Iain Banks Quotes

Maybe it wasn’t anything remotely to do with religion, mysticism or metaphilosophy after all; maybe it was more banal; maybe it was just...accounting.

Iain Banks

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• When I was a little girl, I told everyone I was going to marry a very clever scientist and have ten children. I would always draw the children, and they included blond-haired twin boys whom I named Theodore and Frederick: Teddy and Freddy for short.

  

  Talulah Riley
  • Children
  • Girl
  • Clever

• I think the legacy is really the company that we built. That's what makes me happy. I'm a very simple person, so that's all I really need.

  

  Parker Harris
  • Happy
  • Me
  • Simple

• The lark that shuns on lofty boughs to build, Her humble nest, lies silent in the field.

  

  Edmund Waller
  • Humble
  • Build
  • Nest

• I had two jobs coming out of school: I did a play, 'The Great White Hope.' I played the boxer Jack Johnson. And I was the lead in this indie film. Then I moved to Los Angeles because New York was cold and it was really too quiet for me at that time. I was out of school; I was hungry. The auditions were trickling in, and I was antsy and ready to go.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Time
  • Great
  • School

• 'Carrie' was a pretty big-budget movie at a real studio, with a director that had already done a bunch of things and had some notoriety, and Stephen King was the writer.

  

  P. J. Soles
  • Real
  • Done
  • Movie

• Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force. The friends who listen to us are the ones we move toward. When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold and expand.

  

  Karl A. Menninger
  • Friends
  • Listening
  • Creative

• I've noticed if you look too far ahead, it only works negatively on you.

  

  Patrick Kane
  • You
  • Look
  • Ahead

• A news organization has a much different responsibility. I might not be telling you the whole story. I might not be telling you a story in a manner that is properly sophisticated.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • Different
  • Responsibility
  • Story

• I transitioned into theater and acting when I was about 9, community theater and musicals, being, like, chorus-kid-number-78 or whatever. But I just loved it. As a kid you just crave attention, and early on I just felt it was so cool and fun to play around and have people clap for me. But eventually I grew up and fell deeper into it.

  

  Tatiana Maslany
  • Attention
  • Loved
  • Theater

• I find myself, by happy accident, writing 'Young Adult' fiction. However, I dislike such categories.

  

  Mal Peet
  • Writing
  • Happy
  • Myself

• The most important thing about Spaceship Earth - an instruction book didn't come with it.

  

  R. Buckminster Fuller
  • Important
  • Book
  • Earth

• Lynch is an ordinary, smalltown guy and he just sees strange things in people.

  

  Jack Nance
  • People
  • Guy
  • Strange

• I don't really like the idea of putting myself in any category now... I think that people are looking for music that's real and honest and that they can relate to emotionally.

  

  Yuna
  • People
  • Music
  • Real

• Before Barack Obama took office, it looked like that pride could have vanished forever, but today, from the staggering depths of the Great Recession, the nation has had 29 straight months of job growth. Workers across my state and across the country are getting back the dignity of a good job and a good salary.

  

  Ted Strickland
  • Good
  • Great
  • Country

• I'm the most terrific liar you ever saw in your life.

  

  J. D. Salinger
  • Life
  • You
  • Liar

• Nature is relentless and unchangeable, and it is indifferent as to whether its hidden reasons and actions are understandable to man or not.

  

  Galileo Galilei
  • Nature
  • Man
  • Hidden

• People who try to commit suicide - don't attempt to save them! . . . China is such a populous nation, it is not as if we cannot do without a few people.

  

  Mao Zedong
  • People
  • Suicide

• There are people who the more you do for them, the less they will do for themselves.

  

  Jane Austen
  • People

• I probably spend more time with my kids than the average stay-at-home mother.

  

  Kirstie Alley
  • Time
  • Home
  • Kids

• The forces of being remain. They are what the writer, as distinct from the contemporary popular mythmaker, still engage today, as myth in its ancient form attempted to do.

  

  Nadine Gordimer
  • Today
  • Popular

• The great apologist has to have lived large and wild. If he's going to kiss the world's boo-boos and make up, he'd better plant some bruises first. A master apologizer has to be a Lord Byron, a Rick in Casablanca, a Lee Atwater, anyway.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Up
  • World
  • Great

• I have my own foundation, which I just started, called Believe Anything Is Possible, which is going to be an organization to help the underprivileged.

  

  Criss Angel
  • Believe
  • Help
  • Organization

• 'The Miracle Worker' is just such an incredibly powerful play on stage, and is so kinetic, and athletic.

  

  John Patrick Shanley
  • Powerful
  • Miracle

• Maybe it wasn’t anything remotely to do with religion, mysticism or metaphilosophy after all; maybe it was more banal; maybe it was just...accounting.

  

  Iain Banks