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Something Quotes by Martin Amis
- Deciding to write a novel about something - as opposed to finding you are writing a novel around something - sounds to me like a…
- Everything seems fine until you're about 40. Then something is definitely beginning to go wrong. And you look in the mirror with your old habit…
- Sex is hard to write about because you lose the universal and succumb to the particular. We all have our different favorites. Good sex is…
- So if you ever felt something behind you, when you weren't even one, like welcome heat, like a bulb, like a sun, trying to shine…
- Cities at night, I feel, contain men who cry in their sleep and then say Nothing. It's nothing. Just sad dreams. Or something like that...Swing…
- It seems to me that you need a lot of courage, or a lot of something, to enter into others, into other people. We all…
- You know, I wouldn’t have done this a month ago. I wouldn’t have done it then. Then I was avoiding. Now I’m just waiting. Things…
- People? People are chaotic quiddities living in one cave each. They pass the hours in amorous grudge and playback and thought experiment. At the campfire…
- I am easily moved to tears and rarely survive a visit to the cinema without shedding them, racked, as I am, by the most perfunctory,…
- Love is an abstract noun, something nebulous. And yet love turns out to be the only part of us that is solid, as the world…
- The process of writing a novel begins with a pang, a moment of recognition, and a situation, a character, or something you read in a…
More Something Quotes
- Flattery and deceit are the darlings of great men, and so with these men spread the butter on thick, if you want… — Pietro Aretino
- Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever. — Aristophanes
- I have nothing against 3-D in theory. But I've also never run to the movies because something's in 3-D. — J. J. Abrams
- Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness. — Aristotle
- In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous. — Aristotle
- I think you have a passion and an obsession for something when it's not necessarily ubiquitous. — J. J. Abrams
- It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those… — Aristotle
- Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are rather of the nature of universals,… — Aristotle
- To create something exceptional, your mindset must be relentlessly focused on the smallest detail. — Giorgio Armani
- The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work. — Richard Bach
- The ability of a television series to make adjustments is something you've got to take advantage of. — J. J. Abrams
- I don't miss anything ever. Because to me, missing something is like going backward a little bit. I don't miss being in… — Fred Armisen