Kingsley Amis Quotes

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• I guess you could say I'm pretty wary.

  

  Sam Riley
  • Pretty
  • You
  • Say

• Sometimes what I think what the news is missing is the human element, the connection - the moment that you look into a little girl's eyes or a father who has just left his family and risked everything just to try and survive.

  

  Kat Graham
  • Family
  • Father
  • Girl

• Sometimes I work purely 8-12 shifts, banging stuff into the computer. Other times, my office is like a scene from a detective movie, with Post-it Notes, plans, photographs all stuck on the walls and arrows going everywhere, and it's 4 A.M.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • Work
  • Movie
  • Sometimes

• I am not a fan of books.

  

  Kanye West
  • Books
  • Fan

• It makes sense to invest in new work. It's almost like having a research department in a scientific laboratory. You have to try things out. You'll make some bad mistakes. Some things will fail but at least you'll energise the organisation.

  

  Gavin Bryars
  • Work
  • Bad
  • Mistakes

• I did documentaries for maybe 10 years before I turned to fiction films.

  

  Walter Salles
  • Years
  • Fiction
  • Maybe

• Strength is born in the deep silence of long-suffering hearts; not amid joy.

  

  Felicia Hemans
  • Long
  • Joy
  • Suffering

• I'm not a Man U fan at all, but I can't get enough of Rooney. What a joy to watch!

  

  Hampton Sides
  • Man
  • Joy
  • Watch

• For me, the Congress party is now my life, the people of India are my life, and I will fight for the people of India and for this party.

  

  Rahul Gandhi
  • People
  • Life
  • Party

• Through the ages, from the beginning of time, I'm certain man has covered woman's face with masks. They are, however, his masks, not hers.

  

  Federico Fellini
  • Time
  • Man
  • Beginning

• If something pops in my mind and it's easy, I write it.

  

  Wanda Jackson
  • Mind
  • Easy
  • Something

• I think experience will teach you a combination of liberalism and conservatism. We have to be progressive and at the same time we have to retain values. We have to hold onto the past as we explore the future.

  

  Oliver Stone
  • Time
  • Experience
  • Future

• Most practical jokes, I'll feel too bad for the other person so I'll stop just before the punchline.

  

  Larry David
  • Bad
  • Stop
  • Person

• Most writers battle with periods of being blocked; it's almost an occupational hazard. But in the writing of his last and greatest novel, 'A Passage to India,' E. M. Forster got stuck for nine years.

  

  Damon Galgut
  • Writing
  • Battle
  • Greatest

• I am not a sun person at all. I think it's a cancerous poison and I don't want it touching me.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Sun
  • Poison
  • Cancerous

• Dancing was one of the hobbies my brother and I had when we were kids, and dance ended up being the one that stuck. I dropped everything else until that was what was left in the end.

  

  Damian Woetzel
  • Up
  • Kids
  • Dance

• A woman - even if she is the primary breadwinner - really needs to keep in mind that at some point, she may have a diminished earning capacity because of the fact that she will bear children. Of course, this is case by case. I had two kids, and it didn't really slow me down at all.

  

  Laura Wasser
  • Mind
  • Children
  • May

• On 'Swingtown,' I think that's when I was able to blend the character-slash-leading lady roles, and that's what I'm doing on 'Once Upon a Time' as well. She's a leading lady, but she's also this character.

  

  Lana Parrilla
  • Time
  • She
  • Character

• The traveler walks through many mirages before he finds water.

  

  Yasmin Mogahed
  • Water
  • Traveler
  • Mirages

• Make sure that the people at the top are working together and there aren't divisions of labor. Don't have people working in silos; have them working across the team.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
  • People
  • Together
  • Team

• Just for the record, I personally do agree with some of the sentiments of Rabbi Meir Kahane. I think he was right about certain things, wrong about other things, but I have absolutely nothing, no association whatsoever with Kahane Chai leaders.

  

  Aaron Klein
  • Think
  • Nothing
  • Wrong

• When they had eventually calmed down a bit, and had gotten home, Mr. Duncan put the magic pebble in an iron safe. Some day they might want to use it, but really, for now, what more could they wish for? They all had all that they wanted.

  

  William Steig
  • Home
  • Wish
  • Happiness

• If you are using an adverb, you have got the verb wrong.

  

  Kingsley Amis
  • Wrong
  • Adverb