All Jonathan Raban Quotes
- My new city [Seattle] and its hinterland felt deceptively homely. Their similar latitude gave them the angular light and lingering evenings I was used to.… Almost Imagine
- At night, what you see is a city, because all you see is lights. By day, it doesn't look like a city at all. The… All
- Every White House has had its intellectuals, but very few presidents have been intellectuals themselves - Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Woodrow Wilson, the list more… Adams
- When I want an opinion, I'll get it from my peers - from men of vision, like our great railroad builders... Stanford, Huntington, Dinsmore... fellows… Broad
- The only nation I've ever been tempted to feel really racist about are the Swiss - a whole country of phobic hand washers living in… Bank