Clifford D. Simak Quotes

They sat for a moment, regarding one another; neither understanding. As if we were two aliens, thought Blaine. With viewpoints that did not come within a million miles of coinciding, and yet they both were men.

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• I know politics and politicians are hated, but I still believe in goodness of a heart that has selfless intentions. With the grace of God, I will make a difference.

  

  Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore
  • God
  • Believe
  • Heart

• I took the position from day one that it was the right decree, that the modifications I made to the decree were proper, that the correct outcome had been obtained, and that in due time all of that would become apparent. And it has become apparent.

  

  Harold H. Greene
  • Time
  • Day
  • Become

• Being a model, you're always the product of somebody else's vision.

  

  Karen Elson
  • You
  • Vision
  • Model

• But I think we need the international market.

  

  Zhang Yimou
  • Think
  • Need
  • I Think

• I think any time you bring those guys in, one with a lot of playoff experience, with rings - those guys won - guys in the locker room gravitate towards those guys. Those guys have been there, so there's a lot that they can teach the guys.

  

  Calvin Johnson
  • Time
  • Experience
  • Think

• Guys like me don't necessarily progress very far, which is fine.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • Progress
  • Very
  • Guys

• I've done comedy, and I've done drama. I've sort of been a journeyman in my career so far.

  

  Zachary Knighton
  • Done
  • Career
  • Comedy

• When you see the audiences and the smiling faces at the shows it really makes up for the work that you put in. I have a job I really love so whatever hecticness comes up - I'll just deal with it.

  

  Katarina Witt
  • Work
  • See
  • Audiences

• I started cooking out of middle school depression.

  

  Zac Posen
  • School
  • Cooking
  • Depression

• My parents' divorce made an important change in my life. It affected me. After that, when I can't play Wimbledon, it was tough. For one month I was outside the world.

  

  Rafael Nadal
  • Life
  • World
  • Important

• My father's peripatetic career also gave me critical perspective when it came to my own career choices.

  

  Hannah Storm
  • Father
  • Career
  • Choices

• America is essentially an entrepreneurial culture: the sizzle is the steak, because, after all, if you buy the sizzle, the steak comes with it. Canada's, in contrast, is a primary-producing culture: we'll buy the steak and hope to get a little sizzle with it. But we know we can't eat sizzle.

  

  Wayne Grady
  • America
  • Hope
  • Culture

• Google never knew how successful key words would be. Facebook didn't know how successful Zynga would be.

  

  Yuri Milner
  • Words
  • Know
  • Successful

• As far as how much you listen to the audience, you listen to them when they really hate something.

  

  Adam McKay
  • You
  • Hate
  • Listen

• Novels taught me that history is dramatic. I wanted my students to know that, too.

  

  Laura Amy Schlitz
  • History
  • Me
  • Know

• The war industry people are very together; they know exactly what they want; they don't even have to talk to each other. The peace industry people are just intellectuals who are very critical of each other... Unless the peace industry is powerful, we're always going to have war. It is as simple as that.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • People
  • War
  • Together

• My biggest asset is that I know how to learn, and that, I believe, will help me in the long run.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • Believe
  • Long
  • Help

• I don't feel drawn to lightness, I need something more. I feel that - oh, I hate saying this, it sounds so wanky - but I feel a real urge to give voices to people we don't usually hear from in real life.

  

  Kate Dickie
  • People
  • Life
  • Real

• Men wake up aroused in the morning. We can't help it. We just wake up and we want you. And the women are thinking, "How can he want me the way I look in the morning?" It's because we can't see you. We have no blood anywhere near our optic nerve.

  

  Andy Rooney
  • Up
  • Men
  • Thinking

• There was an opinion expressed in the newspapers that, after 20 years, maybe the Israel Philharmonic should consider asking me to leave. I thought they might have a point, so I asked my orchestra. They told me overwhelmingly that they wanted me to stay.

  

  Zubin Mehta
  • Opinion
  • Thought
  • Point

• This is entertainment, not Judaism, I think the general public will celebrate this, but the religious public will be indifferent. (on Madonna's visit to Israel)

  

  Uri Orbach
  • Thinking
  • Religious
  • Israel

• I love to entertain, I love to make people laugh, cry, and move them, perhaps moving them in their lives.

  

  Corbin Bernsen
  • People
  • Moving

• I didn't go to film school so my learning was done out in public and showed up on the screen.

  

  Jonathan Demme
  • Up
  • School
  • Done

• They sat for a moment, regarding one another; neither understanding. As if we were two aliens, thought Blaine. With viewpoints that did not come within a million miles of coinciding, and yet they both were men.

  

  Clifford D. Simak
  • Men
  • Understanding