FastSaying

The Fed's inaction suggests that [policy makers] expect a quick rebound -- we do too -- which is why the next round of survey data, starting with today's Philly Fed, is so important,


Ian Shepherdson

  Email Quote to Friends   Link to Quote   Create Short URL  Publish Text About This Quote   Share on Facebook, Twitter, and more
  See Recommended Quotes For You

Related

It is important that those selected for the Survey of Income and Program Participation respond becau...
JAMES HOLMES But clearly any view on the Fed now is dependent on how the data comes through and hence we can expe...
STEVE BARROW To search the sands of a lost desert for truth and justice in this world today you might as well be ...
GARY F EVANS... We saw the market get so oversold that it's not surprising that we're getting a rebound. The market ...
BRAD STONE That will be an important factor in the mind of the Fed. The Republican victory certainly suggests t...
LAWRENCE GOODMAN The Fed has been on 'autopilot' with its monetary tightening so that even bouts of weaker data, such...
STEVE BARROW The dissenting votes are evidence that policy makers' outlook on inflation is improving. Why not sta...
BORIS SEGURA Most people think the Fed is on hold so the rest of this month's data is not quite as important.
JEFF PALMA Honesty is the best policy.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN There is not a lot of upside potential over the next couple of weeks. We already got the rebound in ...
DAVID HORNER The markets have probably been too quick to connect the dots from the current slew of good data stra...
LARA RHAME It's the first key Fed speech since the scale of the devastation became apparent so that could be qu...
IAN GUNNER His life seemed like a deck of cards, and in the midst of all those two’s and three’s someone ha...
TEKOA MANNING Oddly, the statement accompanying the [cut] was uniformly negative in its assessment of the economy,...
BRUCE STEINBERG We have often noted the Fed tries to choose a policy action that minimizes the consequences of a mis...
DAVID ORR The market reacted exactly the way they wanted it to, which was to flatten the yield curve. I think ...
LARA RHAME The Chicago PMI, along with other mixed data we've been getting, points, in my mind, to a turning po...
GERALD COHEN If you love someone you must set them free like the wind and give them the respect they deserve.If y...
GARY F EVANS... Inaction can no longer be our policy, ... To do so will ensure that Haiti is ruled by thugs and crim...
BOB GRAHAM You yawn to equalize the pressure on your eardrums. This pressure change outside your eardrums unb...
WHY YAWNING IS CONTAGIOUS Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you...
C. JOYBELL C. Life is not a game. Still, in this life, we choose the games we live to play.
J.R. RIM Honesty is the best policy - when there is money in it.
MARK TWAIN Strong figures on growth and inflation will reinforce expectations of higher Fed rates, supporting t...
XINYI LU Whether one agreed with him or not, for anyone who values the independence of the Fed, it is importa...
GILBERT METCALF Given that the economic data will be strong, people will wonder why the Fed is not moving, which cou...
LARA RHAME And that is what the data suggests.
BILL ALBERT What Fucks me... is that we both are the same... we all walk on the same path... but everything is a...
DEYTH BANGER Mother Superior jump the gun...
-The Beatles, Happiness is a Warm Gun
LAUREN MYRACLE She buys "mixed salad greens" for seven dollars a bag, triple-washed with who knows what. And to get...
RUDOLPH DELSON There may be some comments or text which will offer Fed views on the recent soft economic data and m...
MAMORU ASHIMOTO We're starting to see the savings rate pick up from near historic levels, which is very encouraging....
ANTHONY CHAN This study is important to help investors, managers, and policy-makers to understand the crucial que...
DAVID LEVINE Traders are coming in every morning with a bias to sell dollars. The market expects that irrespectiv...
MICHAEL JANSEN Probably the most important data for the rest of the month is the retail sales, and some inflation d...
BILL CUNNINGHAM We're in the range between 50 and 55 (in the ISM index) where the Fed often holds interest rates ste...
GARY THAYER We were a little bit aggressive too early, trying to say the Fed is done. Now the data is continuing...
TED AKE Aside from all that, she was carrying about a million tons of titanium ore to the heavy industries o...
CHRISTINA ENGELA We expect the Fed to raise rates to 4.75 percent in March. The market isn't fully pricing this in, s...
