Arthur C. Clarke Quotes
What is becoming more interesting than the myths themselves has been the study of how the myths were constructed from sparse or unpromising facts-indeed, sometimes from no facts-in a kind of mute conspiracy of longing, very rarely under anybody’s conscious control.
Quotes to Explore
-
If there's an opportunity for me to compete at something, I'm there.
-
One of the prices that we pay for integration was the disintegration of the black community.
-
Ambition often puts Men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same position with creeping.
-
In today's society we sometimes forget to balance our hearts and our heads; this is the reason we stop laughing.
-
Europe believes that providing clear labelling for genetically modified food is a consumer right, but such practice is absolutely opposed by the vast majority of states in the U.S.
-
Only a fool does not fear actors, but you can't beat them, and if you can't beat them, join them, as they say. As I've got older I've become very interested in that part of the work.
-
The most amazing thing about Karl Lagerfeld is that no matter what you ask him, you will always get an interesting answer. We even exchanged notes about ponytails.
-
Well you know it's dangerous in politics, because especially in the Philippines there's a lot of killing in politics.
-
Well, yeah, but I probably wasn't as open about my desperation.
-
I would think about the outcome. Visualize sometimes. Because it never comes out the way you want it to. Fight the way I know how to fight. Whatever comes up, comes up.
-
Speed can't always get you wickets.
-
Although the French were very friendly and helpful. On one location we were to film at the top of the Eiffel Tower but we couldn't, as it was so misty with four inches of snow on the ground. We couldn't see a thing but we finally got it done.
-
Circumstances give in reality to every political principle its distinguishing color and discriminating effect. The circumstances are what render every civil and political scheme beneficial or noxious to mankind.
-
I'd probably describe my sense of humor as 'twisted,' I guess. It's not hard to make me laugh, especially when I'm surrounded by my close friends, especially my bandmates.
-
Do not quit! Hundreds of times I have watched people throw in the towel at the one-yard line while someone else comes along and makes a fortune by just going that extra yard.
-
Actually, I bought one share of Warren Buffett's stock, probably 35 years ago, in order to read his letters.
-
It takes one person to give you a big chance.
-
I never had any backlash from the model-turned-actor thing.
-
Fletcherizing is gross. I tried it once. I tried to go until it's all liquid, and it just creeps you out to be focusing so much on your chewing.
-
Reuniting with my brothers musically has been really incredible.
-
It's been interesting. I went through a period where a lot of people would recognize me, and then when I had injures and my ranking dropped, not as many people did.
-
Loving the church also means having the courage to make difficult, trying choices, having ever before oneself the good of the church and not one's own.
-
Pliny had no theoretical opinions of his own concerning changes of the earth's surface... But his enumeration of the new islands which had been formed in the Mediterranean, and of other convulsions, shows that the ancients had not been inattentive observers of the changes which had taken place on the earth within the memory of man.
-
What is becoming more interesting than the myths themselves has been the study of how the myths were constructed from sparse or unpromising facts-indeed, sometimes from no facts-in a kind of mute conspiracy of longing, very rarely under anybody’s conscious control.
