Martin Amis Quotes

By calling him humourless I mean to impugn his seriousness, categorically: such a man must rig up his probity ex nihilo.

Martin Amis

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My second-grade teacher went around the class and asked everybody what they were going to be when they grew up. I said, 'I want to travel the world,' and he said, 'You'll be married and pregnant by 21, just like all the girls in this room.'

Brown Campbell
- Up
- World
- Travel
Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are inevitably ruined.

Patrick Henry
- Up
- Freedom
- Attention
I acted at school but got very bad parts - things that they'd made up in Shakespeare plays like 'Guard 17' - so I wrote plays and gave myself parts, then I wrote sketches, then I did stand-up. Even in the school nativity I was the emu in the manger.

Jack Whitehall
- Up
- School
- Bad
Growing up in a small town gives you two things: a sense of place and a feeling of self-consciousness - self-consciousness about one's education and exposure, both of which tend to be limited. On the other hand, limited possibilities also mean creating your own options.

E. L. Konigsburg
- Up
- Feeling
- Small
When I'm home on a break, I lock myself in my room and play guitar. After two or three hours, I start getting into this total meditation. It's a feeling few people experience, and that's usually when I come up with weird stuff. It just flows. I can't force myself. I don't sit down and say I've got to practice.

Eddie Van Halen Van Halen
- People
- Up
- Home
I've experienced poverty and plenty, and there's a lesson to be learned when you're brought up in poverty.

S. Truett Cathy
- Up
- You
- Poverty