Martin Amis Quotes

No novel has ever changed anything, as far as I can see.

Martin Amis

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• Be prepared, work hard, and hope for a little luck. Recognize that the harder you work and the better prepared you are, the more luck you might have.

  

  Ed Bradley
  • Work
  • Hope
  • Luck

• I like to dress up every day, so I think fashion is an everyday process.

  

  Karisma Kapoor
  • Up
  • Day
  • Fashion

• I never had a policy about marriage. I got married very young in life and I always think in all relationships, I've always thought that it's counterproductive to have a theory on that.

  

  Jack Nicholson
  • Life
  • Marriage
  • Thought

• Focus comes a lot more easily when you desperately want the results of your own work - nobody else is going to do it for you.

  

  Palmer Luckey
  • Work
  • Want
  • Focus

• Anniversaries are like birthdays: occasions to celebrate and to think ahead, usually among friends with whom one shares not only the past but also the future.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • Friends
  • Future
  • Past

• I love doing sitcoms. I love doing comedy. I love the whole shooting match.

  

  Rachael Harris
  • Love
  • Comedy
  • Doing

• I wouldn't mind at all coming back to earth after my death.

  

  Edith Piaf
  • Mind
  • Death
  • Earth

• The strangest thing about the low quality of Internet argument is that effective argument isn't really so difficult. Sure, not everyone can be Clarence Darrow, but anyone who wants to be at least competent at argument can do it.

  

  Barry Eisler
  • Quality
  • Argument
  • Effective

• Young writers should definitely research the current sounds and styles.

  

  Lamont Dozier
  • Young
  • Research
  • Sounds

• The original home of the Aryan race appears to have been somewhere among the mountains and lofty table-lands of Central Asia. The word 'Arya,' meaning the high or the excellent, indicates their superiority over the neighboring races long before the beginning of history.

  

  Bayard Taylor
  • Long
  • Home
  • History

• Jewelry and pins have been worn throughout history as symbols of power, sending messages. Interestingly enough, it was mostly men who wore the jewelry in various times, and obviously crowns were part of signals that were being sent throughout history by people of rank.

  

  Madeleine Albright
  • People
  • Men
  • Power

• A lot of the songs start with an image. I was sitting there playing the guitar and I pictured this old, dirty green car, with the window rolled down, in the hot, hot, hot Texas heat, and this beautiful woman I knew when I was a kid sitting behind the wheel, looking out at me.

  

  Edie Brickell
  • Beautiful
  • Car
  • Green

• I feel like every woman is a queen, and we should be treated as such, and we should, you know, sort of request that sort of treatment from others.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Know
  • Woman
  • Queen

• It's been President Clinton's dream that we'll have finally a fully integrated Europe.

  

  Warren Christopher
  • Dream
  • President
  • Europe

• Thus our duties to animals are indirectly duties to humanity.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Humanity

• No root, no fruit.

  

  Utah Phillips

• We have assembled inside this ancient & insane theatre To propagate our lust for life & flee the swarming wisdom of the streets

  

  Jim Morrison The Doors
  • Life
  • Wisdom
  • Theatre

• Like all real treasures of the mind, perception can be split into infinitely small fractions without losing its quality. The weeds in a city lot convey the same lesson as the redwoods; the farmer may see in his cow-pasture what may not be vouchsafed to the scientist adventuring in the South Seas.

  

  Aldo Leopold
  • Mind
  • Real
  • May

• I think the Left doesn't know how to be a tribe in the way the Right does. The Left is very cannibalistic. It eats its own.

  

  Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

• Unfortunately, I used to play in goal, and I broke my hand. Two fingers. The ball hit me and bent my fingers back. I used to play every Sunday. I was quite competitive.

  

  John Rocha
  • Hand
  • Sunday

• Flair was a tricky guy to work with when I worked with Ric. When he was champion, we had much better matches, and the moment the title got switched, we seemed to screw up my match every night.

  

  Bret Hart
  • Work
  • Champion
  • Match

• My house was full of music. My main memories are of the record player at home: it was all Beatles and Rolling Stones, and we danced around the living room; that started me off on instruments, and I've done nothing else ever since.

  

  Steven Price
  • Music
  • House
  • Memories

• They think so small, they use small words. But not me, I'm smarter than that, I've worked it out. I'm stretching my mouth to let those big words come on out.

  

  Peter Gabriel Genesis
  • Thinking
  • Words
  • Small

• No novel has ever changed anything, as far as I can see.

  

  Martin Amis