Ian Mcewan Quotes

McCain is significant in the sense that he has no significance at all on any subject.

a charge of monumental inconsequentiality.

He mastered whatever was not worth the knowing.

No, I see it as meaning very little at the moment because none of the groups are about anything.

My own idea is that these things are as piffle before the wind.

It is nothing.

I remember rather little of my life, and what I do remember is of small consequence.

What was said before is not important.

I don't believe there's an atom of meaning in it.

Telling someone you have a web series is the same thing as telling someone, 'On Monday, I start work at Chipotle.'

One of the problems of modern society, or the post-Internet age, is that there are so many things bombarding us that we could care about. I think it's more important than ever to really get clear and focus on what's worth caring about and what's just noise or distraction.

I'm still a nobody, when am I not going to be a nobody?

My death will not be penciled on someone's calendar.

The abundance of books is distraction

The basket looked like an ocean, and I was just throwing rocks in.

Liberating but hard to remember we're just bit-parts in the lives of people we know, who care very little for our secrets

Nothing that actually occurs is of the smallest importance

Hesiod might as well have kept his breath to cool his pottage.

The mere wit is only a human bauble. He is to life what bells are to horses-not expected to draw the load, but only to jingle while the horses draw.

I'm afraid it's not much use to you, Mr. Rumblebuffin.' Not at all. Not at all.' said the giant politely. 'Never met a nicer hankerchee.

The Egremonts had never said anything that was remembered, or done anything that could be recalled.

No matter which way we go, it is no better than any other. It is all the same whether you achieve something or not, have faith or not, just as it is all the same whether you cry or remain silent.

The Internet is a perfect diversion from learning... it opens many doors that lead to empty rooms.

A critic is a gong at a railroad crossing clanging loudly and vainly as the train goes by.

Sex is the biggest nothing of all time.