Iain Banks Quotes

There is a saying that we provide the machines with an end, and they provide us with the means.

Iain Banks

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• Produce great men, the rest follows.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Great
  • Men
  • Rest

• Even city people have ancestors who had their hands in the dirt.

  

  Carlene Carter
  • People
  • City
  • Hands

• I'm interested in personalities, not political parties.

  

  Sam Wyly
  • Political
  • Personalities

• I was a Presbyterian minister at a small church in Omaha, Nebraska.

  

  Sam Barry
  • Small
  • Church
  • Nebraska

• They got into fact checking at the 'Paris Review,' and it was mortifying. There was a wrangle about Hemingway's lost stories that nearly killed me. It turns out he didn't lose those stories. They weren't stolen from the platform.

  

  Padgett Powell
  • Me
  • Lost
  • Paris

• I work out six days a week. Usually 45 minutes of running, then swimming and weightlifting.

  

  Garrett Neff
  • Work
  • Running
  • Week

• I've been playing this game, fortunately for me, since I was three years old. That's one of the reasons why this game is so special to me.

  

  J. R. Smith
  • Game
  • Me
  • Special

• I have heard of people dying from prostate cancer, and they are the unlucky ones, the people who didn't know they had got it, and it went on the rampage.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • People
  • Know
  • Dying

• When my kids were growing up, I wanted their teachers to teach them science, reading, math and history. I also wanted them to care about my kids. But I did not want my children's public school teachers teaching them religion. That was my job as a parent and the job of our church, Sunday school, and youth group.

  

  Adam Hamilton
  • Up
  • Children
  • School

• I'm sick of the tabloids' saying I obsess over guys. Why would you obsess over guys? They don't like it.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Why
  • You
  • Sick

• We are not Marxist or capitalist; we are for the poor people.

  

  Mamata Banerjee
  • People
  • Poor
  • Poor People

• In January of 1995, my family and I moved to Seattle. Pearl Jam did the first of their live radio broadcasts, Monkey Wrench Radio, along with many other Seattle musicians.

  

  Jack Irons Pearl Jam
  • Live
  • Family
  • Musicians

• In the 'Dreamblood' books, I'm focusing more on what I like about epic fantasy: the layering and depth of tension; the chance to really delve into the minutia of an alternate society and its politics; a large cast of characters to love and hate.

  

  N. K. Jemisin
  • Love
  • Society
  • Hate

• Actually I've never had formal training, I was lucky enough to continue working most of my career and aside from sitting in on a couple of classes, here and there, I basically just use my own instincts.

  

  Nancy McKeon
  • Career
  • Couple
  • Training

• Let's just start with the word 'diva.' It is obviously a sexist slight - a term that is only applied to women, almost always in a derogatory way. It's usually applied to women who are viewed as overly ambitious. It is applied to demanding women, to women who follow their own path.

  

  Brown Campbell
  • Women
  • Path
  • Start

• The formula for a hit is saying what people want to hear.

  

  Fat Joe
  • People
  • Want
  • Saying

• The whole spirit of 'Eddie The Eagle' is that it's the taking part that counts, not the winning.

  

  Taron Egerton
  • Winning
  • Spirit
  • Eagle

• A philosopher is someone who says, 'We know it's possible in practice; we're trying to work out if it's possible in principle!'

  

  Daniel Dennett
  • Work
  • Trying
  • Practice

• When I went to San Francisco in that cold late spring of 1967, I did not even know what I wanted to find out, and so I just stayed around a while and made a few friends.

  

  Joan Didion
  • Friends
  • Cold
  • Spring

• My mechanics are so screwed up, there's nothing you can really tell me except stay back. Reggie was on me to stay aggressive, stay positive. This is a humbling game and like he said, if it was easy, he'd still be playing. That's good to hear from a Hall of Fame hitter.

  

  Gary Sheffield
  • Up
  • Good
  • Game

• I'm a great bum, and I'm a pretty good director.

  

  Daniel Espinosa
  • Good
  • Great
  • Pretty

• I feel like it's been so crazy to get to open for people like Rascal Flatts, Lady A, Billy Currington.

  

  Kelsea Ballerini
  • People
  • Crazy

• One man's mind differs from another man's mind far more widely than all women's minds differ from all men.

  

  M. Carey Thomas
  • Men
  • Women
  • Mind

• There is a saying that we provide the machines with an end, and they provide us with the means.

  

  Iain Banks