Money doesn't mind if we say it's evil, it goes from strength to strength. It's a fictio...
MARTIN AMIS You cannot combine being a movie star with not being a movie star
MARTIN AMIS I am a novelist,
MARTIN AMIS I hire tea by the tea bag.
MARTIN AMIS Only in art will the lion lie down with the lamb, and the rose grow without thorn
MARTIN AMIS Love is blind; but it makes you see the blind man; teetering on the roadside . . .
MARTIN AMIS Only in art will the lion lie down with the lamb, and the rose grow without thorn.
MARTIN AMIS Style is not neutral; it gives moral directions.
MARTIN AMIS Bullets cannot be recalled. They cannot be uninvented. But they can be taken out of the gun.
MARTIN AMIS Weapons are like money; no one knows the meaning of enough.
MARTIN AMIS Money doesn't mind if we say it's evil, it goes from strength to strength. It's a fiction, an addict...
MARTIN AMIS Every writer hopes or boldly assumes that his life is in some sense exemplary, that the particular w...
MARTIN AMIS More will mean worse.
MARTIN AMIS Jane was my wicked stepmother: she was generous, affectionate and resourceful; she salvaged my schoo...
MARTIN AMIS Watching an adaptation of your novel can be a violent experience: seeing your old jokes suddenly thr...
MARTIN AMIS All my adult life I have been searching for the right adjective to describe my father's peculiar...
MARTIN AMIS Only in art will the lion lie down with the lamb, and the rose grow without the thorn.
MARTIN AMIS It's an ancient idea that the leader of a democracy should not be the cleverest but the most ave...
MARTIN AMIS Language leads a double life - and so does the novelist. You chat with family and friends, you atten...
MARTIN AMIS The deal with multiculturalism is that the only culture you're allowed to disapprove of is your own.
MARTIN AMIS People ask me if I ever thought of writing a children's book. I say, 'If I had a serious bra...
MARTIN AMIS I am easily moved to tears and rarely survive a visit to the cinema without shedding them, racked, a...
MARTIN AMIS The process of writing a novel begins with a pang, a moment of recognition, and a situation, a chara...
MARTIN AMIS Novelists are stamina merchants, grinders, nine-to-fivers, and their career curves follow the usual ...
MARTIN AMIS The process of writing a novel is getting to know more about the novel until you know everything abo...
MARTIN AMIS The middle class is doing fine in fiction. But it's not what gets me going. I love the working c...
MARTIN AMIS If every inhabitant of a liberal democracy believes in liberal democracy, then it doesn't matter...
MARTIN AMIS When I go back to the core of my childhood, my cousin Lucy seems always to be in the peripheral visi...
MARTIN AMIS What could never be endured, it turned out, was the last swathe of time before sleep came, the path ...
MARTIN AMIS Only parents and torturers and the janitors of holocausts are asked to stand the sound of so much hu...
MARTIN AMIS The hot macadam pulled on his shoes, like desire ...
MARTIN AMIS What a gift. This page is briefly stained by my tears of gratitude. Novelists don't usually have it ...
MARTIN AMIS And while Trish stared - stared, as it now seemed, into her own eyes - Guy held her hand and watched...
MARTIN AMIS Beauty, extreme yet ambiguously available; this very roughly, was what Nicola's entrance to the Blac...
MARTIN AMIS What saddened and incensed her was the abdication of power, so craven, the surrender so close to hom...
MARTIN AMIS And meanwhile time goes about its immemorial work of making everyone look and feel like shit. You go...
MARTIN AMIS Although he liked nearly everything else about himself, Keith hated his redeeming features. In his v...
MARTIN AMIS Yet no one seemed to have thought through the implications of a world in which everyone cheated. The...
MARTIN AMIS He frowned. She laughed. He brightened. She pouted. He grinned. She flinched. Come on: we don’t do...
MARTIN AMIS Imagine the terrestrial timespan as an outstretched arm: a single swipe of an emery-board, across th...
MARTIN AMIS Character is destiny
MARTIN AMIS ...So in his own way Guy Clinch confronted the central question of his time, a question you saw bein...
MARTIN AMIS The only writer who gives me unfeigned pleasure is P.G. Wodehouse. And even him I find a bit heavy. ...
MARTIN AMIS Of all the forces, love is the strongest...Love can make a woman pick up a bus, or it can crush a ma...
MARTIN AMIS Because we are all poets or babies in the middle of the night, struggling with being.
MARTIN AMIS People? People are chaotic quiddities living in one cave each. They pass the hours in amorous grudge...
MARTIN AMIS You know how it is when two souls meet in a burst of ecstatic volubility, with hearts tickling to he...
MARTIN AMIS While clearly an impregnable masterpiece, Don Quixote suffers from one fairly serious flaw—...
