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
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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
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
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
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
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
I try to look at people like Adele and Norah Jones, who are very successful but don't have to deal with scandals.
Yuna
Poets are the mad midwives to reality. They see not what is, nor what can be, but what must become.'
Dan Simmons
I believe there's a huge conflict of interest when local prosecutors investigate cases of police violence within their own communities.
Franchesca Ramsey
to argue according to rigorous rational criteria is to guarantee that the results attained are universally valid.
Pope John Paul II
I'd love to win Wimbledon.
Jamie Murray
Truly, learning appears to be a reverse geometric progression with experiences at one hour, one day, one month or one year dramatically more influential and formative than later experiences. As has often been quoted, 85% of brain development takes place by age 3, and yet we spend only 4% of our educational dollars by that point.
George Kaiser
'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
