Ian Mcewan Quotes

To go below one nanokelvin is like running a mile below four minutes for the first time.

In any city with lots of skyscrapers, lots of skyline, the moon seems bigger than it is. It's called the moon illusion.

Imagine how many aspects of nature we would miss if we lived on the surface of the sun. Without inventing refrigerators, we would only know gaseous matter and never observe liquids or solids, and miss the beauty of snowflakes.

Bad weather always looks worse through a window.

But optics sharp it needs, I ween, To see what is not to be seen.

It doesn't matter what temperature the room is, it's always room temperature.

You shall have sometime your house so full of glass that we cannot tell where to come to be out of the sun or the cold.

Attention to detail - Sherlock certainly has that, and my memory is pretty good - but not as good as his.

Slow motion goes one of two ways. It either makes it look really, really cool, or it makes it look really, really bad.

People always remark on how I'm not as tall as I look in film. I tell them about the time I saw Lassie on a studio lot, and she was this tiny scruffy dog. Film makes you larger than life.

I like the cold.

Disappointment is a good sign of basic intelligence. It cannot be compared to anything else: it is so sharp, precise, obvious, and direct. If we can open, then we suddenly begin to see that our expectations are irrelevant compared with the reality of the situations we are facing.

A hot iron, though blunt, will pierce sooner than a cold one, though sharper.

To a child all weather is cold.

What dreadful hot weather we have! It keeps one in a continual state of inelegance.

One can take a neon tube and simply paint it black on the front. So it would read as a black letter or a line, but it would also read as neon because there would be light coming from behind that black letter.

Hungry ears are sharp ones.

Sometimes, when people use too much blue screen in movies, the actors don't look credible, because they have their own opinion of what the thing will look like, and each person has a different opinion.

The intellect is a cleaver; it discerns and rifts its way into the secrets of things.

I was coming to realize that the real magician was light itself.

What you think is the point is not the point at all but only the beginning of the sharpness.

There is such a thing as the impression of luminosity.

Things can be low on the food chain, but that doesn't mean they're lowly.

Our [British] summers are often, though beautiful for verdure, so cold, that they are rather cold winters.