Iain Banks Quotes

You have to have something worth saying and then the ability to say it- writing's a double skill, really.

Iain Banks

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• I think computer science, by and large, is still stuck in the Modern age.

  

  Larry Wall
  • Age
  • Think
  • Science

• I like to act. Every other aspect of show business I find uninteresting.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • Business
  • Find
  • Act

• So with the end of the Cold War, it became increasingly obvious that there was no basis upon which any decision was being made, not in the White House, and certainly because of that, not in the Congress.

  

  Malcolm Wallop
  • War
  • House
  • Decision

• I've done comedy most of my career, which I love, but I wanted to expand.

  

  Katey Sagal
  • Career
  • Comedy
  • Expand

• In Sweden, they broadcast the American shows in English with Swedish subtitles, whereas in many European countries they dub them. Watching those shows in English was big for me.

  

  Carl Hagelin
  • American
  • Me
  • English

• When I started out, there was so much work that I couldn't think of doing anything else. I would go for recordings by 8.30 A.M., that, too, in trains. I used to come home at night. I was travelling alone everywhere.

  

  Lata Mangeshkar
  • Work
  • Home
  • Night

• One of the things, one of the things that really got to me was the thing in Houston where you had the government, the mayor actually, trying to get the sermons of ministers. When the government tries to invade the church to enforce its own opinion on marriage, that's when it's time to resist.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Time
  • Trying
  • Government

• Poland is much more advanced than Romania in structural reforms.

  

  Victor Ponta
  • More
  • Advanced
  • Poland

• The first show I worked on was 'In Living Color.' I think 'The Daily Show' was the culmination of having that point of view - being able to look at this third rail in our society.

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • Society
  • Color
  • Daily

• My views naturally have mellowed. Most of the critics have been more or less nice to me.

  

  Irwin Shaw
  • Me
  • Nice
  • More

• At some point, you're going to have to be willing to take a punch for your team. If your employees or your teammates will see that you're willing to do that, they are more likely to be loyal to you, and your team is more likely to function better.

  

  Dana Perino
  • Team
  • Employees
  • Teammates

• There was a time when caddies couldn't wear shorts.

  

  Dan Jenkins
  • Time
  • Wear
  • Shorts

• I've stayed focused on the job at hand representing the people of the 5th district... a voice for everyone rich or poor or male or female.

  

  Vance McAllister
  • People
  • Job
  • Hand

• Lets be clear, Dolly Parton is a rapper. Somewhere before all the country, I don't know what happens up there in the mountains when you're growing up, but she has been spitting rhymes for a very long time - 50 years I'd say.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Up
  • Time
  • Long

• So, I think I'd be grateful for the next job. I always am. And I always consider everything I do to be the last thing I do.

  

  Warwick Davis
  • Job
  • Think
  • Grateful

• To know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody.

  

  Quentin Crisp
  • Know
  • Forgive
  • Everybody

• I don't like to post fresh standup material, because I want to use it in a special. The stuff I like to post online I like to be off-the-cuff moments.

  

  Hannibal Buress
  • Want
  • Moments
  • Special

• I went to a couple of Rangers games at the Garden, and someone at the NHL had seen me and figured I was a fan and decided to approach me about having a blog during the playoffs.

  

  Eddie Cahill
  • Me
  • Couple
  • Garden

• Putting out commercial pieces and promoting them and trying to sell them to people is not necessarily what it means to be an artist

  

  Sean Lennon
  • People
  • Trying
  • Mean

• The idea of God implies the abdication of human reason and justice; it is the most decisive negation of human liberty and necessarily ends in the enslavement of mankind both in theory and practice.

  

  Mikhail Bakunin
  • Reason
  • Practice
  • Humans

• I don't teach writing classes anymore, and I'm really glad I don't, because I would feel very strange about telling people, 'Go out there and be a writer, and make a living from it.'

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • People
  • Writing
  • Strange

• In the White House, you can be on the pitcher's mound or you can be in the catcher's position. Put points on the board. Show people you can govern. Deliver on what you said you were going to deliver on.

  

  Rahm Emanuel
  • People
  • House
  • You

• I'm not sure if a writer should talk about themes. Themes arrive out of the deeper structure and concerns, but to me, the main thing is getting it down right, writing about specific characters in specific predicaments, and finding a way to be true to the story itself, not only in the first burst of draft but in the revision, too.

  

  David Means
  • Writing
  • True

• You have to have something worth saying and then the ability to say it- writing's a double skill, really.

  

  Iain Banks
  • Writing
  • You
  • Saying