Iain Banks Quotes
Sorrow be damned and all your plans. Fuck the faithful, fuck the committed, the dedicated, the true believers; fuck all the sure and certain people prepared to maim and kill whoever got in their way; fuck every cause that ended in murder and a child screaming.Iain Banks
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I think everyone who goes to see a 'Bond' movie expects to be impressed by the look and the locations chosen. Certainly I was when I grew up watching them, and I don't think that's changed in the last 50 years.
Callum McDougall -
For me, baseball is about, again, the team winning.
Eddie Murray -
There is a triangular relationship between poverty, child labour and illiteracy who have a cause and consequence relationship. We will have to break this vicious circle.
Kailash Satyarthi -
I love Tig Notaro; I just think she's so awesome.
Kate Flannery -
They don't have a lot of appointment viewing. What television depends on, one thing 'Larry King Live' was - whether you liked it, didn't like it - it was appointment viewing.
Larry King -
Ten men waiting for me at the door? Send one of them home, I'm tired.
Mae West
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I think it's important for girls to be confident. Believe in yourself and... everybody's hot.
Paris Hilton -
When I first decided to launch a clothing line, I was pregnant with my daughter Spencer-Margaret, so I looked for a retailer with values that mirrored my own growing family concerns. Kmart is a family store where value-conscious moms shop, so my partnership with Kmart seemed like a natural fit.
Jaclyn Smith -
The great sadness of my life is that I never achieved the hour newscast, which would not have been twice as good as the half-hour newscast, but many times as good.
Walter Cronkite -
When men I have dated over the years whined about, 'Oh, you make no time for me' - see ya! I just dumped them. I don't need that pressure in my life.
Rachael Ray -
Five sets is a kind of lottery. Anything can happen.
Marat Safin -
True Yankees fans know an up-and-coming player when they see one.
J. B. Smoove
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When people get things for free, they tend to not take them as seriously.
Daniel Clowes -
Anything I sing is supposed to be genuine. It's not supposed to be make-believe or I'm making something for the crowd to jump or to hold up their hands.
Wayne Wonder -
Envy is the art of counting the other fellow's blessings instead of your own.
Harold Coffin -
We are all human beings, and our nationality is simply an accident of birth.
Venkatraman Ramakrishnan -
It's really hard to get a coffee with someone. I have to call my agent, my agent calls their agent, their agent calls their manager, the manager calls back, the actor sends someone to the manager... then you get, 'Yeah, yeah, I'd love to have dinner at six,' and all I wanted was coffee! It can take, like, six days to get coffee.
Daniel Espinosa -
On the issue of abortion, I'm ever on the fence, or, at most, an inch or two to either side.
Victoria Moran
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My family is more a sports family, and I figure skated for a very long time, so movement and how I relate to movement is very integral to my process.
Uzo Aduba -
But I remember more dearly autumn afternoons in bottoms that lay intensely silent under old great trees
C. S. Lewis -
Here's the deal with Matty Morrison: He is the most unassuming, nicest, most humble guy, who also happens to be extremely talented.
Victoria Clark -
I couldn't wait until I grew up. I used to look at my mom's stockings and put them on with her high heels and mess with my hair.
Florence Griffith Joyner -
The bad poet is a toady mimicking nature.
Edward Dahlberg -
Sorrow be damned and all your plans. Fuck the faithful, fuck the committed, the dedicated, the true believers; fuck all the sure and certain people prepared to maim and kill whoever got in their way; fuck every cause that ended in murder and a child screaming.
Iain Banks