Iain Banks Quotes

I just come up with the stories and write them as well as I can. There's not really a great deal of strokey-beard thinking going on.

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• There's a critic that I love, Manohla Dargis of the 'L.A. Weekly.' I like the underground point of view; it's my old radical sympathies. Maybe I like her because she likes my movies.

  

  Harold Ramis
  • Like
  • Radical
  • Critic

• At least I want to be making films that are somehow born out of me that are stories I want to tell. The challenge is figuring out how to do it where you can make them personal, yet still deliver to an audience a film experience that is satisfying and emotional, and that's what I'm trying to do.

  

  Gavin O'Connor
  • Trying
  • Experience
  • Challenge

• Money often determines not only who gets elected, but what gets done. Which voices do lawmakers listen to, the banks or home owners, coal companies, or asthma sufferers, the CEOs or the unemployed?

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
  • Money
  • Done
  • Home

• The patient decides when it's best to go.

  

  Jack Kevorkian
  • Best
  • Patient
  • Medical

• The people I respect most behave as if they were immortal and as if society was eternal.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • People
  • Society
  • Respect

• Whenever I'm free, I spend time with people I love, people that inspire me in many different ways.

  

  Karolina Kurkova
  • People
  • Time
  • Love

• My wife Danielle and I love travelling, different cultures and good weather.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • Wife
  • Weather
  • Cultures

• No offense to music - thank you for Entertainer of the Year and all that stuff. But if you're a father or a mother, there's nothing that beats being a parent, and that's the best time of my life right there.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • Life
  • Time
  • Music

• 'Macbeth' was a very lucky play for me.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Me
  • Play
  • Lucky

• Always keep that happy attitude. Pretend that you are holding a beautiful fragrant bouquet.

  

  Earl Nightingale
  • Happy
  • Beautiful
  • Attitude

• Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Society
  • Source
  • Stupidity

• There are many cultural prejudices. For instance, even though fresh fish is a regional staple, Catalans don't like sashimi.

  

  Ferran Adria
  • Like
  • Fish
  • Fresh

• I find it hard to focus looking forward. So I look backward.

  

  Iggy Pop
  • Focus
  • Look
  • Looking Forward

• I got through college.

  

  Daniel Craig
  • College
  • Through
  • Got

• It is a pleasure to play under Jose Mourinho, and everything is OK. I learn every day. He is a normal coach. He speaks a lot with the players. I like it when the manager speaks a lot with you because it gives you confidence.

  

  Eden Hazard
  • Day
  • Confidence
  • Learn

• I'm English, and I started off as a songwriter, so I can't really escape that - it's there.

  

  Damon Albarn Gorillaz
  • English
  • Escape
  • Songwriter

• Meditation is difficult for many people because their thoughts are always on some distant object or place. One form of meditation is to label the thought as it appears and then choose to let it go.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • People
  • Thoughts
  • Thought

• Corporations cannot commit treason, or be outlawed or excommunicated, for they have no souls.

  

  Harold Coffin
  • Souls
  • Corporations
  • Treason

• During my days as a soccer player, my teammates used to call me 'Touch' because I have a touch of blonde hair on my forehead which is a birth mark. But now swimming is my favourite sport.

  

  Chad le Clos
  • Player
  • Hair
  • Soccer

• The news is what it is. It's going to be good, it's going to be positive, it's going to be negative. It's going to have all sorts of effects on candidates always.

  

  Mark E. Hyman
  • Good
  • Positive

• I think people should be different. I love people who don't go by the rule that you have to be careful because you're old, you have to do this and that, you have to eat this and that.

  

  Agnes Varda
  • People
  • Different
  • Thinking

• Most people who are on the road are pretty damaged. It's an escapist's life. It's not a life that forces you to look in the mirror at where you're at and what you're doing. It's one where you leave the mirror behind. I think that appeals to something in all of us. On the open road, all of your regrets are out the window.

  

  Gavin Rossdale Bush
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Regret

• I'm a rapper... Gaga's a fantastic artist, you know, she paved her way. She's opened her own lane. But I think that I have my own lane. And we never cross. Ever. So, you know, I really don't get the comparison anymore. Our music doesn't sound the same. Our stage presence is not the same. I just can't see the similarities.

  

  Nicki Minaj
  • Music
  • Thinking
  • Artist

• I just come up with the stories and write them as well as I can. There's not really a great deal of strokey-beard thinking going on.

  

  Iain Banks
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