Top 100 Quotes About Rankin
#1. I can still remember my mum (a voracious, if not discriminating, reader - I have seen everything from the sublime to the ridiculous by her bed, from Ian Rankin and Elmore Leonard to Barbara Cartland and James Patterson) taking me to get my library card when I was four and not yet at school.
John Niven
#2. Billy Rankin is a true Glasgow rock legend. He has everything going for him: he's a brilliant guitarist, he writes killer songs, he's worked with the best, toured the world and he is one handsome-looking chap. I know all of this because Billy told me.
Robert Fields
#3. My reaction to your news is delighted astonishment that Lanark has been judged more popular than a book by Ian Rankin, and only regret that this wonderful honour had no money attached to it!
Christopher Brookmyre
#4. Life goes on, doesn't it? Bud Rankin dies. A baby is born.
James Patterson
#5. I don't like to be coarse, but if I did, I would be!
-Granby commenting on something Rankin has said.
Naomi Novik
#6. Success and achievement come from your belief in yourself. You can see and be inspired by my belief when doctors said I'd never do XYZ. Discover Nobody-thought-i-could-do-it-but-i-showed-them-and-so-can-you-amy-rankin/1114910767?ean=2940016304205
Amy Rankin
#7. Robert Rotenberg does for Toronto what Ian Rankin does for Edinburgh.
Jeffery Deaver
#8. I love thriller writers. My favourites are Harlan Coban, Lee Child, Ian Rankin, Kathy Reichs and Ed McBain.
Maeve Binchy
#9. I'm a big fan of Elmore Leonard, and I've read Ian Rankin, Christopher Brookmyre and so on. But I'd never read a crime novel that made me feel emotional at the end.
John Gordon Sinclair
#10. Ian Rankin's Rebus is the king of modern British crime fiction. He is dour, determined, and constantly falls foul of his seniors. For all this, we root for him. He is eminently loveable, a quixotic hero moving through the darker half of a Jekyll and Hyde Edinburgh.
Mark Billingham
#11. The online world could stuff that in its pipe and vape it.
Ian Rankin
#12. I know that if I have been working on one paragraph and I have written it three times, it goes in the bin. Unless it comes straight out, it is wrong, it is awkward, it does not fit.
Robert Rankin
#13. Was still a fine, persistent drizzle. There was a word in Scots for it - smirr.
Ian Rankin
#14. I feel like support is what anyone with a disability to overcome needs
Amy Rankin
#15. It is unconscionable that 10,000 boys have died in Vietnam. If 10,000 American women had mind enough they could end the war, if they were committed to the task, even if it meant going to jail.
Jeannette Rankin
#16. Need to get to Ruislip by sparrow-fart though', said the squadron leader. 'Think you can do that? Can I come along for the ride?
Robert Rankin
#17. Sky glowing dull pink. Simmer dim, as the Shetlanders called
Ian Rankin
#18. Only if I am going to die, I should prefer to die as I have lived, drunkenly.
Robert Rankin
#19. If I took fear out of the equation, what would I change about how I spend my days?
Lissa Rankin
#20. When you look at pornography, the women become objects, whereas what I'm trying to do is make the person in the photograph as important as their body. And obviously, I like tits and arse, because I just do. I like the sex of taking photographs.
Rankin
#21. Jack nodded. 'No,' he said.
Was that a trick answer?
Robert Rankin
#22. What happens to sanity when you chain it to a wall?
Ian Rankin
#23. War created bizarre allies, while peace itself could be divisive.
Ian Rankin
#24. You need good energy and you need to be fit because it's very tiring. A lot of the work is quite heavy and quite smelly. That's why girls drift out of the kitchen because they get fed up smelling like fish and vegetables and things like that.
Paul Rankin
#25. If natural selection can create creationists it can manage a caterpillar with a face on its arse.
Zane Stumpo
#26. Combining internal drive and determination with positive external support was key to my recovery.
Amy Rankin
#27. Nothing in the world tasted as good for breakfast as stolen rolls with some butter and jam and a mug of milky coffee. Nothing tasted better than a venial sin.
Ian Rankin
#28. This man had something to hide, some shame in his past, and those with a past can always be bought.
Ian Rankin
#29. 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 my adventures in my head when I'm writing my books.
Ian Rankin
#30. Someone in the crowd, for there is always one, said, 'That's right, a mate of mine had it.
Robert Rankin
#31. Yes, I have over the years done a lot of the audio books, which are just plain reading.
Robert Rankin
#32. Many of the gifts life has to teach us live not in the realm of the certain, but in the uncertain.
Lissa Rankin
#33. This is wonderful for a young person, no matter what profession they're in. When you can see something and you can feel this attraction to it, then it becomes less of me trying to teach them as they teach themselves. They've got it and bang off they go.
Paul Rankin
#34. God Gave Us Wings to soar like an eagle rather than flutter around like a chicken.
