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 feel like 'Work' was a really good song for people to get to know me, as it's obviously biographical. With 'Bounce,' I wanted to make sure people know there's a fun side to me as well as the somber and serious one.
-
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.
-
Just proportionately, statistically, one in three women are going to have an abortion. They're not all going to feel guilty.
-
Indiana Jones is very much an old-world kind of hero. He doesn't really have any kind of superpower or rely on any kind of technology to help him out of things.
-
In a lot of the art world, you have to present yourself as you know what you're doing at a young age. Music gave me another outlet. The 'no wave' bands were such an inspiration; it felt so free - once you start doing it, it's hard to stop. But I can't get away from art. It comes back around. I wouldn't be true to myself if I didn't pursue it.
-
I love 'Annie Hall'; I will always come back to that film again and again. Diane Keaton has been such an inspiration to me. She always brings humour, but complexity, and I love watching her on screen. She's got real charisma.
-
I've been to Tokyo-slash-Japan - we actually went to Yokohama in 2015 and 2013 for international competitions. I think that it would be really nice to go back and do a little Olympic thing there.
-
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.
