Ian Rankin quote: "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."

A lot of writers, especially crime writers, have an image that we think we're trying to keep up ...
IAN RANKIN

Right from the very beginning, I knew I wanted to write palpably Scottish fiction.
IAN RANKIN

No matter how many awards you've won or how many sales you've got, come the next book it'...
IAN RANKIN

My first novel was turned down by half a dozen publishers. And even after having published five or s...
IAN RANKIN

You need a great idea, but then you've got to carry it through. If you get it right, you're ...
IAN RANKIN

I wrote my first short story for a competition and won second prize. Another competition came up and...
IAN RANKIN

I'm often asked how I write books, but I don't think my approach is suitable for everyone. I...
IAN RANKIN

The most difficult part of any crime novel is the plotting. It all begins simply enough, but soon yo...
IAN RANKIN

I'm interested in Scotland now and then, how it's changed. I want to get the reader to think...
IAN RANKIN

I think writers have to be proactive: they've got to use new technology and social media. Yes, i...
IAN RANKIN

At all times, think like a writer, and keep those antennae twitching - that way, you pick up new ide...
IAN RANKIN

I've always written. At the age of six or seven, I would get sheets of A4 paper and fold them in...
IAN RANKIN

War created bizarre allies, while peace itself could be divisive.
IAN RANKIN

I don't think I have one particular favourite writer. I have many whose works I will always buy ...
IAN RANKIN

He had perfected the art of looking interested, and could grasp in surprise at any and every predict...
IAN RANKIN

This man had something to hide, some shame in his past, and those with a past can always be bought.
IAN RANKIN

You wouldn't think you could kill an ocean, would you? But we'll do it one day. That's how negligent...
IAN RANKIN

My father was a slave to capitalist ideology. He didn't know what he was doing."
"You mean you ...
IAN RANKIN

The match hinged on the first try after the break.
IAN RANKIN

By that time, Rebus will be 59 and, for a CID officer, he is getting fairly long in the tooth. They ...
IAN RANKIN

Whether Rebus's 'skills' are ones his bosses would wish retained is a moot point, but it seems I hav...
IAN RANKIN

The match hinged on the first try after the break,
IAN RANKIN

When a murder is satisfied, it isn't the beginning of the story; it's the middle. We shouldn't forge...
IAN RANKIN

Music is a good shorthand way to delineate character. If you want to tell the reader a lot about a c...
IAN RANKIN

It's a young man's book, all about the perils and pitfalls of growing up.
IAN RANKIN

Music is a good shorthand way to delineate character,
IAN RANKIN

It's a strange feeling to see one's books come up at auction and also, to some extent, a sign of my ...
IAN RANKIN

As time's gone on, I've probably become a lot more like him [John Rebus]: I drink at his bar and I l...
IAN RANKIN

I want to stand by my country, but I cannot vote for war. I vote no.
JEANNETTE RANKIN

The individual woman is required a thousand times a day to choose either to accept her appointed rol...
JEANNETTE RANKIN

I finished St. Patrick's Cemetery last night. It took three hours.
ADAM RANKIN

This makes up for me sleeping through history class in high school.
ADAM RANKIN

It was an incredible time. There were thousands of people there. It was my proudest moment as a Hisp...
ADAM RANKIN

Normal investigations take three to six months to complete, so I expect at that time, once the repor...
ADAM RANKIN

The environment department is aware of the recall notice that's on the piece of machinery and that's...
ADAM RANKIN

It's a small number of systems, but they serve around 700,000 people.
ADAM RANKIN

The real problem with arsenic is the chronic long-term exposure. In the short term, these (delays) d...
ADAM RANKIN

So to give drinking systems more time, the ones we feel are at risk of violating, we won't test them...
ADAM RANKIN

There was a lot of energy in Birmingham that day, and a lot of pride.
ADAM RANKIN

Instead of thinking about where you are, think about where you want to be. It takes twenty years of ...
DIANA RANKIN

It is unconscionable that 10,000 boys have died in Vietnam. If 10,000 American women had mind enough...
JEANNETTE RANKIN

You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake.
JEANNETTE RANKIN

We have to get it into our heads once and for all that we cannot settle disputes by eliminating huma...
JEANNETTE RANKIN

When you write, you hear the characters speaking to you as you take dictation from what they say. An...
ROBERT RANKIN

