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Money is a sign of poverty.
— Iain M. Banks
Mocking the wisdom that comes with age is a fit sport only for those who expect never to attain much of it themselves
— Iain M. Banks
Who you are is less important than what you seem.
— Iain Pears
The Fate had moved, or had been moved, thirty light years in less than a picosecond.
— Iain M. Banks
The humble have once again exhibited more insight than the exalted
— Iain W. Provan
I had nightmares I thought were really horrible until I woke up and remembered what reality was at the moment.
— Iain M. Banks
Division was the only order.
— Iain M. Banks
I can show you the path but I can not walk it for you.
— Master Iain Armstrong
Light is all memory.
— Iain Sinclair
An involuntary return to the point of departure is, without doubt, the most disturbing of all journeys.
— Iain Sinclair
The faster we walk, the more ground we lose.
— Iain Sinclair
I think almost every political leader is always told that the next speech they make is the most crucial one.
— Iain Duncan Smith
You like music, Mr. Gurgeh?" Hamin asked, leaning over to the man. Gurgeh nodded. "Well, a little does no harm.
— Iain Banks
All reality is a game.
— Iain Banks
A system that was originally designed to support the poorest in society is now trapping them in the very condition it was supposed to alleviate.
— Iain Duncan Smith
Let me know, Iain." "Let you know what?" "If you're going to keep her or not." "And if I'm not?" "Then I am.
— Julie Garwood
My personal view is always I'm in favour of anything that gives parliament a greater say. That's after all what we were elected for.
— Iain Duncan Smith
The imperial vastness of late Roman architecture was made possible by the invention of concrete.
— Iain McGilchrist
had nightmares I thought were really horrible until I woke up and remembered what reality was like at the moment,
— Iain M. Banks
perhaps as profoundly as the original had in 1688.2
— Iain Macwhirter
The kind of world I'm endlessly going on about is pretty well doomed, but nevertheless I think there are recesses of it worth celebrating.
— Iain Sinclair
Luck is great, but most of life is hard work.
— Iain Duncan Smith
Balance is if you try hard, you work hard then the rewards are in balance with what you put in and what is available.
— Iain Duncan Smith
Perspective in art has receded along with harmony in music: We tend more and more to see the world as a heap of intrinsically meaningless fragments.
— Iain McGilchrist
All you ever were was a little bit of the universe, thinking to itself. Very specific; this bit, here, right now.
— Iain M. Banks
The good soldier did as he was told, and if he had any sense at all volunteered for nothing, especially promotion.
— Iain M. Banks
The conversation between your fingers and someone else's skin. This is the most important discussion you can ever have.
— Iain Thomas
A guilty system recognizes no innocents.
— Iain M. Banks
Common misconception that; that fun is relaxing. If it is, you're not doing it right.
— Iain M. Banks
Political correctness is what right-wing bigots call what everybody else calls being polite
— Iain Banks
The birds disturbed from the network of waterways beneath the barges wheeled in the sky, calling plaintively.
— Iain M. Banks
You really are being quite foolish to smoke.
— Iain Glen
The problem with the chemicals in my head is they lead to feelings in the rest of me.
— Iain S. Thomas
Problem is, finding a killer in the woods is a lot like trying to find a needle in a haystack.
— Iain Rob Wright
'Dead Air' is full of rants; it's a rant-based book. Yes, it's self-indulgence. I plead guilty; mea culpa.
— Iain Banks
Art and science are made when people are terrified that they are going to die. (about "Arcadia" by Iain Pears)
— Jen Campbell
The sentence, having fumbled to a petering end, she too left.
— Iain McKinnon
The smell was that of a sewer under an abattoir.
— Iain M. Banks
I knew salesmen, they made good murderers.
— Iain Pears
The truth, it is said, is rarely pure or simple, yet genetics can at times seem seductively transparent.
— Iain McGilchrist
Twice, in the depths of the sleeping ship, he almost killed somebody. One of those times, it was somebody else,
— Iain M. Banks
same time, there is a danger with being too comfortable proclaiming the wrath of God. In
— Iain M. Duguid
I am crumbling in sync with old Hackney.
— Iain Sinclair
I am not being obtuse. You are being paranoid.
— Iain Banks
You know in my own area of Waltham Forest, we've had many murders as a result of the gang violence and often innocent bystanders get caught up in it.
— Iain Duncan Smith
We have 26,000 genes. But a blind, millimetre-long roundworm with only 959 cells in total already has over 19,000.
— Iain McGilchrist
Some problems were generational; you just had to wait for the relevant elders to die off and be replaced with more progressive types.
— Iain M. Banks
When in Rome; burn it.
— Iain M. Banks
He felt great. spa'dassins digladiate; ziffidae and xebecs contend! gol-iard dunking!
— Iain M. Banks
Men of the cloth live in this monologue, it is their due: nobody talks back to a pulpit.
— Iain Sinclair
A lot of what the 'Culture' is about is a reaction to all the science fiction I was reading in my very early teens.
— Iain Banks
then there's nothing worse I can wish on you than to be exactly the fuckhead you so obviously are.
— Iain M. Banks
Diplomacy and virtue do not make easy companions.
— Iain Pears
Would ya like to" Iain paused, shocked as the pretty woman turned and hurried away from him. To himself, he finished, "Get a drink with me? — Michelle M. Pillow
People work hard.
— Iain Duncan Smith
If you are lucky, one day you'll get the chance to have your life defined by how much you loved and were loved by someone else.
— Iain S. Thomas
I hope you never hate anything longer than you need to.
— Iain S. Thomas
Escape is a consumer goods like another
— Iain Banks
I still find it hard to understand that anyone could argue that you can't have machines that exhibit consciousness.
— Iain Banks
it was the night when people got paid and didn't have to work the next day, and so by tradition went out to get drunk and into fights. Then
— Iain M. Banks
Juan de Grijalva, coincidentally the first European to smoke on continental American soil,
— Iain Gately
But then, as she knew too well, the more fondly we imagine something will last forever, the more ephemeral it often proves to be.
— Iain M. Banks
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This isn't Ospin! These aren't the Dataversities!
— Iain M. Banks
We are a race prone to monsters, she thought, and when we produce one we worship it.
— Iain M. Banks
The number one priority now is reducing the deficit that they [Labour] left us - the biggest deficit since the Second World War.
— Iain Duncan Smith
After doing extensive research, I can definitely tell you that single malt whiskies are good to drink.
— Iain Banks
I still have some of my old University essays, and I do still have my drawing book from primary year seven.
— Iain Banks
jammed inside the bastard for three hours.'). And that bridge, the bridge . . . have to make a pilgrimage to
— Iain Banks
I monitor the food my players eat on a Friday night. It's no good if they've had two vindaloos and a kebab.
— Iain Dowie
I don't crave Hollywood.
— Iain Glen
The suicide hour of cold coffee and alien voices on the radio.
— Iain Sinclair
