Jonathan Raban Quotes

Simply as a writer of books I'm thrilled and proud that Seattle should have raised, on a public vote, sufficient money to build a central library, and moreover to rebuild every other library in the city: 28 of them.

Jonathan Raban

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: british
  • Birth: June 14, 1942

Topics

MoneyCityProudLibraryVoteBuild

I'm not opposed to adoption. It's not in my immediate future because I'm on the move a lot and if I were going to be father I would like to be more grounded.

John Corbett

FatherFutureMoreGoingMoveWould

You ask me a question. I have a blank mind. You ask me a question, and the question is informed, and you're interested, and now my mind starts popping. That's what conversation is. That's what communicating is.

Melissa Leo

MindMeYouConversationNowAsk

Philadelphia is a big market. We're going to operate the team like it's in a big market. We've got a very good contract with Comcast for our local TV. We're going to be aggressive when it's appropriate to be aggressive.

John S. Middleton

GoodTeamPhiladelphiaAggressive

Our national media refuses to report that even the Supreme Court did not say marriage was a human right in all cases nor did it say that the heterosexual definition violated anyone's right or that the heterosexual definition of marriage was unconstitutional.

Stockwell Day

MarriageMediaSayHumanRightEven

I don't normally look like a twig and I do eat like a pig but the weight has just dropped off me.

Sienna Miller

MeLookPigEatOffWeight

For many Taiwanese, almost all Taiwanese, we'd like to we say we are a country, and we have a sovereignty of our own.

Tsai Ing-wen

CountrySayOwnSovereigntyAlmost

A country cannot develop without a strong identity.

Rithy Panh

IdentityStrongCountryWithout

People are saying we need more females in our industry and we need more female-driven stories, but that takes the men of bankable star quality to come forward and play supporting roles in those films because, ultimately, that's what the women have always done.

Rosamund Pike

WomenQualityMenPeopleSaying

Many are saved from sin by being so inept at it.

Mignon McLaughlin

SinBeingSavedManyInept

When we moved back to the US, folk music was all the rage. So I traded in my banjo for a guitar.

Michael Storm

MusicGuitarBackRageUsBanjo

Be true to the game, because the game will be true to you. If you try to shortcut the game, then the game will shortcut you. If you put forth the effort, good things will be bestowed upon you. That's truly about the game, and in some ways that's about life too.

Michael Jordan

LifeGoodEffortGood ThingsGame

Art is anything people do with distinction.

Louis Dudek

ArtPeopleAnythingDistinction

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