Clifford D. Simak Quotes
If mankind were to continue in other than the present barbarism, a new path must be found, a new civilization based on some other method than technology.
Quotes to Explore
-
Working as a musician, I have to constantly generate new material, so school keeps me sharp. Reading and writing all the time helps me to be a better songwriter.
-
We're going to lose more species, acidify the oceans more, do damage that it will take millions of years - if not longer - to unwind. Exactly how much damage will we do? How deep will those scars run? We don't know yet. But we will turn the ship.
-
I don't know how people recognize me.
-
I was afraid I would see someone from my past who thought I was this big athlete, and then I end up being just normal.
-
Many societal problems concern science, such as the energy crisis, genetic alterations of foods.
-
I love baseball. And American Football, too. But not rugby.
-
It's a waste of time to think that if you colored a painting red what might have happened if you painted it black.
-
I'm definitely not a super great guitarist. Ultimately, I just write a lot of love songs.
-
I just went to an acting agency one day and just said, 'I would like to act. Would you take me?' And they took me.
-
Coaching in the NBA is not easy. It's like a nervous breakdown with a paycheck.
-
Enjoy every sandwich.
-
All that a critic, as critic, can give poets is the deadly encouragement that never ceases to remind them of how heavy their inheritance is.
-
Scientists have egos, and scientists like to name dinosaurs. They like to name anything. Everybody likes to have their own animal that they named.
-
I always say, I'm certain I changed 'Watchmen' less than the Coen brothers changed 'No Country for Old Men.' I'm certain of it. But you don't hear the Cormac McCarthy fans, like, up in arms about it. They should be. It's like an amazing Pulitzer Prize-winning book.
-
If there are no other wonderful roles that come my way, I have a quite an interesting, dynamic life.
-
After all my various relationships I find myself now home alone.
-
I don't think any good book is based on factual experience. Bad books are about things the writer already knew before he wrote them.
-
Never give a sucker an even break.
-
Truth has no path. Truth is living and, therefore, changing. Awareness is without choice, without demand, without anxiety; in that state of mind, there is perception. To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person. Awareness has no frontier; it is giving of your whole being, without exclusion.
-
Cultivating relationships with people who've achieved what you want to achieve makes the path fuller and more fun.
-
The sovereign voluntary path to cheerfulness, if our spontaneous cheerfulness be lost, is to sit up cheerfully, to look round cheerfully, and to act and speak as if cheerfulness were already there. If such conduct does not make you soon feel cheerful, nothing else on that occasion can.
-
Tennis is more than just a sport. It's an art, like the ballet. Or like a performance in the theater.
-
If mankind were to continue in other than the present barbarism, a new path must be found, a new civilization based on some other method than technology.
