Martin Amis Quotes
Is there any good reason why we cannot extend our multi-cultural generosity to include another dimension? That of time. The past, too, is another country. Its ghosts may look strange and frightening and slightly misshapen in body and mind, but all the more reason then, to welcome them to our shores.
Martin Amis
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Sweden is a small country, and a Swedish writer can barely make a living as an author. We were able to quit our jobs as journalists only after we had been translated into, among others, German.
Maj Sjowall
To write a good mystery you have to know where it will end before you can decide where it will begin... and I've always known where it will end.
D. J. MacHale
Are we to paint what's on the face, what's inside the face, or what's behind it?
Pablo Picasso
The American grips himself, at the very sources of his consciousness, in a grip of care: and then, to so much of the rest of life, is indifferent. Whereas, the European hasn't got so much care in him, so he cares much more for life and living.
D. H. Lawrence
I am not a person to be pressured - by anybody or any nation.
Indira Gandhi
I pass by that it is very culpable to be facetious in obscene and smutty matters.
Isaac Barrow
People figure because I'm blonde and was a model, I just waltzed into Los Angeles and got major roles in major films.
Monica Potter
I'm very much a hypochondriac, worried about dying, and not having enough time to work with the people I want to work with and being fulfilled as an actor.
Xavier Dolan
I've always thought that it's good to watch the news to find out what everybody else is looking at and believing, if only because that's how consensus is constructed.
Barbara Kruger
I'm amazed at the amount of time people spend on the Internet.
J. I. Packer
The last fact which knowledge can discover is that the world is a manifestation, and in every way a puzzling manifestation, of the universal will to live.
Albert Schweitzer
Is there any good reason why we cannot extend our multi-cultural generosity to include another dimension? That of time. The past, too, is another country. Its ghosts may look strange and frightening and slightly misshapen in body and mind, but all the more reason then, to welcome them to our shores.
Martin Amis