CALLUM HENDERSON What matters is the one thing I do know for certain: God is with me.
CRAIG GROESCHEL The Fed is in data-dependent mode, and we've gotten a string of data that shows a lot of strength.
DAVID GLOCKE This report underscores or emphasizes that the Fed would be quite well justified for easing policy a...
PAUL CHRISTOPHER The rebound is very slow, gradual and uncertain. The survey shows a changing scenario in July, notab...
EMMANUEL FERRY Location is very important to us, which is why the work is taking so much time and why we are taking...
DAVID OMAN I think it's important from the policy stand point in that if the housing market is cooling down the...
ALEX LI There is a persistent trend that we are seeing in Asian currencies and it has got to do with more th...
CLAUDIO PIRON With the economy showing signs of life, the Fed easing cycle is probably at an end. We expect the Fe...
BRUCE STEINBERG Everyday people all over the world take advantage of life, they abuse it and dice with it.Life is so...
GARY F EVANS... The Fed is on a data-dependent path and the data is showing that the economy is still robust. There ...
JAN LAMBREGTS I don't know what it is about the second round, but we just seem to step it up. The second round is ...
CLAY OGDEN We said it was currently a policy of the board not to exit it (the poison pill) without going to sha...
RUPERT MURDOCH Policy makers will observe the effects of the revaluation on the economy and the degree to which it ...
BA SHUSONG The data flow has been pretty mixed over the past three weeks, with survey data fairly robust, but m...
MICHAEL HUME It seems the New York and the Philly Fed index did a bit of a role reversal: New York was very weak ...
JAY FELDMAN It seems the New York and the Philly Fed index did a bit of a role reversal: New York was very weak ...
JAY FELDMAN It is well that the earth is round that we do not see too far ahead.
MERYL STREEP Why do we adults complicate that which is so simple.
TODD STOCKER I'm fucking the grave, I thought, I'm bringing the dead back to life...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI Today is about the now, the moment you live in, so do now what you want to do
SOTONYE ANGA We're starting to get little pockets of softness, which causes people to worry about (the Fed) going...
CHIP HANLON The chairman concluded that there is more to do in terms of slowing activity. We expect some further...
ANDREW MILLIGAN The threat of a Fed policy firming on Nov. 16 will continue to weigh on the markets, despite the wea...
MARILYN SCHAJA That leaves room for policy-makers. (The church statement) is going to have impact with members of t...
GREG HUGHES The Fed is now explicitly conducting monetary policy with the aim of supporting stock prices,
IAN SHEPHERDSON Data is very helpful in writing grant proposals to get funding for subsequent surveys. We certainly ...
GREGG KAUFMAN On trade, [Bush] obviously staked out a pattern that we don't expect him to change dramatically from...
AUGGIE TANTILLO So, while we are still left judging the incoming economic data for a read on policy - the end of the...
TIMOTHY ROGERS CPI data was benign but the data was prior to Hurricane Katrina, ... Still, no one is quite sure abo...
JOSEPH BATTIPAGLIA Time is so important.'so spend time doing something that you love.' make the most of it and Let the ...
NAPZ CHERUB PELLAZO Inflationary fears hit the market yesterday as it failed to push beyond and sustain levels above the...
ANGUS CAMPBELL The secret of my success is my hairspray.
RICHARD GERE Love is blind, and a deaf-mute too.
PATRICK ROTHFUSS The three-year was a great auction...but it just doesn't matter that much to the market. The next ke...
ANDREW BRENNER Round, round, while thus we go round, The best thing a man can do, Is to make it at least, a m...
MICHAEL EYQUEN DE MONTAIGNE Backup systems won't protect data if a virus causes a network/computer crash before the data is back...
ANNA YEN Responsible policy makers do not make irresponsible decisions.
JORMA OLLILA Should consumer services start to reinvigorate as anecdotal evidence suggests, the outlook for the s...
GAVIN REDKNAP I want to make it clear publicly that I expect more candor from this Administration during the next ...
GEORGE VOINOVICH A great future starts with what you can see
SOTONYE ANGA A possible explanation is that the data correction is overcorrecting the impact of the five Saturday...
DOMINIQUE BARBET I think he's out of step with what the American public thinks should happen. He is out of step with ...
