Immediacy Quote by Iain Banks Download Open image “Soon equates to good, later to worse, Uagen Zlepe, scholar. Therefore, immediacy.” — Iain Banks ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.3 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Gen Z Immediacy Inspirational Later Worse Love Scholar Scholar Immediacy Soon Equates Zlepe Scholar
Obstinacy and contention are common qualities, most appearing in, and best becoming, a mean and illiterate soul. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I inherited that penchant for intellectualism, a character flaw that these days can only be thoroughly eradicated by getting Z’ed up. — John Green Copy Share Image
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IMBECILITY, n. A kind of divine inspiration, or sacred fire affecting censorious critics of this dictionary. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
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“But a man of tender sensitivities finds disruption unpleasant; he finds it unpleasant to break in on a well-constructed train of thought with his… — Thomas Mann Copy Share Image
One who imitates what is bad always goes beyond his model; while one who imitates what is good always comes up short of it. — Francesco Guicciardini Copy Share Image
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I'm not a great believer in awards-of course the fact that I've never won one has nothing to do with it at all! — Iain Banks Copy Share Image
“Looking at me, you'd never guess I'd killed three people. It isn't fair.” — Iain Banks Copy Share Image
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All you ever were was a little bit of the universe, thinking to itself. Very specific; this bit, here, right now. All the rest… — Iain Banks Copy Share Image
“We're not in prison, we're not junkies and we're not Young Tories...it's no small achievement.” — Iain Banks Copy Share Image
Torture is such a slippery slope; as soon as you allow a society or any legal system to do that, almost instantly you get… — Iain Banks Copy Share Image
“Two years after I killed Blyth I murdered my young brother Paul, for quite different reasons than I'd disposed of Blyth, and then a… — Iain Banks Copy Share Image
If you have any helpful suggestions I'd be pleased to hear them. If all you can do is make snide insinuations then it would… — Iain Banks Copy Share Image
“He hit and fatally injured my innocent and unfortunate uncle whose muttered last words in hospital, before his coma became a full stop, were:… — Iain Banks Copy Share Image
Films are artifice. We're telling stories on film. At the same time, when it works, there is a real tough immediacy and spontaneity to… — Paul McGann Copy Share Image
When one has made a decision to kill a person, even if it will be very difficult to succeed by advancing straight ahead, it… — Yamamoto Tsunetomo Copy Share Image
Take any writer you want in the 19th century: they wrote with quill pens, dipping a piece of goose feather in ink and writing.… — Walter Murch Copy Share Image
Killing Lincoln is a must-read historical thriller. Bill O'Reilly recounts the dramatic events of the spring of 1865 with such exhilarating immediacy that you… — Vince Flynn Copy Share Image
But I think that's a particular kind of experience involving a certain immediacy between you and the canvass, you and the particular kind of… — Donald Judd Copy Share Image
My favorite part is being engaged with somebody's story and life, and getting a laugh with people I have a tremendous amount of respect… — Marc Maron Copy Share Image
The whole machinery of our intelligence, our general ideas and laws, fixed and external objects, principles, persons, and gods, are so many symbolic, algebraic… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
I am sure everyone has had the experience of reading a book and finding it vibrating with aliveness, with colour and immediacy. And then,… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
In stark contrast to two nights ago, when I felt Peeta was a million miles away, I'm struck by his immediacy now. As we… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
I do like the immediacy of audience's reaction. I like when I can hear the stillness and I know that they're with us. — Sarah Paulson Copy Share Image
The immediacy of the mobile changes it from what we're accustomed to in the personal computing world to something that's instantaneous... What's interesting and… — Vint Cerf Copy Share Image
We live in a world of absolute immediacy. It is an interconnected, combustible world, where technology and many other actions have given nonstate actors… — Chuck Hagel Copy Share Image
