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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You can't be taught to be brainy. You've either got it or you don't.
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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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A lot has happened over the years. And while this nation has been tested by war, and it's been tested by recession and all manner of challenges - I stand before you again tonight, after almost two terms as your president, to tell you I am more optimistic about the future of America than ever before.
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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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Music was something I found on my own. I got my first guitar when I was around 10, and it just all developed over time.
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He's the kind of man who was born to rise and rise: a human elevator. (p.7)
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I have designed my style pantomimes as white ink drawings on black backgrounds, so that man’s destiny appears as a thread lost in an endless labyrinth... I have tried to shed some gleams of light on the shadow of man startled by his anguish.
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Love is too pure a light to burn long among the noisome gases that we breathe, but before it is choked out we may use it as a torch to ignite the cozy fire of affection.
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All of us were slowly losing that intellectual light that allows you always to tell the similar from the identical, the metaphorical from the real.
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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.
