Iain Banks Quotes
I’ve been thinking about the war a lot recently, and I think I’ve decided it’s wrong. We are defeating ourselves in waging it, will destroy ourselves by winning it.
Iain Banks
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We will always make music, but Die Antwoord is... finite.
Watkin Tudor Jones
I'm good at description and imparting flow to a story, but I don't necessarily understand the value of long scenes.
Karan Mahajan
I made my parents crazy. As a kid, I redecorated my bedroom every month. I would literally save my allowance and go buy things.
Nate Berkus
I used to have to force myself to go, okay, nothing, nothing, nothing, nothing and then all of a sudden a thought of some where could come in. Now I can just focus and not think about anything. So, yeah, I guess I do that a lot.
Nancy Johnson
Without vanity, without coquetry, without curiosity, in a word, without the fall, woman would not be woman. Much of her grace is in her frailty.
Victor Hugo
Most families had four, five brothers. But because it was just me and Darryl, we had to be twice as strong.
Barry White
The sound of the blades on the ice in the morning is like smelling fresh coffee.
Tara Lipinski
Every child should at least grow up in family rather than without one.
Foster Friess
Mum's a worrier, she looked after everybody apart from herself - I think it runs in the family.
Gail Porter
There are times that you have a plot in your head, but then you find that the characters don't want to do that. When you're looking at the story from the outside, you can create whatever twists and turns you want. But when you're writing, you're inside the characters' heads, and you see that they may be motivated to do something different.
Ramez Naam
A lot of people think I had such a rosy career, but I wanted to identify that one of the things that helps you have a long career is learning how to deal with adversity, how to get past it. Once I learned how to get through that, others things didn't seem so hard.
Cal Ripken, Jr.
Medicine, you have to take it. A vitamin is nice to have, but honestly, you can skip it.
Paige Craig
I love my right-wing friends, my practical friends, my bleeding heart friends - without all of these viewpoints, life would be pretty boring.
Dana Perino
I really prize and love great painting.
John Lithgow
A lot of the fiction I read growing up was post-war American, and not all of it centers on Manhattan, but around people of the Mad Men generation, people like John Cheever and, in more modern times, Don DeLillo, who I always mention.
Dylan Moran
You get really scrappy when you're making things for zero dollars, and you just have to keep thinking like that. It's not like, 'Oh, we now have a little bit more money, let's do things differently.' If you just keep boiling it down to the simplest possible way to make it, I think that always ends up being the best.
Jon Watts
Positive and negative emotions cannot occupy the mind at the same time.
Napoleon Hill
I’ve been thinking about the war a lot recently, and I think I’ve decided it’s wrong. We are defeating ourselves in waging it, will destroy ourselves by winning it.
Iain Banks
