John Banville Quotes

I don't know if there is a personal identity. We all imagine that we are absolute individuals. But when we begin to look for where this individuality resides, it's very difficult to find.

John Banville

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: novelist
  • Nationality: irish
  • Birth: December 8, 1945

Topics

IdentityLookFindKnowPersonal

The rest of my work, besides sketching and keeping a diary, which was the most troublesome of all, consisted in making geological and zoological collections.

John Hanning Speke

WorkRestDiarySketchingMost

We do not talk enough about spirit in business, yet it is what moves employees, customers, and shareholders alike.

Andy Dunn

BusinessEmployeesEnoughTalkAlike

Whether it's Alexander Brand or Sergey Kovalev, I approach every situation the same way.

Andre Ward

BrandSituationWaySameApproach

I saw no African people in the printed and illustrated Sunday school lessons. I began to suspect at this early age that someone had distorted the image of my people. My long search for the true history of African people the world over began.

John Henrik Clarke

AgeHistorySchoolPeopleWorld

Our ideals are our better selves.

Amos Bronson Alcott

InspirationalBetterOurIdeals

I'm willing to be different than other parents and go against the mainstream.

Amy Chua

ParentsBe DifferentGoAgainstThan

Use the word 'zeitgeist' as often as possible. Ideally, you want to find words that sound familiar but people don't really know their definitions: 'zeitgeist,' 'bildungsroman,' 'doppelganger' - better yet, anything Latin. But avoid 'paradigm.' It's so 1994. If you say the word 'paradigm,' everybody knows you're a poser.

Stephen Colbert

WordsPeopleBetterYouFindKnow

Whether I am performing for an elite crowd or a crowd of 20,000 people - the moment someone asks for 'Agneepath,' and I respond 'Agneepath' chahiye?' the noise in the crowd, shows that this song has become huge.

Sonu Nigam

MomentI AmPeopleSongSomeone

I blew the college boards, and to ease the snub from Harvard made a tour of Europe.

Steve Sabol

CollegeEuropeHarvardEaseTour

I just don't see how it is possible to be a vegetarian or vegan when you break your body down so much. You have to recover. You need those proteins and proper amino acids, like leucine, which only really comes from animal fats.

Luke Rockhold

AnimalYouBodyDownPossibleNeed

I think running a business, doing what I've done for the last - since 1996, has taught me so many things because I started from just an idea and then had to figure out how to make it, market it, every single thing from soup to nuts on how to get a product done and out there.

Lori Greiner

BusinessMeSoupThinkDoingDone

Our company, it's, uh, really un-sexy. And I think most people get into Hollywood to be showy. We first of all make horror movies, which people turn their noses up at. Second of all, we make cheap movies, and Hollywood's a lot about ego and money and, 'My movie cost $200m!,' you know?

Jason Blum

MoneyPeopleEgoThinkYouKnow

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