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Ian Rankin

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KELLY JONES Where d'ye think he is now?" Jenny said suddenly. "Ian, I mean."
He glanced at the house, then ...
DIANA GABALDON In trying to be perfect,
He perfected the art of anonymity,
Became imperceptible
A...
DEJAN STOJANOVIC Imagine a thousand more such daily intrusions in your life, every hour and minute of every day, and ...
JACK HENRY ABBOTT Ian Rankin's Rebus is the king of modern British crime fiction. He is dour, determined, and cons...
MARK BILLINGHAM Rankin put down his glass and stared at him coldly. “I beg your pardon?” he said. “I gather th...
NAOMI NOVIK Until I began to learn to draw, I was never much interested in looking at art.
RICHARD P. FEYNMAN The Duke of Edinburgh has perfected the art of saying hello and goodbye in the same handshake.
JENNIE BOND He was extremely talented, but in a different way. His images are very vivid. He used empty space in...
FRANCESCO BONAMI Hard to restrain, unstable is this mind; it flits wherever it lists. Good it is to control the mind....
GAUTAMA BUDDHA I'll find you, don't worry. My body won't be with you all the time, but you'll always have my heart....
P.C. CAST When looking at any significant work of art, remember that a more significant one probably has had t...
PAUL KLEE We've had a lot of earnings that have been in line or better, and the Street's been yawning. If the ...
TOM SCHRADER We've had a lot of earnings that have been in line or better, and the Street's been yawning, ... If ...
TOM SCHRADER She had been a friend and companion such as few possessed: intelligent, well-informed, useful, gentl...
JANE AUSTEN Keith Moon is not interested in jazz and won't ever be a jazz drummer because he's more inte...
PETE TOWNSHEND I have perfected the art of putting my feet on my husband's lap during awards ceremonies so he can r...
ANNETTE BENING A nice blend of prediction and surprise seem to be at the heart of the best art.
WENDY CARLOS He was interested in politics, reading, good food and art. He was very energetic. He never stopped.
CHRIS DWYER Any of the East teams could surprise the field.
FRANK BAUMHOLTZ I can still remember my mum (a voracious, if not discriminating, reader - I have seen everything fro...
JOHN NIVEN He was doing great in the minicamps. He was looking real good. I think he had finally gotten a grasp...
HOLLIS THOMAS To celebrate the centenary of Ian Fleming's birth in 2008 we are looking at a wide range of differen...
IAN FLEMING Your life today is the result of a series of decisions you made that have caused you to arrive where...
CHRIS PRENTISS A strong personal philosophy does more than sustain us through the tragedies of life. It also stains...
CHRIS PRENTISS The answers are never "out there." All the answers are "in there," inside you, waiting to be discove...
CHRIS PRENTISS Andy Warhol was a pioneer of looking at society as this machine. Warhol looked, in a good and bad wa...
FRANCESCO BONAMI Once you become predictable, no one's interested anymore.
CHET ATKINS She's very authentic. She's involved in opera and she sees it for what it is, looking at all aspects...
KATHY HOTCHNER I would suggest that especially in the differential of images that arise, in the inflections that we...
LORILIAI BIERNACKI I would suggest that especially in the differential of images that arise, in the inflections that we...
LORILIAI BIERNACKI Now with her eyes closed and fist clenched at her side. She was as off balanced as he was. Lilith to...
SHADOWSTORM NORWICCA Kafka is not interested in documenting the manners and mores of any particular place; he is not inte...
JOHN KESSEL In bluntest terms, art museums risk being commercial institutions in which art is subsumed by econom...
AMY WHITAKER I think art is good at looking back and looking forward. I don't think art is good at looking he...
DAMIEN HIRST Dali had a good sense of humor - obviously you could tell just looking at him; he was funny.
JOE GRANT That's the official day he will make an announcement. He could see himself at any of the three schoo...
DAN HURLEY You could have made a case for him as newcomer of the year if we had had one of those. I thought he ...
CODY VANDERFORD A.J. turned in an excellent effort. He could be a real surprise to others at 152.
JON ABERNATHY Billy Rankin is a true Glasgow rock legend. He has everything going for him: he's a brilliant guitar...
