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.Kingsley Amis
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I was an English major in college!
Maggie Siff -
China needs a powerful Europe, but Europe can only be strong if each and every one of its members attains rapid economic development.
Victor Ponta -
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!
Yevgeny Yevtushenko -
I had my moments when I got very frightened that I would not recover.
Fran Drescher -
Quiet is the new loud.
Patrick Stump Fall Out Boy -
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.
P. J. O'Rourke
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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.
Daniel Bryan -
There's an awful lot of terrible television which I could do, but I mostly stick to Have I Got News for You.
Ian Hislop -
Working with 50 Cent was great, you know what Im saying? It was just great to work with 50 Cent.
Obie Trice -
I love just walking around New York. It's like a whole world in one place.
Samuel Barnett -
He plants trees to benefit another generation.
Caecilius Statius -
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.
K. Eric Drexler
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The interesting thing about London is that there are always stylish surprises around every corner.
Natalie Massenet -
If you realize too acutely how valuable time is, you are too paralyzed to do anything.
Katharine Butler Hathaway -
The competition between me and Bill Gates, probably: Who can spend money more effectively that can do better philanthropy.
Jack Ma -
If you don't mind smelling like peanut butter for two or three days, peanut butter is darn good shaving cream.
Barry Goldwater -
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?
Edan Lepucki -
Our concepts of aging really should be blurring because there are plenty of people who make it to older ages who aren't really any different in many ways than people who are decades younger.
S. Jay Olshansky
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Perhaps that suspicion of fraud enhances the flavor.
C. S. Forester -
A thing resounds when it rings true, Ringing all the bells inside of you, Like a golden sky on a summer eve Your heart is tugging at your sleeve, And you cannot say why... There must be more.
Andrew Peterson -
Let us hopethat by the best cultivation of the physical world, beneath and around us; and the intellectual and moral world within us, we shall secure an individual, social and political prosperity and happiness, whose course shall be onward and upward, and which, while the earth endures, shall not pass away.
Abraham Lincoln -
I'm like most people. We just concentrate on the present. I live right where the film is going through the film projector and it hits the light.
Pharrell Williams N.E.R.D. -
Then brought they a fagot kindled with fire, and layd the same downe at D. Ridleys feete. To whome Maister Latymer spake in this maner: Be of good comfort maister Ridley, and play the man: wee shall this day light such a candle by Gods grace in England, as (I trust) shall neuer be put out.
John Foxe -
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.
Kingsley Amis