Clea Duvall Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
You must remind yourself at all times that the golf ball is nothing. It's an object. It's something to be swatted and sometimes lost and not even looked for.
-
If you have not been a villain at a certain point in time, you will never be a hero. And the day you are a hero, you may become a villain the next day.
-
I don't really feel like I have to have a debate with my husband over issues.
-
What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive?
-
Between their rise in the thirteenth century and their sudden fall in the seventeenth, when the line abruptly ended, the Medicis produced three popes, two queens, and many Florentine rulers, and they supported the work of Galileo, Michelangelo, Leonardo, and Botticelli - a veritable parade of geniuses.
-
In the future, I want to have super-fights.
-
What about Broadway? Yes, I'm involved with a new musical based on 'The Adams Family.'
-
In many films, as many different characters, I've killed many different people.
-
The only real indulgence was buying a house. That was a pretty big step.
-
The emperor is in the Church, not above the Church.
-
God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist.
-
The one thing that the president continues to diminish, which I think is unfortunate, is the fact that the Russian government, at the highest level, deliberately interfered with our election in 2016, and according to all of our experts in the intelligence community, they are coming back with more force in 2018 and 2020.
-
We should not have drug laws or a court system that disproportionately punishes the black community.
-
The cruelest thing a man can do to a woman is to portray her as perfection.
-
Broad tolerance in the matter of beliefs is necessarily a part of the new ethics.
-
As software engineers trained to turn ambiguity into absolutes and fuzzy requirements into ones and zeros, we had a 'eureka' moment when we realized that our training had broader, real-world applications.
-
I think it's important to remember where I began. I know that when I talk to other writers, say, writers from the South or writers from abroad, it's where they begin as children that is important to them.
-
Of our relation to all creation we can never know anything whatsoever. All is immensity and chaos. But, since all this knowledge of our limitations cannot possibly be of any value to us, it is better to ignore it in our daily conduct of life.
-
Our late Leader, Dr. Sun Yat-sen, with his universal sympathy for all oppressed and his profound understanding of Jesus' revolutionary spirit of love and sacrifice, carried on his revolutionary work for forty years and brought about at last the liberation of the Chinese people.
-
Growing maturity is marked by the increasing liberties we take with our travelling... we made the discovery (some people never make it) that real books can be taken on a journey and that hours of golden reading can so be added to its other delights.
-
The novel is about, for me, sustained and organized looking. I do think that people have a hunger for a sustained engagement, that concentration that the book can offer.
-
I've been drunk for about a week now, and I thought it might sober me up to sit in a library.
-
That's the whole key to anything: Don't be afraid to fail. And Bernie Mac is not afraid to fail.
-
It's hard to be scared when there are 80 people around you.
