Martin Amis Quotes
'Einstein's Monsters,' by the way, refers to nuclear weapons, but also to ourselves. We are Einstein's monsters, not fully human, not for now.Martin Amis
Quotes to Explore
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When you are young, hone your craft and write shorter pieces instead of novels, because it's really hard to finish a novel.
Laini Taylor -
Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, And men below, and saints above: For love is heaven, and heaven is love.
Walter Scott -
I don't think the media circus has ever been a shock to my life seeing as I was with Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor when I was 17.
Francesca Annis -
I played small forward on the basketball team. I also ran the 300 hurdles.
Gabriel Luna -
Poetry comes alive to me through recitation.
Natalie Merchant -
Typically, a book is published and gets one season in the sun. Eventually, you write another book, and maybe your old books get a bump, but my books seem to keep being discovered and recommended to new people of all ages.
Raina Telgemeier
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Is it not in the most absolute simplicity that real genius plies its pinions the most wonderfully?
E. T. A. Hoffmann -
Story and plot, not historical facts, are the engine of a novel, but I was committed to working through the grain of actual history and coming to something, an overall effect, which approximated truth.
Rachel Kushner -
I am just reflecting the times. I can't ignore them.
Sam Taylor-Johnson -
I try to look at people like Adele and Norah Jones, who are very successful but don't have to deal with scandals.
Yuna -
When we violate the law ourselves, whatever short-term advantage may be gained, we are obviously encouraging others to violate the law; we thus encourage disorder and instability and thereby do incalculable damage to our own long-term interests.
J. William Fulbright -
Reality is the leading cause of stress for those in touch with it.
Jack Wagner
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Islam has a proud tradition of tolerance.
Barack Obama -
Ambiguity lurks in generality and may thus become an instrument of severity.
Felix Frankfurter -
Favoritism, elitism, leader-worship, they crept back and cropped out everywhere. But she had never hoped to see them eradicated in her lifetime, in one generation; only Time works the great changes.
Ursula K. Le Guin -
Salutations
E. B. White -
Poets are the mad midwives to reality. They see not what is, nor what can be, but what must become.'
Dan Simmons -
She waited for him to explain a universe in which there was so much injustice.
Larry Niven
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I love the French horn.
Vanessa Williams -
The Wanderlust has got me... by the belly-aching fire
Robert W. Service -
I ride horses, I love horses, I've owned horses.
Pierce Brosnan -
Truth is always in danger of being sacrificed on the altars of good taste and social stability.
William Sloane Coffin -
'Einstein's Monsters,' by the way, refers to nuclear weapons, but also to ourselves. We are Einstein's monsters, not fully human, not for now.
Martin Amis