Iain Banks Quotes

I'm not a great believer in awards-of course the fact that I've never won one has nothing to do with it at all!

Iain Banks

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We were five kids at home, and my mother and grandmother ensured that we all had a very grounded upbringing in Madras. Even in school, I never used to tell anyone that my dad was an actor.

Mahesh Babu
- School
- Home
- Kids
It always surprises me when donors who operate successful businesses assume that just building a school structure means that a community now has access to education. When creating a business, does renting an office space now mean that you're producing goods, training staff and generating revenues?

Adam Braun
What's upsetting about an autobiography is that the final chapter is always missing. I mean, you want the death, don't you?

Ian Mckellen
- Want
- Death
- Missing
The hardest thing in the world to do is to have someone in a seat in a theater laughing so hard that they're making weird sounds.

Adam McKay
- World
- Weird
- Someone
Because cheating is easier when we can justify our behavior, people often cheat in small amounts: We can come up with an excuse for stealing Post-It notes, but it is much more difficult to come up with an excuse for taking $10,000 from petty cash.

Dan Ariely
- People
- Up
- Small
No matter how you cut them, paste them, rotate them, or distort them, lip syncing and air-guitar playing are fundamentally foolish activities, and anyone seen to be engaging in them with anything approaching a straight face is, by definition, taking herself or himself much too seriously.

Walter Kirn
- You
- Air
- Matter