Iain Banks Quotes
Beauty is something that disappears when you try to define it.
Iain Banks
Quotes to Explore
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When I used to perform weddings, the image I always had was the image of a triangle, in which there are two partners and then there is this third force, this third being, that emerges out of the interaction of these two. The third one is the one that is the shared awareness that lies behind the two of them.
Ram Dass
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Effective satire has to be almost identical to the subject that it is skewering.
T. J. Miller
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I was always very grateful I was never hot. In the entire length of my career, I haven't been the most adored.
Harrison Ford
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What I did was, I went and collected every bit of information from Adventist publishing houses in the basic areas of doctrine covered in the book Questions on Doctrine.
Walter Martin
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Obviously it's much easier to say that you're going to follow your passions when you're financially secure, but at least we can take solace in the fact that we now have the time to pursue the things that we really want to pursue because now the option of doing things just for the money isn't necessarily there.
Natalie Portman
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When hypocrisy is a character trait, it also affects one's thinking, because it consists in the negation of all the aspects of reality that one finds disagreeable, irrational or repugnant.
Octavio Paz
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I enjoy what I do because it keeps evolving - when I was a cook, I wanted to be a chef de partie; when I was a chef de partie, I wanted to be a chef; when I was a chef, I wanted to be a restaurateur, and now I am a chef entrepreneur. I am still fulfilling my dream.
Daniel Boulud
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It's not about retro or modern, it's about this note or that note, which sounds better?
Dan Hicks
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The best thing about being a cartoonist is to walk into a bar or someone's apartment and they don't know you, but they've taped one of your pieces up.
Ted Rall
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Respect, recognition, and reward flows out of performance.
N. R. Narayana Murthy
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I just read and read and read. ... I have always enjoyed reading.
Warren Buffett
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By the time I get through writing a score, I know the book better than the book writer does, because I've examined every word, and questioned the book writer on every word.
Stephen Sondheim
