Kingsley Amis Quotes
With some exceptions in science fiction and other genres I have small difficulty in avoiding anything that could be called American literature. I feel it is unnatural, not I think entirely because it uses a language that is not mine, however closely akin to my own.
Kingsley Amis
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There is no 20-year period in American history when stocks lost money.
P. J. O'Rourke
I was that weird eight-year-old who was really interested in Shakespeare and understood it and appreciated the language.
Zendaya
After Brown, I went to Duke, to a Ph.D. program in American literature. My dad's an English professor. After a year there, I was like, 'Jesus. I don't want to do this. I don't want to be in the library.' So I pulled the ripcord, and that was it.
Nathaniel Philbrick
Although by 1851 tales of adventure had begun to seem antiquated, they had rendered a large service to the course of literature: they had removed the stigma, for the most part, from the word novel.
Carl Clinton Van Doren
The key battleground in the war on terrorism, therefore, is in the minds of the American public.
Patrick J. Kennedy
I've always loved science fiction. I think the smartest writers are science fiction writers dealing with major things.
Walter Mosley
I remember how my world expanded in amazing fashion by that magical operation of translating words into images, and images into stories.
Mario Vargas Llosa
Years ago nobody was elected on the economic ticket. It was either the education platform, or it was health or it was other issues. It is only recently that economic values have superceded every other human value.
Anita Roddick
People get on a show and they fought tooth and nail. Almost 95% of the actors out there want to be on a television series. Then as soon as they get onto one, no, no, I want to be a movie star. This television series stuff, no, no no.
Victoria Pratt
One of the most amazing locations I've ever been is the top of the volcano in Tanzania, Africa. It's an actual volcano where you really have this lava every day.
Jan de Bont
What I do for exercise sort of depends on what's happening in the rest of my life.
Cynthia Nixon
With some exceptions in science fiction and other genres I have small difficulty in avoiding anything that could be called American literature. I feel it is unnatural, not I think entirely because it uses a language that is not mine, however closely akin to my own.
Kingsley Amis