DEIRDRE MULLIGAN There was no sign of a tear on Danny's scan, so we expect the injury to clear up in the next couple ...
PETER JACKSON Dedication is the preparation to success!
WERNER BOTHA It is quite clear that the markets understand Fed policy to a much better extent than before. My own...
WILLIAM POOLE We got whacked on the Fed comments (Wednesday), but that reaction doesn't make sense, ... Don't you ...
ROBERT LONG We got whacked on the Fed comments (Wednesday), but that reaction doesn't make sense. Don't you thin...
ROBERT LONG Each of us views life through a different lens. What we think is colored by the baggage we carry, an...
LAURIE BUCHANAN, PHD The data from the German states suggests that the increase in inflation at the start of the year is ...
JUERGEN MICHELS It's a signal to the market that the Fed means business here. It suggests the Fed is being tough on ...
PAUL HANCOCK One of the signs is that when companies do pre-announce, they haven't been hit as hard this time aro...
EDWARD KEON Your mind is a Microcosm of strength and power. There’s all the magic you need in it. When all els...
CHINONYE J. CHIDOLUE People need a powerful PC to run XP, which is why PC makers love it.
JAMES ALEXANDER We have a lot of good, young players, and a lot of them play soccer year-round. Anything can happen....
BRIAN ROLFE I sat down and tried to write a story.

"Ian MacArthur is a wonderful sweet fellow who wea...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY Everyone is the Umbrella Man and he is everyone. Every cough, sneeze, smile and wave means both ever...
CRAIG CLEVENGER The next step is to get SOAP a home in one of the standards bodies. We expect that to be decided wit...
BOB SUTOR This issue of territorial integrity is always foremost on the minds of Indonesian policy-makers.
HAROLD CROUCH I hope that in the next few days we demonstrate as a world our complete solidarity in this fight whi...
TONY BLAIR If we scale back in Hong Kong, we should not scale back for the round as a whole. It is too importan...
PETER MANDELSON Let none of us delude himself by supposing that honesty is always the best policy. It is not.
DEAN INGE

More Ian Shepherdson

Another 25 basis point palliative ease in August seems a good bet. But the big easing story is over.
IAN SHEPHERDSON No more easing [is] needed here.
IAN SHEPHERDSON Looking forward, downside risks remain, and there is clearly no bar on further easing,
IAN SHEPHERDSON [This is] a significant downside shock, and perhaps a sign falling consumer sentiment is rattling co...
IAN SHEPHERDSON Companies seem to have acted very quickly this time around once they realized that [economic] growth...
IAN SHEPHERDSON Supply remains tight; buyers may have been unable to find the homes they want where they want them. ...
IAN SHEPHERDSON This is slightly baffling, given that existing home sales have been strengthening, ... It may be a r...
IAN SHEPHERDSON There is nothing in the statement to suggest they're done.
IAN SHEPHERDSON As for the Fed, we look for 50 (basis points, a half-percentage point) next week.
IAN SHEPHERDSON The Fed is now explicitly conducting monetary policy with the aim of supporting stock prices,
IAN SHEPHERDSON People told consumer surveys they were miserable, but they were willing to borrow money to pursue a ...
IAN SHEPHERDSON This report augurs very well for the holidays.
IAN SHEPHERDSON The rise in oil prices was always likely to hit these numbers with a vengeance, and the petroleum de...
IAN SHEPHERDSON It is disappointing in the wake of the huge rise in the Empire State survey -- the indexes are usual...
IAN SHEPHERDSON Core exports are trending up at about 10 percent year over year, not enough to prevent a widening of...
IAN SHEPHERDSON This report is much stronger than it first appears. If Feb [employment report] is broadly similar, a...
IAN SHEPHERDSON This report is stronger than it looks and is consistent with the industrial recovery gathering pace,
IAN SHEPHERDSON It is impossible to tell how much of the drop simply reflects the inability of the seasonal adjustme...
IAN SHEPHERDSON It is impossible to tell how much of the drop simply reflects the inability of the seasonal adjustme...
IAN SHEPHERDSON If this trend [in jobless claims] continues, September payrolls will surely fall outright, and the b...
IAN SHEPHERDSON This [report] suggests strongly that the distortions caused by the provisions of the March economic ...
