Iain Banks Quotes

Beauty is something that disappears when you try to define it.

Iain Banks

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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
- Always
- Lies
- Awareness
Effective satire has to be almost identical to the subject that it is skewering.

T. J. Miller
- Almost
- Effective
- Satire
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
- Career
- Always
- Never
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
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
- Time
- Money
- Want
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