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.
Quotes to Explore
-
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.
-
Being a model, you're always the product of somebody else's vision.
-
But I think we need the international market.
-
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.
-
Guys like me don't necessarily progress very far, which is fine.
-
I've done comedy, and I've done drama. I've sort of been a journeyman in my career so far.
-
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.
-
I started cooking out of middle school 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.
-
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.
-
Google never knew how successful key words would be. Facebook didn't know how successful Zynga would be.
-
As far as how much you listen to the audience, you listen to them when they really hate something.
-
Novels taught me that history is dramatic. I wanted my students to know that, too.
-
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.
-
My biggest asset is that I know how to learn, and that, I believe, will help me in the long run.
-
I meet so many that think population growth is a major problem in regard to climate change. But the number of children born per year in the world has stopped growing since 1990. The total number of children below 15 years of age in the world are now relatively stable around 2 billion.
-
Love is a kind of warfare.
-
At some point, life starts to pass you by and becomes about avoidance. I want to stay clear from that situation, because I don't like that.
-
People can very quickly have a very poor self-image. It doesn't take much.
-
I played hockey in North Dakota growing up and watch a lot of that.
-
Men wanna be alone, but we don't wanna be by ourselves.
-
Doubt begets understanding, and understanding begets compassion. Verily, it is conviction that kills.
-
U.S. dominance of the Middle East is not the corrective to terror. It is a cause of terror. Were we not over there, the 9/11 terrorists would not have been over here.
-
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.
