Iain Banks Quotes
What is all your studying worth, all your learning, all your knowledge, if it doesn’t lead to wisdom? And what’s wisdom but knowing what is right, and what is the right thing to do?
Iain Banks
Quotes to Explore
I keep telling myself, don't get cocky. Give your services to the press and the media, be nice to the kids, throw a baseball into the stands once in a while.
Vida Blue
If I'd had the chance, I'd like to have completed my degree before going full-time, and sports journalism was something that always interested me. Dad used to buy a paper, and I always turned straight to the sports pages.
Rajiv Ouseph
I'm originally from southern California, so I, like, say 'like', like, a lot. I've been trying to scrub any traces of Valley Girl from my speech since I moved to New York, but it's, like, totally way harder than anyone thinks, you know?
Mara Wilson
As far as my journal, I want to share tour life with my fans.
Natalie Gulbis
The vast majority of studies say anti-aging supplements don't work.
S. Jay Olshansky
People assume actresses are afraid to get older; the truth is the roles get a whole lot more compelling once you're too old to play dumb.
Olivia Wilde
When I first got sick, they told me I had a year to live, and I was writing my memoir really fast. There were really weird things happening with my nervous system and my heart and stuff, and it didn't look like I was gonna make it, so I was writing really fast, and then I couldn't write anymore.
John Lurie
When I left 20th Century-Fox to freelance, my agent believed that getting big money was the way to establish real importance in our industry.
Loretta Young
It is foolish to claim, as some do, that emigration into space offers a long-term escape from Earth's problems. Nowhere in our solar system offers an environment even as clement as the Antarctic or the top of Everest.
Martin Rees
Here lies a lady of beauty and high degree.Of chills and fever she died, of fever and chills,The delight of her husbands, her aunts, an infant of three,And of medicos marveling sweetly on her ills.
John Crowe Ransom
Learning to stand in somebody else's shoes, to see through their eyes, that's how peace begins. And it's up to you to make that happen. Empathy is a quality of character that can change the world.
Barack Obama
What is all your studying worth, all your learning, all your knowledge, if it doesn’t lead to wisdom? And what’s wisdom but knowing what is right, and what is the right thing to do?
Iain Banks
