Beaten Quote by Martin Amis Download Open image “It is terrible to see someone being beaten up by the English language.” — Martin Amis ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.3 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Beaten English language Language Terrible
Most people who bother with the matter at all would admit that the English language is in a bad way, but it is generally… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“The English language is under assault by stupid people who use words they don't understand, and is defended by pompous asses who like to… — Tim Cameron Copy Share Image
Most English speakers do not have the writer's short fuse about seeing or hearing their language brutalized. This is the main reason, I suspect,… — Russell Baker Copy Share Image
“You would be amazed by how I can torture the English language. I am an abusive lover.” — Thomm Quackenbush Copy Share Image
Sitting here now today, I can forgive a lot of the English people because it only takes a hand full of bad people to… — Marvin Hagler Copy Share Image
I think that's just a general English attitude [being abusive]. I did the same thing to famous people. — Robert Pattinson Copy Share Image
Language makes culture, and we make a rotten culture when we abuse words. — Cynthia Ozick Copy Share Image
I am always being told off for using bad language but it's sort of lovely really, because it makes me think of my lovely… — Kathy Burke Copy Share Image
English is a forgiving language. It's not like Classical Arabic and it's not like French. You can speak broken English and be expressive and… — Elliott Colla Copy Share Image
“It takes a thorough knowledge of the English language to effectively abuse it.” — Charlene Vermeulen Copy Share Image
The other day, I was taking part in an audience Q&A when I was roundly scolded by a woman for 'allowing the BBC to… — Sandi Toksvig Copy Share Image
“Yeah,' I said and started smoking another cigarette. Unless I inform you otherwise, I'm always smoking another cigarette.” — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
“barrios; each barrio has two or three gangs, and all the gangs are theoretically” — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
I'm not interested in making a diagnostic novel or a concern. I'm 100 percent committed in fiction to the pleasure principle - that's what… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
“If we all downed tools and joined hands for ten minutes and stopped believing in money, then money would no longer exist. We never… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
When I see a lot of young faces in the audience, it's just sort of sinking in how important that is. Because you're old… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
“I was informed by my viscera that now was the time to put my arm around her shoulders. I ignored them.” — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
It's becoming clearer and clearer to me that the world is there to be celebrated by writers, and in fact this is what all… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
In her final months Princess Diana was being shat upon by the tabloids -- basically for sleeping with an Arab. When she died, these… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
If you feel you have a strong constituency among the young, you can really die happy, because the great unanswered question, the only valid… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
My life looked good on paper - where, in fact, almost all of it was being lived. — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
I say, 'If I had a serious brain injury I might well write a children's book', but otherwise the idea of being conscious of… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
I think children have talent and insight, but it gets beaten out of them. — Rita Dove Copy Share Image
It's kind of the yin and yang that fascinate me. That for all the evil men do, there are also people who work obnoxiously… — Lisa Gardner Copy Share Image
“I felt my heart skip a beat, just one, but it was enough that I took notice. It was nice to know that the… — C.M. Stunich Copy Share Image
Class clowns are never allowed to date anybody decent, but you don't get beaten up, you're invited to parties, and everybody likes you. — Dan Harmon Copy Share Image
I know from my own clinical work that when people are beaten and hurt, they numb out so that they cant feel anymore. — John Bradshaw Copy Share Image
You could be beaten down by anybody and by everybody and it doesn't matter what everybody else thinks it's how you see yourself and… — Mark Cuban Copy Share Image
Could beauty be beaten out, O youth the cities have sent to strike at each other's strength, it is you who have kept her… — Hilda Doolittle Copy Share Image
The midget, Bush, and that Rumsfeld deserve only to be beaten with shoes by freedom loving people everywhere. — Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf Copy Share Image
Like with every form of cancer, early detection is what it is all about. I urge everyone to learn the facts about this condition.… — Rod Stewart Copy Share Image
In our culture of constant access and nonstop media, nothing feels more like a curse from God than time in the wilderness. To be… — Jonathan Martin Copy Share Image
A man who is determined never to move out of the beaten road cannot lose his way. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
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