Ian McDonald Quotations

We have resources that can help India develop its steel industry and in the current scenario resource security is the most important aspect.

Funding can never replace the value lost from trade and the euro190 million does not really offset that, offset what we would lose.

Physical play is not our strong suit. We just don't have a lot of big, physical kids. Any team that has a big post presence has given us problems. It worried me before the game and (B-PC) turned into the type of game that we had struggled with in the past. They got second shots and went to the free throw line a number of times because of it. It caused us a lot of problems. ... We just weren't able to keep them off the boards.

Well, they said there has been in the past a substantial number. Some of the other criteria that the committee was required to look at did in fact look at that criteria of whether the species was likely to reduce substantially in the future and they found that there wasn't evidence to support that.

a marginal improvement for Brazil, but a mortal blow for us.

They have clearly looked after their own farmers and left us in the cold.

It's the equivalent of a hurricane slamming into the region and wiping out entire sugar crops year after year. The only difference is that you can recover from a hurricane.

In the Age of Kali the meek and helpless will be preyed upon without mercy, and there will be a surplus of AK-47s.

The geek of the Earth are a tribe and they are mighty.

You collect art: you must know that the miniature artists, at the end of careers spent painting the tiniest, most exacting details that no one would ever look at, would often put their eyes out with needles. Too much beauty, yes, but also too much seeing. They were tired of seeing. The dark was safe and warm and comfortable. Blindness was a gift. I still have seeing to do.

He's never fought with religion; what is the point of railing against such beauty, such intimate theatre, such chime of eternity? He can treasure it without believing in it.

There's never been a rule of human behavior that hasn't been broken by someone, somewhere, sometime, in some circumstance mundane or spectacular. To be human is to transcend the rules.

Fake it may be, lies and deceptions, but this is the world in which we find ourselves, and here we must make our little lives.