Ian Mcewan Quotes

Scientists do stand on the shoulders of giants, just as do writers. Conversely, in the arts we do make discoveries. We do refine our tools. So I am arguing with, or at least playing with, the idea that art never improves.

Ian Mcewan

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

ArtI AmStandToolsNeverArts

Some people are uncomfortable saying what they feel.

Meg Wolitzer

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I had a little bit of resistance to the idea of taking energy away from my work, and the baby comes along and, lo and behold, that's exactly what happens.

Ani DiFranco

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I seldom was ever off my seat on the bench during the game.

John Wooden

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I am a believer in the evolutionary process, and yet I have sympathy for the friends of mine who are creationists. I don't find the positions incompatible.

John Rhys-Davies

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What we know is that Shakespeare wrote perhaps the most remarkable body of passionate love poetry in the English language to a young man.

Stephen Greenblatt

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By the time I had got to college, I had begun to read and had decided that most of what Christians believed could not be credible. So I became a philosophy major at Southwestern University in Georgetown, Texas.

Stanley Hauerwas

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Many people lock a part of themselves away. It's a bit sacred.

Tori Amos

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The odds are always against you no matter what your previous history is. You have to overcome the tendency to relax.

Tom Osborne

HistoryRelaxYouMatterOvercome

I'm the kind of person where I always digest everything around me.

Trevante Rhodes

MePersonKindAlwaysEverything

As a former Apollo astronaut, I think it's safe to say that SpaceX and the other commercial developers embody the 21st century version of the Apollo frontier spirit.

Rusty Schweickart

ThinkSaySpiritFrontierSafe

I prefer to remember the happy things over 10 years, the things that went well. Let me see, what did go well?

Rudolf Bing

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I'd love to do more theatre and acting. I attended a performing arts high school in London, and it would be great to be able to put all of that training to use again.

Derek Hough

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