John Banville Quotes

When I started writing, I was a great rationalist and believed I was absolutely in control. But the older one gets, the more confused, and for an artist I think that is quite a good thing: you allow in more of your instinctual self; your dreams, fantasies and memories. It's richer, in a way.

John Banville

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

GoodDreamsMemoriesGreatControl

I discovered and fell in love with skiing long before I started to climb. Skiing was really my first calling. As a kid, I grew up skiing in jeans in Minnesota.

Jimmy Chin

LoveClimbSkiingLongFirstKid

There is no world of absolute, complete privacy or a world of complete national security.

Andrew McCabe

WorldSecurityPrivacyComplete

Every time you get the chance to work with somebody you admire and would like to collaborate with... it feels like the best opportunity that's ever come your way, whether that's in fringe theatre or a really big-budget Hollywood movie.

Andrea Riseborough

WorkOpportunityTimeBestTheatre

I think there is sort of a general universal perception of me, or someone who looks like me, as someone who is kind of menacing, dark or mysterious.

Steven Bauer

MePerceptionThinkSomeoneDark

The causes of youth violence are working parents who put their kids into daycare, the teaching of evolution in the schools, and working mothers who take birth control pills.

Tom DeLay

ParentsYouthControlViolenceBirth

When you see opportunities in your life, you've got to analyze, 'Why was that choice given to me?'

Tom DeLonge

LifeMeOpportunitiesYouChoice

I enjoy travel very much. I've taken the kids to Europe when there were just the two boys.

Roger Zelazny

TravelEnjoyTwoEuropeJustKids

Having a little boy gave me a foundation and centred my life a bit more.

Robert Whittaker

LifeMeFoundationMy LifeBoyMore

I was fed up with not being able to play a movie the way I wanted to play it.

Jon Johansen

PlayWayUpBeingAbleFed Up

I really do love male characters, in some ways, for the fact that they get surprised when they're vulnerable. Women are more surprised by their strength.

Courtney A. Kemp

LoveStrengthWomenMoreGetFact

Shelters, conservationists, those concerned about unnecessary cruelty toward the animals we eat, and people working against species extinction fight to preserve the true riches of our planet, our real inheritance. These are big, critical goals.

April Gornik

GoalsFightPeopleAnimalsTrueEat

Every man who takes office in Washington either grows or swells, and when I give a man an office, I watch him carefully to see whether he is growing or swelling.

Woodrow Wilson

ManGrowingWashingtonOfficeSee

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