IAN SHEPHERDSON The details are not as important as the overall message, which is that to the extent that the U.S. e...
IAN SHEPHERDSON There's no question that these numbers have been persistently disappointing in recent weeks, ... It'...
IAN SHEPHERDSON Still, this is a hugely encouraging report, pointing clearly to a vigorous recovery.
IAN SHEPHERDSON We remain relatively optimistic about the housing market, but we do accept that activity fell sharpl...
IAN SHEPHERDSON [The switch is] presumably to squash speculation that they are embarking on a new sequence of rate c...
IAN SHEPHERDSON Claims fell because the initial wave of job losses after Sept. 11th is fading.
IAN SHEPHERDSON Overall, still quite strong, but a bit disconcerting nonetheless.
IAN SHEPHERDSON Once rebuilding gets underway in earnest in the Gulf Coast, we expect much stronger construction num...
IAN SHEPHERDSON The gains were uneven, however, with small declines in clothing and electronics, a decent 0.7 percen...
IAN SHEPHERDSON We fully expect sentiment to drop sharply, putting in place the conditions for much softer consumer ...
IAN SHEPHERDSON This may mark the start of an upturn in exports, but it's too soon to be sure.
IAN SHEPHERDSON This increase reflects the upturn in the markets in recent weeks; any further gain in the near-term ...
IAN SHEPHERDSON This is a welcome surprise; the trend in claims in recent weeks has been strongly upwards.
IAN SHEPHERDSON The response, so far, has been phenomenal, and we've booked really big quantities of the pieces.
JANE SHEPHERDSON Fashion is very cyclical, and there's always been a huge demand for retro. It's nice to go back dire...
JANE SHEPHERDSON The design team and I had been discussing how fantastic we thought Celia was. When her agent approac...
JANE SHEPHERDSON A book tour is not a good opportunity to let your mind wander. You have to pay attention, remember s...
IAN FRAZIER Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.
IAN FLEMING There is something magical about three you know - a trio is tight and nicely economical.
IAN WILLIAMS Seventy years old! How did that happen? I was part of the generation that wasn't going to die.
IAN MCSHANE Training a puppy is like raising a child. Every single interaction is a training opportunity.
IAN DUNBAR Once you're halfway home, you know that you can probably get the rest of the way there.
JANIS IAN I'm still swimming.
IAN THORPE For myself, losing is not coming second. It's getting out of the water knowing you could have do...
IAN THORPE I've enjoyed training again, I've enjoyed pushing myself in the pool and I'll keep on sw...
IAN THORPE Maybe one of the only things I do well: I cook like a maniac! I would be a chef if I weren't an ...
IAN SOMERHALDER I don't ever want anything to come in the way of me truthfully telling a story.
IAN SOMERHALDER You spend enough time on set as an actor and it's great when a director was at some point an act...
IAN SOMERHALDER The coming together of like-minded individuals through action is what's needed to see wide sprea...
IAN SOMERHALDER I don't know how to do anything else other than be an actor. If I wasn't in this, I would be...
IAN SOMERHALDER Kids are meeting in coffee shops and basements figuring out what's unsustainable in their commun...
IAN SOMERHALDER They say the way to a man's heart is through his stomach. It's the same way with women... or...
IAN SOMERHALDER Oceans are one of the most important things in the world now and that is a national security threat ...
IAN SOMERHALDER I can't let time move on without fighting tooth and nail and hopefully being a part of a revolut...
IAN SOMERHALDER Every love story needs a catalyst of some sort.
IAN SOMERHALDER I don't care how hot a girl is - if she doesn't like animals, it would be a major, major pro...
IAN SOMERHALDER I've sorta learned that I'm so tired of taking myself so seriously. It's so great to sho...
IAN SOMERHALDER A lot of things that happen in the world make me a bit crazy.
IAN SOMERHALDER You can't get anywhere without the people who have come into your life.
IAN SOMERHALDER There are always decades that interest people. For me, that's the Roaring Twenties.
IAN SOMERHALDER I always try to be reasonable and effective.
IAN SMITH Every human being makes mistakes.
IAN SMITH Declaring independence was the most traumatic decision I had to live up to. Because I didn't wan...
IAN SMITH Freedom. And Justice. If you have those two, it covers everything. You must stick to those principle...
