Top 25 Quotes by Jonathan Raban

About Jonathan Raban

These are some quotes by British author Jonathan Raban Author, who was born on June 14, 1942.

Seattle was built out on pilings over the sea, and at high tide the whole city seemed to come afloat like a ship lifting free from a mud berth and swaying in its chains.

Seattle was built out on pilings over the sea, and at high tide the whole city seemed to come afloat like a ship lifting free from a mud berth and swaying in its chains.

Jonathan Raban

Over emphatic negatives always suggest that what is being denied may be what is really being asserted.

Over emphatic negatives always suggest that what is being denied may be what is really being asserted.

Jonathan Raban

Inaugurals conventionally start with a history lesson and finish with a prayer.

Inaugurals conventionally start with a history lesson and finish with a prayer.

Jonathan Raban

Interstate highways dull the reality of place and distance almost as effectively as jetliners do: I loathe their scary monotony.

Interstate highways dull the reality of place and distance almost as effectively as jetliners do: I loathe their scary monotony.

Jonathan Raban

By the end of the 1980s, Seattle had taken on the dangerous lustre of a promised city. The rumour had gone out that if you had failed in Detroit you might yet succeed in Seattle - and that if you'd succeeded in Seoul, you could succeed even better in Seattle... Seattle was the coming place. So I joined the line of hopefuls.

Jonathan Raban

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