Martin Amis Quotes

Good sex is impossible to write about. Lawrence and Updike have given it their all, and the result is still uneasy and unsure. It may be that good sex is something fiction just can't do - like dreams. Most of the sex in my novels is absolutely disastrous. Sex can be funny, but not very sexy.

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• If it weren't for the Internet, WWE probably wouldn't even know my name. If I had to rely on 'Pro Wrestling Illustrated' to get my name out there, it would have been a much more difficult road.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • Road
  • Internet
  • Name

• I enjoy doing new tunes. It gives me a little bit to perk up, to pay a little bit more attention.

  

  Earl Scruggs
  • Attention
  • Enjoy
  • Pay

• One of the most important tools we have at the Small Business Administration (SBA) to reach high growth entrepreneurs is the Small Business Investment Company (SBIC) program.

  

  Karen Mills
  • Important
  • Business
  • High

• Wisdom is the abstract of the past, but beauty is the promise of the future.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
  • Future
  • Past
  • Wisdom

• Romance is a bird that will not sing in every bush, and love-affairs, however devoted the sentiments that inspire them, are often so business-like in the prudence with which they are conducted, that romance is reduced to a mere croaking or a disgusted silence.

  

  E. F. Benson
  • Business
  • Silence
  • Bird

• If I could gain 1,000 pounds and be healthy, I would love to do that.

  

  Fat Joe
  • Love
  • Healthy
  • Gain

• If everybody in this town connected with politics had to leave town because of chasing women and drinking, you would have no government.

  

  Barry Goldwater
  • Women
  • Government
  • Politics

• We try to guide with a light touch. Sometimes we can be helpful, and my goal with my team, both on the series side and on the film side, is that the collaboration should always be invited. In other words, we're not looking to impose our view on the filmmaker; we hire a storyteller because we love the story, and we love their ability to tell it.

  

  Ted Sarandos
  • Goal
  • Story
  • Helpful

• Color is born of the interpenetration of light and dark.

  

  Sam Francis
  • Light
  • Dark
  • Color

• The bad news motivated the drill instructors that much more.

  

  R. Lee Ermey
  • Bad
  • Motivated
  • News

• I don't throw my clothes out after one wear. Shocking, I know.

  

  Dakota Fanning
  • Know
  • Clothes
  • Throw

• I detest that saying 'Everything happens for a reason'; it's nonsense.

  

  Gary Kemp Spandau Ballet
  • Reason
  • Saying
  • Nonsense

• I've always wanted to work with dogs, so in high school, I worked at the Humane Society for a little while. I honestly think, even today, that would be the other career I would go into. Somehow I would be involved with animals.

  

  Maggie Lawson
  • Work
  • School
  • High

• It wouldn't bother me at all not to play on my own album.

  

  Walter Becker Steely Dan
  • Me
  • Play
  • Album

• The people who are the most successful in life are not stopped by fear.

  

  Iman
  • People
  • Life
  • Fear

• Thirdly, even if we assume that the world is governed by purpose, we need only add that this purpose - or, if there are several, at least one of them - is not especially intent on preventing suffering, whether it is indifferent to suffering or actually rejoices in it.

  

  Walter Kaufmann
  • World
  • Purpose
  • Suffering

• In the '70s, my playing was completely untutored, but it sounded good to me, and I tried to find ways to make those very simple things work in more ambitious contexts.

  

  Walter Becker Steely Dan
  • Good
  • Work
  • Simple

• In remembering the appalling suffering of war on both sides, we recognise how precious is the peace we have built in Europe since 1945.

  

  Queen Elizabeth II
  • War
  • Peace
  • Suffering

• To Bach, notes were not just sounds but the very stuff of creation.

  

  Leonard Bernstein

• As an actor, what you really want to do is communicate with people - this is my aim, my principle aim.

  

  Pierfrancesco Favino
  • People

• Ignore the ignorant.

  

  Ricky Martin
  • Ignore

• I like serving family-style or setting up a buffet. Everyone just goes to town, scoops their own food, and mixes their own drinks. You know how people love to come and watch you in the kitchen now and talk your ear off? If you give them something to do and something to drink, they don't do that as much.

  

  Chrissy Teigen
  • People
  • Up
  • Family

• The first time I went to New York, I met Alan Freed.

  

  Johnny Rivers
  • Time

• Good sex is impossible to write about. Lawrence and Updike have given it their all, and the result is still uneasy and unsure. It may be that good sex is something fiction just can't do - like dreams. Most of the sex in my novels is absolutely disastrous. Sex can be funny, but not very sexy.

  

  Martin Amis
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