Lucky Jim Quotes

#1. Cited by the author of 'Lucky Jim' as one of the most dismal depressing questions in the English language: Shall we go straight in?

Kingsley Amis

#2. My literary career kicked off in 1956 when, as a resident of Swansea, South Wales, I published my first novel, 'Lucky Jim.'

Martin Amis

#3. When we fall in love with someone there's a moment when we take a picture of that person, an emotional snapshot, that we carry with us forever. If we're lucky, if we're very, very lucky, the person we fall in love with will always resemble that snapshot.

Jim Geoghan

#4. If we lose our culture, we lose our memory.

Robert Wilson

#5. I've been lucky enough to primarily work for myself over the years.

Jim Courier

#6. Plus, teaching brings home to you very fast that you actually know nothing. I didn't realize that before.

Hugh Grant

#7. At Sequoia, upwards of a hundred entrepreneurs a week present, and if we're lucky, maybe a dozen of them are focusing on the enterprise.

Jim Goetz

#8. Children, those lucky ones to whom clocks are of no consequence but who drift along on the true emotional content of time.

Jim Harrison

#9. I like being able to go to the supermarket and go on the Tube and have an ordinary domestic life. I'd hate to have to protect myself. I'm quite lucky that I can carry on without any intrusions. I don't get given a hard time by anyone.

Jim Broadbent

#10. Are you a lucky little lady in the City of Light? Or just another lost angel ... City of Night?

Jim Morrison

#11. Hell be lucky to last five or six years on those knees. What it might have to come down to is playing less on hard surfaces and playing more on forgiving surfaces.

Jim Courier

#12. Cliff, a cell phone isn't a toy. It's a very lucky technical miracle for all of us. It's a prime weapon against our essential loneliness.
I can't say I've ever felt that lonely.

Jim Harrison

#13. I have learned that when you've done your homework, once you recognize that supply and demand are totally out of whack, and you make your move, you are definitely going to get very lucky.

Jim Rogers

#14. Superman is, after all, an alien life form. He is simply the acceptable face of invading realities.

Clive Barker

#15. I've been very lucky with prizes. But the thing about prizes is that, when you talk about a prize-winning author, you can be talking about one that is well-regarded but doesn't sell any books.

Jim Crace

#16. I consider myself very lucky. God has a funny way of bringing some things around and knocking you in the head with the ultimate destination. Something I should have achieved quite easily took me a long time to get around to. It came in His time, not mine.

Jim Morris

#17. I hate wearing trousers and shoes. I wear jeans and sneakers most of the time.

Mark Webber

#18. I've mostly been a happy-go-lucky kind of guy.

Jim O'Heir

#19. Playing Sheldon is just heaven for me. I realize how enormously lucky I am to play a role that makes me so incredibly happy. As I told Chuck Lorre in a Christmas card a few years ago, I'm living a version of the dream.

Jim Parsons

#20. I didn't think that it's something that would happen. I didn't think I would be in the position, emotionally or financially, to be able to do that. But I've been lucky [to have big family].

Jim Gaffigan

#21. I am a very lucky man. I am living my life with my hobby as my profession.

Jim Sullivan

#22. For the life of her, she couldn't understand how such an obstinate, boneheaded chauvinist could make her pulse race and her insides turn to jelly.

Joanne Fluke

#23. AOL was a roller coaster ride. I was lucky and privileged to be a part of it, both the ups and the downs.

Jim Bankoff

#24. Because your master doesn't control you anymore. He hasn't for years. You're a free bird, Lucky. You are responsible for all your actions now.

Jim Tan

#25. If we don't have an informed electorate we don't have a democracy. So I don't care how people get the information, as long as they get it. I'm just doing it my particular way and I feel lucky I can do it the way I want to do it.

Jim Lehrer

#26. One day I'll be able to relax a bit, and try and become a good composer.

Benjamin Britten

#27. If you want to be lucky, do your homework.

Jim Rogers