Iain Banks Quotes

While the forces of repression need to win every time, the progressive elements need only triumph once.

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• When you are missing someone, time seems to move slower, and when I'm falling in love with someone, time seems to be moving faster.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Time
  • Love
  • Moving

• I've never met anyone that is their image.

  

  Macy Gray
  • Never
  • Image
  • Met

• I don't want to miss out on the chance of having a good time.

  

  Victor Webster
  • Time
  • Good
  • Chance

• Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk.

  

  Carl Jung
  • Up
  • Children
  • Talk

• It sounds super cliche, but my sister is 12 years younger than me, and I remember when I was there holding her in my arms for the first time. And that kind of responsibility you feel when you hold a child in your arms.

  

  Dacre Montgomery
  • Time
  • Remember
  • Responsibility

• Hamish and I rarely go to launches or parties any more but prefer to spend our time hanging out together.

  

  Zoe Foster Blake
  • Time
  • Together
  • More

• My deceased patients have taught me over the years to believe in the glass half full, to make good use of the time we have, to be generous - that was their lesson for the Uber-mind, and it was free. 'Do that,' they said, 'and then perhaps death shall have no dominion.'

  

  Abraham Verghese
  • Time
  • Good
  • Believe

• Children, in a way, are constant learners. Certainly sponge-like. Absorbing everything without careful analysis, even though, at the same time, they are certainly capable of incredible insights.

  

  Yo-Yo Ma
  • Time
  • Children
  • Same

• I don't know when I'm going to have time to be politically active.

  

  Nancy Reagan
  • Time
  • Know
  • Active

• But sadly, one of the problems with being on public radio is that people tend to think you're being sincere all the time.

  

  Ira Glass
  • People
  • Time
  • Problems

• I read The Odyssey all the time. I always get something out of it.

  

  Lana Wachowski
  • Time
  • Always
  • Something

• That was' one time when my technique absolutely deserted me, I must admit. There was a wax face that he had created himself to cover his own ugliness. I was in his clutches and I had to hit him in the face.

  

  Fay Wray
  • Time
  • Me
  • Him

• I mean, comedy's hard. If you go back and look at the first season of 'Seinfeld,' it's a work in progress and that's what happens. It just takes time for people to figure each other out, and figure out timing, and to develop creatively with the writers.

  

  Zachary Knighton
  • People
  • Time
  • Work

• Sometimes you go into a film and you have no time to prepare and have to compress the details into a few days and then rely on the instinct and what happens when you're in a scene with other actors and that chemistry or not.

  

  Sally Hawkins
  • Time
  • Details
  • Prepare

• Religious traditions are easy to lose sight of in today's marketing frenzy. Make sure you take time to gently usher your little ones into the rituals that have special meaning for you.

  

  Adam Mansbach
  • Time
  • Today
  • Religious

• Going to the Academy Awards is something I remember since I was six, when I went with my mom for the first time, 14 with my dad, you know, and there I am, at 22, 23, whatever I was, sitting next to my mom. You know, and then again, there with my dad. Like, there's a beauty to it, and I care deeply about film history.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Time
  • Remember
  • History

• Running in Central Park is my favorite thing to wake up and do. I have my own specific path that I have to run every single time. There's a little bit of OCD involved, but I love it.

  

  Nate Ruess Fun.
  • Time
  • Love
  • Favorite

• While my father sang, Pedroza stared at me. By that time my eye pupils were staring at him, too, like a terrier that's got hold of a fox.

  

  Barry McGuigan
  • Time
  • Father
  • Eye

• For a long time the people at my shows were sort of the Pantera-tattoo trucker guys, really cool dudes, but I don't know what happened to them. That's the crowd that I like, the ones that don't get so offended just to be offended.

  

  Dave Attell
  • People
  • Time
  • Long

• A friend is a lot of things, but a critic isn't.

  

  Bernard Williams
  • Friend

• Every actor has a natural animosity toward every other actor, present or absent, living or dead

  

  Louise Brooks
  • Present
  • Actors
  • Natural

• Life's full of loss, who knows the cost, living in the memory of the love that never was.

  

  Linda Ronstadt
  • Life
  • Memory
  • Loss

• There's so much emphasis on the economic might of China, of Southeast Asia, Asian 'Super Tigers' and things like that. But nobody was really looking from the perspective of a family story, of these individuals.

  

  Kevin Kwan
  • Family
  • Perspective

• While the forces of repression need to win every time, the progressive elements need only triumph once.

  

  Iain Banks
  • Time