John Banville Quotes
The force of the idea was such that I drew the car to the side of the road and stopped and, for some reason, laughed. It was a loud laugh, unsteady, and sounded, even to my own ears, slightly maniacal. Thinking back now, I realise it was less a laugh than the birth-cry of my dark and twin brother Benjamin Black.
John Banville
Quotes to Explore
I'm not terribly confrontational, but I've gotten better at holding my ground.
Valerie Plame
Do you remember campaigns like 'Keep America beautiful'? What about 'Buckle up'? I believe we need an approach like this to attack obesity. Let's be a good industry that does 100% of what it possibly can - not grudgingly, but willingly.
Indra Nooyi
You've got to be yourself, and if you're not, you're a phony. It comes shining through if you're not careful.
Jack Harbaugh
I never felt isolated; I just liked being alone. I think that some people are good at being alone, and some people aren't, and as a child, I really liked it.
Karin Slaughter
It's okay saying sorry, but when you are drunk you say what you really feel.
Vidal Sassoon
Young people are this awesome, creative, hopeful untapped resource out there.
Nancy Lublin
We live in a society that celebrates familial connection above any other kind of relationship. We are shown photos of our great-grandparents and encouraged to marvel over facial similarities. We are told to take pride in our bloodlines, celebrate our ancestry.
Lynn Coady
I've made sure that I've stood for privacy and the rights of the people time and time again.
Cory Gardner
I almost chose the career of an ethnomusicologist because I was so fascinated by that music. It gives a different feeling of time.
Pierre Boulez
I remember having my father stand over me when I had driven over my own foot; one leg was out of the car and one leg was in the car. He looked at me and told me that I was a drunk and that he was ashamed to call me his son. That night, I stopped drinking and I never drank again; I was twenty four.
Randy Bachman
The Guess Who
The one who writes a poem writes it above all because verse writing is an extraordinary accelerator of conscience, of thinking, of comprehending the universe.
Joseph Brodsky
The force of the idea was such that I drew the car to the side of the road and stopped and, for some reason, laughed. It was a loud laugh, unsteady, and sounded, even to my own ears, slightly maniacal. Thinking back now, I realise it was less a laugh than the birth-cry of my dark and twin brother Benjamin Black.
John Banville
