A Quote by Iain Banks

If this goes badly and I make a crater, I want it named after me!

Iain Banks

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After Badly Goes Make Me Named Want

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Iain Banks
Scottish - Writer
February 16, 1954 - June 9, 2013

[Dario Argento] speaks very broken English - he's Italian, so I'm going to do a very bad Italian impersonation - but he asked me my name, and I told him, and he goes, "Walk across the room." He looked at me, and he said, "Do you want to be in my movie [Two Evil Eyes]?" I was, like, "Yeah! Yeah, I do!"He goes, "Okay! You play Betty!" And I was, like, "Oh, I'm playing an extra named Betty! Great!" So we walked out, thinking that I was playing an extra named Betty, no lines, just background.

Julie Benz

I want a sandwich named after me.

Jon Stewart

My middle name is actually Sigourney, I'm named after me Dad's favourite movie which is 'Alien,' named after the actress Sigourney Weaver who gives birth to an alien, I was born to believe in aliens really.

Scarlett Moffatt

I was named after my paternal grandmother, my dadi. She died before I was born, which is why my parents named me Amy.

Amyra Dastur

To me, every time it goes badly I see it as a good thing - because that means I'm one step closer to where I want to be.

Ari Shaffir

Cole - I just thought of a new game. Jaz - What's that? Cole - Splat the Specter. Jaz - Rules? Cole - You can help me make them up. Right now all I know for sure is that it involves water guns filled with grape Kool-Aid and two ferrets named Biff and Chlamydia. Vayl - Why Ferrets? Jaz - Really? You want to know about his choice of pets when he's named one of them after an STD?

Jennifer Rardin

If my dog Ella, named after the Rihanna song 'Umbrella', could be with me at all times, that would make me happy.

Alex Scott

Opportunity could be defined in so many ways. There's one way of defining it, equality of opportunity, which is in fact the equality of capability, but the libertarians got there first and they have - like the Americans getting onto the moon, naming every crater after something like an astronaut - they have got there and named "opportunity" in a way that we cannot get ownership of now.

Amartya Sen

A real groupie is someone who loves the music and wants to do it with the guys who make it and someone who goes after what they want, so a groupie is a feminist thing. A woman who goes after what she wants is a feminist. So I've never been anything but a feminist. I took the birth control pill on the Strip in front of everybody and that was my statement. I control my body, I can do whatever the heck I want.

Pamela Des Barres

My favorite Elton John song is "Daniel"; my son is named Daniel and he's partly named after my wife's father, but also partly named after that song.

Steven Drozd

I want to have schools and libraries and other institutions named after me. I tell my daughter that all the time.

Kam Williams

If you want something badly enough, you make arrangements. If you don't want it badly enough, you make excuses.

Hanif Kureishi

There's a roller derby girl that goes by that name, 'Nerd Rage,' and she named herself after my album.

Brian Posehn

It's not like I want someone to treat me badly. I want somebody who looks like they could treat me badly, but then really treats me good.

Jennie Garth

When it's going well [writing] goes terribly fast. It isn't at all surprising to write a chapter in a day, which for me is about twenty-two pages. When it's going badly, it isn't really going badly; it's just the beginning.