"Present-day Spain translates as many books into Spanish,……" — Martin Amis
"Present-day Spain translates as many books into Spanish, annually, as the Arab world has translated into Arabic in the past 1,100 years."
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123 Quotes by Martin Amis
Martin Amis has 123 quotes on this site.
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Money doesn't mind if we say it's evil, it goes from strength to strength. It's a fiction, an addiction, and…
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Very broadly, literature concerns itself with the internal, cinema with the external.
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Jane was my wicked stepmother: she was generous, affectionate and resourceful; she salvaged my schooling and I owe her an…
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When I go back to the core of my childhood, my cousin Lucy seems always to be in the peripheral…
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Only in art will the lion lie down with the lamb, and the rose grow without thorn.
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Every 10 years you're a different person, and the really great books evolve with you as you get older. They're…
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Novelists are stamina merchants, grinders, nine-to-fivers, and their career curves follow the usual arc of human endeavour.
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Style is not neutral; it gives moral directions.
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Sometimes I feel that life is passing me by, not slowly either, but with ropes of steam and spark -…
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One of the unseen benefits of having children is that they deliver you from your own selfishness. There's no going…
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Weapons are like money; no one knows the meaning of enough.
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More will mean worse.
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More Annually Quotes
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The movies I cannot go without and that I watch annually are 'A Clockwork Orange,' 'Scarface' and 'Fantasia.'
— Nicolas Cage
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It is a tragic mix-up when the United States spends 500,000 for every enemy soldier killed, and only 53 annually…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Does America really need 70 percent of the world's lawyers? ... Is it healthy for our economy to have 18…
— Dan Quayle
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Dr. Oaks made the remark that, according to the best estimate he could make, there were four hundred murders annually…
— Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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Forests and trees make significant direct contributions to the nutrition of poor households ... [as] rural communities in Central Africa…
— Frances Ford Seymour
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There are still many unsolved problems about bird life, among which are the age that birds attain, the exact time…
— Paul Bartsch
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When George Bush came into office, we had surpluses. And now we have half-a-trillion-dollar deficit annually. When George Bush came…
— Barack Obama
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Discrimination and multiple deprivations of human rights are also frequently part of the problem, sentencing entire populations to poverty... It…
— Navi Pillay
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It is a wise rule and should be fundamental in a government disposed to cherish its credit, and at the…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Taxes should be proportioned to what may be annually spared by the individual.
— Thomas Jefferson
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Think on a 50-year scale, which is a much more natural time-scale for global warming. The US is right now…
— Bjorn Lomborg
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He wove those three threads into a talk ranging from annually spending a week at Halloween as a child collecting…
— Thomas Jefferson
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