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

• When incomes and bonuses decrease, revenues falter, and businesses stumble, it's more important than ever to give - not necessarily more, but in a way that matters more. When incomes are down and wallets are stretched, the effectiveness of our giving is what really counts.

  

  Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen
  • Important
  • Giving
  • Down

• 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

• We've all got strange things about us and Lynch picks those things up.

  

  Jack Nance
  • Up
  • Things
  • Strange

• 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

• I do wish, when I was younger, that I knew that I was gay. It would have made things a lot clearer for me. Really. Looking back on it, it was so obvious, but it never really dawned on me. Socially, I felt like I didn't know how to be and who to be. If I had known back then, it would have given me more self-confidence.

  

  Megan Rapinoe
  • Wish
  • Confidence
  • Gay

• They understand we're in a precarious position right now as far as trying to get some other guys in some games and get a look at them yet still go out there and try to be as competitive as you can.

  

  Bob Melvin
  • Games
  • Position
  • Competitive

• Online communities are an expression of loneliness.

  

  Joanne Harris

• In England, I was quite struck to see how forward the girls are made--a child of 10 years old, will chat and keep you company, while her parents are busy or out etc.--with the ease of a woman of 26. But then, how does this education go on?--Not at all: it absolutely stops short.

  

  Fanny Burney
  • Children
  • Parents
  • Girl

• She nodded... and was about to turn away. Then, as if she thought better of it, she reached out and grabbed his arm. "Jack." "Yes?" "I. . ." she faltered. She knew what she wanted to tell him, but she couldn't bring herself to say the words. It turned out she didn't have to. Jack put a hand to his heart and nodded. "I feel the same way about you.

  

  Melissa de la Cruz
  • Heart
  • Arm
  • Same Way

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

  

  Iain Banks