Iain Banks Quotes

He knew all the answers. Everybody did. Everybody knew everything and everybody knew all the answers. It was just that the enemy seemed to know better ones.

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• California has always led the way on environmental protection and always reaped the benefits, pioneering everything from catalytic convertors on cars to stationary source reduction.

  

  Ed Begley, Jr.
  • California
  • Environmental

• Let's help those in prison maintain positive connections with their community. If we truly want re-entry to be successful, and we do, people need to come back to a place that still feels like home.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • People
  • Home
  • Help

• Anybody that believes that a country can be maintained that has no ethnic core to it or no linguistic core to it, I believe, is naive in the extreme.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • Believe
  • Country
  • I Believe

• It's funny: when I set out to create the world of 'California,' I didn't give the type of apocalypse much thought... I simply set my two characters, Cal and Frida, in a depleted world and moved through it intuitively.

  

  Edan Lepucki
  • World
  • Funny
  • Thought

• I like doing my own stunts.

  

  Ram Charan
  • Like
  • Doing
  • My Own

• I love America the way I love my family - I was born into it. And there's no escape out of it.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Family
  • Way
  • Born

• I'm a closet outdoorsy athletic enthusiast, and I would love to do a rafting and hiking trip someday and maybe sleep in a treehouse and bathe in a chilly winding river.

  

  Rachel Platten
  • Love
  • Sleep
  • River

• I asked my mother could I have an instrument. She said, 'Well if you go out and save your money.' So I went and got - I made me a shine box. I went out and started shining shoes, and I'd bring whatever I made.

  

  Ornette Coleman
  • Money
  • She
  • Mother

• I didn't know 'Homeland' was going to be 'Homeland.' I just did it because it was a terrific script, and they pitched me the story line, and I was like, 'Huh, that's interesting.'

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Interesting
  • Story
  • Script

• The initial spark, your affection for the characters, all those things can disappear. It's a perilous thing.

  

  Patrick deWitt
  • Affection
  • Disappear
  • Spark

• Stereotyping of any race or culture is narrow-minded, and I can't wait to help break the shackles.

  

  Nargis Fakhri
  • Help
  • Culture
  • Wait

• The causes and severity of NSA infractions vary widely. One in 10 incidents is attributed to a typographical error in which an analyst enters an incorrect query and retrieves data about U.S phone calls or emails.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Error
  • Data
  • Phone

• There is a danger in monotheism, and it's called idolatry. And we know the prophets of Israel were very, very concerned about idolatry, the worship of a human expression of the divine.

  

  Karen Armstrong
  • Know
  • Danger
  • Israel

• I feel so much pride to represent my community and be Latino. No doubt about it, above my career and sales being a Latino comes first.

  

  Daddy Yankee
  • Career
  • Community
  • Doubt

• Everybody has to be responsible for their own actions - and if they do something wrong, I believe in paying for it.

  

  Kate Mara
  • Believe
  • I Believe
  • Own

• If you establish a routine for your child, then your routine can be more manageable.

  

  Vanessa Lachey
  • Child
  • Routine
  • Your Child

• It is not the 'greatness,' the intensity, of the emotions, the components, but the intensity of the artistic process, the pressure, so to speak, under which the fusion takes place, that counts.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Greatness

• That he delights in the misery of others no man will confess, and yet what other motive can make a father cruel?

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Father

• The enemy of society is middle class and the enemy of life is middle age.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Life
  • Age
  • Society

• Kill the Germans, wherever you find them! Every German is our moral enemy. Have no mercy on women, children, or the aged! Kill every German - wipe them out!

  

  Ilya Ehrenburg
  • Women
  • Children
  • Moral

• He hasn't an enemy in the world - but all his friends hate him.

  

  Eddie Cantor
  • World
  • Friends
  • Hate

• Remember—boredom is the enemy, not some abstract "failure.

  

  Tim Ferriss
  • Remember
  • Failure
  • Enemy

• I'm not curing cancer. I'm not saving lives. It's my job. I'm an actor. It's a good, fun job. People enjoy it, but there are many other people who are doing so many things that are more worthwhile. I just don't see anything that special about it. I see it as entertaining.

  

  Kurt Fuller
  • People
  • Good
  • Job

• He knew all the answers. Everybody did. Everybody knew everything and everybody knew all the answers. It was just that the enemy seemed to know better ones.

  

  Iain Banks
  • Enemy