Mcewan Author Quotes & Sayings

We pitched 'Sightseers' as a TV idea originally, and it was rejected because it was too dark. But then things like 'Dexter' came out, 'Breaking Bad' ... There are so many sophisticated dramas now with comic elements to them. — Alice Lowe

Now those are lethal weapons." He stroked her lower lip with the pad of his thumb. "My heart stops every time you kiss me. — Crystal Hubbard

Dare to make major changes to reach your newly discovered destiny — Sunday Adelaja

As you know, God is usually on the side of the big squadrons against the small. — Roger De Rabutin

We're coming! She felt like shouting it to the sky. We're on our way! — William Lavender

Giving the same value to fiction as to fact in the interest of so-called fairness is to mislead the American people and the press has become party to that. — Joe Wilson

The constrained lives of his characters made me wonder how my own existence might appear in his hands. — Ian McEwan

What we receive from God always seems to be too little for us; we get the impression that He isn't answering us. But in actual fact God always answers our prayers — Sunday Adelaja

Coordinating the retreat was important too, so important that Jiaan had assigned Aram as Fasal's assistant, to be sure he didn't overlook anything important. Like the fact that they were supposed to retreat. — Hilari Bell

I believe in human rights for everyone, and none of us is qualified to judge each other and that none of us should therefore have that authority. — Malcolm X

My ideal meal varies, depending on the time of year. Lobster on a deck overlooking a beach at sunset is one - but all my kids have to be there, because they are all lobster-lovers. Making a bolognese sauce over pappardelle for my husband on a winter evening, because he loves my bolognese sauce and it's his comfort food. — Amy Bloom

Come, you spirits
That tend on mortal thoughts! Unsex me here,
And fill me from the crown to the toe top full
Of direst cruelty; make thick my blood,
Stop up the access and passage to remorse,
That no compunctious visitings of nature
Shake my fell purpose, nor keep peace between
The effect and it! Come to my woman's breasts,
And take my milk for gall, you murdering ministers,
Wherever in your sightless substances
You wait on nature's mischief! Come, thick night,
And pall thee in the dunnest smoke of hell,
That my keen knife see not the wound it makes,
Nor Heaven peep through the blanket of the dark,
To cry Hold, hold! — William Shakespeare

To choose one type of music at the exclusion of another would feel kind of sad and arbitrary. — Moby

In a cricket career, your life is in some ways controlled for you. You have no control over schedules, you have no control about where you want to play, you don't have control over that as a cricketer. — Rahul Dravid

Description needs to slide into a story like a snake through grass - silently, almost invisibly, without calling attention to itself. It should enrich every story moment without slowing the action. — Marion Dane Bauer

In the process of trying to steady my gait in a life that shook with
uncertainty, I learned to make peace with the present by unknowingly
breaking love lines to the past. Growing up in a landscape of
improvised dreams and abstract national longings, everything felt
temporary to me. — Susan Abulhawa