Martin Amis Quotes

I am, incidentally, the only writer to have received the Somerset Maugham award twice - the first time for my first novel, the second time for my second first novel.

Martin Amis

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

TimeI AmAwardFirst TimeFirst

If you are a leader, you should never forget that everyone needs encouragement. And everyone who receives it - young or old, successful or less-than-successful, unknown or famous - is changed by it.

John C. Maxwell

LeaderEncouragementNever ForgetYou

Actually, I'm addicted to science fiction. Let me make my diction clear - I love sci-fi.

John Rhys-Davies

LoveScienceMeScience FictionMake

Whenever the subject of doing reality television comes up, I immediately disregard it, because most people don't come off well, and it's embarrassing.

Amanda Hearst

PeopleRealityDoingTelevisionUp

Now some are saying maybe $1.6 trillion in is not enough maybe we should look at $2 trillion.

Dennis Moore

SayingEnoughLookNowSomeShould

Every man without passions has within him no principle of action, nor motive to act.

Claude Adrien Helvetius

ManActionHimWithoutWithinAct

I am really not interested in the cinema.

Brigitte Bardot

I AmCinemaNot InterestedInterested

I'm into real food, and that includes real butter.

Arden Myrin

FoodRealButter

My wife comes from a foodie family so I've been indoctrinated into that. I had sweetbreads the other night, and I have to say, not my favorite thing in the world You're eating a gland.

Armie Hammer

FamilyWifeWorldNightEatingYou

SEAL training was a great equalizer. Nothing mattered but your will to succeed. Not your color, not your ethnic background, not your education and not your social status.

William H. McRaven

EducationGreatTrainingSucceed

Prudence does not mean failing to accept responsibilities and postponing decisions; it means being committed to making joint decisions after pondering responsibly the road to be taken.

Pope Benedict XVI

RoadDecisionsAcceptMeanPrudence

I am my therapist, and I analyze what's happening and if I'm being hurt in the process. The result is songs that are very emotional, very deep, although I try to write them generally so they won't alienate the listener.

Sharon Van Etten

I AmDeepHurtProcessResultTry

Hard-working men and women who have made America the strongest nation in the world are betrayed by Washington's trade policy.

Sherrod Brown

WomenMenWorldAmericaWashington

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