ROBERT FIELDS You know how you feel somebody looking at you, and you turn, and somebody actually is? It's the ...
MARINA ABRAMOVIC It's one we're going to take a look at. He's interested in us looking at any cost-effective ways to ...
TONY WINNICKER The Ellen DeGeneres show called, and they are interested in Ian. We didn't expect anything like that...
IAN GILCHRIST Real solemn history, I cannot be interested in.... The quarrels of popes and kings, with wars and pe...
JANE AUSTEN Just ask the question why, the answer may surprise any one looking eye.
STEVE RAY COLLINS Jazz music and, more specifically, jazz musicians, are my artistic heroes. I want to be the Thelonio...
TREVOR ST. JOHN Why do we always begin to think about people when they die? I think we should think about people whi...
C. JOYBELL C. We had 10 dropped passes. Shane easily could have had 400 passing yards. And that's no surprise at a...
CHUCK ANDERSON If any of those animals had escaped, we could have had a different ending, ... By dumping Reggie in ...
JANICE HAHN It puzzled K., at least it puzzled him looking at it from the policemen's point of view, that they h...
FRANZ KAFKA What was his surprise and his joy when, on looking himself over, he saw that he was no longer a Mari...
CARLO COLLODI I’ve perfected the art of the fake smile. It’s not so difficult when you are completely numb.
BETHANY GRIFFIN I'm always interested in looking forward toward the future. Carving out new ways of looking at t...
HERBIE HANCOCK Poetry looking in the mirror sees art,
and art looking in a mirror sings poetry.
ABERJHANI Nothing is invented and perfected at the same time.
JOHN RAY He reminds me a bit of Kingston Bay on looks and type at the same stage. Last year he was a nervous ...
BRUCE WALLACE We're definitely interested in the exciting Turkish market and we are looking at available assets in...
ANTHIMOS THOMOPOULOS I wish we could clone him. He is such a wonderful supporter. I wish we could spread him to every art...
LYNN BARNETT And then we jerked to a stop. Jared was blocking the exit. "Have you lost your mind, Ian?" he asked,...
STEPHENIE MEYER Sometimes when you've reached a peak experience, you look for other peak experiences... I'd ...
BOB BEAMON You see, there are always purists in every, in every art form and particularly I think in, in perfor...
TIM CURRY It was out of character for him to do this. He just kept saying that he had a surprise for us tomorr...
CAROL COSTELLO I have perfected the art of the mean song to make me feel like I have a backbone.
ELLE KING In school he drew and painted and took art classes, and he was one of the better students. I assumed...
MICHAEL DAVIS I have never done Chicago in such a blitz in my whole life, ... We did every single booth at the Chi...
BETTY MOODY I'm really looking to reach any woman who's interested in refining and embracing her persona...
NINA GARCIA He kisses me like he's giving me every kiss he wishes he could have given me the past, and every kis...
COLLEEN HOOVER Being compared to Ian Thorpe, that could be one of the greatest compliments you could ever get in sw...
MICHAEL PHELPS Surprise is key in all art.
OSCAR NIEMEYER So predictable makes you to sleep??
Makes you to get interested???
So what to start??? A c...
DEYTH BANGER Mark made Ian stay behind in training and work at his game.
STEVE COPPELL Right away, when he was a freshman, he had a different national jersey on at every practice. You cou...
GARY BURKE Every gesture and every look he gives me takes me by surprise and causes my heart to stutter.
ASHLEY EARLEY If man were immortal he could be perfectly sure of seeing the day when everything in which he had tr...
CHARLES SANDERS PIERCE If man were immortal he could be perfectly sure of seeing the day when everything in which he had tr...
CHARLES SANDERS PEIRCE I've perfected the art of busting on people. That's how comedians show each other love.
LESLIE JONES I love the Biblical subjects and the Italian art. My favorite artist I can say is Michelangelo. He w...
KARL HEPNER I think of the friendships I've strained, the generosity I've exploited, the bridges I've torched. D...
ANTHONY ERVIN The best way for you to get that new experience is to change your response to what happens.
CHRIS PRENTISS If history remembers me at all, in any way, I hope it will be as a man who loved the Land of Israel ...
