"We should be wrong to demand that a critic must stay on the point all the time; it is enough if he remains in orbit around it"

-- Kingsley Amis

#Orbit Quotes #Demand Quotes #Enough Quotes

“Winning wasn't natural for me. It had to be fought for, in the echoes and trodden footprints of my mind.”
“Mankind has probably done more damage to the Earth in the 20th century than in all of previous human history.”
“There are three kinds of pianists: Jewish pianists, homosexual pianists, and bad pianists.”
“I think that being good to people - you'll never regret that. Maybe you'll get walked all over, maybe you'll get tricked, maybe you'll get fooled, but I think it's so much better to be kind to people and to trust people rather then to have your guard up and say mean things to people. You never want to be the reason that someone else feels bad.”
“The public are not stupid.”
“Jesus Christ must be at the heart of every sermon you preach.”
“My hands are heavy and most importantly they are very fast. I have been called the fastest white man alive. I don't work submissions and not because I am trying to prove something I'm just frankly not very good at 'em. I am very good at getting away. I've never fought anybody whether it was in practice or competition who could hold me down. Even if I thought I could get a submission I'm not laying underneath a grown man with my legs spread on worldwide T.V. Some guys subscribe to that theory but I am a Republican and we don't do that”
“Science is advanced by proposing and testing hypothesis, not by declaring questions unsolvable.”

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