Iain Banks Quotes

I love writing and can't imagine not being able to do it. I want an easy life and if it had been difficult I wouldn't be doing it. I do admire writers who do it even though it costs them.

Iain Banks

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

LifeLoveWritingDoingEasyWant

I don't think human beings have changed in 2,000 years.

Andrew Dominik

ThinkHumanYearsHuman Beings

I don't have massive ambitions to be anywhere other than in this country doing good work.

Maxine Peake

WorkGoodGood WorkDoingDoing Good

The most significant civil rights problem is voting. Each citizen's right to vote is fundamental to all the other rights of citizenship and the Civil Rights Acts of 1957 and 1960 make it the responsibility of the Department of Justice to protect that right.

Robert Kennedy

JusticeResponsibilityVotingProblem

Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty.

Stephen King

TruthLieSpeakFriendsDutyLovers

No one will expect the British Government or the Government of India to give way to threats of violence, disorder and chaos; and, indeed, representatives of large sections of Indian opinion have expressly warned us that we must not do so.

Stafford Cripps

GovernmentChaosOpinionViolenceUs

Over the years, I think, people - actors, writers, whatever - lose their frame of reference. Their frame of reference is based on somebody else who did this or did that. Performances. So it just becomes a reflection of what already works. Like a warm-up. And that's an invitation to be inauthentic.

Michael Keaton

ReflectionPeopleThinkLoseOver

A woman who gives any advantage to a man may expect a lover but will sooner or later find a tyrant.

Lord Byron

WomanManFindWillExpectMay

I am radically, insanely, nutty in love with Jesus!

Joyce Meyer

LoveI AmJesusNuttyAmRadically

Each project that you do is something you believe in for that moment in time.

Dianne Reeves

TimeMomentBelieveYouProject

I'd always maintained that much of the anarchy and craziness of the early Internet had a lot to do with the fact that governments just hadn't realised it was there.

William Gibson

InternetEarlyAlwaysAnarchyJust

I don't want to end up being a circus act, doing my most famous tricks when I'm 70.

Pharrell Williams

EndFamousDoingWantCircusUp

I've declined every congressional benefit I could decline, federal health insurance, the retirement program, the 403(b) program, which I think is overly generous. I've got self-imposed term limits of six terms if I have the privilege to serve that long.

Scott Rigell

HealthLimitsThinkRetirementLong

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