Life isn't picture perfect.
TIMOTHY M. BANKS When I am gone and the wind blows, It is the breeze from my wings you feel.
TIMOTHY M. BANKS Children are like a piece of glass. Once the glass is broken. It will never be whole again.
TIMOTHY M. BANKS They speak very well of you".
- "They speak very well of everybody."
- "That so bad?"
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IAIN M. BANKS He might come in useful.'
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IAIN M. BANKS I don't know if this is global warming but it sure seems like global storming.
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IAIN M. BANKS It could always all be unreal - how could you ever tell otherwise? You took it on trust, in p...
IAIN M. BANKS There is something about the very idea of a city which is central to the understanding of a planet l...
IAIN M. BANKS Do you want to work with us?”
“Everybody seems to think I should; they believe you’re fig...
IAIN M. BANKS Can I cuddle up with you when you sleep?”

Sma stopped, detached the creature from her ...
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IAIN M. BANKS Any theory which causes solipsism to seem just as likely an explanation for the phenomena it seeks t...
IAIN M. BANKS In the old days people died and that was that; you might hope to see them in heaven, but once they w...
IAIN M. BANKS They spend time. That’s just it. They spend time traveling. The time weighs heavily on them becaus...
IAIN M. BANKS [T]here can be a form of vanity in grief that is indulged rather than suffered.
IAIN M. BANKS The smell was that of a sewer under an abattoir.
IAIN M. BANKS We always want more, he thought, we always take our past successes for granted and assume they but p...
IAIN M. BANKS Oh, they never lie. They dissemble, evade, prevaricate, confound, confuse, distract, obscure, subtly...
IAIN M. BANKS [I]f I suffered only one fool gladly, I assure you it would be you.
IAIN M. BANKS I have seen people who find that grief gives them something they never had before, and no matter how...
IAIN M. BANKS ... like a berserk raptor thrown into a nest of hibernating kittens...
IAIN M. BANKS He tried to decide if he was really ashamed of being afraid, and decided that he was not. Fear was t...
IAIN M. BANKS The point, of course, is that the people who spent days and sweated buckets could also have taken an...
IAIN M. BANKS We always want more, he thought, we always take our past successes for granted and assume they point...
IAIN M. BANKS It must be a burden, not even being able to say you were just obeying orders.” “Well, that is al...
IAIN M. BANKS The point is: what happens in heaven?'

'Unknowable wonderfulness?'

'Nonsense....
IAIN M. BANKS [B]ecause of all his previous attempts to integrate with the rest of society and what he had learned...
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IAIN M. BANKS You been mud wrestling..?' 'Only with my conscience.' 'Really? Who won?' 'Well, it was one of those ...
IAIN M. BANKS The bomb lives only as it is falling.
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TIMOTHY M. HOUSTON How does one deduce the quality of another, but can't discern the quality of himself? Perhaps his mi...
TIMOTHY M. DEETER in what society is killing babies permitted, but guns are not? This is the hypocrisy of the Democrat...
TIMOTHY M. DEETER No amount of preparation can prepare you for something. You just have to be prepared to be unprepare...
TIMOTHY M. DEETER There is no getting even, just getting odd.
TIMOTHY M WALSH I am the chief executive, and I'm going to run the state until someone with the power tells me not t...
DEMOCRAT TIMOTHY M. KAINE I love canoeing, and I love fishing.
DEMOCRAT TIMOTHY M. KAINE It's a fundamental kind of character issue. You tell people where you are, and you let them decide w...
DEMOCRAT TIMOTHY M. KAINE My opponent would not answer the most simple and direct question.
DEMOCRAT TIMOTHY M. KAINE We cannot take the progress we have made over the past four years and put it in the hands of the mos...
DEMOCRAT TIMOTHY M. KAINE A smart model is a good model.
TYRA BANKS Never dull your shine for somebody else.
TYRA BANKS When would he learn that women never stayed where you put them?
MAYA BANKS Learning by experience often is painful- and the more it hurts, the more you learn.
RALPH BANKS I'm not ugly, but my beauty is a total creation.
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IAIN BANKS I'm not stubborn. My way is just better.
MAYA BANKS I love the confidence that makeup gives me.
TYRA BANKS The reaction to me out on the stump was quite hostile.
TONY BANKS I'm lucky to be alive.
HENRY BANKS All the people I talk to are going back.
HENRY BANKS I wonder how many tears the ocean has swallowed, how much of the ocean is actually made of tears.
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TYRA BANKS There has seldom if ever a shortage of eager young males prepared to kill and die to preserve the se...
