Kingsley Amis Quotes

Women are really much nicer than men: No wonder we like them.

Kingsley Amis

• Men
• Women
• Wonder
• Nicer

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• Microcurrent devices are actually really good because they stimulate the muscles, but I'm not a big fan of injectables. You don't know what they'll do to your face in the long run.

  

  Tatjana Patitz
  • Good
  • Long
  • Know

• I've been traveling all over the world for 25 years, performing, talking to people, studying their cultures and musical instruments, and I always come away with more questions in my head than can be answered.

  

  Yo-Yo Ma
  • People
  • World
  • Questions

• Positive thinking will let you use the ability which you have, and that is awesome.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Thinking
  • You
  • Positive

• The clever cat eats cheese and breathes down rat holes with baited breath.

  

  W. C. Fields
  • Cat
  • Down
  • Clever

• I want to be a real artist to consumers. I want to be the real thing for them.

  

  Aaron Carter
  • Real
  • Want
  • Artist

• But I think we need the international market.

  

  Zhang Yimou
  • Think
  • Need
  • I Think

• He's this amazing ambassador for all superheroes. What we've made as a film not only examines that but is also an amazing adventure story. It's been an honor to work on. As a comic book fan, Superman is like the Rosetta Stone of all superheroes.

  

  Zack Snyder
  • Work
  • Book
  • Amazing

• A lot of recent comic book adaptations have gone two ways: either they're striving for some kind of realism, like 'Iron Man' or 'The Dark Knight,' or they're very stylised and gritty, like 'Sin City' and '300.'

  

  Edgar Wright
  • Book
  • Man
  • City

• And in fact I don't believe there is such a thing as a definitive picture of something. The land is a living, breathing thing and light changes its character every second of every day. That's why I love it so much.

  

  Fay Godwin
  • Believe
  • Love
  • Why

• There's the part of my life that the public and I share together. And there's the part that's mine to keep for myself. And that's mine. For me.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Life
  • Together
  • Myself

• I didn't really grow up playing video games. I had an original Nintendo after the original Nintendo was cool.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • Up
  • Cool
  • Grow Up

• There were a few teachers who just did not like me because of my face. Once, I was told to stand in the corner until I cheered up. The attitude was, 'Oh, for God's sake, what's the matter with him?' But it's just a natural expression.

  

  Jack Dee
  • Up
  • God
  • Attitude

• I'm not a huge soccer fan, but I follow the sport. I played in high school, a little bit in college, played on various club teams most of my life, and all three of my sons are competitive soccer players and far better than I ever was.

  

  Hampton Sides
  • Life
  • School
  • High

• If people continue to feel like Democrats are looking after poor folks and Republicans are looking after rich folks and nobody is looking after me, then we don't get a lot of stuff done. And the trend lines evidence the fact that folks have gotten squeezed. And obviously, 2007, 2008 really ripped open for people how vulnerable they were.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • Done
  • Me

• People come up to me in bars and on street corners and they say to me, 'Hey, Paulsen, have you got any change?'

  

  Pat Paulsen
  • People
  • Change
  • Say

• 'Twin Peaks' was incredibly slow, methodic, taking shots that were uncomfortably long, with a lot of scenes where there was barely any dialogue. 'Riverdale' has a much faster pace.

  

  Madchen Amick
  • Long
  • Dialogue
  • Twin

• My job is to create myself a career that I can go to sleep satisfied with what I'm doing.

  

  Kate del Castillo
  • Job
  • Career
  • Myself

• I'd also like to do a play. I've never done theater, and constantly changing and refining a performance is something I'd like to do, even though it may sound like work to some people - and it probably is work.

  Nastassja Kinski
  • People
  • Work
  • Done

• Knights of the Rosy Cross, they bore Its weight within the heart, but wore Without, devotion's sign in glistening ruby bright; The gall and vinegar they drank alone, But to the world at large would only own The wine of faith, sparkling with rosy light.

  

  Margaret Fuller
  • World
  • Heart
  • Faith

• God of peace, bring your peace to our violent world: peace in the hearts of all men and women and peace among the nations of the Earth.

  

  Pope Benedict XVI
  • World
  • God
  • Men

• As when, O lady mine, With chiselled touch, The stone unhewn and cold, Becomes a living mould, The more the marble wastes, The more the statue grows.

  

  Michelangelo
  • Touch
  • Stone
  • Wasted

• Lorna was quite young when her mother died, and I think she's blocked out some of the memories. I talked to her a little bit about that, but I wasn't prepared to go around and poke and hurt her.

  

  Judy Davis
  • Mother
  • Hurt
  • Memories

• I have no pity for myself either. So let it be veronal. But I wish Hercule Poirot had never retired from work and come here to grow vegetable marrows.

  

  Agatha Christie
  • Work
  • Wish

• Women are really much nicer than men: No wonder we like them.

  

  Kingsley Amis
  • Men
  • Women
  • Wonder