IAN SMITH Status based on wealth is an old-fashioned idea; I find it repugnant, actually.
IAN SCHRAGER My best vacation was renting a boat and motoring along the Adriatic, going along the Croatian coast,...
IAN SCHRAGER I have to be more universal than my projects, but no less innovative.
IAN SCHRAGER The trimmings of wealth are not as important to me and my generation as they were to my parents'...
IAN SCHRAGER I consider myself fortunate to have grown up in Brooklyn. It's what gave me my drive to succeed,...
IAN SCHRAGER Great ideas have no attachment to either money or class.
IAN SCHRAGER I'm not into nostalgia, and I only look back to find lessons.
IAN SCHRAGER Good design is good business.
IAN SCHRAGER People say you should go out at the top but I was enjoying my football so much. Robbie Fowler's ...
IAN RUSH I like the Stereophonics. I know the lead singer, Kelly Jones, and there's the Welsh connection.
IAN RUSH I just wanted to play as long as I could. When you stop playing, you're not going to get it back...
IAN RUSH I think great players can play in any year, that's why they're great. A lot of it is down to...
IAN RUSH I've done my coaching badges, I've got my Pro Licence, but I enjoy what I'm doing now. I...
IAN RUSH The only thing I can cook is Welsh rarebit.
IAN RUSH There are a lot of famous comedians from Liverpool, then obviously the Beatles, and the football clu...
IAN RUSH This is why cup finals are so special because on the day anyone can beat anyone. That's what it&...
IAN RUSH I was so shy when I was younger. When I first went to Liverpool I didn't say a word for a year.
IAN RUSH You can enjoy yourself, but you need to look after yourself as well.
IAN RUSH It's different from Liverpool. Boston seems to be a friendly place.
IAN RUSH I love horse racing, I play golf, and I love travelling.
IAN RUSH Mainly it's the parents who remember me. But the kids today, what they do is go and Google you. ...
IAN RUSH Moving from Wales to Italy is like moving to a different country.
IAN RUSH I've got a place in Portugal, which I like very much, but I've just been working in Malaysia...
IAN RUSH I couldn't settle in Italy - it was like living in a foreign country.
IAN RUSH In India, kids need someone to look up to. They've got it in cricket: they have Tendulkar and ot...
IAN RUSH You've got to have a dream... if you don't have any big dreams, nothing happens.
IAN RUSH I don't have many friends. It's not because I'm a misanthrope. It's because I'm ...
IAN RANKIN A lot of writers, especially crime writers, have an image that we think we're trying to keep up ...
IAN RANKIN Right from the very beginning, I knew I wanted to write palpably Scottish fiction.
IAN RANKIN No matter how many awards you've won or how many sales you've got, come the next book it'...
IAN RANKIN My first novel was turned down by half a dozen publishers. And even after having published five or s...
IAN RANKIN You need a great idea, but then you've got to carry it through. If you get it right, you're ...
IAN RANKIN I wrote my first short story for a competition and won second prize. Another competition came up and...
IAN RANKIN I'm often asked how I write books, but I don't think my approach is suitable for everyone. I...
IAN RANKIN The most difficult part of any crime novel is the plotting. It all begins simply enough, but soon yo...
IAN RANKIN I'm interested in Scotland now and then, how it's changed. I want to get the reader to think...
IAN RANKIN I think writers have to be proactive: they've got to use new technology and social media. Yes, i...
IAN RANKIN At all times, think like a writer, and keep those antennae twitching - that way, you pick up new ide...
IAN RANKIN I've always written. At the age of six or seven, I would get sheets of A4 paper and fold them in...
IAN RANKIN I remember back in the early '70s, when I had a disastrous Grand Prix, my wife, Lynn, said to me...
IAN MILLAR It's always a thrill to wear the flag and ride for Canada in any competition, but especially the...
IAN MILLAR I would never want to be selected to a team just because I am going to set a record. It's critic...
IAN MILLAR I work out every morning for an hour while in front of the news channel or business channels, then I...
IAN MILLAR When we train a horse to do a certain job, we're training the horse to be like a soldier, and ye...
IAN MILLAR The minute I put my leg on a horse and say, 'Come on, let's go,' I absolutely believe th...
