Martin Amis Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
I always say that I am a big fan of films but I am an even bigger fan of the filmmaking craft.
-
I've called myself the Pied Piper, I've called myself the Weatherman, I've called myself Kellz, I've called myself a lot of things, changing the name, switching it up, just flipping, remixing. But never to harm anybody. Never to make a deep statement for people to dig into and figure it out.
-
I wish there was a painter who could paint as well as Ted Williams could hit.
-
My manager's biggest dream is for me to be on Letterman. She says, 'Oh, Maggie, will you promise me you'll be on 'Letterman?' What can I say? I just tell her I can't promise, but I'll try my best.
-
Because the show is popular, people do recognize us on the streets.
-
The most successful Subway customers, of course, are the ones who can't keep their hands off their sandwich. Join your artist in the sandwich assembling process. That sneeze guard is a suggestion. That sneeze guard is trying to intimidate you into staying on the customer's side of the partition.
-
The taps with the bat on the spikes are one for my grandmother, one for my grandfather, one for my little sister. Then the one on the helmet is showing faith in God that I can do it.
-
And, of course, in the Philippines there were so many thousands of Americans that were captured by the Japanese and held and who were rescued by Filipino Americans, or Filipinos I should say, and by U.S. troops near the close of the war.
-
Archeology and ecology can go hand in hand.
-
I've always fought as a heavyweight, and I didn't see any reason to fight at a lighter weight.
-
My mother's nickname for me is 'Positive Patrick.' I like to live up to that title.
-
I love Yves Saint Laurent and Giambattista Valli and Givenchy, and I get given quite a lot, but perhaps nothing is as wonderful as the white fake leather trench coat I got when I was 15.
-
Children must be considered in a divorce considered valuable pawns in the nasty legal and financial contest that is about to ensue.
-
Give a talk to children and tell them dinosaurs didn't drag their tails, and you get arguments.
-
Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.
-
You don't have to be a rock star - if you don't like the situation you're in, you don't have to settle for it.
-
We talk about quantum weirdness and things being in two places at once, but it all involves atoms and molecules, stuff we don't normally interact with.
-
I'm always singing and dancing and getting up in people's faces.
-
The thing that is cool about my come up is that I dealt with fame and having money gradually. It didn't happen overnight. It was something that took a while to happen. It was something that humbled me and made me very appreciative of my blessings more than I would have been if it had happened faster and easier.
-
With a smaller setting, you have a lot more freedom and flexibility within a given moment, but not necessarily the velocity you have with a big band.
-
My view is that, just as in many businesses, brands really matter. There will always be a role for destination sites. Eighty million users come to our destination. I think that will be the vast majority of our future business.
-
I have a strong accent; it limits the roles, of course it does. I guess if I had moved to America a long time ago maybe my accent would have got less.
-
The doltish euphemism of conglomerate America.
