Iain Banks Quotes

Here, in the bare dark face of nightA calm unhurried eye draws sight -We see in what we think we fearThe cloudings of our thought made clear

Iain Banks

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• I love fashion as an art; I love fashion as costume, as a character. I don't like dictates and the phoniness of appearance.

  

  Tahar Rahim
  • Art
  • Character
  • Fashion

• There's only two people in your life you should lie to... the police and your girlfriend.

  

  Jack Nicholson
  • People
  • Life
  • Police

• One Saturday in 1984, I walked into my first AA meeting. I went regularly for six years and only stopped when I came to realize my underlying problem was not genuine alcoholism, but depression.

  

  Jack Dee
  • Problem
  • Depression
  • Saturday

• Realizing full well that fine condition and confidence will not in themselves make a champion, it is my belief, however, that they are essential factors.

  

  Major Taylor
  • Confidence
  • Belief
  • Champion

• People who relieve others of their money with guns are called robbers. It does not alter the immorality of the act when the income transfer is carried out by government.

  

  Cal Thomas
  • People
  • Money
  • Government

• The fact is that surveys which media people openly admit to show that fewer than twelve percent of their customers believe they're doing a good job, while the average profit margin in television is in the neighborhood of eighty percent.

  

  L. Neil Smith
  • People
  • Good
  • Believe

• I want women to have more access to quality care, and the access to healthcare for women is not through Planned Parenthood; it is through community health centers across the state.

  

  Karen Handel
  • Women
  • Community
  • Health

• Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and the very magnitude of the crime the best excuse for doing nothing.

  

  Hannah Arendt
  • Best
  • Guilty
  • Discovery

• You can become a winner only if you are willing to walk over the edge.

  

  Damon Runyon
  • Walk
  • Winner
  • Edge

• The more love I craved, the more distant and abusive he grew. The role I longed to play was never written into Ryan's script: daughter.

  

  Tatum O'Neal
  • Play
  • Role
  • Distant

• What's important is to be able to see yourself, I think, as having commonality with other people and not determine, because of your good luck, that everybody is less significant, less interesting, less important than you are.

  

  Harrison Ford
  • People
  • Good
  • Important

• Usually, when you are an ethnic person or a trans person, in your average, everyday, unsophisticated television show, you are there for that reason. And they clearly justify and overexplain why. You very rarely see a transgender actor playing the part of a grocery-store clerk without having to say, 'Oh, look at that trans person.'

  

  B. D. Wong
  • Why
  • You
  • Look

• I really want to work for myself and build a business from nowhere.

  

  Ieva Laguna
  • Work
  • Business
  • Myself

• Having learnt my basics in theatre, I always feel film is a collaborative effort. If you do your part well and help the person in front of you in realising his or her potential, the film invariably comes out good.

  

  Randeep Hooda
  • Good
  • Help
  • Effort

• Words make you think a thought. Music makes you feel a feeling. A song makes you feel a thought.

  

  E. Y. Harburg
  • Music
  • Song
  • Words

• Americans believe cotton is best, but we've invented new fabrics that will change your lifestyle.

  

  Tadashi Yanai
  • Believe
  • Change
  • Best

• It's so easy for me to get caught up in the feeling of a city like Venice, where everything is just beautiful color and gorgeous buildings that are so peaceful. You can roam around and get lost in the labyrinth.

  

  Nanette Lepore
  • Up
  • Beautiful
  • Feeling

• Oh, I think Janie Bryant is a genius. I mean, I think she changed menswear almost single-handedly with what she did on 'Mad Men.'

  

  Matt Bomer
  • Men
  • She
  • Single

• I want to go to college for literature. I want to be a writer. I mean, I love what I do, but its not all I want to do-be a professional liar for the rest of my life.

  

  Kristen Stewart
  • Life
  • College
  • Mean

• Urfa chillies are a Turkish variety that are mild on heat but big on aroma. They're sweet, smoky, a lovely dark red, and go with just about anything.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Dark
  • Red
  • Sweet

• 'For a word to be spoken,' Ged answered slowly, 'there must be silence. Before, and after.' Then all at once he got up, saying, 'I have no right to speak of these things. The word that was mine to say I said wrong. It is better that I keep still; I will not speak again. Maybe there is no true power but the dark.'

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Up
  • Power
  • True

• I don't know if I've ever derived such an immediate sense of calm and well-being from any book as I did from 'Right Ho, Jeeves.' It was like I was Pac-Man and the book was a power-up.

  

  Lev Grossman
  • Up
  • Book
  • Power

• Here, in the bare dark face of nightA calm unhurried eye draws sight -We see in what we think we fearThe cloudings of our thought made clear

  

  Iain Banks
  • Dark
  • Calm