MARTIN AMIS Kingsley Amis was a lenient father. His paternal style, in the early years, can best be described as...
MARTIN AMIS And meanwhile time goes about its immemorial work of making everyone look and feel like shit.
MARTIN AMIS Life is made of fear. Some people eat fear soup three times a day. Some people eat fear soup all the...
MARTIN AMIS The universe is a million billion light-years wide, and every inch of it would kill you if you went ...
MARTIN AMIS Religious belief is without reason and without dignity, and its record is near-universally dreadful.
MARTIN AMIS When the past is forgotten, the present is unforgettable
MARTIN AMIS Present-day Spain translates as many books into Spanish, annually, as the Arab world has translated ...
MARTIN AMIS Why couldn't Rachel be a little more specific about the type of person she was? Goodness knew; if sh...
MARTIN AMIS My literary career kicked off in 1956 when, as a resident of Swansea, South Wales, I published my fi...
MARTIN AMIS Impartially, shrewdly, I considered suicide, though not in my worst moments. The bottle of pills. Th...
MARTIN AMIS You never can tell, though, with suicide notes, can you? In the planetary aggregate of all life, the...
MARTIN AMIS The first thing that distinguishes a writer is that he is most alive when alone.
MARTIN AMIS In America, the policeman is a working-class hero. In England, the policeman is a working-class trai...
MARTIN AMIS This had seemed a safe choice, since to be against the Beatles (late-middle period) is to be against...
MARTIN AMIS She didn't use the misery of others to cultivate her own smugness, true, but at least I didn't go ab...
MARTIN AMIS The children of the nuclear age, I think, were weakened in their capacity to love. Hard to love, whe...
MARTIN AMIS My life looked good on paper - where, in fact, almost all of it was being lived.
MARTIN AMIS ... all his faces were designed to express rage or loathing. Now that something had happened which r...
KINGSLEY AMIS Consciousness was upon him before he could get out of the way.
KINGSLEY AMIS Doing what you wanted to do was the only training, and the only preliminary, needed for doing more o...
KINGSLEY AMIS He was of the faith chiefly in the sense that the church he currently did not attend was Catholic.
KINGSLEY AMIS Growing older, I have lost the need to be political, which means, in this country, the need to be le...
KINGSLEY AMIS The ideal of brotherhood of man, the building of the Just City, is one that cannot be discarded with...
KINGSLEY AMIS Outside every fat man there was an even fatter man trying to close in.
KINGSLEY AMIS Some people would rather be right than free.
VIVIAN AMIS The less you know, the more you will be known
The less you want, the more you will have
Th...
VIVIAN AMIS It is no wonder that people are so horrible when they start their life as children.
KINGSLEY AMIS No wonder people are so horrible when they start life as children.
KINGSLEY AMIS No pleasure is worth giving up for the sake of two more years in a geriatric home at Weston-super-Ma...
KINGSLEY AMIS Growing older, I have lost the need to be political, which means... the need to be left. I am driven...
KINGSLEY AMIS He resolved, having done it once, never to move his eyeballs again.
KINGSLEY AMIS I enjoy talking to you more than anybody else because I never feel I am giving myself away and so ca...
KINGSLEY AMIS A dusty thudding in his head made the scene before him beat like a pulse. His mouth had been used as...
KINGSLEY AMIS I sometimes feel that more lousy dishes are presented under the banner of pâtÃ�...
KINGSLEY AMIS There was no end to the ways in which nice things are nicer than nasty ones.
KINGSLEY AMIS It was no wonder that people were so horrible when they started life as children.
KINGSLEY AMIS If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing.
KINGSLEY AMIS YOU are the creator of your experience, therefore: all problems must be met within YOU.
VIVIAN AMIS Laziness has become the chief characteristic of journalism, displacing incompetence
KINGSLEY AMIS Friendship is like a flower. It needs daily love and care to blossom. If you forget to give it water...
LILY AMIS Sex is a momentary itch, love never lets you go.
KINGSLEY AMIS It doesn’t kill you to be nice, kind, loving, caring and respectful. Try it!
LILY AMIS Knowing the Truth is not based on knowledge, but on being "it".
VIVIAN AMIS If you can't annoy somebody, there is little point in writing.
KINGSLEY AMIS He was of the faith chiefly in the sense that the church he currently did not attend was Catholic
KINGSLEY AMIS One of the great benefits of organised religion is that you can be forgiven your sins, which must be...
KINGSLEY AMIS I want a dish to taste good, rather than to have been seethed in pig's milk and served wrapped in a ...
KINGSLEY AMIS Women don't seem to think it's good enough; They write about it
KINGSLEY AMIS I enjoy talking to you more than anybody else because I never feel I am giving myself away and so ca...
KINGSLEY AMIS Feeling a tremendous rakehell, and not liking myself much for it, and feeling rather a good chap for...
