Iain Banks Quotes

I deliberately keep myself apart from a lot of stuff; I don't Tweet, I don't do Facebook, I don't blog, and that's largely because I spend my working life staring at a screen and hitting a keyboard, I am trying to cut down on that, not increase it.

Iain Banks

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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I was so ashamed of who I was. And I also felt like an outcast in gay society as well because I wasn't good-looking enough; my body wasn't good enough.

John Grant

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I am a bit of a hopeless romantic. I really do have a faith and a belief in love, and when I love, I love hard.

Melanie Fiona

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A lot of my time is spent reading antique or out-of-print books of reference.

John Hodgman

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I'm not in the business of ranking or debating who is what.

Stephen Curry

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I'm doing stand-up comedy. I'm working on a one-woman show about how I don't like my baby. There is a period of time where a baby is born where the next 3 months is harrowing. A lot of people say it's the most wonderful time, but for me it was harrowing.

Mary Lynn Rajskub

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It doesn't matter if one is live on-air or sitting through a commercial break. There aren't any on or off switches on a lapel pin microphone; it is always 'hot.'

Mike Gallagher

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So to compare the Beatles, obviously the Beatles are the Beatles, but in hip-hop terms, Tribe is the Beatles. Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five are the Beatles. Big Daddy Kane is Jimi Hendrix. It means that much to people that grew up with it.

Michael Rapaport

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While analogies are useful, however, they can also be misleading. They smuggle in assumptions that can be wrong.

Michael Mandelbaum

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There will not be any investment or movement or growth in any region of the world without the voice of the Saudi sovereign wealth fund.

Mohammad bin Salman

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I've been putting 100% of work into defense like I do hitting because that way I can help my team more.

Jose Altuve

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Nicolas Cage is a great actor and he's done some good action movies too.

Dolph Lundgren

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During the summer, Screen Gems launched the New Monkees, which miserably failed I understand. I never saw it.

Davy Jones

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