The most important accomplishment, I believe, was my voting against the First World War.
JEANNETTE RANKIN

Oftentimes somebody makes a traffic stop and the test subject is not going to be compliant, so a lot...
CHRIS RANKIN

TAPD officers responded to an inmate in need of an ambulance. Initial reports indicate he was involv...
CHRIS RANKIN

Might it not be that a great force that has always been thinking in terms of human needs, and that a...
JEANNETTE RANKIN

It is important for people to be able to read all sides of every question; for a feeling of national...
JEANNETTE RANKIN

What one decides to do in crisis depends on one's philosophy of life, and that philosophy cannot...
JEANNETTE RANKIN

We try to talk them through it and get them to realize where they're headed if they can't straighten...
CHRIS RANKIN

an entity of the Southern Baptist Convention.
JERRY RANKIN

During any critical incident like this-or any stressful event-officers can be placed on administrati...
CHRIS RANKIN

The greatest threat to peace is the barrage of rightist propaganda portraying war as decent, honorab...
JEANNETTE RANKIN

What one decides to do in crisis depends on one's philosophy of life, and that philosophy cannot be ...
JEANNETTE RANKIN

Men and women are like right and left hands; it doesn't make sense not to use both.
JEANNETTE RANKIN

You take people as far as they will go, not as far as you would like them to go
JEANNETTE RANKIN

As a woman I can't go to war, and I refuse to send anyone else
JEANNETTE RANKIN

You can no more win a war that you can win an earthquake
JEANNETTE RANKIN

One of the distinctive elements is the tongue and groove ceilings. The roofs are designed to look li...
MARY RANKIN

We started over with a bleach cocktail.
TIM RANKIN

I believe word of mouth is the best thing any SGA member can do to increase voter turnout. One perso...
MATT RANKIN

We don't have a lot of antiques, and I like to mix and match comfortable sofas with funky items on t...
REX RANKIN

The suspect appeared at the door of one of the bedrooms and pointed a pistol directly at Officer Pot...
CHRIS RANKIN

Naivete is the real reason I applied to Juilliard. I wanted to study drama and not musical theater b...
GAYLE RANKIN

She's the whole package, ... No player is as single-minded as she is. She is one of the great repeat...
JUDY RANKIN

There can be no compromise with war; it cannot be reformed or controlled; cannot be disciplined into...
JEANNETTE RANKIN

What one decides to do in crisis depends on one's philosophy of life, and that philosophy cannot be ...
JEANNETTE RANKIN

Men and women are like right and left hands; it doesn't make sense not to use both.
JEANNETTE RANKIN

If there are no spots on a sugar cube then I’ve just put a dice in my tea.
ROBERT RANKIN

War is the slaughter of human beings, temporarily regarded as enemies, on as large a scale as possib...
JEANNETTE RANKIN

I always get compared to looking like a silent movie star - though I don't know if that's a ...
GAYLE RANKIN

I feel like support is what anyone with a disability needs.
AMY RANKIN

Prisons in Florence, Ariz., go hand in hand,
TOM RANKIN

We've had some good teams. To be able to tie, break the record is a good feat.
GARY RANKIN

They're always physical. It's not a region game, but we still want to win it.
GARY RANKIN

We've played them year in, year our. We don't look at what their record is. ... They're one of the f...
GARY RANKIN

There was a big hole, and I saw the cutback, so I took the cutback and everything was open from ther...
LOUIS RANKIN

I ran through tackles, but there was a lot more yards out there on the field and I didn't take advan...
LOUIS RANKIN

I believe it was good play-calling, but if you want to establish the run, you should run the ball mo...
LOUIS RANKIN

It'll probably take some time to get used to.
LOUIS RANKIN

That just gave us a chance to go out there and do what I know we can do. We can run the ball and it ...
LOUIS RANKIN

She's the whole package. No player is as single-minded as she is. She is one of the great repeaters ...
JUDY RANKIN

I think there is an appreciation in her for the fact that her game came back after that shoulder sur...
JUDY RANKIN

[It is high praise for Daniel when she is compared to her idol.] I've always thought [Daniel's] was ...
JUDY RANKIN

When someone tells me how they feel when they see something I've done and they want to live with it,...
JOAN RANKIN

Despite the drought, floods and freezes, they come back every spring, and because of experiences in ...
JOAN RANKIN