KINGSLEY AMIS When we home schooled my oldest, Jasper, in eighth grade, I saw how empowering it is for a child to ...
SUZY AMIS What is life to Spirit, is death to the ego.
VIVIAN AMIS Relationships based on dishonesty, lies,
Secrets and cheats R not only predicted
to fail b...
LILY AMIS Man who TOY with Womans feelings and
emotions are heartless & faithless creatures.
B...
LILY AMIS He thought to himself now that if ever he went into the brewing business his posters would have writ...
KINGSLEY AMIS He put a fresh sheet in and, after spending a few moments wishing he were doing something quite diff...
KINGSLEY AMIS Outside every fat man there was an even fatter man trying to close in
KINGSLEY AMIS I sometimes feel that more lousy dishes are presented under the banner of pâté than any other.
KINGSLEY AMIS You will be facing unexpected challenges and have new experiences, but that’s the beauty of life. ...
LILY AMIS Like all people who try to exhaust a subject, he exhausted his listeners.
KINGSLEY AMIS When you are imprisoned, you can’t enjoy the benefits of being alive. You can’t educate yourself...
LILY AMIS Sometimes the only reason why you
won't let go of someone making you
sad is because he w...
LILY AMIS There was no excuse which didn't consist of inexcusable.
KINGSLEY AMIS There is always a solution to every problem! Fishy
LILY AMIS Self criticism must be my guide to action, and the first rule for its employment is that in itself i...
KINGSLEY AMIS He thought how much he liked her and had in common with her, and how much she'd like and have in com...
KINGSLEY AMIS Nice things are nicer than nasty ones.
KINGSLEY AMIS I'll pour you the first one and after that, if you don't have one, it's your own f****** fault. You ...
KINGSLEY AMIS Jake was close to tears. In that moment he saw the world in its true light, as a place where nothing...
KINGSLEY AMIS When you are aligned with the truth of who you truly are, then you experience bliss.
VIVIAN AMIS A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death...
MARTIN Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love ca...
MARTIN Everybody can be great. Because anybody can serve.. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul gene...
MARTIN A man who won't die for something is not fit to live.
MARTIN It is the combination of reasonable talent and the ability to keep going in the face of defeat that ...
MARTIN SELIGMAN Our world is so glutted with useless information, images, useless images, sounds, all this sort of t...
MARTIN SCORSESE Masterpieces of art possess immense potential to advance a worldview that could help assuage the soc...
MARTIN FILLER We know what molecules are needed to sense light - what turns that signal that detects light into an...
MARTIN CHALFIE I have held many things in my hands, and I have lost them all; but whatever I have placed in God'...
MARTIN LUTHER When I'm making a film, I'm the audience.
MARTIN SCORSESE Chaos in the midst of chaos isn't funny, but chaos in the midst of order is.
STEVE MARTIN When modern physics exerts itself to establish the world's formula, what occurs thereby is this:...
MARTIN HEIDEGGER The human body is essentially something other than an animal organism.
MARTIN HEIDEGGER Only a god can save us.
MARTIN HEIDEGGER Transcendence constitutes selfhood.
MARTIN HEIDEGGER Agriculture is now a motorized food industry, the same thing in its essence as the production of cor...
MARTIN HEIDEGGER Man is not the lord of beings. Man is the shepherd of Being.
MARTIN HEIDEGGER To think Being itself explicitly requires disregarding Being to the extent that it is only grounded ...
MARTIN HEIDEGGER But every historical statement and legitimization itself moves within a certain relation to history.
MARTIN HEIDEGGER The German language speaks Being, while all the others merely speak of Being.
MARTIN HEIDEGGER Being-alone is a deficient mode of being-with; its possibility is a proof for the latter.
MARTIN HEIDEGGER We still by no means think decisively enough about the essence of action.
MARTIN HEIDEGGER Being and time determine each other reciprocally, but in such a manner that neither can the former -...
MARTIN HEIDEGGER Making itself intelligible is suicide for philosophy.
MARTIN HEIDEGGER Why are there beings at all, instead of Nothing?
MARTIN HEIDEGGER Time is not a thing, thus nothing which is, and yet it remains constant in its passing away without ...
MARTIN HEIDEGGER We name time when we say: every thing has its time. This means: everything which actually is, every ...
MARTIN HEIDEGGER Language is the house of the truth of Being.
MARTIN HEIDEGGER The human being is not the lord of beings, but the shepherd of Being.
MARTIN HEIDEGGER We do not say: Being is, time is, but rather: there is Being and there is time.
MARTIN HEIDEGGER The most thought-provoking thing in our thought-provoking time is that we are still not thinking.
MARTIN HEIDEGGER There are two kinds of power you have to fight. The first is the money, and that's just our syst...
