Iain Banks Quotes
That’s the trouble with people like them, I suppose; whenever you think you’re detecting the first signs of them starting to behave responsibly, it’s just them being even more devious and underhand than usual.
Iain Banks
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My vision for the future always centers around our children - it always centers around our children. So anytime anybody asks me what are the three most important issues facing the Congress, I always say the same thing: 'Our children, our children, our children.'
Nancy Pelosi
The sweeping, unfocused cuts of sequestration are certain to have unintended negative consequences, including for America's small businesses.
Sam Graves
I wouldn't just have other people write songs and me go out and sing it. I would sit down with a guitar and write 11 or 12 good songs for an album and that is gonna take a long time.
Zac Efron
If I don't write down a thought - or an image or a line of poetry - the instant it comes to mind, it vanishes, which explains why I have pens and notebooks in my pants and coat pockets, the car, the bicycle basket, on one or two desks in every room including bathrooms and the kitchen.
Floyd Skloot
I used to think I had ambition... but now I'm not so sure. It may have been only discontent. They're easily confused.
Rachel Field
Whether it's through introduction of the right gut bacteria or direct modification of the genes of cows and pigs, I think we're going to have to introduce something like this into our livestock - a way to consume the methane rather than releasing it.
Ramez Naam
We've all read, I'm sure, a Superman book where we didn't really feel like we knew the character. Where the writer, often with the best of intentions, has tried put a personal stamp on the character, whether it be to try and make him more current, or cool, or have a broader appeal, etc.
Gary Frank
Any time you have an injury, it's going to be tough.
Calvin Johnson
The day I leave Paris is the day I go down a level or quit football.
Zlatan Ibrahimovic
The heavier crop is ever in others' fields.
Ovid
True character arises from a deeper well than religion.
E. O. Wilson
It used to be that watching a film was a very special occasion, the same way flying was. Before, if you took a flight from New York to L.A., most of the windows would be open. Now, we get on planes and we just close them because we're so used to what it feels like. I think the same thing has happened with cinema.
Barry Jenkins
When I was at Stanford, I was actually in the cancer biology program, but I mostly focused on infectious disease.
Kathleen Rubins
First I was a European-style player, then I was a downtown 'noise guy,' and now some people call me an Americana guy.
Bill Frisell
I think, for me, Julian Schnabel set a great precedent in being able to cross over so successfully. I feel like his artwork is kind of big, grand, and bombastic, yet the films that he makes are very beautifully sensitive, and I just feel that his filmmaking sensibility is very different from his artwork.
Sam Taylor-Johnson
When I was young, people were so disgusted by me. Before I even knew that I was gay... everybody else had it figured out and, you know, they were letting you know.
John Grant
The easiest kind of relationship for me is with ten thousand people. The hardest is with one.
Joan Baez
That’s the trouble with people like them, I suppose; whenever you think you’re detecting the first signs of them starting to behave responsibly, it’s just them being even more devious and underhand than usual.
Iain Banks
