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
People intrinsically know there are secrets being held from us. Look at WikiLeaks: There are secrets that are really true to the world.
Bob Weinstein
We're not going to see an exclusively robotic factory, but we will see the optimum use of robots and people.
Dennis Muilenburg
To be a good director, you have to spend a lot of time on actual sets, but today, there's a lot of people who spend a lot of time in dark rooms writing a script, and they'll go in and tell the story to some suit at a studio who says, 'Okay, this is great, let's go.' But that doesn't necessarily mean you know what to do once you're on set.
C. Thomas Howell
F1 is giving penalties for people making mistakes instead of for people driving dirty. And that is wrong. Mistakes happen. You run into each other: that's life, that's racing, and too bad.
Jacques Villeneuve
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
