Clarence Clemons (The Big Man) Quotes

Of all the surgeries I've had, there's not much left to operate on. I am totally bionic.

Clarence Clemons

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• 'Extraordinary' is an original fairy tale, a contemporary story. But like a traditional fairy tale, it heads quickly into frightening, bloody territory. I am afraid for my book, as it goes out alone into the world, just as I was frightened for Phoebe as I wrote and rewrote her story.

  

  Nancy Werlin
  • World
  • Book
  • Alone

• I'm bigger now than when I was eating meat. My lifts in the gym are better. I'm in better shape.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • Better
  • Gym
  • Eating

• The man who is intent on making the most of his opportunities is too busy to bother about luck.

  

  B. C. Forbes
  • Man
  • Chance
  • Luck

• I started the business as a computer consulting business, which, coupled to my nickname, Scorpion, formed the full name Scorpion Computer Services.

  

  Walter O'Brien
  • Business
  • Name
  • Consulting

• I play the guitar. This year at the Sundance film festival, I joined the band from 'The Guitar' on stage. We warmed up for Patti Smith, and then the director Michel Gondry got on the drums to play some songs from the soundtrack to his film Be Kind Rewind with Mos Def. It was pretty mad.

  

  Saffron Burrows
  • Up
  • Pretty
  • Band

• Unless you love someone, nothing else makes any sense.

  

  e. e. cummings
  • Love
  • For Her
  • Sense

• Accept what people offer. Drink their milkshakes. Take their love.

  

  Wally Lamb
  • People
  • Love
  • Offer

• I always have one foot in the street, so I know not everyone wants to dress like the women they see in music videos.

  

  Rachel Roy
  • Music
  • Women
  • Dress

• The Hit Stick is a tremendous invention. It really gave you control as a defensive player because most of the time, 'Madden' is such an offensive game. But the Hit Stick really gave you the opportunity to shine on defense for the first time.

  

  Larry Fitzgerald
  • Time
  • Game
  • Opportunity

• As in the early 20th century, the elemental forces of globalisation have unravelled broad solidarities and loyalties.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • Early
  • 20th Century

• It was extremely hard going from being a parent of one to a parent of three, because now all these instant decisions have to be made about how you balance out the time and attention between them.

  

  Patricia Richardson
  • Time
  • Attention
  • Balance

• There is no more defiant denial of one man's ability to possess one woman exclusively than the prostitute who refuses to redeemed.

  

  Gail Sheehy
  • Man
  • Woman
  • Ability

• We don't have to sit by while Trump uses his enormous global platform to undermine our national security. We would love to be able to actually force Twitter's hand to live up to its rules, explicitly forbidding hate speech and encouraging violence.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • Live
  • Hate
  • Violence

• My definition of a redundancy is an air-bag in a politician's car.

  

  Larry Hagman
  • Car
  • Air
  • Politician

• I took an acting class. After the first day, the teacher quit, so they said take another. When I saw 'How to be a Stand-up Comedian,' it resonated. I realized I'd rather make 200 people laugh than make one person cry.

  

  Wendy Liebman
  • People
  • Up
  • Day

• It's an honor to be awarded the Liberty Medal.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • Honor
  • Liberty
  • Awarded

• There is a difference between not understanding and being willfully obtuse.

  

  M. K. Hobson
  • Understanding

• Commitment often means that a woman achieves her primary fantasy, while a man gives his up. In exchange for forfeiting his primary fantasy, what does he hope to fulfill? His primary need: intimacy.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Up
  • Hope
  • Commitment

• The U.S., especially Hollywood, is so strong for film production.

  

  Wang Jianlin
  • Strong
  • Film
  • Hollywood

• It's wonderful to be back. Back among the mountains that remind us of our vulnerability, our ultimate lack of control over the world we live in. Mountains that demand humility, and yield so much peace in return.

  

  Alex Lowe
  • World
  • Live
  • Control

• The disenfranchised offspring, along with an entire ageless class of human discards, know only that they are doomed. They are drawn to spikes and pentagrams, gasoline, guitars screaming like whips, MIDI-programmed Thanatos, with sufficient amplitude to occupy that hollow space where consciousness once resided. These Dionysians obliterate themselves by removing filters, ultimately becoming insensate with sensation. This mode of behaviour originates in the superstitious belief that transcendence is acquired in the precise ratio by which reason is destroyed.

  

  Adam Parfrey
  • Consciousness
  • Behaviour
  • Disenfranchised

• If a child wants to read 'Twilight' over Middlemarch, they should be encouraged - the important thing is to get them reading in the first place.

  

  Malorie Blackman
  • Important
  • Reading
  • Child

• Of all the surgeries I've had, there's not much left to operate on. I am totally bionic.

  

  Clarence Clemons