Iain Banks Quotes

There are no gods, we are told, so I must make my own salvation.

Iain Banks

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• One of the first pieces of advice I was ever given, on my first job was, you should always buy something to treat yourself to say well done for getting the job! However I've not followed on that through yet... I've always wanted a tattoo, something to mark my experience.

  

  Sam Claflin
  • Done
  • Experience
  • Job

• There is one thing women can never take away from men. We die sooner.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Men
  • Women
  • Die

• Israel can't be the only country in the Western world not to have freedom of religion.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • World
  • Country
  • Freedom

• I warm up with my mom and make sure I understand what the songs are about and make sure I'm using the right technique. To be honest with you, I really don't practice a lot... Usually, I say a prayer and ask the Lord to sing with me and help me and stand on the stage with me.

  

  Jackie Evancho
  • Up
  • Help
  • Mom

• I guess that I'm primarily thought of as a rocker, largely because of 'Frankenstein' being such a heavy song - you know, it was really hard rock, almost a precursor of heavy metal and just the image of the synthesizer. I happened to be the first guy to get the idea of putting a strap on the keyboard.

  

  Edgar Winter
  • Guy
  • Song
  • Know

• I've seen articles suggesting that Wal-Mart buys at prices lower than our competitors', and that this gives Wal-Mart an unfair advantage. I don't believe it... What we hear is concern that in some circumstances, Wal-Mart may actually be paying more than our competitors.

  

  S. Robson Walton
  • Believe
  • May
  • Circumstances

• I like jazz, rock n' roll, some hip hop - I can't think of any music I don't like.

  

  B. B. King
  • Music
  • Rock
  • Jazz

• I don't know that I'd call myself an optimist.

  

  Patrick deWitt
  • Know
  • Myself
  • Optimist

• Push-ups, sit-ups, and a strict diet of raisins. That's my plan.

  

  Jack Black
  • Plan
  • Diet
  • Strict

• My background is in theoretical physics, and it's something very close to my heart.

  

  Yuri Milner
  • Heart
  • Something
  • Physics

• No one would want to read a book in which I explain the science of cloning because it would be very dull and it would also make no sense.

  

  Rachel Cohn
  • Book
  • Want
  • Science

• Records were replaced by CDs, and lead type died in favor of computerized fonts. However, each had a 100-year ride of popularity, so you can't feel too bad for them.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • Bad
  • You
  • Ride

• I grew up in Louisiana. We have red beans and rice, and there's a Popeye's on every corner.

  

  Daniel Cormier
  • Up
  • Red
  • Corner

• The key to making a good forecast is not in limiting yourself to quantitative information.

  

  Nate Silver
  • Good
  • Yourself
  • Information

• Only that position can impart dignity in which we do not appear as servile tools but rather create independently within our circle.

  

  Karl Marx

• 3D printing is going to transform our societies, our freedoms and our sense of security.

  

  Nayef Al-Rodhan

• How many reality shows can you watch? They're so obviously phony.

  

  Eric Braeden
  • Reality

• I love Mickey Mantle. Would I have felt the same if I had known when I was eight years old what I know now?

  

  Billy Crystal

• The surprising thing about fatherhood was finding my inner mush. Now I want to share it with the world.

  

  Christopher Meloni
  • World
  • Fatherhood

• The benefit of writing a collection - as opposed to a novel - is that I'm able to have some version of the war in each story without having to comment on its all-encompassing nature. Turn the page and here are new characters and new situations, but the war remains... Isn't that how life has been for us for over a decade?

  

  Said Sayrafiezadeh
  • Life
  • Writing
  • Character

• The old adage that polite conversation should not include talk of politics or religion is understandable because both subjects are so heavily laden with emotion that discussion can quickly turn to shouting. Blood is shed over politics, religion and the two in combination.

  

  John C. Danforth
  • Emotion
  • Discussion
  • Polite

• Great literature has always been written in a like spirit, and is, indeed, the Forgiveness of Sin, and when we find it becoming the Accusation of Sin, as in George Eliot, who plucks her Tito in pieces with as much assurance as if he had been clockwork, literature has begun to change into something else.

  

  William Butler Yeats
  • Spirit
  • Literature
  • Sin

• There are no gods, we are told, so I must make my own salvation.

  

  Iain Banks