Money Martin Amis Quotes

#1. He who seldom thinks of heaven is not likely to get thither; as the only way to hit the mark is to keep the eye fixed upon it.

Thomas Hartwell Horne

#2. Perhaps it would be better not to be a writer, but if you must, then write.

J.B. Priestley

#3. Perhaps there are other bits of my life that would take on content, take on shadow, if only I read more and thought less about money.

Martin Amis

#4. You may not believe in anything called a work-life balance, but your body certainly does. You need to monitor and nurture your body.

Vivek Wadhwa

#5. One of the secrets a nation can unlock to have material wealth is, having a leader who will take an uncompromising stand to establish truth and honesty as a rule of building the nation

Sunday Adelaja

#6. I still can't get over the idea that respectable adults now go to see superhero movies and that such films get reviewed in the 'New Yorker.' Clearly, I am seriously out of step with the times.

Chris Ware

#7. Weapons are like money; no one knows the meaning of enough.

Martin Amis

#8. Real conversion is an experience of repentance and forgiveness before God. It is not merely praying a prayer, joining a Christian church, or receiving a sacrament. It is being brought to our knees by the conviction of God the Holy Spirit.

R.C. Sproul

#9. While making love, we often talk about money. I like it. I like that dirty talk

Martin Amis

#10. I hire tea by the tea bag.

Martin Amis

#11. My hunch is that people often affiliate with causes online for selfish and narcissistic purposes. Sometimes, it may be as simple as trying to impress their online friends, and once you have fashioned that identity, there is very little reason to actually do anything else.

Evgeny Morozov

#12. Refrigerators are good for keeping homemade moonshine less gross. Freezers are good for keeping rattlesnakes less angry. Garages are good to hide in when your wife finds either.

Jenny Lawson

#13. My endeavors
Have ever come too short of my desires.
Yet filed with my abilities.

William Shakespeare

#14. Money doesn't mind if we say it's evil, it goes from strength to strength. It's a fiction, an addiction, and a tacit conspiracy.

Martin Amis

#15. 53. 'We mainly suppose the experiential quality to be an intrinsic quality of the physical object'-this is the so-called systematic illusion of color. Perhaps it is also that of love. But I am not willing to go there-not just yet. I believed in you.

Maggie Nelson

#16. The more they measure, the more they realize how much the Greeks departed from regular and banal lines in order to produce their effect.

Pierre-Auguste Renoir

#17. Watching an adaptation of your novel can be a violent experience: seeing your old jokes suddenly thrust at you can be alarming. But I started to enjoy 'Money' very quickly, and then I relaxed.

Martin Amis

#18. The first book I bought with my own money as a teenager was Martin Amis's 'Money.' You know that thing when you read a book and you think, 'I'm going to have to read every word ever written by this man.'

John Niven

#19. The future could go this way, that way. The future's futures have never looked so rocky. Don't put money on it. Take my advice and stick to the present. It's the real stuff, the only stuff, it's all there is, the present, the panting present.

Martin Amis

#20. Imagine if every church became a place where everyone is safe, but no one is comfortable. Imagine if every church became a place where we told one another the truth. We might just create sanctuary.

Rachel Held Evans

#21. Heat, money, sex and fever -this is it, this is New York, this is first class, this is the sharp end.

Martin Amis

#22. The ability to make somebody feel something: that's art. However you look at it, whether you're an author, a painter, a singer, a rapper, a spoken-word artist - art.

Wale

#23. They're ruining the city, aren't they," remarked Rafe. "The backpackers.

Caleb Crain

#24. Making lots of money
it's not that hard, you know. It's overestimated. Making lots of money is a breeze. You watch. ch. 1, p. 23 in Penguin paperback

Martin Amis

#25. Love is a choice you make everyday.

Gary Chapman

#26. Money by Martin Amis. I read it when I was 15, I read it hundreds of times since then and it always makes me laugh. Amis has managed to create a world that is both funny and abrasive. I'd love to play John Self, the depraved hero, who's without illusions, he created.

Robert Pattinson