Kingsley Amis Quotes
I don't say that the drunk man is the real man, and the sober man merely a shell. But you find out something different about people when they're drunk. Of course, you sometimes find that they're not different at all--that you merely get more of the same, perhaps said rather more loudly and incoherently, but basically the same.
Kingsley Amis
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I'm not really a mainstream novelist!
Irvine Welsh
When I was doing all this acting stuff, all these kids, like, assumed, 'Oh, my God, you're on TV, and you probably have a lot of money.' And I was living in a garage.
Becky G
Entrenched scriptural literalism is, in my opinion, completely out of touch with reality.
Malcolm Boyd
My life has been a dream. If someone had to write a story about it, it would seem a little unreal. It's the kind of story I would read and say, 'Nah, that's not possible.'
Ralph Lauren
I learned very early on in life that not everyone wants to hear every fact in the world, even if you want to tell them everything you've ever read.
Randall Munroe
I haven't done as many films as I would have liked.
Dan Stevens
He that strives to touch the starts, oft stumbles at a straw.
Edmund Spenser
The success of Torn was a bit too much for me. I took a year off and was still scared to start the second album.
Natalie Imbruglia
You could argue that 'Sweeney Todd' was romantic, if you looked closely at it, but it didn't impart that to its audiences. But it's large, and it's melodramatic, and it's a style I like to work in periodically.
Harold Prince
I was always trying to get people to fix things that are wrong. Now, it was, 'How do I make things that are going good go better?
Dan Gilbert
Equality, rightly understood as our founding fathers understood it, leads to liberty and to the emancipation of creative differences; wrongly understood, as it has been so tragically in our time, it leads first to conformity and then to despotism.
Barry Goldwater
A fine world in which man reproaches woman with fulfilling his heart's desire!
Karl Kraus
Falling in love is awesome, but I'm never drawn to happy songs per se, so whenever you sit down to write a heartbreak song and you're happily in love, it's like, 'OK, now I have to go back to a sad place to get something good.'
Miranda Lambert
If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then quit. There's no point in being a damn fool about it.
W. C. Fields
The TED talk I gave, that gave me another character I didn't know about. I'm not saying the mind of a hero, but a kind of responsibility. Every word I'm speaking, it's not from myself. I'm speaking for and representing the people of communist North Korea.
Lee Hyeon-seo
People want to talk about whether I have rock cred, whether I'm selling out, the theatricality, the gay stuff... Chill out! And just enjoy yourself.
Adam Lambert
I don't say that the drunk man is the real man, and the sober man merely a shell. But you find out something different about people when they're drunk. Of course, you sometimes find that they're not different at all--that you merely get more of the same, perhaps said rather more loudly and incoherently, but basically the same.
Kingsley Amis
