John Banville Quotes

I live in Dublin, God knows why. There are greatly more congenial places I could have settled in - Italy, France, Manhattan - but I like the climate here, and Irish light seems to be essential for me and for my writing.

John Banville

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

LiveGodLightMeWritingWhy

In long term investments, you don't need day to day management.

Shiv Khera

DayManagementLongYouNeedTerm

I've been standing at water coolers for the past thirty years talking to women about their love lives, and here's what I've learned: Eventually, most women I know want to be partnered.

Tracy McMillan

LoveWomenWaterPastTalkingKnow

Sometimes the worst thing that can happen is, 'Oh, I'm on stage playing a song,' because you're daydreaming about something else, you're on autopilot. You have to fight that.

Trent Reznor

FightSongYouSometimesWorst

In most matters regarding apparel, I am a big fan of natural fibers - wool, cotton, and so on. Not when it comes to socks. An elastic fiber of some type is necessary.

Roger Stone

I AmSocksMattersCottonBigFan

I don't pretend to be captain weird. I just do what I do.

Johnny Depp

WeirdCaptainPretendJust

I think that for the United States, Hillary Clinton, as awful as I find her, is a survivable event. I'm not so sure about Donald Trump.

Bret Stephens

ThinkFindDonald TrumpHerSure

The 5G world will be a collaborative ecosystem, and the role of what each of us will do in that remains to be thought through.

Borje Ekholm

WorldThoughtWillThroughUsRole

I always wanted to be an actress. I couldn't imagine being anything else.

AnnaLynne McCord

AlwaysAnythingImagineBeingWanted

My plan is to give myself the space and a platform to freely express my creativity.

Selah Louise Marley

MyselfCreativitySpacePlanGive

People have responded to my stories so well. They come up after a show and say things like, 'Your album really helped me,' or 'I have stage four cancer. I'm terminally ill.' Somebody told me it gave them the courage to die.

Tig Notaro

CouragePeopleMeDieSayStage

Courage does not mean not fearing or not grieving. It does mean recognizing and resisting terror management right away, from the moment of the attack, precisely when it seems most difficult to do so.

Timothy D. Snyder

CourageMomentManagementMeanRight

'The Grace of Kings' draws on Western traditions as much as it does on Chinese traditions, though the bones of the story are drawn from the Chu-Han Contention period before the Han Dynasty.

Ken Liu

GraceStoryKingsBonesTraditions

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