Millennium Development Goals are about creating wealth. If we don't measure it right, we won't manage it right,
Ian Johnson
Related
When We have Patience in our minds and Love in our hearts, Nothing appears to be impossible or unrea...
PHILIP T.M If we don't fear God, it's because we don't know God.
CRAIG GROESCHEL The words you can’t find, you borrow.
We read to know we’re not alone. We read because w...
GABRIELLE ZEVIN Hand washing is the first basic step towards achieving any millennium goals for development. It save...
KAJOL That's pretty much the situation throughout the country.
MICHAEL RIGHT All efforts to develop elementary education are part of concrete actions to achieve Millennium Devel...
ERNA WITOELAR We have a right to life, not on it.
DANIEL MELGAçO I am aware that everyone that exists has a story, and we all exist because that story is important f...
ARZELL Dae FATE NAYAE Nanagha Vandhuttoom Da, Sandy , Na Nata, London Lass,Russian Grapes, Ellorum Ippa Van...
SATHESH KUMAR M People see what they want to see
SUSAN BETH PFEFFER I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made ...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON Just get it right, “it is not too late to dream”. You can do it now! This very moment, I mean ri...
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR We didn’t think anything of it at the time, but we saw several of the bodies of the crew, space pi...
CHRISTINA ENGELA If we all look at life we think how nice, then we look at death and everybody goes oh you can say th...
GARY F EVANS... Air is approximately 21% oxygen, our brains feed off of oxygen. So basically we are all airheads.
ANDONI GARCIA Inspired By Beauty In Creation We Are One
DANIEL GILMAN Are shadows a shadowy reflection of the soul or is it a reflection of who we really are, or possibly...
GARY F EVANS... We are this fucking stick in the end...
DEYTH BANGER As far as this year, our goals are through the sky right now, ... Some of the goals we have right no...
LANCE BRIGGS We are profoundly unprepared to manage a pandemic flu threat right now,
IRWIN REDLENER If you dont get what you want,you wont want what you get.
KENNETH ELLIOTT HUDSON The reason why we have never found measure of wealth. We never sought it.
GEORGE S. CLASON Something did happen, and I really don't feel proud of it.
DEYTH BANGER If we're honest, most of us are doing okay.
CRAIG GROESCHEL When I then turned toward the scriptures, they appeared to me to be quite unworthy to be compared wi...
AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO They're playing well right now and we're playing in their building, but anything's possible if you p...
DAN STAUBER Empathy is a bridge. Our sufferings connect us. Let pain make you softer.
AKIROQ BROST Outside... we are just nobody... you could meet me outside... but it doesn't mean that I am DeYtH Ba...
DEYTH BANGER Come on... come on... I am waiting for answer...
...
Silence doesn't make it... bet...
DEYTH BANGER What, the glass is half-full instead of half-empty? Bullshit. What they don't tell you is that regar...
T.J. KLUNE Food prices are often kept artificially high. The result is that the Millennium Development Goals se...
JONATHAN SACKS We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without produ...
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW They'll be right in my back yard. If we don't get (the development) stopped, are we going to live in...
LORI PRICE It's true we need to score more goals, because we are creating chances.
RAFAEL BENITEZ We're just trying to reach our goals right now. It feels like we're on the right track. We had a ver...
COURTNEY PRICE If we cannot see the possibility of greatness, how can we dream it?
LEE STRASBERG We are still thinking about it. It has advantage and disadvantages if you give up your right to a ju...
DAVID HAYNES if you cannot get it all right, don't get it all wrong
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH We felt Ian has the right mix of experience, coaching ability and ambition to take take us forward.
BRUCE ELLIOTT set your goals in life because if u dont then it seems like a wild goose chase..
RAHUL.V.BHOLE We think this is a good move for Johnson and Johnson. It boosts their pharmaceutical (sales) growth ...
GIRISH TYAGI What love is it, then, that has no need of words to call us? In whose image are we made, to take suc...
CHRISTIAN BOBIN Building product is not about having a large team to manage. It is about having a small team with th...
FRED WILSON It appears that he is committed to health and education, which are nearly all of the millennium deve...
MAX LAWSON The secretary-general and the United Nations stand fully behind the millennium development goals, wh...
MARIE OKABE A human being is a part of the whole, called by us "Universe", a part limited in time and space.
ALBERT EINSTEIN A couple of customers interrupted [...] who wanted to know if we had some YA book about ants and ali...