IAIN BANKS We're using natural methods to clean up soil pollutants.
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MAYA BANKS I know this woman.”
“Who the hell is she?”
He stared both his brothers down. “She�...
MAYA BANKS It doesn’t matter. I love you. That’s it. That’s all. I hope to hell it’s enough.
MAYA BANKS As a model, you're so used to taking your clothes off that you just don't care.
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MAYA BANKS The Cubs are due in sixty-two.
ERNIE BANKS The saddest death I think that happens in a persons life, is not the one that happens in old age, no...
NOLAN BANKS I'm tired of this rumor. It's something that's followed me forever,
TYRA BANKS The Cubs are gonna shine in sixty-nine.
ERNIE BANKS In being human I was a part of this world, yet in being a soul I was apart from it all the same.
NOLAN BANKS Its our eyes and minds that allow to see difference, but its our humanity that truly allows us to se...
NOLAN BANKS I think the worst part of growing up is the realization that there will come battles in this life th...
NOLAN BANKS A man is what he gives to this world.
NOLAN BANKS I haven't seen the Eiffel Tower, Notre Dame, the Louvre. I haven't seen anything. I don't really car...
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IAIN BANKS It is a fool who seeks to build a monument for the greatest of his ancestors, for all he had to do w...
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MAYA BANKS Such was the illusion of pride, for the fool sees it as the crown upon his head, while the wise sees...
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DUSHAWN BANKS At that level, every goal is like a knife in the ribs.
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TONY BANKS O, how glorious would it be to set my heel upon the Pole and turn myself 360 degrees in a second!
JOSEPH BANKS Awards mean a lot, but they don't say it all. The people in baseball mean more to me than statistics...
ERNIE BANKS Loyalty is a like a plant, it cannot be nurtured once, if it is to survive. Every now and then it mu...
NOLAN BANKS Perhaps we become adults, the moment when we give up and let go of the type of people we wanted to b...
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MAYA BANKS As what-the-fuck moments went, this one was one of the bigger ones.
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TIMOTHY WEST Spoken language's elaborate rhythms and inflections convey more meaning per word than the printe...
TIMOTHY NOAH For a change, lady luck seemed to be smiling on me. Then again, maybe the fickle wench was just lull...
TIMOTHY ZAHN Most consequential choices involve shades of gray, and some fog is often useful in getting things do...
TIMOTHY GEITHNER Our enemy is motivated by hatred and will not stop planning more plots against until they are ultima...
TIMOTHY MURPHY As financial markets continue to broaden and deepen, the behavior of asset prices will play an impor...
TIMOTHY GEITHNER I gauge success in years, not weeks. The weekend box-office approach to book launches is short sight...
TIMOTHY FERRISS Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition. -Timothy Leary.
TIMOTHY LEARY My dad's a photographer, and my sister is a writer and a poet. My little brother is a mandolin p...
TIMOTHY SIMONS The Sudan bombing is a blot on the Clinton presidency, and a blot it ought to remain.
TIMOTHY NOAH While the recent addition of the National Guard providing a support role manning computers and camer...
TIMOTHY MURPHY Our border patrol does a great job under these very dangerous conditions. They use very sophisticate...
TIMOTHY MURPHY What type of 'person' is the for-profit corporation? A spoiled brat - all rights and no resp...
TIMOTHY NOAH For what end shall we be connected with men, of whom this is the character and conduct? Is it, that ...
TIMOTHY DWIGHT I like work/life separation, not work/life balance. What I mean by that is, if I'm on, I want to...
TIMOTHY FERRISS To hide the key to your heart is to risk forgetting where you placed it.
TIMOTHY CHILDERS The brave don't live forever, but the cautious don't live at all. Here's to the brave!
TIMOTHY LUCE What a person believes is not as important as how a person believes.
TIMOTHY VIRKKALA The least-crowded channel for meeting high profile bloggers is in person. Email is the most difficul...
TIMOTHY FERRISS The reason I was successful in launching my first book with bloggers is this: I assumed that I shoul...
TIMOTHY FERRISS If you take a print magazine with a million person circulation, and a blog with a devout readership ...
TIMOTHY FERRISS We are dealing with the best-educated generation in history. But they've got a brain dressed up wit...
TIMOTHY LEARY Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.
TIMOTHY LEARY In the information age, you don't teach philosophy as they did after feudalism. You perform it. If A...
TIMOTHY LEARY Delegating means letting others become the experts and hence the best.
TIMOTHY FIRNSTAHL The greatest efforts in sports came when the mind is as still as a glass lake.
TIMOTHY GALLWEY Education ought everywhere to be religious education. Parents are bound to employ no instructors who...
