Martin Amis Quotes

Like fundamentalist Judaism and medieval Christianity, Islam is totalist. That is to say, it makes a total claim on the individual.

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• Now is the only thing that exists.

  

  Dan Fogelberg
  • Now
  • Only
  • The Only Thing

• We're at maybe 1% of what is possible. Despite the faster change, we're still moving slow relative to the opportunities we have. I think a lot of that is because of the negativity... Every story I read is Google vs someone else. That's boring. We should be focusing on building the things that don't exist.

  

  Larry Page
  • Change
  • Moving
  • Opportunities

• I'm always surprised when an actor goes so deeply into the truth that they shake you to your core.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • Truth
  • You
  • Actor

• If we meet an honest and intelligent politician, a dozen, a hundred, we say they aren't like politicians at all, and our category of politicians stays unchanged; we know what politicians are like.

  

  Randall Jarrell
  • Know
  • Intelligent
  • Say

• Conscience is the inner voice that warns us that someone might be looking.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Voice
  • Looking
  • Conscience

• Believe in something larger than yourself... get involved in the big ideas of your time.

  

  Barbara Bush
  • Time
  • Believe
  • Yourself

• As a race, the Negroes are not lazy.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • Race
  • Lazy
  • Negroes

• People like to hear me say, 'You love me, Chandler Bing. You just don't know you love me.'

  

  Maggie Wheeler
  • People
  • Know
  • Like

• The man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure.

  

  B. C. Forbes
  • Man
  • Failure
  • Cost

• Read. Read. Read. Just don't read one type of book. Read different books by various authors so that you develop different styles.

  

  R. L. Stine
  • Different
  • Book
  • You

• The question I ask myself when adapting a book is how do I be true to the spirit and soul of the character? How would I describe this character in my medium? If you asked one person to do a painting of something and another to create a sculpture of it, you'll never ask, 'Why doesn't the painting look like the sculpture?'

  

  Gavin Hood
  • Why
  • Character
  • Book

• The little kids in the stands are going to give you a good cheer. Sometimes, that overrides the other people.

  

  Patrick Kane
  • People
  • Good
  • Kids

• If people have done something wrong then they should be held accountable.

  

  Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa
  • People
  • Done
  • Wrong

• I played without fear. I've done that since I first kicked a ball in my back garden as a five-year-old, whether it's been my first game, my 100th game, or my 500th game.

  

  Eden Hazard
  • Done
  • Game
  • Fear

• It is the hopeful, buoyant, cheerful attitude of mind that wins. Optimism is a success builder; pessimism an achievement killer.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Mind
  • Success
  • Attitude

• I lived a very isolated life. When you start at 20, you have a lot of nonsense to work out of your system.

  

  Edie Sedgwick
  • Life
  • Work
  • Start

• Women should not be forced to accept sexual harassment as the price of admission to a life and career in the political world. They should not have to endure unwanted touching, innuendo, and propositioning from men in positions of power.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • Life
  • World
  • Men

• Can desire grow out of admiration, or are the two quite distinct species? What would it be like to lie side by side, naked, breast to breast, with a woman one principally admires?

  

  J. M. Coetzee
  • Desire

• When I was eight, my piano teacher played seven or eight notes, and I sang them. She stopped and looked at me in shock! That was the first time I'd gotten that reaction. I'd had looks of horror, but never shock in a positive way.

  

  Chris Cornell Soundgarden
  • Time
  • She
  • Positive

• For me, I was a musician long before I was an actor.

  

  Steve Kazee
  • Actor
  • Musician
  • Before

• Reality is harsh. It can be cruel and ugly. Yet no matter how much we grieve over our environment and circumstances nothing will change. What is important is not to be defeated, to forge ahead bravely. If we do this, a path will open before us.

  

  Daisaku Ikeda
  • Important
  • Reality
  • Environment

• If we're going to live as we are in a world of supply and demand, then journalists had better find a way to create a demand for good journalism.

  

  Bill Kovach
  • Create
  • Demand
  • Journalists

• Law of Attraction abounds, and when it is said to you, 'Ask, and it is given,' there is no more powerful statement that is at the basis of what makes things happen than that. Now, how is it that you think you ask? With your words? The Universe doesn't hear your words. You ask with your desire. The desire that is born out of the contrast. That desire. That wanting. That's what summons the Life Force.

  

  Esther Hicks
  • Desire
  • Universe
  • Powerful

• Like fundamentalist Judaism and medieval Christianity, Islam is totalist. That is to say, it makes a total claim on the individual.

  

  Martin Amis