SHAUN DAVID HUTCHINSON It was pivotal in making you but you don't remember it. Or do you? Do we understand the events that ...
DOUGLAS COUPLAND QPR has not sacked Ian but we are concerned about recent performances and the effect the speculation...
GIANNI PALADINI We want to keep people focused on the right goals.
AMBER PUTNAM When someone in law enforcement who is willing to speak the truth about racial profiling gets demote...
HILARY SHELTON The guys know what's at stake if we win, we're in, and if we lose, we're done. One of our goals was ...
DAN STAUBER We can directly measure water ice, and then we can fly right through the plume.
DANIEL ANDREWS When you starts measuring somebody, measure him right...Make sure you done take into account what hi...
LORRAINE HANSBERRY We want people to do something to contact their government representatives and let them know that yo...
ANABELLA HEDMAN We want people to do something to contact their government representatives and let them know that...
ANABELLA HEDMAN The real measure of our wealth is how much we'd be worth if we lost all our money.
BENJAMIN JOWETT This development is going to happen on the coast. We just need to steer it in the right places.
CAROLYN BOLTIN If we dont error then how are we gonna know what needs to be repaired.If we dont get angry then how ...
MICHAEL STRONG Perhaps concentrated wealth will inspire a nation of innovative problem-solvers. But if the view of ...
ADAM DAVIDSON There is still that disbelief that it can't happen to me. When we talk about prevention and messagin...
JASMYNE CANNICK I dont think any of us can speak frankly about pain until we are no longer enduring it.
ARTHUR GOLDEN Remembering something from the past? you are creating it right now as evidence for who you are now.
FREDERICK DODSON When we talk about protecting our right to have guns, we are talking about protecting our right to s...
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER Demand your respect. Know what you want out of a man so he can manifest and become it... But that wo...
NERISSA IRVING We got it right. That's what it's all about.
BOBBY GASTON Bound by custom or unique by choice.
MARGARET MCHEYZER In the East, fames are won.
In the west, deeds are done.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON The consolation of an imaginary thing is still a real consolation.
ROGER SCRUTON We already assume we have competitive products. But then there's our top line revenue, margin expens...
JONATHAN SCHWARTZ We're headed in the right direction. We think we're in the right position to achieve those goals in ...
ENRICO DIANO Do what you do so well that even if you weren't paid to do it. Eventually others will want to pay yo...
LORRIN L. LEE If you want to find something with an equation, you must start thinking like a person who have it.
DEYTH BANGER If we hit Truman's part right, it would reverberate. So that's what I concentrated on: Getting it ri...
PHILIP SEYMOUR HOFFMAN If you know the right answers long enough people wont notice when you make up the ones you don't.
ENMANUEL SELLA YERMENOS People talk about goals, goals, goals but the important thing is to win the game. If we win 1-0 and ...
LEE MILLER Sometimes we represent our weakness as if it were bad. We don’t think it’s okay to be weak…We ...
HENRY CLOUD If we claim to know God, let’s reveal Him. If we say we are his servants, let’s carry Him
SUNDAY ADELAJA It's always been Tom's philosophy and to this day that if we are going to do it -- we are going to d...
LARRY ARROWOOD It's always been Tom's philosophy and to this day that if we are going to do it -- we are going to d...
LARRY W. ARROWOOD A good manager strives to do the right thing. A good leader strives to do what is right. We are in a...
DEAN LYNDEN If you don't grow and change you die and we felt this was the right time and the right story to tell...
BARBARA BROCCOLI It's all right if people think we are idiots.
It's all right if we lie face down on the earth.<...
ROBERT BLY The chakras in your body are as to galaxies on the body of God.
L.J. VANIER We are responsible for ourselves and each other.
RODEL NATIVIDAD CASIO We are here to create, not destroy.
VIKTORIJA GRUMBLYTė The first questions to be asked and answered in every contingency of life being: How will this thoug...
ALDOUS HUXLEY We may not get to choose how we die, but we can chose how we live.
The universe may for...
SHAUN DAVID HUTCHINSON Dreams are hopeful because they exist as pure possibility. Unlike memories, which are fossils, long ...
SHAUN DAVID HUTCHINSON If we don't go any further than we are right now, it is an extreme award for Story County.
AL HAHN Lyndon Johnson was a profoundly insecure man who feared dissent and craved reassurance. In 1964 and ...
H. R. MCMASTER did not manage to convince the French people that we were going in the right direction.
ALAIN JUPPE I don't know if I'd say I would have been surprised to see us here right now. I knew we had it in us...
