Iain Banks Quotes

'I’m very sorry,' the drone said, without a trace of contrition.

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• People sometimes recognize me here, but they are very nice.

  

  Olivier Martinez
  • People
  • Me
  • Nice

• What I like to call 'journalism of depth' is the media that regards the collective conscience of the masses to be its point of departure. It is the media that believes, as a matter of principle, in the potential capabilities of the people and respects their choices.

  

  Wadah Khanfar
  • People
  • Choices
  • Media

• I think the films we see, the Hollywood films, which are basically entertainment, will still be there, but they'll be in a totally different category. People won't take them seriously. They'll kind of end up the way comic books have. A side view of things.

  

  D. A. Pennebaker
  • People
  • Up
  • Different

• People don't want to go to the dump and have a picnic, they want to go out to a beautiful place and enjoy their day. And so I think our job is to try to take the environment, take what the good Lord has given us, and expand upon it or enhance it, without destroying it.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • People
  • Good
  • Job

• We worship an awesome God in the Blue States, and we don't like federal agents poking around our libraries in the Red States. We coach Little League in the Blue States and have gay friends in the Red States.

  

  Barack Obama
  • God
  • Friends
  • Gay

• My writing has been largely concerned with the depicting of Negro life in America.

  

  Langston Hughes
  • Life
  • Writing
  • America

• Right now I'm still only 25 and I don't think the maternal bug has hit me yet.

  

  Karrie Webb
  • Think
  • Right
  • Hit

• Controversial means somebody who makes people think. And if you are afraid of people who will be against you, you might as well stay home and do nothing.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • People
  • Home
  • Think

• In the John Paul II days, Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger had the advantage of staying in his cupboard - the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith - exchanging views only with the Pope, and speaking publicly only through carefully written missives on doctrinal issues.

  

  Carl Bernstein
  • Faith
  • Through
  • Cardinal

• I do not welcome advice from actors; they are here to act.

  

  Otto Preminger
  • Advice
  • Act
  • Welcome

• You want to believe that there's one relationship in life that's beyond betrayal. A relationship that's beyond that kind of hurt. And there isn't.

  

  Caleb Carr
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Relationship

• The point of jazz is, you do something and then you go on.

  

  Van Morrison
  • You
  • Point
  • Jazz

• I am all for controlling guns.

  

  Rainn Wilson
  • Guns
  • Controlling

• I'll try anything once.

  

  Yancy Butler
  • Try
  • Anything
  • Once

• As a producer, the most important call you can get is on Saturday morning, when the Friday-night grosses come in. As a director, you want your film to be successful. But your outlook is a bit different. You become very conscious of the reviews.

  

  Irwin Winkler
  • Different
  • Important
  • Want

• Television is so dictated by time constraints that you have to make quick decisions and go with them.

  

  Ted Shackelford
  • Time
  • You
  • Decisions

• It's so great to show up at work and truly enjoy every word you say.

  

  Ian Somerhalder
  • Up
  • Work
  • Great

• I've often noticed that we are not able to look at what we have in front of us, unless it's inside a frame.

  

  Abbas Kiarostami
  • Look
  • Inside
  • Frame

• I like writing a body of music that has a cohesive, emotional thread through it.

  

  Patti Scialfa
  • Music
  • Writing
  • Emotional

• I've got all of the old school vinyls from the '70s - even further back, like the jazz music in the '40s, '50s, '60s. Then I've got all the '80s stuff underground, hip-hop when hip-hop really first started. The '90s stuff. All of the good stuff, because I'm really into music, and it helps me create new songs now.

  

  Ty Dolla Sign
  • Good
  • Music
  • School

• I'm pretty much the one that goes to the mound.

  

  Bobby Bonilla
  • Pretty

• I can't mention, I'm sorry to say, any Arab leader... Where is the... Nasser? Where is the Arab leader who will stand up and tell these people the truth? This is what we are waiting for.

  

  George Galloway
  • People
  • Up
  • Truth

• As a non-Arsenal player I would say Ryan Giggs is my Premier League player of the decade because he has combined style with winning. Also I feel sorry he could never attend the World Cup, somewhere where people get a lot of compliments when they do well.

  

  Arsene Wenger
  • People
  • World
  • Style

• 'I’m very sorry,' the drone said, without a trace of contrition.

  

  Iain Banks
  • Sorry