YITZHAK SHAMIR One of the things I love, and I'm a voracious reader as well as a writer, is books that surprise...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN With all of the interested parties, the Board is always looking at the best and highest use type of ...
CLAIRE KILEY At its best, cinema does retain a remarkable ability to speak to people of every age, from every bac...
DAVID PUTTNAM With those paintings, he really connected to looking at himself and the place he was from and what h...
GREGORY AMENOFF I spend much more time looking at art history and at different references to art than I do at actual...
JEFF KOONS Even in that short time he had seen that Anne had great power. She did not care if she quarreled wit...
PHILIPPA GREGORY Adam was beginning to realize he hadn't known Ronan at all. Or rather, he had known part of him and ...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER We're not out to punish the alcohol industry. We're looking at finding a source of predictable funds...
LEE ERICKSON Couple thousand miles apart, yet still in my heart, how she stays close to me - she's perfected this...
DEDRICK D. L. PITTER As they scuffled in the grass, Adam closed his eyes and leaned his head back. He could nearly scry j...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER What interested me was not news, but appraisal. What I sought was to grasp the flavor of a man, his ...
JOHN GUNTHER A writer is lost when he grows interested in such questions as 'what is art?' and 'what is an artist...
VLADIMIR NABOKOV Art is a selective re-creation of reality according to an artist's metaphysical value-judgments. An ...
MARCEL PROUST Thurber did not write the way a surgeon operates, he wrote the way a child skips rope, the way a mou...
E. B. WHITE For half a century photography has been the "art form" of the untalented. Obviously some pictures ar...
GORE VIDAL To send light into the darkness of men's hearts - such is the duty of the artist.
ROBERT SCHUMANN One day the world will look upon research on animals as it now looks upon research on human beings. ...
LEONARDO DAVINCI Twentieth-century art may start with nothing, but it flourishes by virtue of its belief in itself, i...
A. ALVAREZ Writing is like walking in a deserted street. Out of the dust in the street you make a mud pie.
JOHN LECARRE Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow that talent to the dark place where it le...
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IAN MILLAR If you persevere long enough, if you do the right things long enough, the right things will happen.
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IAN MCSHANE Mum and Dad were both happy for me to do what I wanted.
IAN MCSHANE People tweet before they think, and it becomes obsessive.
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IAN MCSHANE The bad boys get all the best lines.
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IAN MCSHANE Acting's boring.
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IAN MCSHANE You don't particularly want to stay close to your ex-wife. Or why would she be your ex-wife?
IAN MCSHANE When you're doing a medieval show like 'Pillars,' it starts off a bit like a school play...
IAN MCSHANE I'm from the disco era where everybody thought they were John Travolta... What song is going to ...
IAN MCSHANE What you do is, you just do the gig, enjoy, get on with it, and treat the rest as horse doodle.
IAN MCSHANE My dad was a football player - a soccer player - for Manchester United, and I loved playing football...
IAN MCSHANE It's tough to be 68 and dating. I've given it up now.
IAN MCLAGAN I only seem to date younger women.
IAN MCLAGAN The Small Faces are thought to be a one-hit wonder in America because we only had 'Itchycoo Park...
IAN MCLAGAN The Small Faces was such a different band than the Faces. I know three of us are the same, but when ...
IAN MCLAGAN When I joined Small Faces, we occasionally would bump into The Who. And Keith Moon and I became firm...
IAN MCLAGAN Small Faces were really a soul band as far as we were concerned. That's what we listened to; tha...
IAN MCLAGAN We had something very special in the Faces. We were blessed to have the fun we had.
IAN MCLAGAN I am so blessed that all I've done in my professional life, since I was 17-18, is play music and...
IAN MCLAGAN What I do for migraines when I get them, I listen to classical music, and I turn it up really loud.
IAN MCLAGAN You don't stop thinking about women just because your wife dies. It's terrible, but you know...
IAN MCLAGAN I loved rock and roll when that came in, Bill Haley, Little Richard, Fats Domino, Buddy Holly, Elvis...
IAN MCLAGAN Until I came out, my acting was all about disguise, and thereafter it became about telling the truth...
IAN MCKELLEN You always think that 70 is the end of the road: 'Somebody died when they were 73; good life'...
IAN MCKELLEN