Kingsley Amis Quotes
While he was climbing the litter-strewn steps his left ball gave a sharp twinge, on and off like a light-switch, then again after he had sat down. Nothing. Just one of the aches and pains that come and go. No significance.
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I hate it when guys wear really tight t-shirts. It's just so horrible, especially when you can see their bellies.
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I was an English major in college!
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China needs a powerful Europe, but Europe can only be strong if each and every one of its members attains rapid economic development.
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Give me a mystery – just a plain and simple one – a mystery which is diffidence and silence, a slim little bare-foot mystery: give me a mystery – just one!
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I had my moments when I got very frightened that I would not recover.
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Quiet is the new loud.
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Funding for the original manned Voyager Mars Program was scratched in 1968, before humans had gotten out of Low Earth Orbit. Mid-'60s plans for a Venus fly-by with astronauts actually flying by it met the same fate.
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I feel like I'm not the greatest general manager in the history of general managers, but I do OK, and I'm learning as I go. I try to just do my best with it.
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There's an awful lot of terrible television which I could do, but I mostly stick to Have I Got News for You.
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Working with 50 Cent was great, you know what Im saying? It was just great to work with 50 Cent.
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I love just walking around New York. It's like a whole world in one place.
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He plants trees to benefit another generation.
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My greatest concern is that the emergence of this technology without the appropriate public attention and international controls could lead to an unstable arms race.
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The interesting thing about London is that there are always stylish surprises around every corner.
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If you realize too acutely how valuable time is, you are too paralyzed to do anything.
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The competition between me and Bill Gates, probably: Who can spend money more effectively that can do better philanthropy.
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If you don't mind smelling like peanut butter for two or three days, peanut butter is darn good shaving cream.
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I still can't believe that I went on 'The Colbert Report' myself; for the appearance I wore a lot of makeup, my hair was curled like a poodle's, and I could barely breathe in my Spanx undergarments. But, hey - an authoress has to lean in, right?
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Life is mere chance only when one allows it to be.
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I try to write about small things. Paper, animals, a house…love is kind of big. I have written a love song, though. In this film, I sing it to a lamp.
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It has been said that the sin of ingratitude is more serious than the sin of revenge. With revenge, we return evil for evil, but with ingratitude, we return evil for good.
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In living off all the reflecting light furnished by poets, the I which dreams the reverie reveals itself not as poet but as poetizing I.
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I'm always in search of those books where you don't want to stop reading, and 'Me Before You' is at the top of that list.
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While he was climbing the litter-strewn steps his left ball gave a sharp twinge, on and off like a light-switch, then again after he had sat down. Nothing. Just one of the aches and pains that come and go. No significance.