ANDREA NICHOLS If we are creating ourselves all the time, then it is never too late to begin creating the bodies we...
DEEPAK CHOPRA Building companies involves creating great wealth. If that means I am an oligarch, OK, it's fine...
ALEXEI MORDASHOV We are ready to negotiate on the nuclear issue right now. It's North Korea that's creating the artif...
ALEXANDER VERSHBOW dont let your abuser win ,,,, brake the silence they have no right to get away with it xx
GRACE The true test of liberty is the right to test it, the right to question it, the right to speak to my...
GERRY SPENCE He didn't quite manage to get his leg over.' - about Ian Botham, though admittedly on the cricket pi...
JONATHAN AGNEW We all worry about the population explosion, but we don't worry about it at the right time.
ART HOPPE
More Ian Johnson
Can we do more? Yes. Should we do more? Yes,
IAN JOHNSON We are quite open as far as what would satisfy teachers,
IAN JOHNSON They needed to understand what issues are at stake,
IAN JOHNSON We discussed the job action plan, ... That is going to be made public at some point down the road.
IAN JOHNSON I will be encouraging them to vote yes. It is important we have a strong strike vote.
IAN JOHNSON Sound management of ecosystems is key to a responsible path to growth.
IAN JOHNSON There is a shared sense of urgency about meeting the MDGs.
IAN JOHNSON There is a real sense that the train has left the station, and that there is going to be a pretty si...
IAN JOHNSON Just think of the catastrophic impact it's had in a country that's pretty well organized, pretty ric...
IAN JOHNSON Tradition is but a meteor, which, if it once falls, cannot be rekindled. Memory, once interrupted, i...
JOHNSON Books to judicious compilers, are useful; to particular arts and professions, they are absolutely ne...
JOHNSON He that never thinks can never be wise.
JOHNSON The true sound and strong mind is the one that can embrace equally great and small things.
JOHNSON Our minds should not be empty because if they are not preoccupied by good, evil will break in upon t...
JOHNSON To hear complaints is tiresome to the miserable and the happy.
JOHNSON When a person finds themselves predisposed to complaining about how little they are regarded by othe...
JOHNSON When any anxiety or gloom of the mind takes hold of you, make it a rule not to publish it by complai...
JOHNSON Laws teach us to know when we commit injury and when we suffer it.
JOHNSON Language is the pedigree of nations.
JOHNSON If the career you have chosen has some unexpected inconvenience, console yourself by reflecting that...
JOHNSON There is nothing that exasperates people more than a display of superior ability or brilliance in co...
JOHNSON If what happens does not make us richer, we must welcome it if it makes us wiser.
JOHNSON No one will persist long in helping someone who will not help themselves.
JOHNSON Being reproached for giving to an unworthy person, Aristotle said, I did not give it to the man, but...
JOHNSON To have gold is to be in fear, and to want it to be sorrow.
JOHNSON Try and forget our cares and sickness, and contribute, as we can to the happiness of each other.
JOHNSON He that undervalues himself will undervalue others, and he that undervalues others will oppress them...
JOHNSON Language is the dress of thought.
JOHNSON Confidence is a plant of slow growth; especially in an aged bosom.
JOHNSON One of the aged greatest miseries is that they cannot easily find a companion able to share the memo...
JOHNSON 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 don't have many friends. It's not because I'm a misanthrope. It's because I'm ...
IAN RANKIN 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 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 What's upsetting about an autobiography is that the final chapter is always missing. I mean, you...
IAN MCKELLEN Godot is whatever it is in life that you are waiting for: 'I'm waiting to win the lottery. I...
IAN MCKELLEN I tend to discourage people from calling me 'Sir Ian,' because I don't like being separa...
IAN MCKELLEN I think the point to be understood is that we're all different. I've never been a fan of the...
IAN MCKELLEN If I was on a march at the moment I would be saying to everyone: 'Be honest with each other. Adm...
IAN MCKELLEN I love the Broadway audiences, who relish live drama and don't hesitate to display their enthusi...
IAN MCKELLEN Personally, coming out was one of the most important things I've ever done, lifting from my shou...
IAN MCKELLEN It's only fair that stable gay relationships of long standing should have the same rights and re...
IAN MCKELLEN I have little routines in the theater. Once I've established something, like the order of puttin...
IAN MCKELLEN There is a fantasy as old as the modern gay rights movement that if all our skins turned lavender ov...
IAN MCKELLEN You mustn't upstage the bride.
