Ian Rankin Quotes

I don't have many friends. It's not because I'm a misanthrope. It's because I'm reserved. I'm self-contained. I get all my adventures in my head when I'm writing my books.

Ian Rankin

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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I have discovered the secret of happiness. It is work.

John Burroughs

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Unfortunately, I think it's very difficult to separate policy from politics. In a perfect world, in some instances, you probably would want to. In other instances, you'd probably say that the political element is important because it should, in a perfect world, match what the stakeholders need or want, or what the public is after.

Andrew Ross Sorkin

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Being a mentor and a leader, I've always urged guys, if you're ever allowed to be a free agent, to take advantage of that opportunity.

Andrew Whitworth

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I don't play a lot of fancy guitar. I don't want to play it. The kind of guitar I want to play is mean, mean licks.

John Lee Hooker

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Some people like to paint trees. I like to paint love. I find it more meaningful than painting trees.

Robert Indiana

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Elon Musk is an incredible leader and entrepreneur. I have known him since 1995 when he first came to Silicon Valley.

Steve Jurvetson

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I don't hold any regrets whatsoever about my life besides hurting people I loved.

Sugar Ray Leonard

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You are Mrs. Reagan because Mr. Reagan loves you with all his heart.

Ronald Reagan

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It is grievous to read the papers in most respects, I agree. More and more I skim the headlines only, for one can be sure what is carried beneath them quite automatically, if one has long been a reader of the press journalism.

Mary Ritter Beard

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People say the seats at sporting events are too small. My response is, 'That's why we're trying to work on the size of your rear end!'

Mick Cornett

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You finish a film not in the editing, but in the conversations that audiences have with themselves - and in that sense, every viewer is making a slightly different film. And that's wonderful.

Joshua Oppenheimer

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The Beatles did their best cover work on Little Richard's 'Long Tall Sally' and music influenced by Richard, such as Larry Williams's 'Dizzy Miss Lizzie.'

Jon Landau

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