Iain Banks Quotes

I don't really do themes. I might accidentally, but themes are an emergent phenomena of the writing of the book, of just trying to get a story out there.

Iain Banks

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

WritingBookStoryTryingOutGet

I don't run any of my companies. I always partner with somebody who wants to operate.

Jim McKelvey

PartnerRunAlwaysSomebodyWhoAny

It's possible that in the future, women could be drafted not only into the military... but actually drafted into combat. I'm very uncomfortable with that.

John Fleming

WomenFutureUncomfortablePossible

As songwriters, we are lucky to have ASCAP on our side, offering support and fighting for our rights.

Max Martin

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I'm probably a little too impatient with ensuring that the networks and organizations I'm part of are doing the right thing, and pushing the right thing the right way.

John Prendergast

Doing The Right ThingDoingWayRight

My father would have been spectacularly ill-suited to working for an institution of any kind, and I suspect that, to a lesser degree, that's true of me, too.

Amy Bloom

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I always try to plan things out, but they never work out the way I expect.

Lucas Till

WorkPlanWayTryNeverOut

The questions of philosophy proper are human desires and fears and aspirations - human emotions - taking an intellectual form.

Chauncey Wright

QuestionsPhilosophyEmotionsHuman

My life has always been with my dad. Since I can remember, I was raised by my father my entire life. So he's kind of been that mom and father figure - always.

Apolo Ohno

LifeFatherMomMy LifeRemember

If a man neglects education, he walks lame to the end of his life.

Plato

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I concluded that Donald Trump lacked the temperament, the judgment and the self-discipline to heal the divisions in our country - which are very real - and to be commander in chief.

Susan Collins

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The country has sorted itself ideologically into the two political parties, and those partisan attachments have hardened in recent years. It will take an extraordinary event and act of leadership to break this partisan divide. I thought 9/11 might provide such an opportunity, but it was not seized.

Thomas E. Mann

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Is class snobbery a social reality in the United States? Absolutely, and the kind that's codified by meritocracy is probably more toxic than the old-fashioned kind based on bloodlines.

Timothy Noah

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