TIMOTHY DWIGHT My advice to people today is as follows: If you take the game of life seriously, if you take your ne...
TIMOTHY LEARY We are dealing with the best-educated generation in history. But they've got a brain dressed up with...
TIMOTHY LEARY Whenever you're in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make the difference between d...
TIMOTHY BENTLEY Science is all metaphor.
TIMOTHY LEARY Celibacy is not just a matter of not having sex. It is a way of admiring a person for their humani...
TIMOTHY RADCLIFFE Give a man a fish, and you'll feed him for a day. Give him a religion, and he'll starve to death wh...
TIMOTHY JONES An ungrateful man is like a hog under a tree eating acorns, but never looking up to see where they c...
TIMOTHY DEXTER Civilization is unbearable, but it is less unbearable at the top.
TIMOTHY LEARY And a new philosophy emerged called quantum physics, which suggest that the individual’s function ...
TIMOTHY LEARY When an aggressor force continually launches attacks from a particular base of operations, it is sou...
TIMOTHY MCVEIGH I was an All-American in wrestling in high school, was National Champion in Chinese kickboxing in 19...
TIMOTHY FERRISS Celibacy is not just a matter of not having sex. It is a way of admiring a person for their humanity...
TIMOTHY RADCLIFFE But what we're determined to do, and what the reforms will do is to make sure this system goes b...
TIMOTHY GEITHNER 'Gone With The Wind' is one of the all-time greats. Read Margaret Mitchell's book and wa...
TIMOTHY DALTON The hometown economic elite - rich local families or individuals whom people used to praise or revil...
TIMOTHY NOAH I've left specific instructions that I do not want to be brought back during a Republican admini...
TIMOTHY LEARY Additionally, borrowing a page from U.S. foreign policy, I decided to send a message to a government...
TIMOTHY MCVEIGH Illegal immigration is crisis for our country. It is an open door for drugs, criminals, and potentia...
TIMOTHY MURPHY There are three side effects of acid: enhanced long-term memory, decreased short-term memory, and I ...
TIMOTHY LEARY Healthcare providers will compete to offer the best record of patient safety at the lowest prices. H...
TIMOTHY MURPHY This evening I wish to suggest that we Christians should accompany people on their pilgrimages. Spec...
TIMOTHY RADCLIFFE After decades of hauling telescopes around in the back of vans and going up to high altitude locatio...
TIMOTHY FERRISS At the centre of Christianity is community; we are gathered by the Lord around the altar.
TIMOTHY RADCLIFFE The current medical records system is this: Room after room after room in a hospital filled with pap...
TIMOTHY MURPHY You can't relate to a superhero, to a superman, but you can identify with a real man who in time...
TIMOTHY DALTON David Letterman was my guy growing up. My parents recorded the tenth anniversary special for me, and...
TIMOTHY SIMONS I don't think anyone except the few people who have played James Bond can tell you how strange a...
TIMOTHY DALTON I personally believe that there's going to be a good case for the government preserving some typ...
TIMOTHY GEITHNER And I think it's a prudent, responsible way, given the scale of the emergency, the scale of the ...
TIMOTHY GEITHNER You know what isn't class warfare? Progressive taxation, as in, say, expecting billionaires to p...
TIMOTHY NOAH Claiming that you have got the truth wrapped up does breed violence and intolerance.
TIMOTHY RADCLIFFE The Clinton administration cared a lot about the middle class and the poor. But it also cared a lot ...
TIMOTHY NOAH You can be president of the United States and have the best, most bipartisan-seeming idea in the wor...
TIMOTHY NOAH I'm all for lifting the payroll-tax cap, if only to make payroll taxes a little less regressive.
TIMOTHY NOAH When you elevate the heels more so than you elevate the sole of the foot, you trigger a cascade of c...
TIMOTHY FERRISS Towards the end of the Lord Chamberlain's era, when his hold was being loosened, private prosecu...
TIMOTHY WEST Lord Chamberlain's readers or controllers, which were a handful of people working directly to hi...
TIMOTHY WEST The more books there are on shelves, the more will be sold. Once you get to the level of The Secret ...
TIMOTHY FERRISS President Obama's policies have been categorical failures for our country. Unemployment is over ...
TIMOTHY GRIFFIN There are a lot of things that can be learned from the darker corners of athletics. You have doctors...
TIMOTHY FERRISS It never fails to astonish me how cheaply a politician can be bought.
TIMOTHY NOAH What if an asteroid were to strike planet Earth? What could we possibly do to prevent it? However ma...
TIMOTHY NOAH