Ian Rankin Quotes

No matter how many awards you've won or how many sales you've got, come the next book it's still a blank sheet of paper and you're still panicking like hell that you've got nothing new to say.

Ian Rankin

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: scottish
  • Birth: April 28, 1960

Topics

BookHellYouNewSayNothing

Aggression unopposed becomes a contagious disease.

Jimmy Carter

AggressionDiseaseContagiousBecomes

I see martial arts as moving forms of meditation. When you're sparring or drilling techniques, you can't think of anything else.

Joe Rogan

MovingThinkYouMeditationSee

I just love being able to create and make things that inspire and that make people laugh, and my motivation to keep going is to make more opportunities to do that.

Amanda Seales

LoveKeep GoingPeopleOpportunities

I have tried to create main characters who are drastically different from the types who generally appear in crime novels. Mikael Blomkvist, for instance, doesn't have ulcers or booze problems or an anxiety complex. He doesn't listen to operas, nor does he have an oddball hobby such as making model airplanes.

Stieg Larsson

ProblemsAnxietyHobbyCreateCrime

It can always be transformed into an avenue of information.

Slick Rick

InformationAlwaysAvenueTransformed

I can't deliver lines, but I can talk about food all night long.

Tom Colicchio

FoodNightLongI CanTalkLines

My main exercise is cardio. The treadmill is fine, but running outdoors gives me the best results. I try to log 6 to 8 miles a week. I could be in the worst mood, but when I do my cardio, I feel much, much better.

Mary J. Blige

BestMeOutdoorsBetterExercise

Nothing so obstinately stands in the way of all sorts of progress as pride of opinion. While nothing is so foolish and baseless.

Josiah Gilbert Holland

ProgressOpinionPrideNothingWay

It's great to have an honest course where you can use your strength. I swim 10 hours a week, I bike 20 hours a week, and I want to be able to show that.

Jonathan Brownlee

StrengthGreatBikeWeekYouWant

You don't lock into a ten-year family budget. You take it a year at a time - maybe even six months at a time. And then if the income really comes in the way you hope it does, then you can make some of those expenditures that you've been waiting to make. We think that same principle should apply to the national family we call America.

Dick Gephardt

FamilyHopeTimeWaitingThinkYear

High jump is such a mental thing. It's you against the bar. It's something that a lot of people struggle with, and people experience slumps and plateaus because of it.

Derek Drouin

ExperienceStrugglePeopleYouJump

If the clockwork universe equated the human body with the mechanics of the clock, the digital universe now equates human consciousness with the processing of the computer. We joke that things don't compute, that we need a reboot, or that our memory has been wiped.

Douglas Rushkoff

MemoryUniverseBodyNowClockNeed

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