Iain Banks Quotes

One of your American professors said that to study religion was merely to know the mind of man, but if one truly wanted to know the mind of God, you must study physics.

Iain Banks

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• If my love is without sacrifice, it is selfish. Such a love is barter, for there is exchange of love and devotion in return for something. It is conditional love.

  

  Sadhu Vaswani
  • Love
  • Sacrifice
  • Selfish

• Reading has been the fuel of my motivation: it has changed the direction in which I have traveled, and it has enhanced my creative imagination more than any other activity I have ever pursued.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Reading
  • Imagination
  • Creative

• There's such a pressure on women that we put on ourselves and everyone else puts on us to look unrealistic and everything, but you just can't compare yourself to people in magazines.

  

  Kate Beckinsale
  • People
  • Women
  • Yourself

• I thought we had energy out there. I thought the guys were, they played good, they were excited. We were almost dynamite out there today. Just a flicker away from being dynamite.

  

  Hal Sutton
  • Good
  • Today
  • Energy

• I was born in San Diego, and we moved to Los Angeles when I was seven. A couple of years later, I started acting!

  

  Danica McKellar
  • Couple
  • Acting
  • Born

• There is a strong sentiment within the Tea Party that favors a stronger America on the global stage, and with that comes a strong alliance with the State of Israel.

  

  Adam Hasner
  • America
  • Strong
  • Party

• Asked to choose between money and fame, I'd choose the latter every time.

  

  Hansika Motwani
  • Time
  • Money
  • Fame

• No one will understand a Japanese garden until you've walked through one, and you hear the crunch underfoot, and you smell it, and you experience it over time. Now there's no photograph or any movie that can give you that experience.

  

  J. Carter Brown
  • Time
  • Experience
  • Movie

• It's not comfortable for me to write about my family. I'm not comfortable writing about me.

  

  Karl Rove
  • Writing
  • Family
  • Me

• You have to master not only the art of listening to your head, you must also master listening to your heart and listening to your gut.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • Heart
  • Art
  • Listening

• Empathy is a virtue, but it should not be a guiding judicial principle.

  

  Gary Bauer
  • Virtue
  • Empathy
  • Judicial

• I just came back from my hometown, making a movie about a kid who grew up just like me, and it was financed by white people in New York. Personally, I can't be angry. In my personal experience, the support was there.

  

  Barry Jenkins
  • People
  • Up
  • Experience

• To this day, most people think of me as the fastest human. They don't really think me as a long jumper, although that's the event I had more success in.

  

  Carl Lewis
  • People
  • Long
  • Success

• I don't think you'll ever get enough picking.

  

  Earl Scruggs
  • Think
  • You
  • Enough

• I mean, it's fun for us to talk about issues. You know, there's no one issue we spend a lot of time on probably, because he gets to do that all day with somebody else who's a lot more expert at issues than I am.

  

  Laura Bush
  • Time
  • Fun
  • Day

• You can think of Hollywood as high school. TV actors are freshmen, comedy actors are maybe juniors, and dramatic actors - they're the cool seniors.

  

  Owen Wilson
  • School
  • High
  • Comedy

• The most famous Obama precept is, 'No drama.'

  

  Dan Pfeiffer
  • Drama
  • Famous
  • Precept

• I cry a lot, and I have no problem with that at all. Listening to your emotions is part of being alive.

  

  Sam Worthington
  • Problem
  • Listening
  • Emotions

• You can be romantically interested in someone and love them and still, I think, be really interested in things and a certain lifestyle that person might provide.

  

  Dan Stevens
  • Love
  • Think
  • Person

• There are a number of writers who believe it is their duty to throw as many curve balls at the reader as possible. To twist and twist again. These are the Chubby Checkers of crime fiction and, while I admire the craft, I think that it can actually work against genuine suspense.

  

  Mark Billingham
  • Work
  • Believe

• I have enough drama in my career, and then always playing dramatic roles and storylines... I like to lead a very low profile.

  

  Jessica Lowndes
  • Career
  • Drama

• There are times when I'm kind of anti-social, I'm just really shy, and I don't feel like I fit in, and I then attribute that to some emotional state that's crippling me.

  

  Karyn Kusama
  • Emotional

• I'm very flash and burn - the first thing that comes to mind is obviously the best idea, and that's because it should come out of a natural place, and if you don't do that then you're writing someone else's music, not your own.

  

  Zach Condon
  • Music
  • Writing
  • Mind

• One of your American professors said that to study religion was merely to know the mind of man, but if one truly wanted to know the mind of God, you must study physics.

  

  Iain Banks
  • God
  • Mind
  • American