"The only nation I've ever been tempted to……" — Jonathan Raban
"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 a giant Barclays Bank"
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45 Quotes by Jonathan Raban
Jonathan Raban has 45 quotes on this site.
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I ain't sleeping. I'm just taking a good look at the insides of my eyelids.
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Over emphatic negatives always suggest that what is being denied may be what is really being asserted.
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In an underdeveloped country don't drink the water. In a developed country don't breathe the air.
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Books admitted me to their world open-handedly, as people for their most part, did not. The life I lived in…
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Spells of acute loneliness are an essential part of travel. Loneliness makes things happen.
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Travel. It was an intransitive verb. It didn't involve any destinations. It was going to the going's sake, to be…
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Seattle is this curious liberal island.
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Seattle is a liberal city, its politics not so much blue (in the American, not the British, sense) as deep…
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I loved the audacity of that American principle which says. When life gets tainted or goes stale, junk it! Leave…
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In the city one clings to nostalgic and unreal signs of community, takes forced refuge in codes, badges and coteries;…
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In rural areas the majority of the victims of violent crime know their assailants (indeed, are probably married to them);…
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The city has always been an embodiment of hope and a source of feeling guilt; a dream pursued, and found…
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More Bank Quotes
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one of 1,072 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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I don't use a debit card. The safest thing is a credit card because you're using the bank's money. If…
— Frank Abagnale
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And, I believe that if a man dies with a single penny still sitting in the bank, he's a fool.
— Dan Aykroyd
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People think when you have a, quote, 'bank failure,' that that is the end of the bank. And it isn't…
— Michele Bachmann
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Writing a novel is one of those modern rites of passage, I think, that lead us from an innocent world…
— J. G. Ballard
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I hesitate to deposit money in a bank. I am afraid I shall never dare to take it out again.…
— Jean Baudrillard
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My notion of a wife at 40 is that a man should be able to change her, like a bank…
— Warren Beatty
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The one thing that offends me the most is when I walk by a bank and see ads trying to…
— Jeff Bezos
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I've never had a bank account in Switzerland since 1984. Why would the Swiss do this to me? Maybe the…
— Benazir Bhutto
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I've got my eye on a few things to spend my money on. I've got my own bank card but…
— Justin Bieber
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As a good horse is not very apt to jump over a bank, if left to guide himself, I let…
— Buffalo Bill
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Economy is a savings-bank, into which men drop pennies, and get dollars in return.
— Josh Billings
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If there was a payment to the bank due, and we needed shoes, she'd get the shoes, and then deal…
— Larry Bird
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