IAN MILLAR Obviously, as you get a little older, you are not going to be quite as quick or quite as strong, and...
IAN MILLAR If you persevere long enough, if you do the right things long enough, the right things will happen.
IAN MILLAR I come from the liberal side of thinking: Better one guilty man should walk free than one innocent m...
IAN MCSHANE Blackbeard is probably the most infamous pirate who ever lived. He's one of those characters for...
IAN MCSHANE Mum and Dad were both happy for me to do what I wanted.
IAN MCSHANE People tweet before they think, and it becomes obsessive.
IAN MCSHANE Acting is great therapy - you get to do things you'd normally get arrested for.
IAN MCSHANE My daughter said, 'I don't think granddad really suits you.'
IAN MCSHANE The bad boys get all the best lines.
IAN MCSHANE When you're in your early 20s, you go ahead and do everything. And it's very hard to judge y...
IAN MCSHANE Bosses will tell you they are looking for something different but they're not, actually.
IAN MCSHANE I mean, I'm an actor. I do what comes along.
IAN MCSHANE Acting's boring.
IAN MCSHANE I think the reason 'Sexy Beast' was so good was it wasn't just another run-of-the-mill g...
IAN MCSHANE I had a bit of a male menopause. It started at the age of 18 and continued until I was 45.
IAN MCSHANE My second marriage was to a girl I met in Manchester, kept a long-distance relationship going for tw...
IAN MCSHANE Every actor has to love and loathe the character he plays.
IAN MCSHANE If I'd had the choice when I was 14, and someone had said to me, 'You can either be a footba...
IAN MCSHANE You set paths for yourself, but as you get older, things change.
IAN MCSHANE There's only two kinds of actors - good ones and bad ones... and lucky ones and unlucky ones.
IAN MCSHANE You don't particularly want to stay close to your ex-wife. Or why would she be your ex-wife?
IAN MCSHANE When you're doing a medieval show like 'Pillars,' it starts off a bit like a school play...
IAN MCSHANE I'm from the disco era where everybody thought they were John Travolta... What song is going to ...
IAN MCSHANE What you do is, you just do the gig, enjoy, get on with it, and treat the rest as horse doodle.
IAN MCSHANE My dad was a football player - a soccer player - for Manchester United, and I loved playing football...
IAN MCSHANE It's tough to be 68 and dating. I've given it up now.
IAN MCLAGAN I only seem to date younger women.
IAN MCLAGAN The Small Faces are thought to be a one-hit wonder in America because we only had 'Itchycoo Park...
IAN MCLAGAN The Small Faces was such a different band than the Faces. I know three of us are the same, but when ...
IAN MCLAGAN When I joined Small Faces, we occasionally would bump into The Who. And Keith Moon and I became firm...
IAN MCLAGAN Small Faces were really a soul band as far as we were concerned. That's what we listened to; tha...
IAN MCLAGAN We had something very special in the Faces. We were blessed to have the fun we had.
IAN MCLAGAN I am so blessed that all I've done in my professional life, since I was 17-18, is play music and...
IAN MCLAGAN What I do for migraines when I get them, I listen to classical music, and I turn it up really loud.
IAN MCLAGAN You don't stop thinking about women just because your wife dies. It's terrible, but you know...
IAN MCLAGAN I loved rock and roll when that came in, Bill Haley, Little Richard, Fats Domino, Buddy Holly, Elvis...
IAN MCLAGAN Until I came out, my acting was all about disguise, and thereafter it became about telling the truth...
IAN MCKELLEN You always think that 70 is the end of the road: 'Somebody died when they were 73; good life'...
IAN MCKELLEN What's upsetting about an autobiography is that the final chapter is always missing. I mean, you...
IAN MCKELLEN Godot is whatever it is in life that you are waiting for: 'I'm waiting to win the lottery. I...
IAN MCKELLEN I tend to discourage people from calling me 'Sir Ian,' because I don't like being separa...
IAN MCKELLEN I think the point to be understood is that we're all different. I've never been a fan of the...
IAN MCKELLEN If I was on a march at the moment I would be saying to everyone: 'Be honest with each other. Adm...
IAN MCKELLEN I love the Broadway audiences, who relish live drama and don't hesitate to display their enthusi...
