John Banville Quotes

I'm also lumbered with the title of being a writer's writer, which is the worst possible reputation you can have, because, of course, other writers don't read other writers except to gain evidence against them. And it puts readers off.

John Banville

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• I've done comedy most of my career, which I love, but I wanted to expand.

  

  Katey Sagal
  • Career
  • Comedy
  • Expand

• I always like to sing along to some depressing, angry Morrissey.

  

  Lara Stone
  • Like
  • Always
  • Angry

• Every moment of light and dark is a miracle.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Light
  • Dark
  • Moment

• I don't put people down. I build people up. That's how I always wanna be looked at.

  

  Action Bronson
  • People
  • Up
  • Always

• We're playing the same songs, the same way, that we have for years.

  

  Daisy Berkowitz
  • Way
  • Years
  • Same

• Reba is very, very close to everyone around her. She's a classy lady.

  

  Faith Hill
  • Lady
  • Classy
  • Reba

• I developed the habit of writing novels behind a closed door, or at my uncle's, on the dining table.

  

  Patrick White
  • Writing
  • Door
  • Habit

• I was singing about six notes higher than I had to, in a range that kept me up in a bubblegum sound.

  

  Nancy Sinatra
  • Singing
  • Notes
  • Range

• The second, and I think this is the much more overt and I think it is the main cause, I have been increasingly demonstrating or trying to demonstrate that every possible stance a critic, a scholar, a teacher can take towards a poem is itself inevitably and necessarily poetic.

  

  Harold Bloom
  • Trying
  • Think
  • Teacher

• I feel no compulsion to be a pundit. As a matter of fact, I really don't have that much to say about most things. Working with hard news satisfies me completely.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Me
  • Working
  • News

• I took a plane from New York City to Los Angeles for an audition. I met all the people. After that, I was told to have another audition, but I didn't want to go there again.

  

  Ed O'Neill
  • People
  • City
  • New York

• I think all the bad blood started when Geffen released a greatest hits package of my solo stuff.

  

  Sammy Hagar Van Halen
  • Bad
  • Think
  • Blood

• I inherited them, so I got it like that. But I hear you can actually get dimples for a certain price if you really want them. I was getting my nails done once, and this lady asked me, 'Are those real? In my country, they pay a lot of money for those.' And I was like, 'Really?' I think she was from Malaysia.

  

  Camille Guaty
  • Country
  • Real
  • Money

• At seventy-seven it is time to be in earnest.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Time
  • Earnest

• For most of American history, of course, the important religious divides were between denominations - not just between Protestants and Catholics and Jews but between Lutherans and Episcopalians and Southern Baptists and the other endlessly fine-tuned sects.

  

  Hanna Rosin
  • Important
  • American
  • History

• The ridicule is pressure to consider ourselves less important than someone even more precious: A baby is more precious than a mother; a woman is more precious than a man.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Important
  • Mother
  • Baby

• A planet of playthingsWe dance on the strings of powers we cannot perceiveThe stars aren't aligned or the gods are malignedBlame is better to give than receive - Freewill (1980)

  

  Neil Peart Rush
  • Dance

• To do what you wanna do, to leave a mark - in a way that you think is important and lasting - that's a life well-lived.

  

  Laurene Powell Jobs
  • Life
  • Important

• Sometimes you're gonna jump off a cliff and land flat on your face. Then you just get up and go again. But sometimes you dive off the cliff and start soaring with the eagles, and that's when you find new music, places that you've never been before.

  

  Butch Trucks
  • Up
  • Music
  • Jump

• I love to flirt, and I've never met a man I didn't like.

  

  Dolly Parton
  • Men
  • Flirting

• I have no idea why one of our most original filmmakers would want to spend two years of his life translating someone else's movie from Spanish into English. And it wasn't such a good film in Spanish, either.

  

  Joel Siegel
  • Life
  • Good
  • Why

• Ernest Rutherford's 1908 Nobel Prize in Chemistry wasn't given for the nuclear power station - he wouldn't have survived that long - it was given for showing how interesting atomic physics could be.

  

  Andre Geim
  • Long
  • Power
  • Interesting

• The pushback I get is, 'He's a hedge fund guy.' Full stop. Some places, that can be a badge of honor. In others, it's almost a term of derision.

  

  Edward Lampert
  • Guy
  • Stop
  • Honor

• I'm also lumbered with the title of being a writer's writer, which is the worst possible reputation you can have, because, of course, other writers don't read other writers except to gain evidence against them. And it puts readers off.

  

  John Banville