IAN MCKELLEN What I particularly like about Broadway is the camaraderie and the friendship of other people in oth...
IAN MCKELLEN So it's joyful to me, in my 71st year, to be able to be in a play that is absolutely right for m...
IAN MCKELLEN I like sleeping a lot.
IAN MCKELLEN Shakespeare's villains are fabulous because none of them know that they are villains. Well, some...
IAN MCKELLEN My friends are my family.
IAN MCKELLEN I headed out to have a breather at the stage door, dressed in my tramp costume. I had my bowler hat ...
IAN MCKELLEN Try and understand what part you have to play in the world in which you live. There's more to li...
IAN MCKELLEN I've often thought the Bible should have a disclaimer in the front saying, 'This is fiction....
IAN MCKELLEN I usually eat in my friend Tom Corcoran's place - the Siam Thai in Monkstown. I go there for a v...
IAN MCKEEVER I have never had the money to make too many large purchases.
IAN MCKEEVER I don't spend a lot on holidays, but have been very fortunate to travel extensively through doin...
IAN MCKEEVER I don't hold grudges.
IAN MCEWAN The end of secrecy would be the end of the novel - especially the English novel. The English novel r...
IAN MCEWAN The best way to tell people about climate change is through non-fiction. There's a vast literatu...
IAN MCEWAN It's good to get your hands dirty a bit and to test how you see things at a given point. And it&...
IAN MCEWAN I've yet to meet somebody who said, 'Your stories are so revolting I couldn't read them....
IAN MCEWAN Atheists have as much conscience, possibly more, than people with deep religious conviction, and the...
IAN MCEWAN It should simply be an empirical matter whether the climate is changing or not and whether we're...
IAN MCEWAN Reading reviews makes you thin-skinned. It's like waves washing layers off your skin.
IAN MCEWAN Not being boring is quite a challenge.
IAN MCEWAN One has to have the courage of one's pessimism.
IAN MCEWAN I apologize for being obvious, but every time I watch the curtain come down on even a halfway decent...
IAN MCEWAN I was an intimate sort of child who never spoke up in groups. I preferred close friends.
IAN MCEWAN What I've discovered and really confirmed to myself is that opera really likes loud colours, and...
IAN MCEWAN I want to live in a place where strangers rush to help someone in distress.
IAN MCEWAN You can spin stories out of the ways people understand and misunderstand each other.
IAN MCEWAN I wouldn't mind being the lead guitarist in an incredibly successful rock band. However, I don...
IAN MCEWAN One important theme is the extent to which one can ever correct an error, especially outside any fra...
IAN MCEWAN True intelligence requires fabulous imagination.
IAN MCEWAN But he did say that the character would be on the sidelines in movies One and Two, and move into the...
IAN MCDIARMID For me it's even more interesting, because my character comes out of the shadow. It's a chan...
IAN MCDIARMID I suppose it's easy to play a hypocritical politician with a smiling face; it's also quite g...
IAN MCDIARMID I'm the blackest villain of all time.
IAN MCDIARMID The part that I think is one of the most interesting is of course the one that Hayden Christensen pl...
IAN MCDIARMID If you got the DVD you can see that George Lucas has taken that person out, as well as the voice, an...
IAN MCDIARMID That's the mark of a great storyteller, never to give away secrets in advance.
IAN MCDIARMID There were a number of people who helped me get there, and the one I always mention is Michael Byrne...
IAN MCDIARMID To start your life as a character of 120 years when you are in your late thirties, and then go back ...
IAN MCDIARMID When George asked me to be the prequels, it was the same kind of meeting - it was very short and to ...
IAN MCDIARMID And also, it's sort of my job to make you believe things about him that aren't true about me...
IAN MCDIARMID Consistency is very important when you're making films.
IAN MCDIARMID It was a scene I was really looking forward to, and one that I embraced, and when we were filming it...
IAN MCDIARMID Ultimately, I'm not the most prolific person, but I've been doing this for a long time, and ...
IAN MACKAYE At every election, my vote goes to the candidate less likely to declare war. You're dropping hug...
IAN MACKAYE I was into Ted Nugent, I was a Nugent guy. I was a skateboarder listening to Ted Nugent.
IAN MACKAYE Yeah, if someone's selling downloads and collecting money for our songs I would be unhappy about...
IAN MACKAYE Basically we just created our own label, but again we just did it to document our own music and crea...
IAN MACKAYE I consider the guitar a tool for the most part. I do pick up the acoustic now and then, I certainly ...
IAN MACKAYE