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Ian Mcewan Quotes

I've yet to meet somebody who said, 'Your stories are so revolting I couldn't read them.'

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: author
Nationality: british
Birth: June 21, 1948

Topics

Said Meet Somebody Who Your Stories

Individual scientists like myself - and many more conspicuous - pointed to the dangers of radioactive fallout over Canada if we were to launch nuclear weapons to intercept incoming bombers.

Myself Canada More Over Launch Like

I think management is about just that - managing people via man-to-man skills.

People Management Think Skills Just

I'm honest and tell it like it is. I've been around the horn a few times and learned valuable lessons from screwing up a bit. So, if I can pass off advice or make someone smile on the way to work, I'm for it.

Stone Cold Steve Austin

Work Smile Advice Someone I Can Way

I am not a hugely religious person, but I believe that there is a oneness with everything. And because there is this oneness, it is possible that my mother is the principal reason for my life.

Life Mother I Am Believe My Life

All of my work is meant to evoke a whole bunch of different layers of discord between the attraction and repulsion that we feel toward our consumer habits and our consumer lives.

Work Feel Whole Layers Different

The world is starving for original and decisive leadership.

Bryant H. McGill

Leadership World Original Decisive

I've never bought a sports car.

Brian O'Driscoll

Car Sports Never Bought

I got sent some cheese once. I'm not sure if that was saying something about my act, or just because I like cheese.

Saying Cheese Just Because Act Sure

I come from an artistic family. My dad's an actor, my mother's an actress, my sister's an actress. So I kind of grew up in that kind of environment. Oddly enough, I never really knew about my parents' work. I've seen small clips of it, but we never actually spoke about the business.

Portia Doubleday

Work Family Mother Business Parents

The administration needs to speak honestly with the American people. Exaggerating our progress in defeating the insurgency or in creating an Iraqi army paints a dangerous picture.

Progress People Speak American Army

As countries grapple with modernization, people who are left behind tend to hold firmer and firmer to their view of the evil of modernity.

Richard Holbrooke

People Evil View Hold Left Behind

I'm not an equipment nut. I tend to use whatever's to hand. I have several cameras, of course, but I'm not emotional about any of them.

Hand Emotional Whatever Course Nut

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