in America, but I'm also Malaysian. And I'm also Muslim.
Yuna
I've only been on MTV once as one of their 'Closet Classics,' with some bootleg footage of a 1970 tour I did in Holland. They didn't know what to make of my music, but they finally invented a name for it - world beat music.
Henry Saint Clair Fredericks
The totem pole, for example, is a remnant from an era where there was much greater communication between man and the animals - when, in fact, men went to the animals to learn, and from them first acquired knowledge of herbs and corrective medicinal behavior.
Jane Roberts
Connected with the fall of Satan is his lameness. The devil is represented in art and in legion as limping on one foot; this was occasioned by his having broken his leg in his fall.
Sabine Baring-Gould
The greatest good fortune of my return to Cambridge in 1946 was that there, in the spring, I met Elizabeth Fay Ringo. We were married a few months later.
James Tobin
Some of the best people with whom you can have a relationship are the people who challenge your thinking.
T. D. Jakes
The tragic reality is that there have been occasions when [Mormon] Church leaders, teachers, and writers have not told the truth they knew about difficulties of the Mormon past, but have offered to the Saints instead a mixture of platitudes, half-truths, omissions, and plausible denials.
D. Michael Quinn
Saramago is … interesting, but I don't think I would put it higher than that … he ventures too far into the realm of 'magic realism' for my taste. Reality itself is magical enough without inventing whimsicalities.
John Banville
