Kingsley Amis Quotes

Yevgeny Yevtushenko: 'You atheist?' "Kingsley Amis: 'Well, yes, but it's more that I hate him.

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• Bin Laden was born filthy rich and died in a rich man's house, which he had painstakingly built to the highest specifications.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • House
  • Man
  • Born

• I just can't get used to the idea of being somebody unreal in people's minds. I can't live my life like that. And it's just anathema to being a writer. It's not healthy.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • People
  • Life
  • Live

• I'm beginning to get pigeonholed as the girl who plays the crazies and weirdoes - and that's not the entirety of who I am. Hopefully, the whole point of being in this profession is that you change into anyone you want to be.

  

  Fairuza Balk
  • Girl
  • Change
  • Beginning

• If we are ever to halt climate change and conserve land, water and other resources, not to mention reduce animal suffering, we must celebrate Earth Day every day - at every meal.

  

  Ingrid Newkirk
  • Earth
  • Change
  • Day

• My father is a silent cinema freak, so he took me to 1925 silent films that took forever, like 5-hour movies, but I've seen a lot of that stuff since I was young. And then I saw the film 'Annie,' and I just wanted to be Annie; I just wanted to be that orphan kid and wanted to sing and dance.

  

  Carice van Houten
  • Father
  • Forever
  • Dance

• My friends in the TV news business are in a state of despair about Donald Trump, even as their bosses in the boardroom are giddy over what he's doing for their once sagging ratings.

  

  Brown Campbell
  • Business
  • Friends
  • Doing

• We're looking to help our guitar buddies do their thing while at the same time we try to create something we might enjoy listening to ourselves. If anything we are trying to develop a vocabulary so we can converse more fluidly.

  

  Pat Mastelotto Mr. Mister
  • Time
  • Trying
  • Help

• There has to be so many other ways of approaching airline security than demeaning ourselves by giving up a lot of our dignities and our liberty to do this.

  

  Quico Canseco
  • Up
  • Giving
  • Liberty

• I'm not a professional politician, I'm a problem solver.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • Problem
  • Professional

• A religion that takes no account of practical affairs and does not help to solve them is no religion.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Help
  • Religion
  • Practical

• 'What's My Line' 1971 was a magical experience as I was still in my teens, and it was my first appearance. You know how they say you never forget 'your first'!

  

  Randy West
  • Experience
  • Never Forget

• A novel is a great act of passion and intellect, carpentry and largess. From the very beginning, I wrote to explain my own life to myself, and I invited readers who chose to make the journey with me to join me on the high wire.

  

  Pat Conroy
  • Life
  • Great
  • High

• I'm a big fan of the 'Rocky' series. Given the chance, I'd love to meet Sylvester Stallone. But apart from boxing, I'm an ardent fan of tennis and football.

  

  Vijender Singh
  • Football
  • Chance
  • Tennis

• I am unable to give my best if I don't have my best to give.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • Best
  • Give
  • Unable

• We're not looking at banning all weapons.

  

  Gary Ackerman
  • Looking
  • Weapons
  • Banning

• The ideas and practices of Franz Anton Mesmer, an 18th-century Australian healer, had spread to the United States and, by the 1840s, held the country in thrall. Mesmer proposed that everything in the universe, including the human body, was governed by a 'magnetic fluid' that could become imbalanced, causing illness.

  

  Karen Abbott
  • Country
  • Universe
  • Ideas

• Tell him he can have my title, but I want it back in the morning.

  

  Jack Dempsey
  • Want
  • Morning
  • Him

• Facebook is at the forefront. It's the company that can fundamentally change the way information is being exchanged and processed. It can be the basis for artificial intelligence to develop over time.

  

  Yuri Milner
  • Time
  • Change
  • Intelligence

• Well, you would have to say what is the criteria to determine the success of any merger? It would have to be that the companies are stronger financially, that they took market share, and they are on a very steady footing in terms of their performance.

  

  Kevin Rollins
  • Success

• You don't want to disappoint your mama, for that main fact that she's going to get on your behind.

  

  Calvin Johnson
  • She
  • Want
  • You

• Show me a country where the bombs had to fall Show me the ruins of buildings so tall And I'll show you a young land With many reasons why There but for fortune, go you or I You or I.

  

  Phil Ochs
  • Country
  • Why
  • Fall

• It's always the last one because it's so present in your body. I liked Scream of the Banshee because it was a real challenge. I thought, "How am I going to pull off this character?" But, I also thought, "Oh, man, I'm going to go for it." He's got all the defects of character that an actor loves to play. So, I had a really great time.

  

  Lance Henriksen
  • Time
  • Great
  • Real

• Don't poets know it Better than others? God can't be always everywhere: and, so, Invented Mothers.

  

  Edwin Arnold
  • God
  • Poets
  • Mother`s

• Yevgeny Yevtushenko: 'You atheist?' "Kingsley Amis: 'Well, yes, but it's more that I hate him.

  

  Kingsley Amis
  • Hate
  • Atheist
  • Yevgeny Yevtushenko