"He resolved, having done it once, never to……" — Kingsley Amis
"He resolved, having done it once, never to move his eyeballs again."
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42 Quotes by Kingsley Amis
Kingsley Amis has 42 quotes on this site.
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Laziness has become the chief characteristic of journalism, displacing incompetence.
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Self criticism must be my guide to action, and the first rule for its employment is that in itself it…
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One of the great benefits of organised religion is that you can be forgiven your sins, which must be a…
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It is no wonder that people are so horrible when they start life as children.
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If you can't annoy somebody, there is little point in writing.
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Cats are only human, they have their faults.
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A German wine label is one of the things life's too short for, a daunting testimony to that peculiar nation's…
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When I find someone I respect writing about an edgy, nervous wine that dithered in the glass, I cringe. When…
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The first, indeed the only, requirement of a diet is that it should lose you weight without reducing your alcoholic…
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I sometimes feel that more lousy dishes are presented under the banner of pate than any other.
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Never despise a drink because it is easy to make and/or uses commercial mixes. Unquestioning devotion to authenticity is, in…
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He was of the faith chiefly in the sense that the church he currently did not attend was Catholic.
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More Eyeballs Quotes
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The only kind of seafood I trust is the fish stick, a totally featureless fish that doesn't have eyeballs or…
— Dave Barry
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Seeing is an experience. People, not their eyes, see. There is more to seeing than meets the eyeball.
— Norwood Russell Hanson
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I am become a transparent eyeball...
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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When you consider all the writers who never even had a machine. Who would have given an eyeball for a…
— Sam Shepard
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The lightning flashes through my skull; mine eyeballs ache and ache; my whole beaten brain seems as beheaded, and rolling…
— Herman Melville
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The space between the young reader’s eyeballs and the printed page is a holy place and officialdom should trample all…
— Terry Pratchett
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When all else failed, you had to rely on eyeball intrumentation.
— Arthur C. Clarke
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They always mean beautiful things like hummingbirds. I always reply by saying that I think of a little child in…
— David Attenborough
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I think the most important thing about playing is to walk out with confidence, look the people right in the…
— Les Paul
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Given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow (e.g., given a large enough beta-tester and co-developer base, almost every problem will…
— Eric S. Raymond
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I think the eyeball is the same, [in] an American or African. The problem is the same, the treatment is…
— Thulasiraj Ravilla
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Differentiation is classroom practice that looks eyeball to eyeball with the reality that kids differ, and the most effective teachers…
— Carol Ann Tomlinson
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