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.

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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
  • Young
  • Finish
  • Craft

• Indeed the three prophecies about the death of individual art are, in their different ways, those of Hegel, Marx, and Freud. I don't see any way of getting beyond those prophecies.

  

  Harold Bloom
  • Different
  • Art
  • Death

• Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, And men below, and saints above: For love is heaven, and heaven is love.

  

  Walter Scott
  • Men
  • Love
  • Heaven

• 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
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Media

• I played small forward on the basketball team. I also ran the 300 hurdles.

  

  Gabriel Luna
  • Small
  • Team
  • Basketball

• All people, regardless of whether they're athletes or not, should treat people the way they want to be treated.

  

  Walter Payton
  • People
  • Want
  • Treat

• Poetry comes alive to me through recitation.

  

  Natalie Merchant
  • Me
  • Poetry
  • Comes

• 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
  • People
  • Book
  • Sun

• Is it not in the most absolute simplicity that real genius plies its pinions the most wonderfully?

  

  E. T. A. Hoffmann
  • Real
  • Genius
  • Simplicity

• 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
  • Truth
  • History
  • Story

• I am just reflecting the times. I can't ignore them.

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • Ignore
  • Times
  • Reflecting

• One of the most interesting social trends of the past 20 years is the rise of residential segregation. So rich are living with rich and poor are living with poor.

  

  J. D. Vance
  • Past
  • Interesting
  • Rich

• I try to look at people like Adele and Norah Jones, who are very successful but don't have to deal with scandals.

  

  Yuna
  • People
  • Look
  • Successful

• 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
  • Long
  • May
  • Law

• Reality is the leading cause of stress for those in touch with it.

  

  Jack Wagner
  • Reality
  • Stress
  • Touch

• Islam has a proud tradition of tolerance.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Proud
  • Tolerance

• Ambiguity lurks in generality and may thus become an instrument of severity.

  

  Felix Frankfurter
  • May

• 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
  • Time
  • Great
  • She

• The most important thing to do as an artist is to get out of your comfort zone and work with different people: people who can't read a note of music, people who have incredible classical skills, blues and jazz musicians, pop artists, visual artists, dancers and actors. Learn from people who are creative in a different way to you and you'll keep evolving.

  

  Katie Noonan
  • People
  • Different
  • Important

• My goal is: I'm not trying to be snobby, but my clothes are not for everyone, not for every Hollywood celebrity. There is a designer for everyone, and a celebrity for every designer.

  

  Prabal Gurung
  • Trying
  • Celebrity

• Composers, artists, actors, singers - all of them, I think, unconsciously learn from others. I'm sure it's not conscious, but they can't help it.

  

  Charlotte Rae
  • Help

• Fashion is about what you look like, which translates to what you would like to be like.

  

  Jean Paul Gaultier
  • Fashion

• The important thing about any book is that you have to have a good story and that it has to be exciting. Then it's nice to add other levels underneath that people can pick up on.

  

  Jonathan Stroud
  • People
  • Up
  • Good

• '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