Iain Banks Quotes

'Well,' he sighed to no one in particular, and looked up into yet another alien sky. 'Here we are again.'

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• I would happily have done any of the 'Bourne Identity' sequels. There are good sequels, but I'm not good at making them.

  

  Harold Ramis
  • Good
  • Done
  • Identity

• What goes for sex goes double for politics.

  

  Kate Clinton
  • Sex
  • Politics
  • Double

• It is often said by religious people that without its framework, there is no sense of right or wrong. My view is that religion comes after ethics.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • People
  • Religious
  • Religion

• I'm married. I've been with my husband for six years. Now that I know what a healthy relationship is, I find I can write better about the unhealthiness of relationships.

  

  Rachel Bloom
  • Relationship
  • Husband

• It was my mother's idea. Her feeling was that I didn't have the intelligence to pick a trade myself.

  

  Vidal Sassoon
  • Mother
  • Feeling
  • Myself

• I feel optimistic about how heterogeneous societies pull together. We just have to keep on with the struggle.

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
  • Together
  • Struggle
  • Feel

• I know what I look like - a weird, sad clown puppet. I'm fine with that.

  

  Rainn Wilson
  • Weird
  • Sad
  • Look

• I struggled with being a broke college graduate, and while all my friends were getting career jobs, I was working horrible part-time jobs. That's why now, even when I get tired, I think, 'This is what I asked for.'

  

  J. Cole
  • Time
  • Why
  • Friends

• In 1980, shortly before my 11th birthday, I wrote my first essay in English.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • English
  • First
  • Birthday

• I loved London. In the 1970s... it was very exciting, really wild.

  

  Zaha Hadid
  • Loved
  • London
  • WIld

• What I want to give in the theatre is beauty, that's what I want to give.

  

  Edith Evans
  • Want
  • Beauty
  • Theatre

• For me, and this may not be everybody, but because I do love country music so much, there's such a feeling of home in Nashville, especially because it's such a small town. You bring up one song, everybody knows who wrote it, everybody knows their mother and what their cell number is, and all of the stories.

  

  Garrett Hedlund
  • Mother
  • Feeling
  • Stories

• There is no diplomacy like candor.

  

  E. V. Lucas
  • Like
  • Diplomacy
  • Candor

• I think as long as I have a creative outlet, I'm happy.

  

  Nat Wolff
  • Long
  • Happy
  • Creative

• Today is life-the only life you are sure of. Make the most of today. Get interested in something. Shake yourself awake. Develop a hobby. Let the winds of enthusiasm sweep through you. Live today with gusto.

  

  Dale Carnegie
  • Life
  • Live
  • Today

• I get mad when people call me an action movie star. Indiana Jones is an adventure film, a comic book, a fantasy.

  

  Harrison Ford
  • People
  • Book
  • Movie

• I need nothing from my companion. No money, no financial security, no emotional support, nothing. All I want is the freedom to be myself.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • Money
  • Freedom
  • Support

• One has to be fully committed to one's career. Otherwise, there's no point.

  

  Lata Mangeshkar
  • Career
  • Point
  • Committed

• You can't forge a new sort of consensus, you can't forge public opinion, by following public opinion.

  

  Martin O'Malley
  • Opinion

• In college, I got interested in news because the world was coming apart. The civil rights movement, the antiwar movement, the women's right movement. That focused my radio ambitions toward news.

  

  Bob Edwards
  • World
  • Women
  • College

• Sometimes people say I'm a political comedian, which, actually I'm not. I'm a comedian who sometimes discusses politics, culture - again, the word 'politics' to me is just life.

  

  Janeane Garofalo
  • People
  • Life
  • Political

• Social media is key to promoting the editorial posts on my website.

  

  Lauren Conrad

• Everyone posts everything in real time as it happens.

  

  John Cho
  • Time
  • Real

• 'Well,' he sighed to no one in particular, and looked up into yet another alien sky. 'Here we are again.'

  

  Iain Banks
  • Up
  • Sky
  • Alien