#like

It's good to get your hands dirty a bit and to test how you see things at a given point. And it's very pleasing after writing something like 'Atonement' or 'On Chesil Beach,' which are historical, to get involved in some plausible re-enactment of the here and now. ↗

— Ian Mcewan

#atonement #beach #bit #dirty #get

Oh, I've become immune to the Booker. I think we need something a little more like the Pulitzer prize, where there isn't this great race. ↗

— Ian Mcewan

#booker #great #i #i think #immune

I tend to discourage people from calling me 'Sir Ian,' because I don't like being separated out from the rest of the population. Of course, it can be useful if you're writing an official letter, like trying to get a visa or something passed through Parliament. They're impressed by these things. ↗

— Ian Mckellen

#being #calling #course #discourage #get

The Pistols were like my work of art. They were my canvas. ↗

— Malcolm Mclaren

#canvas #like #pistols #were #work

Religious belief, like history itself, is a story that is always unfolding, always subject to inquiry and ripe for questioning. For without doubt there is no faith. ↗

— Jon Meacham

#belief #doubt #faith #history #inquiry

The intelligence of the lower forms of animal life, like a great deal of human intelligence, does not involve a self. ↗

— George H. Mead

#animal life #deal #does #forms #great

I have a respect for manners as such, they are a way of dealing with people you don't agree with or like. ↗

— Margaret Mead

#agree #dealing #i #like #manners

As long as any adult thinks that he, like the parents and teachers of old, can become introspective, invoking his own youth to understand the youth before him, he is lost. ↗

— Margaret Mead

#adult #any #become #before #him

Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump: you have to get it right the first time. ↗

— Margaret Mead

#first #first time #get #jump #life

Censors are energetic and righteous people but they just couldn't work a room like Abbe Lane. ↗

— Audrey Meadows

#energetic #just #lane #like #people