Iain Banks Quotes

Most mainstream male fiction is littered with heroines, and female characters are basically so great, you want to fall in love with them.

Iain Banks

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: scottish
  • Birth: February 16, 1954 - June 9, 2013

Topics

LoveGreatYouFallWantFiction

I may not have got the Nobel Prize, but I've won countless other awards, including 'Most Inspirational Living Woman Scientist.'

Jocelyn Bell Burnell

InspirationalWomanLivingAwards

I got my Equity card from an audition out of Backstage. We did 'Guys and Dolls' and 'Kismet.'

John C. McGinley

EquityOutGotBackstageAudition

I was a solid C student because I was doing so many plays. I was a drama nerd, but I was also kind of a Zelig-like character; I would shift between different groups of people. But the people I spent most of my time with were either chorus or swing choir or the drama nerds.

John C. Reilly

CharacterTimePeopleDoingDrama

I try to not be too hard on myself regarding my diet. I've always been a workout-to-eat kind of a girl.

Jennie Finch

GirlMyselfDietKindTryHard

We had a gay marriage on 'Will & Grace' in 2000, 2001. And I was like, 'Gay marriage?' I mean, it was just really early.

Megan Mullally

MarriageGraceEarlyGayWillMean

Sen. Obama comes from the old Chicago machine politics and has never taken on the special interests in his party on a major issue ever.

John McCain

PoliticsPartyChicagoSpecialNever

Freedom has invented every useful machine, from the lowest to the highest, from the simplest to the most complex.

Robert Green Ingersoll

FreedomComplexUsefulMachineMost

In the field of sports you are more or less accepted for what you do rather than what you are.

Althea Gibson

SportsYouMoreAcceptedRather

We are built to love. Have the bravery to open the heart you have contracted from life's disappointments. This is how the heroes roll.

Robin S. Sharma

LifeLoveHeartYouHeroesOpen

Democracy just isn't working any more; without sanity at its heart, it is becoming a most unique and fiendish tyranny.

Michael Leunig

HeartDemocracyTyrannyUniqueMore

Everyone in Tel Aviv knows Yosl Bergner. In 2006, the mayor made him a Freeman of the City. Now he carries a card which allows him to park his car anywhere with impunity. If only he could drive.

Clive Sinclair

CarCityDriveNowHimPark

Always be nice to secretaries. They are the real gatekeepers in the world.

Anthony J. D'Angelo

WorldBe NiceNiceRealAlways

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