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 believed in Bobby Kennedy. Campaigning for him was an attempt to give back something to this country that has given me so much.

  

  Sammy Davis, Jr.
  • Country
  • Me
  • Him

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

  

  Larry Wall
  • Age
  • Think
  • Science

• Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Life
  • Thinking
  • Man

• 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

• I want to know who my client is. I see her on Instagram, but it's another thing to get to chat with her.

  

  Edgardo Osorio
  • Want
  • Know
  • See

• 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

• I think authors can get into trouble viewing the subject matter as their turf.

  

  Laura Hillenbrand
  • Think
  • Matter
  • Trouble

• 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

• There's so much pressure, but I think if you really love it, if you truly love it, and it's your passion to sing, then that's what will get through. I think if you don't have that, you'll realise quickly.

  

  Fleur East
  • Love
  • Passion
  • Pressure

• I think Freddie Mercury is probably the best of all time in terms of a rock voice. There was a vulnerability to it, his technical ability was amazing, and so much of his personality would come out through his voice. I'm not even a guy to buy Queen records, really, and I still think he's one of the best.

  

  Chris Cornell Soundgarden
  • Time
  • Guy
  • Amazing

• I date, but the person I date most is myself, unfortunately.

  

  Gabrielle Union
  • Myself
  • Person
  • Date

• 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