John Banville Quotes

It's great people still care about books, and it's great you can still fashion a life from literature.

John Banville

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

LifeGreatPeopleFashionCareYou

We live inside our universe and cannot get a bird's-eye view of it from outside. And we cannot even see all of our universe. Distant parts of it are expanding away from us so fast that they are invisible; they go faster than the speed of light. Having bigger telescopes to see fainter stars will not help us here: invisible is truly invisible.

Jocelyn Bell Burnell

StarsLiveLightUniverseViewHelp

My dad's a lighting director. Growing up in Hollywood, I was around the entertainment industry all the time. I knew I'd end up in show business in some capacity, eventually.

Meghan Markle

BusinessTimeGrowing UpEndGrowing

Beautiful things comfort; they bring a real clarity and ease. We have to continue to make our environments beautiful - it's sort of like a prayer. If you surround yourself with beautiful things, you have a better life - one with more oxygen.

Anjelica Huston

LifeBeautifulPrayerYourselfYou

I think giving up people is a difficult thing.

Sissy Spacek

PeopleThinkGivingGiving UpUp

I make no apologies in admitting that I take very seriously the dehumanizing dangers in our tendency in modern science to make man over into the image of the machine, into the image of the techniques by which we study him.

Rollo May

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I definitely believe in marriage.

Michael Strahan

MarriageBelieveDefinitely

Economic growth is necessary to keep the promise - enormously important to individual Americans - that each generation will have the opportunity to become more prosperous than the preceding one, the popular term for which is 'the American dream.'

Michael Mandelbaum

GrowthOpportunityAmerican Dream

You don't have to make something in order to retain your identity as an artist or a writer or a creative person. A lot of people think they have to be producing in order to maintain that identity.

Lucy Dacus

CreativeIdentityPeopleThinkYou

My grandfather, who's still alive, has always been involved in art, antiques, and things like that. I think I learned so much from him.

Jonathan Anderson

ArtThinkAliveGrandfatherHim

Actually, I'm the Scottish Woody Guthrie.

Donovan

ScottishActuallyWoodyWoody Guthrie

I live half the year in Nigeria, the other half in the U.S. But home is Nigeria - it always will be. I consider myself a Nigerian who is comfortable in the world. I look at it through Nigerian eyes.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

HomeLiveEyesMyselfWorldYear

I enjoyed the whole process of learning and was always happy when autumn came and school or college started up again.

Claire Tomalin

LearningSchoolHappyCollegeAlways

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