Arthur C. Clarke Quotes

All these worlds are yours, except Europa. Attempt no landings there.

Arthur C. Clarke

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• 'Yellow Moon' was a poem. My wife at the time, Joel - she's dead now - it was our 25th anniversary. She had the chance to go on a cruise with her sister. And I'm home with the kids and looking up, and I saw the big moon, and I just started writing.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Home

• If bigots behave like bigots, it's not a huge surprise.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Like
  • Surprise
  • Behave

• Every day it seems more likely that we are destined - or should one say doomed? - to replay the disastrous economic history of the 1930s.

  

  Barry Eichengreen
  • History
  • Day
  • Everyday

• I use filming as an excuse to take classes. I got my certification in sailing for 'Wedding Crashers,' and now I can handle a 26-foot boat. I played a seamstress once, so I took sewing classes. I love dipping into these other lives.

  

  Rachel McAdams
  • Love
  • Wedding
  • Boat

• I love Somali foods like canjeero, a pancakelike bread; same for pizza, burgers, and sushi.

  

  Halima Aden
  • Love
  • Same
  • Pizza

• An important notion in Indian political thought that is of great value to Hungary is the idea of peaceful development.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • Great
  • Important
  • Political

• What is negotiation but the accumulation of small lies leading to advantage?

  

  Felix Dennis
  • Small
  • Lies
  • Leading

• Lyrics can't do what they do - or should do - when you're creating a musical with rock lyrics. There's plenty of room for rock musicals, just not all rock musicals.

  

  Harold Prince
  • You
  • Rock
  • Lyrics

• Basically, the Internet is just the way now. It's the end-all, be-all of self-promotion. It's not like you got to burn CDs and pass them out or sell them. The Internet is a tool that reaches billions and billions of people. It's like a no-brainer to tie it in with self-promotion, or even label promotion.

  

  Wale
  • People
  • Internet
  • Now

• If there's a problem, we at Wine Library never tell ourselves that once we handle this issue, we'll never have to deal with the person again. We talk to every single person as though we're going to wind up sitting next to that person at his or her mother's house that night for dinner.

  

  Gary Vaynerchuk
  • Up
  • Mother
  • House

• I actually have more respect for people who are in the closet. You end up exposing so much of yourself because you have to talk about your sexual life. You shouldn't have to talk about it.

  

  Randy Harrison
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• I read a lot of thrillers, especially American crime novels.

  

  Kate Mosse
  • American
  • Read
  • Crime

• With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Nothing
  • Succeed
  • Without

• It's hard for me to take care of myself, let's put it that way. I am my last priority.

  

  Rachel Zoe
  • Myself
  • Care
  • Priority

• A general belief seems to prevail in the colony that the Indians are little better, if at all, than the savages or natives of Africa. Even the children are taught to believe in that manner, with the result that the Indian is being dragged down to the position of a raw Kaffir.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Believe
  • Children

• Life was given to us a billion years ago. What have we done with it?

  

  Luc Besson
  • Life
  • Done

• 'They changed,' said Enid, 'from corporeal beings, from biological beings, to incorporeal beings, immaterial, pure intelligences. They now are ranged in huge communities on crystal lattices...'

  

  Clifford D. Simak

• I don't plan anything out, and I don't write in chronological order. The emotional tenor is what guides me, but a lot of it is feeling my way through the dark. That's okay if you have unlimited time to work and stumble upon things in a delightful way, but under a deadline, it can be really stressful.

  

  Jenny Han
  • Time
  • Work
  • Feeling

• Intellectuals ought to study the past not for the pleasure they find in so doing, but to derive lessons from it

  

  Cheikh Anta Diop
  • Past
  • Study
  • Lessons

• A man goes through many changes in 2000 meters. Some are not very pretty. Some make you hate yourself. Some make you wonder if you've been rowing for only three or four days. To avoid that fate, we prepared for all possibilities. If a meteor landed 10 feet off our stern, we would not blink. We Would be aware, yet impassive, to the outside world. Every ounce of energy would be funneled into the water, and not wasted by looking around, worrying about opponents, wondering about things that didn't concern our primary goal-to be the first across the finish line.

  

  Brad Alan Lewis
  • Wonder
  • Changes
  • Possibilities

• One night I'll be in Los Angeles and it'll be a Latin crowd, and then another night I'll go to Fresno and it'll be an all-black crowd. To me, that's the beauty of the music.

  

  Pitbull
  • Music
  • Night
  • Black

• The band will be going along, and somebody or another will say, 'I want to go off and do a solo career.'... They come back, and other people come in.

  

  Chris Squire Cinema
  • People
  • Career
  • Band

• All these worlds are yours, except Europa. Attempt no landings there.

  

  Arthur C. Clarke