Iain Banks Quotes

Tishlin’s dubious look indicated he wasn’t totally convinced this phrase contributed enormously to the information-carrying capacity of the language.

Iain Banks

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• I converse with my dog through ESP.

  

  Taylor Caldwell
  • Dog
  • Through
  • Converse

• Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
  • Soul
  • Language
  • Thoughts

• Africans, we hold on to our youths and whip them into shape.

  

  Idris Elba
  • Hold
  • Shape
  • Our

• I would love to have my own fashion line because I love sketching.

  

  Becky G
  • Love
  • Fashion
  • Own

• The thing I hate most in acting is asking permission to do things. What you really want to do is say, 'This is my need; this is what's going to get me further; this is what's going to be alive. I don't ever say, 'Do you mind if...?' I just come in and do it.

  

  Lance Henriksen
  • Mind
  • Hate
  • Acting

• There is plenty of building material and more than enough manpower to make a decent home for every Cuban. But if we continue to wait for the golden calf, a thousand years will have gone by, and the problem will remain the same.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Home
  • Problem
  • Same

• A woman simply is, but a man must become.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Men
  • Man
  • Woman

• The Metropolitan Opera, of course, is the gold standard in opera. The Met experience includes the huge stage, the vast audience, the elaborate sets. Anyone who saw 'Faust' there - I did - knows exactly what hell is like, complete with fire, smoke and terror.

  

  Karen DeCrow
  • Experience
  • Fire
  • Gold

• As a culture, working-class white Americans like myself had no heroes. We loved the military but had no George S. Patton figure in the modern army. I doubt my neighbours could even name a high-ranking military officer.

  

  J. D. Vance
  • High
  • Culture
  • Myself

• It is every intelligent man's experience that evildoing recoils on the doer sooner or later.

  

  Ramana Maharshi
  • Experience
  • Man
  • Intelligent

• I was in prison with the assassins of the former president of Egypt, Anwar Sadat, who was killed in 1981. Those who weren't executed in that case were given life sentences, and two of those were with me in prison.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Life
  • President
  • Prison

• I wish I could say I see my little brother more. We used to fight all the time but now that I don't see him very often I cherish the time I have with him.

  

  Zac Efron
  • Time
  • Wish
  • Brother

• People should be a little loony, Helena. That's the best thing about them.

  

  Karel Capek
  • People
  • Best
  • Should

• Society is so divided in its perception of public school people. Most people who went to public school behave in the right way, but every now and then there will be someone who comes along and ruins it.

  

  Jack Whitehall
  • People
  • School
  • Society

• When my brother-in-law, BIll Clinton, was elected, he had gay friends. That was a coming out.

  

  Kate Clinton
  • Friends
  • Law
  • Brother

• I had no idea what those cords were in the bridge of 'Prisoner In Disguise' when I wrote them. I had to go over to Don Gorman, the piano player, and ask what in the world I was playing.

  

  J. D. Souther
  • World
  • Player
  • Idea

• If the government can round up someone and never be required to explain why, then it's no longer the United States of America as you and I always understood it. Our enemies have succeeded beyond their wildest dreams. They have made us become like them.

  

  Garrison Keillor
  • Up
  • Why
  • America

• But lifting his dry hand He lightly touched the flowers: 'Tell me how men kiss you, Tell me how you kiss men.'

  

  Anna Akhmatova
  • Men
  • Hand
  • Kiss

• People who want to express themselves effectively can learn a lot from the hard-won concision of the copywriter.

  

  David Droga
  • People

• Lukewarm people feel secure because they attend church, made a profession of faith at age twelve, were baptized, come from a Christian family, vote Republican, or live in America. Just as the prophets in the Old Testament warned Israel that they were not safe just because they lived in the land of Israel, so we are not safe just because we wear the label 'Christian' or because some people persist in calling us a 'Christian nation.

  

  Francis Chan
  • People
  • Age
  • Church

• Men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more than their words.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
  • Men
  • Words
  • Nothing

• God lives, but not as we. His creatures live but to die. But God is life. Therefore, goodness is not an attribute. Goodness is God.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • God
  • Die
  • Creatures

• I would rather see words out on their own, away from their families and the warehouse of Roget wandering the world where they sometimes fall in love with a completely different word.

  

  William Collins
  • World
  • Word
  • Families

• Tishlin’s dubious look indicated he wasn’t totally convinced this phrase contributed enormously to the information-carrying capacity of the language.

  

  Iain Banks