Martin Amis Quotes

Kingsley Amis was a lenient father. His paternal style, in the early years, can best be described as amiably minimalist - in other words, my mother did it all.

Martin Amis

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: british
  • Birth: August 25, 1949

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FatherMotherStyleBestWordsDid

It's useless to play lullabies for those who cannot sleep.

John Cage

SleepPlayUselessCannotWhoThose

We are not hungry... Why foist this food upon us? We don't want to be choked. We have enough.

Robert Mugabe

FoodEnoughWantWhyHungryUs

I bleed Dodger blue and when I die, I'm going to the big Dodger in the sky.

Tommy Lasorda

SkyBlueDieBigGoingBleed

Every now and then, I feel terribly uncomfortable with what I'm working on, and then I think maybe I am an artist. I'm not very articulate about it, but I do know that you have to follow your gut.

Tom Hollander

I AmThinkUncomfortableYouArtist

When I interviewed profilers in 1984 in the basement of the FBI Academy at Quantico, VA., there were just four of them - Roger Depue, John Douglas, Roy Hazelwood, and Robert Ressler.

Ronald Kessler

FBIJustFourBasementThemAcademy

There's a particular sensitivity required to be an artist, and a certain vulnerability, perhaps, and also, somewhere between, you're in your body a lot, too. It's much more physical than one would imagine because I think it's the body where the imagination lives somehow. I do feel the imagination isn't just in the brain up there.

Michael Leunig

ImaginationBrainThinkYouBody

I'm on the Web a lot. I like to play games online. Sometimes I play Sims.

Miranda Cosgrove

PlaySometimesGamesWebLikeLot

I think it's very important for writers and artists generally to be witnesses to the world, and to be transparent. To let other people speak... to travel... to experience the world. And memorialize it.

Joyce Carol Oates

ExperienceTravelPeopleWorldThink

Doing things right in politics is no different than doing things right in life: Tell the truth, be yourself.

Jason Kander

LifeTruthPoliticsYourselfDoing

I've been very engaged in Illinois and Chicago civic activities for a long time; mostly around building businesses and helping entrepreneurs grow companies, but also around education and education reform.

Bruce Rauner

EducationTimeBuildingGrowLong

A man must be master of his hours and days, not their servant.

William Frederick Book

ManMasterDaysServantMustHours

I am very focused on large-scale deployments of renewable power and how we're going to get this done. Imagine our military bases covered with solar thermal collectors that could generate steam and electricity.

William McDonough

PowerI AmElectricityDoneFocused

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