IAN MCKELLEN Personally, coming out was one of the most important things I've ever done, lifting from my shou...
IAN MCKELLEN It's only fair that stable gay relationships of long standing should have the same rights and re...
IAN MCKELLEN I have little routines in the theater. Once I've established something, like the order of puttin...
IAN MCKELLEN There is a fantasy as old as the modern gay rights movement that if all our skins turned lavender ov...
IAN MCKELLEN You mustn't upstage the bride.
IAN MCKELLEN What I particularly like about Broadway is the camaraderie and the friendship of other people in oth...
IAN MCKELLEN So it's joyful to me, in my 71st year, to be able to be in a play that is absolutely right for m...
IAN MCKELLEN I like sleeping a lot.
IAN MCKELLEN Shakespeare's villains are fabulous because none of them know that they are villains. Well, some...
IAN MCKELLEN My friends are my family.
IAN MCKELLEN I headed out to have a breather at the stage door, dressed in my tramp costume. I had my bowler hat ...
IAN MCKELLEN Try and understand what part you have to play in the world in which you live. There's more to li...
IAN MCKELLEN I've often thought the Bible should have a disclaimer in the front saying, 'This is fiction....
IAN MCKELLEN I usually eat in my friend Tom Corcoran's place - the Siam Thai in Monkstown. I go there for a v...
IAN MCKEEVER I have never had the money to make too many large purchases.
IAN MCKEEVER I don't spend a lot on holidays, but have been very fortunate to travel extensively through doin...
IAN MCKEEVER I don't hold grudges.
IAN MCEWAN The end of secrecy would be the end of the novel - especially the English novel. The English novel r...
IAN MCEWAN The best way to tell people about climate change is through non-fiction. There's a vast literatu...
IAN MCEWAN It's good to get your hands dirty a bit and to test how you see things at a given point. And it&...
IAN MCEWAN I've yet to meet somebody who said, 'Your stories are so revolting I couldn't read them....
IAN MCEWAN Atheists have as much conscience, possibly more, than people with deep religious conviction, and the...
IAN MCEWAN It should simply be an empirical matter whether the climate is changing or not and whether we're...
IAN MCEWAN Reading reviews makes you thin-skinned. It's like waves washing layers off your skin.
IAN MCEWAN Not being boring is quite a challenge.
IAN MCEWAN One has to have the courage of one's pessimism.
IAN MCEWAN I apologize for being obvious, but every time I watch the curtain come down on even a halfway decent...
IAN MCEWAN I was an intimate sort of child who never spoke up in groups. I preferred close friends.
IAN MCEWAN What I've discovered and really confirmed to myself is that opera really likes loud colours, and...
IAN MCEWAN I want to live in a place where strangers rush to help someone in distress.
IAN MCEWAN You can spin stories out of the ways people understand and misunderstand each other.
IAN MCEWAN I wouldn't mind being the lead guitarist in an incredibly successful rock band. However, I don&#...
IAN MCEWAN One important theme is the extent to which one can ever correct an error, especially outside any fra...
IAN MCEWAN True intelligence requires fabulous imagination.
IAN MCEWAN But he did say that the character would be on the sidelines in movies One and Two, and move into the...
IAN MCDIARMID For me it's even more interesting, because my character comes out of the shadow. It's a chan...
IAN MCDIARMID I suppose it's easy to play a hypocritical politician with a smiling face; it's also quite g...
IAN MCDIARMID I'm the blackest villain of all time.
IAN MCDIARMID The part that I think is one of the most interesting is of course the one that Hayden Christensen pl...
IAN MCDIARMID If you got the DVD you can see that George Lucas has taken that person out, as well as the voice, an...
IAN MCDIARMID That's the mark of a great storyteller, never to give away secrets in advance.
IAN MCDIARMID There were a number of people who helped me get there, and the one I always mention is Michael Byrne...
IAN MCDIARMID To start your life as a character of 120 years when you are in your late thirties, and then go back ...
IAN MCDIARMID When George asked me to be the prequels, it was the same kind of meeting - it was very short and to ...
IAN MCDIARMID And also, it's sort of my job to make you believe things about him that aren't true about me...
IAN MCDIARMID Consistency is very important when you're making films.
IAN MCDIARMID