"You wouldn't think you could kill an ocean,……" — Ian Rankin

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

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29 Quotes by Ian Rankin

Ian Rankin has 29 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

I started writing novels while an undergraduate student, in an attempt to make sense of the city of Edinburgh, using…
War created bizarre allies, while peace itself could be divisive.
From this height the sleeping city seems like a child's construction, a model which has refused to be constrained by…
At all times, think like a writer, and keep those antennae twitching - that way, you pick up new ideas.
I think writers have to be proactive: they've got to use new technology and social media. Yes, it's hard to…
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…
I took the first James Kelman novel, 'The Bus Conductor Hines', home to my dad. I thought, 'My dad will…
I still think most writers are just kids who refuse to grow up. We're still playing imaginary games, with our…
Right from the very beginning, I knew I wanted to write palpably Scottish fiction.
A lot of writers, especially crime writers, have an image that we think we're trying to keep up with. You've…
I am, of course, a frustrated rock star - I'd much rather be a rock star than a writer. Or…
I don't think I have one particular favourite writer. I have many whose works I will always buy or reread…

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The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution. — Hannah Arendt
Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can… — Hannah Arendt
The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be… — Hannah Arendt
I'd take precision any day over power; as far as being tactical you know you have to see what's going… — Alexis Arguello
For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short… — Aristotle
For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to… — Aristotle
When it comes to the point where you occasionally look forward to being in prison on the basis that you… — Julian Assange
We construct a narrative for ourselves, and that's the thread that we follow from one day to the next. People… — Paul Auster
I write the paragraph, then I'm crossing out, changing words, trying to improve it. When it seems more or less… — Paul Auster
People are so damned afraid that one day they might wake up and discover that they've grown old. — Billie Joe Armstrong
Music - that's been my education. There's not a day that goes by that I take it for granted. — Billie Joe Armstrong
Compassion is a practically acquired knowledge, like dancing. You must do it and practice diligently day by day. — Karen Armstrong

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