Connie Rankin
#35. I'm interested in Scotland now and then, how it's changed. I want to get the reader to think about that by thinking about something from the past. How has society changed, how has policing changed, have we changed philosophically, psychologically, culturally, spiritually?
Ian Rankin
#36. If there are no spots on a sugar cube then I've just put a dice in my tea.
Robert Rankin
#37. It's important to be honest enough about your work, and the areas in which you can improve. I'm still learning every day and I'm still Hungry to create more and better work, hence the name.
Rankin
#38. New York State like many other states, found it was much less expensive to provide services for brain injured people at home instead of a hospital or nursing home.
Amy Rankin
#39. The most disappointing feature of working for a cause is that so few people have a philosophy of life. We used to say, in the suffrage movement, that we could trust the woman who believed in suffrage, but we could never trust the woman who just wanted to vote.
Jeannette Rankin
#40. Who was there to guide them? The words of self-obsessed politicians, egotistical media personalities, power-crazed newspaper magnates and half-mad clerics? Who could reason sensibly when supplied with all the wrong information for all the wrong reasons?
Robert Rankin
#41. We [chefs] are competitive, although I think you need to be careful with competitiveness as it can become quite negative.
Paul Rankin
#42. I've just worked out what the music on the speakers is," he said. "It's John Martyn, Over The Hill."
"And ?"
"And nothing. It's just, maybe I'm not there yet.
Ian Rankin
#43. Jamadars and bheesties,' said the helmsman. 'Not to mention the major-domos, lordly lamplighters and twisted firestarters.' 'Twisted firestarters?' enquired the detective. 'I told you not to mention them.
Robert Rankin
#44. You have to believe in what you're doing otherwise what's the point?
Rankin
#45. Go! Go! Go! It makes no difference where, just so you go! go! go! Remember, at the first opportunity, go!
Jeannette Rankin
#46. There's an insult buried in there somewhere, but I can't quite see it.
Ian Rankin
#47. Omally shook his head. 'Police stations are bad places to break into, this is well known.
Robert Rankin
#48. War is the slaughter of human beings, temporarily regarded as enemies, on as large a scale as possible.
Jeannette Rankin
#49. He'd tried to talk to you about anarchy yesterday but his English and your French conspired against the dialog.
Ian Rankin
#51. [About a tiresome colleague]: He could bore for Scotland.
Ian Rankin
#52. I doubt he'd give me the smell from his farts - no, tell a lie: in that one respect he's being more than generous.
Ian Rankin
#53. One of the great awards from a chef's point of view are Michelin stars. The ultimate is three Michelin stars. For example, Gordon Ramsey has three Michelin stars. Having one Michelin star is a big deal, two is incredible and having three puts you in a bracket of maybe 30 chefs worldwide.
Paul Rankin
#54. Rebus was eating breakfast in the canteen and wishing there was more caffeine in the coffee, or more coffee in the coffee come to that.
Ian Rankin
#55. Everything you do from waking till sleeping is against somebody's Bible, Cafferty.
Ian Rankin
#56. Trapped in limbo, believing in a lack of belief, but not necessarily lacking the belief to believe.
Ian Rankin
#57. Being a sport star and a chef both require passion, commitment, work and natural ability.
Paul Rankin
#58. Promoting health without encouraging others to seek wholeness is an exercise in futility. Not until we realize that our bodies are mirrors of our interpersonal, spiritual, professional, sexual, creative, financial, environmental, mental, and emotional health will we truly heal.
Lissa Rankin
#59. Pooley hunched closer to his pint. 'A pox on it all,' said he. 'The Swan packed full of these idiots, old Soap flushed away round the proverbial S-bend and Cowboy Night looming up before us with about as much promise as the coming of Ragnorok!
Robert Rankin
#60. And there's the Midnight Growlers, a philosophical movement dedicated to high spiritual ideals and the pursuit of truth and -'
Beer,' said Tinto.
Robert Rankin
#61. When there is no one there to cheer you on through it, or the right kind of therapy team, it can be very disheartening for people
Amy Rankin
#62. Neville flexed his nostrils, he didn't like the smell of this. The young man was clearly a monomaniac
Robert Rankin
#63. There were large and small ones too. And some quite in-between. But all of equal nastiness.
And smelliness and ghastliness.
For they would eat a fellow up, as one might fish and chips
Robert Rankin
#64. What often separates the good from the great is a layer of innate ability, a gift, so it's partly that. There's many people with great gifts who don't work hard enough, or perhaps take it for granted, and therefore they don't have the passion and the commitment for it.
Paul Rankin
#65. One of the main problems with brain injuries is the brain is trying to send signals to the muscles in the rest of the body, but these signals are scramvled
Amy Rankin
#66. Men are not killed because they get mad at each other. They're killed because one of them has a gun in any dispute.
