Iain Banks Quotes

By the usual reckoning, the worst books make the best films.

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• I'm very content.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • Very
  • Content

• Nixon was the most dishonest individual I have ever met in my life. He lied to his wife, his family, his friends, his colleagues in the Congress, lifetime members of his own political party, the American people and the world.

  

  Barry Goldwater
  • People
  • Life
  • World

• I believe in monogamy if that's what a couple decides upon together, but it all depends on the personal history and culture of the two involved.

  

  K. D. Lang
  • Believe
  • Together
  • History

• I lived in Brooklyn from 2007 to 2012 but for the last few years have resided in Austin, Texas, where my world - especially the world of downtown - is predominantly white.

  

  Karan Mahajan
  • World
  • Years
  • Texas

• That a majority of the Abolitionists in this place would patronize a free labor store, in preference to others, I do not doubt; but we do not muster money in Cincinnati.

  

  Gamaliel Bailey
  • Money
  • Free
  • Doubt

• The lesson of 'CSI' is: No matter what horrible things happen, nice policemen will turn up and fix everything and return it to the status quo.

  

  Warren Ellis
  • Up
  • Nice
  • Matter

• It's the persona that makes you a leading actor. A leading actor has something extra that's fun to watch. But it isn't usually about acting.

  

  Val Kilmer
  • Fun
  • Acting
  • Actor

• I've always thought that a good book should be either the entry point inward, to learn about yourself, or a door outward, to open you up to new worlds.

  

  Taylor Jenkins Reid
  • Up
  • Good
  • Book

• The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Good
  • Evil
  • Beginning

• Without knowing about flexibility, one cannot work out strategies to deal with the enemy and prepare for changes, and without knowing about the foundation of one's own culture, one would be contemptuous of the Confucian ethical codes.

  

  Zhang Zhidong
  • Work
  • Culture
  • Enemy

• Gangsta to us didn't have anything to do with Al Capone and stuff like that. It's just about living your life the way you want to live it. And you're not going to let nothing stop you.

  

  Ice Cube
  • Life
  • Live
  • Want

• A horse is a thing of beauty... none will tire of looking at him as long as he displays himself in his splendor.

  

  Xenophon
  • Long
  • Beauty
  • Horse

• Solange's new album, 'A Seat at the Table', is so many things at once: an antidote to hate, a celebration of blackness, an expression of the right to feel it all. After a move to Louisiana and period of self-reflection, the artist joined forces with a range of collaborators to put her new discoveries to music.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • Music
  • Hate
  • Period

• Destiny is something not be to desired and not to be avoided. a mystery not contrary to reason, for it implies that the world, and the course of human history, have meaning.

  

  Dag Hammarskjold
  • World
  • History
  • Destiny

• If the British Isles had an official vegetable, it would have to be the potato.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • British
  • Vegetable
  • Potato

• You just can't control your art in the future.

  

  Damian Loeb
  • Art
  • Future
  • Control

• I've always wanted my own fragrance; Avon pairs with the way I think: what they do and represent, what they do for women, and the good causes such as domestic violence, and breast cancer.

  

  Kate del Castillo
  • Good
  • Women
  • Violence

• I normally listen to Spanish music - well, Latin music. I like a lot of singers.

  

  Rafael Nadal
  • Music
  • Like
  • Listen

• The quality of TV, I think, is at an all-time high. The problem with it is the way that we end up consuming it - generally a cable box. A satellite receiver is, to me, nothing more than a glorified VCR.

  

  Eddy Cue
  • Up
  • Time
  • High

• Modern life is organised so that you benefit at the expense of the other, and the most extreme example of that is a camp.

  

  Imre Kertesz
  • Life
  • Modern
  • Example

• You have an audience that is fairly well grounded in the real world. You serve them and yourself best by making everything as real as possible.

  

  Tamora Pierce
  • World
  • Real
  • Best

• I would very much like to become a best-selling author.

  

  Manuel Puig
  • Like
  • Author
  • Very

• If you're a comedian, you can change peoples lives for the better in much smaller increments - not their entire life, but for 15 minutes or a half hour.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • Life
  • Change
  • Better

• By the usual reckoning, the worst books make the best films.

  

  Iain Banks
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