Ivings Meany Quotes

#1. Scientific discovery is not valuable unless it has commercial value.

John A. McDougall

#2. You're not going to learn anything if you're not prepared to go flat, so I'm very happy to go flat.

Dylan Moran

#3. We're both clever and stupid in equal measure.

Brian Cox

#4. What a time to have a brain-to-mouth filter malfunction.

E.L. James

#5. I love being naked. I'm a free spirit.

Alessandra Torresani

#6. A great novel is concerned primarily with the interior lives of its characters as they respond to the inconvenient narratives that fate imposes on them. Movie adaptations of these monumental fictions often fail because they become mere exercises in interior decoration.

Richard Schickel

#7. No villainous bounty yet hath passed my heart;
Unwisely, not ignobly, have I given.

William Shakespeare

#8. I've been cordially invited to join the visceral realists. I accepted, of course. There was no initiation ceremony. It was better that way.

Roberto Bolano

#9. We have the right assets for a fast-growing digital business.

Bernard Ebbers

#10. I think it's part of the DNA of human beings. We are a cooking animal. What differentiates us from all the other animals is that we cook and they don't.

Ruth Reichl

#11. It is all very well, when the pen flows, but then there are the dark days when imagination deserts one, and it is an effort to put anything down on paper. That little you have achieved stares at you at the end of the day, and you know the next morning you will have to scrape it down and start again.

Elizabeth Aston

#12. Rat is a lot like duck, except with a wonderfully nutty flavor.

Cody Lundin

#13. After the Boston Marathon bombings, people shared grief and outrage on social media.

Roxane Gay

#14. The mainstream has lost its way. Crime fiction is an objective, realistic genre because it's about the real world, real bodies really being killed by somebody. And this involves the investigator in trying to understand the society that the person lived in.

Michael Dibdin