Jeannette Rankin
#67. This is not the way things are done in Boy's Own Adventure books. I recall no mentions of homosexual gang-rape and cannibalism
Robert Rankin
#68. It was a sight to make Zane Grey reach for his ballpoint, or Sergio Leone send out for another fifty foot of standard eight.
Robert Rankin
#69. My first novel was turned down by half a dozen publishers. And even after having published five or six books, I wasn't making enough money to live on, and was beginning to think I'd have to give up the dream of being a full-time writer.
Ian Rankin
#71. I wrote my first short story for a competition and won second prize. Another competition came up and I won first prize. The first story was published in a newspaper. The second went out on radio.
Ian Rankin
#72. The mistrust and resentment they brought with them, the way tribes feared anything new, anything from outside the camp's tight confines.
Ian Rankin
#73. There are worse forms of prostitution than whoring.
-Inspector John Rebus
Ian Rankin
#74. Her hair was simply red and her coat was deacon blue.
Robert Rankin
#75. The nurse told him that my surgery had been moved to 1:00, and the transport was coming at 9:30. This worried Mom and Dad because they had been told that skull replacement was not a priority surgey.
Amy Rankin
#76. You wouldn't think you could kill an ocean, would you? But we'll do it one day. That's how negligent we are.
Ian Rankin
#77. In all our pictures, we had an antagonist who becomes the good guy, and the underdog fulfills his quest.
Arthur Rankin Jr.
#78. Even though I was very confident I'd be fine, I still needed a little help.
Amy Rankin
#79. There's a layer of satisfaction that I get from cooking that is more than the work itself. I think when you're too competitive sometimes you can lose the joy of what you do.
Paul Rankin
#80. He could probably have persuaded even Cerberus to leave his post and go off in search of a few dog biscuits.
Robert Rankin
#81. The body isn't the foundation of your health. The body is the physical manifestation of the sum of your life experiences.
Lissa Rankin
#82. Some of the things that contributed to my positive attitude were rejoicing, smiling and acknowledging every small step I had made.
Amy Rankin
#83. Also, he was more discriminating now than he had been then, back in the old days when he would read a book to its bitter end whether he liked it or not. These days, a book he disliked was unlikely to last ten pages of his concentration.
Ian Rankin
#84. I never thought I'd be a teacher , but when I started doing it, I fell in love with it.
Amy Rankin
#85. She continues to do her best to inspire and make others smile with her attitude of "it can always get better.
Amy Rankin
#86. I've always written. At the age of six or seven, I would get sheets of A4 paper and fold them in half, cut the edges to make a little eight-page booklet, break it up into squares and put in little stick men with little speech bubbles, and I'd have a spy story, a space story and a football story.
Ian Rankin
#87. He wondered what percentage of the world's art was actually kept in bank vaults and the like. Like unread books and unplayed music, did it matter that art went unseen?
Ian Rankin
#88. Chef means boss and in France you get an office chef and you get a chef on a building site, etc. So I'm a chef de cuisine, chef of the kitchen, and that means that I'm in charge of a team.
Paul Rankin
#89. I know it might sound crazy, but I feel great now, ridiculously hopeful. Sure it stinks I missed an important part of my life,but I know I'll have more important things to do. I'm still young
Amy Rankin
#90. Hardship bred a bitter, quickfire humour and resilience to all but the most terminal of life's tragedies.
Ian Rankin
#91. Because I'm a special gatekeeper. I'm the head gatekeeper. Because, although, as you can see, I'm only a head, I'm also the gatekeeper. Which makes me the head gatekeeper. Which makes me very special, don't you agree?
Robert Rankin
#92. partner ACC Colin Carswell based at police HQ Sir David Strathern chief constable of Lothian and Borders Police Jean Burchill Rebus's current partner, museum curator
Ian Rankin
#93. I think the relationship between print and film is symbiotic, it's more about evolving and complimenting your existing content. The two are very much interconnected.
Rankin
#94. The TBI Waiver provided funding for additional services not covered by my insurance.
Amy Rankin
#95. I think writers have to be proactive: they've got to use new technology and social media. Yes, it's hard to get noticed by traditional publishers, but there's a great deal of opportunity out there if you've got the right story.
Ian Rankin
#97. I don't think I have one particular favourite writer. I have many whose works I will always buy or reread - Muriel Spark, Anthony Powell, Robert Louis Stevenson, Ruth Rendell, James Ellroy, William McIlvanney, Kate Atkinson, John Burnside, Louise Welsh, Iain Banks.
Ian Rankin
#98. There's a time when people say your work is revolutionary, but you have to keep being revolutionary. I can't keep shooting pop stars all my life. You have to keep changing, keep pushing yourself, looking for the new, the unusual.
Rankin
#99. The hill road wound upwards, as hill roads do, unless you're coming down them, of course.
Robert Rankin
#100. Groynes divided the mostly sandy beach into neat compartments.
Ian Rankin
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