It was a joy-of-celebration piece, and the first time I put it out at a show, it sold, ... I never h...
JOAN RANKIN

Since that day, I have been a different person, ... and my painting has brought me more joy.
JOAN RANKIN

Then one wonderful spring morning, my friend called to ask me to go for a ride so she could show me ...
JOAN RANKIN

We can still get into the upper half of the conference, and if seniors want to leave their mark, tha...
JOEL RANKIN

Every team we've played the second time, we've played them better. You look at the shooting percenta...
JOEL RANKIN

We've played some tough, close games lately and when teams make a run at us, we tend to get down on ...
JOEL RANKIN

I had a broom that I'd raise high in the air and the kids practiced shooting over the broom. I think...
JOEL RANKIN

They hit 23 of 26 free throws and that was the difference. They just don't miss from the foul line.
JOEL RANKIN

Our kids really played hard. Carroll is a very good team and I think this was our best game of the y...
JOEL RANKIN

You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake.
JEANETTE RANKIN

We're half the people; we should be half the Congress
JEANETTE RANKIN

In a last act of desperation, you just run for your life, literally. It's a shocking thing, the loss...
NEWELL RANKIN

In all our pictures, we had an antagonist who becomes the good guy, and the underdog fulfills his qu...
ARTHUR RANKIN, JR.

A muscle is life in a nutshell
ZEBADEE L. RANKIN

A book tour is not a good opportunity to let your mind wander. You have to pay attention, remember s...
IAN FRAZIER

Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.
IAN FLEMING

There is something magical about three you know - a trio is tight and nicely economical.
IAN WILLIAMS

Seventy years old! How did that happen? I was part of the generation that wasn't going to die.
IAN MCSHANE

Training a puppy is like raising a child. Every single interaction is a training opportunity.
IAN DUNBAR

Once you're halfway home, you know that you can probably get the rest of the way there.
JANIS IAN

I'm still swimming.
IAN THORPE

For myself, losing is not coming second. It's getting out of the water knowing you could have do...
IAN THORPE

I've enjoyed training again, I've enjoyed pushing myself in the pool and I'll keep on sw...
IAN THORPE

Maybe one of the only things I do well: I cook like a maniac! I would be a chef if I weren't an ...
IAN SOMERHALDER

I don't ever want anything to come in the way of me truthfully telling a story.
IAN SOMERHALDER

You spend enough time on set as an actor and it's great when a director was at some point an act...
IAN SOMERHALDER

The coming together of like-minded individuals through action is what's needed to see wide sprea...
IAN SOMERHALDER

I don't know how to do anything else other than be an actor. If I wasn't in this, I would be...
IAN SOMERHALDER

Kids are meeting in coffee shops and basements figuring out what's unsustainable in their commun...
IAN SOMERHALDER

They say the way to a man's heart is through his stomach. It's the same way with women... or...
IAN SOMERHALDER

Oceans are one of the most important things in the world now and that is a national security threat ...
IAN SOMERHALDER

I can't let time move on without fighting tooth and nail and hopefully being a part of a revolut...
IAN SOMERHALDER

Every love story needs a catalyst of some sort.
IAN SOMERHALDER

I don't care how hot a girl is - if she doesn't like animals, it would be a major, major pro...
IAN SOMERHALDER

I've sorta learned that I'm so tired of taking myself so seriously. It's so great to sho...
IAN SOMERHALDER

A lot of things that happen in the world make me a bit crazy.
IAN SOMERHALDER

You can't get anywhere without the people who have come into your life.
IAN SOMERHALDER

There are always decades that interest people. For me, that's the Roaring Twenties.
IAN SOMERHALDER

I always try to be reasonable and effective.
IAN SMITH

Every human being makes mistakes.
IAN SMITH

Declaring independence was the most traumatic decision I had to live up to. Because I didn't wan...
IAN SMITH

Freedom. And Justice. If you have those two, it covers everything. You must stick to those principle...
IAN SMITH

Status based on wealth is an old-fashioned idea; I find it repugnant, actually.
IAN SCHRAGER

My best vacation was renting a boat and motoring along the Adriatic, going along the Croatian coast,...
IAN SCHRAGER

I have to be more universal than my projects, but no less innovative.
IAN SCHRAGER

The trimmings of wealth are not as important to me and my generation as they were to my parents'...
IAN SCHRAGER

