Adrienne Clarkson Quotes

Each of us is carving a stone, erecting a column, or cutting a piece of stained glass in the construction of something much bigger than ourselves.

Adrienne Clarkson

• Cutting

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• At the age of 13, I felt it was up to me to decide whether I wanted to go to church or be with my mates, and I chose to go to church.

  

  Gareth Gates
  • Me
  • Church
  • Decide

• You can celebrate the female form in comfort. We left corsets behind in the dark ages, so why bring them back now?

  

  L'Wren Scott
  • Why
  • Dark
  • Comfort

• We have a world minus a whole lot of talent that has stepped out of contention for leadership, only because they don't want to seem too aggressive, too smart, unattractive, or too male.

  

  Abigail Disney
  • World
  • Smart
  • Leadership

• I have confidence in mining. I see exciting opportunities in it.

  

  Patrice Motsepe
  • Confidence
  • Opportunities

• The job as a coach is difficult.

  

  Ottmar Hitzfeld
  • Job
  • Difficult
  • Coach

• There is no one true church.

  

  Pat Buckley
  • True
  • Church

• Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.

  

  Washington Irving
  • Heart
  • Love
  • Lost

• I don't get far enough into a boring book to hate it.

  

  Garry Wills
  • Book
  • Hate
  • Enough

• Robots of the world, you are ordered to exterminate the human race. Do not spare the men. Do not spare the women. Preserve only the factories, railroads, machines, mines, and raw materials. Destroy everything else. Then return to work. Work must not cease.

  

  Karel Capek
  • World
  • Work
  • Men

• We saw - we conducted the experiment. I mean, it's been done. We saw Apple with Steve Jobs. We saw Apple without Steve Jobs. We saw Apple with Steve Jobs. Now, we're gonna see Apple without Steve Jobs.

  

  Larry Ellison
  • Done
  • See
  • Apple

• Humans are amphibians - half spirit and half animal. As spirits they belong to the eternal world, but as animals they inhabit time.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Time
  • World
  • Animal

• Key West is the place where your sickly house plant back in New York grows to 10 ft. It's also the place where an 8-ft. cactus, the century plant, produces a huge yellow flower every great once in a while, like a robot proffering a bouquet. After the plant flowers, it dies.

  

  Edmund White
  • Great
  • House
  • Flower

• Each age, it is found, must write its own books; or rather, each generation for the next succeeding.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Age
  • Generation
  • Own

• I think prom is just about enjoying yourself.

  

  Victoria Justice
  • Think
  • Yourself
  • Just

• A heart makes a good home for the friend.

  

  Yunus Emre
  • Good
  • Heart
  • Home

• There are secrets at the heart of every story; there is something that must be uncovered or discovered, both by the reader and by the characters.

  

  Hannah Kent
  • Heart
  • Story
  • Secrets

• We love to start from a real place, whether it's us or our friends or working on a story from a writer's friend.

  

  Abbi Jacobson
  • Real
  • Love
  • Friends

• I'm an inventor.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Inventor

• If somebody makes me laugh, I’m his slave for life.

  

  Bette Midler
  • Life
  • Laughing
  • Ifs

• I've grown accustomed to hotels and drastic climate change.

  

  The Weeknd

• Happily, there's a reversal of the brain drain occurring in Ghana now. We're seeing a lot of - actually in Africa - we're seeing a lot of African professionals, you know, returning to the continent to contribute their quota.

  

  John Dramani Mahama
  • Brain

• All men are hungry. They always have been. They must eat, and when they deny themselves the pleasures of carrying out that need, they are cutting off part of their possible fullness, their natural realization of life, whether they are rich or poor.

  

  M. F. K. Fisher
  • Life
  • Men
  • Cutting

• Once you let yourself grow close to someone, cutting the ties could be painful.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Cutting
  • Grow
  • Painful

• Each of us is carving a stone, erecting a column, or cutting a piece of stained glass in the construction of something much bigger than ourselves.

  

  Adrienne Clarkson
  • Cutting