MARTIN SCORSESE My idea of a good night out is staying in.
MARTIN FREEMAN I've got to keep breathing. It'll be my worst business mistake if I don't.
STEVE MARTIN I think I did pretty well, considering I started out with nothing but a bunch of blank paper.
STEVE MARTIN When your hobbies get in the way of your work - that's OK; but when your hobbies get in the way ...
STEVE MARTIN I'm tired of wasting letters when punctuation will do, period.
STEVE MARTIN I think I meant that, given the circumstances of my childhood, I had the illusion that it's easi...
STEVE MARTIN What I mean is that none of my talents had a - what's that great word - rubric. A singer, an act...
STEVE MARTIN Tweeting is really only good for one thing - it's just good for tweeting... It is rewarding, bec...
STEVE MARTIN Boy, those French: they have a different word for everything!
STEVE MARTIN I got a flue shot and now my chimney works perfectly.
STEVE MARTIN What is a movie star? A movie star is many things. They can be tall, short, thin, or skinny. They ca...
STEVE MARTIN I really enjoy finding the right word, creating a good, flowing sentence. I enjoy the rhythm of the ...
STEVE MARTIN Everything is fraught with danger. I love technology and I love science. It's just always all in...
STEVE MARTIN I did stand-up comedy for 18 years. Ten of those years were spent learning, four years were spent re...
STEVE MARTIN I believe that sex is one of the most beautiful, natural, wholesome things that money can buy.
STEVE MARTIN Nothing I do is done by popular demand.
STEVE MARTIN Well, excuuuuuse me!
STEVE MARTIN What is comedy? Comedy is the art of making people laugh without making them puke.
STEVE MARTIN Talking about music is like dancing about architecture.
STEVE MARTIN It's music. It's supposed to be fun and inspirational. You have to be inspired. If I did it ...
MAX MARTIN Nothing good ever comes of violence.
MARTIN LUTHER What I did was, I went and collected every bit of information from Adventist publishing houses in th...
WALTER MARTIN Mrs. White, in my opinion, made false statements. She misused what she claimed was the prophetic gif...
WALTER MARTIN I thought some of Mrs. White's material was prophetic. I felt some of her insights were extremel...
WALTER MARTIN I am not an enemy of Adventism.
WALTER MARTIN The very success of medicine in a material way may now threaten the soul of medicine.
WALTER MARTIN Who knows the minds of men and how they reason and what their methodology is? But I am not going to ...
WALTER MARTIN I am not saying we are categorizing Ellen White in the biblical context of a false prophet.
WALTER MARTIN Christ imparts the capacity of conquest to our lives every single day that we are willing to believe...
WALTER MARTIN A biblical false prophet was a servant of the devil attempting to lead people away from the truth.
WALTER MARTIN You see, 30 years ago I didn't have near the audience I have now. My tapes on the cults have rea...
WALTER MARTIN The Doctrine of the Trinity teaches that within the unity of the one Godhead there are three separat...
WALTER MARTIN A key to strengthening spiritual muscles and enduring hardship is finding strength in the Word of Go...
WALTER MARTIN Employee of the month is a good example of how somebody can be both a winner and a loser at the same...
DEMETRI MARTIN The bird, the bee, the running child are all the same to the sliding glass door.
DEMETRI MARTIN You want to be a bit compulsive in your art or craft or whatever you do.
STEVE MARTIN And as I've gotten older, I've had more of a tendency to look for people who live by kindnes...
MARTIN SCORSESE Big money is made in the stock market by being on the right side of the major moves. The idea is to ...
MARTIN ZWEIG Cinema is a matter of what's in the frame and what's out.
MARTIN SCORSESE My children's favourite thing is to con me into buying them ice-cream if there's not too big...
CATHERINE MARTIN God doesn't make mistakes and has made each of us in his own image. God is simply love. There sh...
MARTIN O'MALLEY For in the true nature of things, if we rightly consider, every green tree is far more glorious than...
MARTIN LUTHER The Bible is the cradle wherein Christ is laid.
MARTIN LUTHER 'Mars et Avril' is a science fiction film. It's set in Montreal some 50 years in the fut...
MARTIN VILLENEUVE Photography is the simplest thing in the world, but it is incredibly complicated to make it really w...
MARTIN PARR I tend to avoid televisions, politics, and places with velvet ropes.
DEMETRI MARTIN Some had the custom of receiving the Eucharist daily, some twice a week, some on the Lord's day,...
MARTIN CHEMNITZ I think you can be depressed and flourish, I think you can have cancer and flourish, I think you can...
MARTIN SELIGMAN Stop the habit of wishful thinking and start the habit of thoughtful wishes.
MARY MARTIN The Lord commonly gives riches to foolish people, to whom he gives nothing else.
MARTIN LUTHER