I consider myself fortunate to have grown up in Brooklyn. It's what gave me my drive to succeed,...
IAN SCHRAGER

Great ideas have no attachment to either money or class.
IAN SCHRAGER

I'm not into nostalgia, and I only look back to find lessons.
IAN SCHRAGER

Good design is good business.
IAN SCHRAGER

People say you should go out at the top but I was enjoying my football so much. Robbie Fowler's ...
IAN RUSH

I like the Stereophonics. I know the lead singer, Kelly Jones, and there's the Welsh connection.
IAN RUSH

I just wanted to play as long as I could. When you stop playing, you're not going to get it back...
IAN RUSH

I think great players can play in any year, that's why they're great. A lot of it is down to...
IAN RUSH

I've done my coaching badges, I've got my Pro Licence, but I enjoy what I'm doing now. I...
IAN RUSH

The only thing I can cook is Welsh rarebit.
IAN RUSH

There are a lot of famous comedians from Liverpool, then obviously the Beatles, and the football clu...
IAN RUSH

This is why cup finals are so special because on the day anyone can beat anyone. That's what it&...
IAN RUSH

I was so shy when I was younger. When I first went to Liverpool I didn't say a word for a year.
IAN RUSH

You can enjoy yourself, but you need to look after yourself as well.
IAN RUSH

It's different from Liverpool. Boston seems to be a friendly place.
IAN RUSH

I love horse racing, I play golf, and I love travelling.
IAN RUSH

Mainly it's the parents who remember me. But the kids today, what they do is go and Google you. ...
IAN RUSH

Moving from Wales to Italy is like moving to a different country.
IAN RUSH

I've got a place in Portugal, which I like very much, but I've just been working in Malaysia...
IAN RUSH

I couldn't settle in Italy - it was like living in a foreign country.
IAN RUSH

In India, kids need someone to look up to. They've got it in cricket: they have Tendulkar and ot...
IAN RUSH

You've got to have a dream... if you don't have any big dreams, nothing happens.
IAN RUSH

I remember back in the early '70s, when I had a disastrous Grand Prix, my wife, Lynn, said to me...
IAN MILLAR

It's always a thrill to wear the flag and ride for Canada in any competition, but especially the...
IAN MILLAR

I would never want to be selected to a team just because I am going to set a record. It's critic...
IAN MILLAR

I work out every morning for an hour while in front of the news channel or business channels, then I...
IAN MILLAR

When we train a horse to do a certain job, we're training the horse to be like a soldier, and ye...
IAN MILLAR

The minute I put my leg on a horse and say, 'Come on, let's go,' I absolutely believe th...
IAN MILLAR

Obviously, as you get a little older, you are not going to be quite as quick or quite as strong, and...
IAN MILLAR

If you persevere long enough, if you do the right things long enough, the right things will happen.
IAN MILLAR

I come from the liberal side of thinking: Better one guilty man should walk free than one innocent m...
IAN MCSHANE

Blackbeard is probably the most infamous pirate who ever lived. He's one of those characters for...
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.
IAN MCSHANE

Acting is great therapy - you get to do things you'd normally get arrested for.
IAN MCSHANE

My daughter said, 'I don't think granddad really suits you.'
IAN MCSHANE

The bad boys get all the best lines.
IAN MCSHANE

When you're in your early 20s, you go ahead and do everything. And it's very hard to judge y...
IAN MCSHANE

Bosses will tell you they are looking for something different but they're not, actually.
IAN MCSHANE

I mean, I'm an actor. I do what comes along.
IAN MCSHANE

Acting's boring.
IAN MCSHANE

I think the reason 'Sexy Beast' was so good was it wasn't just another run-of-the-mill g...
IAN MCSHANE

I had a bit of a male menopause. It started at the age of 18 and continued until I was 45.
IAN MCSHANE

My second marriage was to a girl I met in Manchester, kept a long-distance relationship going for tw...
IAN MCSHANE

Every actor has to love and loathe the character he plays.
IAN MCSHANE

If I'd had the choice when I was 14, and someone had said to me, 'You can either be a footba...
IAN MCSHANE

You set paths for yourself, but as you get older, things change.
IAN MCSHANE

There's only two kinds of actors - good ones and bad ones... and lucky ones and unlucky ones.
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

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.

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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.

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