Blake Clark Quotes

Being in the army is like being in the Boy Scouts, except that the Boy Scouts have adult supervision.

Blake Clark

• Army
• Adult
• Supervision
• Boy Scouts

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• If a division becomes insolvent, the credit markets' reaction to that is immediate - regardless of what period of time you think you have to remedy.

  

  Walker Stapleton
  • Time
  • Think
  • Period

• I am very proud of what we have built in Spain, because it is not a traditional Formula 1 country. I think we have found passionate fans, and built up a strong culture for the sport - and things are improving every day, with more and more people getting interested.

  

  Fernando Alonso
  • People
  • Up
  • Country

• I read people; that's one of my strengths. It's not that I can't be fooled, but I'm not fooled often.

  

  Jack Keane
  • People
  • Strengths
  • Fooled

• For a while, I became an atheist; now that I'm grown up, though, I'm not hard-edged enough to be an atheist. Even though I live with a flaming atheist, I love going to temple. I love all the rituals.

  

  Padma Lakshmi
  • Up
  • Live
  • Love

• Place me behind prison walls - walls of stone ever so high, ever so thick, reaching ever so far into the ground. There is a possibility that in some way or another I may be able to escape. But stand me on that floor and draw a chalk line around me and have me give my word of honor never to cross it. Can I get out of that circle? No. Never.

  

  Karl G. Maeser
  • May
  • High
  • Honor

• Horses know how to be loyal but still keep their distance.

  

  Sadie Jones
  • Know
  • Distance
  • Loyal

• It's a very hard and competitive business in which you have to fight every day in order to impose yourself.

  

  Karolina Kurkova
  • Business
  • Day
  • Fight

• Accept who you are and try and make the best of that.

  

  Randy Jackson Breakfast Club
  • You
  • Best
  • Try

• I think people desperately want to feel love.

  

  Gary Chapman
  • People
  • Love
  • Think

• I'm glad to say I haven't found my style yet. I'd be bored to death.

  

  Edgar Degas
  • Death
  • Style
  • Bored

• The man who gives his own decisions priority over society is a criminal.

  

  Alfred Bester
  • Society
  • Priority

• Why can't a woman be more like a dog, huh? So sweet, loving, attentive.

  

  Kirk Douglas
  • Why
  • Dog
  • Sweet

• I used to be a serious sneaker addict, but I've moved on a little bit from those days.

  

  Mark Ronson
  • Serious

• Comedy is difficult, especially slapstick. The trick is to have fun while you are performing it.

  

  Maureen O'Hara
  • Fun
  • Comedy

• My favourite scent... changes every day. I have a cupboard full - so many I can't begin to tell you.

  

  Marie Helvin

• I am specifically concerned about the idea that the legislative process is one that gets characterized the way it is as the 'fiscal cliff.' At the end of the day, the United States is the biggest economy in the world, and the dollar is the reserve currency in the world. I think it behooves us to act in a much more responsible way.

  

  Lloyd Blankfein
  • World

• I was really enjoying one of the screenings of 'Beautiful Creatures' and there was this little 14-year-old boy sitting next to me in the screening and I was laughing at all the jokes and I just felt really judged. I had to keep it down a bit. It's a bit embarrassing.

  

  Alice Englert
  • Beautiful
  • Boy

• This is the hardest thing I've ever done. The rehab has not gone as expected.

  

  Jennifer Capriati
  • Done

• I think when you get past your second album, it all becomes something of a routine. So you have to struggle against that, find a way of making what you do sound fresh and new each time.

  

  Van Morrison
  • Time
  • Past
  • Struggle

• It is not the most distinguished achievements that men's virtues or vices may be best discovered; but very often an action of small note. An casual remark or joke shall distinguish a person's real character more than the greatest sieges, or the most important battles.

  

  Plutarch
  • Character
  • Discovered
  • Virtues

• The days are over when technology can be advanced in laboratories by individual scientists alone. Now you need an army of lawyers to negotiate the hazardous terrain of interlocking patents. Unless we find a solution to the problem of interlocking patents, the patent system may actually impede the very innovation it was designed to encourage.

  

  Ha-Joon Chang
  • May
  • Alone
  • Technology

• When I was in the army, there were four times that I was wounded. I also got more than 30 wounds on my body, and my injuries were ranked on the second rank of invalids. The first rank is the most severe. So, that means that I had lost more than 60 per cent of working capability.

  

  Nguyen Tan Dung
  • Lost
  • Army

• Strangely enough, my favorite airport is Logan Airport in Boston - but largely for sentimental reasons. My first real summer job was working as a journeyman for the airport's resident maintenance crew - a small army of union electricians, plumbers, and carpenters.

  

  Amor Towles
  • Real
  • Job
  • Small

• Being in the army is like being in the Boy Scouts, except that the Boy Scouts have adult supervision.

  

  Blake Clark
  • Army
  • Adult
  • Supervision