Clifford D. Simak Quotes

The old and the young, he thought. The old, who do not care; the young, who do not think.

Clifford D. Simak

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• It was kind of easier for me to do records that didn't take a year or two years of my life to write and to make.

  

  K. D. Lang
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Year

• If I were to try to describe the way in which I write, the only word I would use without qualification is 'slowly.'

  

  Mal Peet
  • Way
  • Try
  • Without

• When I'm in 'Man vs. Wild' mode, it's not pleasure. Every sensor is firing and I'm on reserve power all the time and I'm digging deep - and that's the magic of it as well, and that's raw and it's great.

  

  Bear Grylls
  • Time
  • Great
  • Power

• You always care about your teammates, and you care about the game.

  

  Larry Brown
  • Game
  • Care
  • Teammates

• Music has a tremendous effect on me. When it's playing, I can't think or do anything other than listen. But I can write to it.

  

  Nancy Farmer
  • Music
  • Think
  • Me

• People never think of entertainers as being human. When you walk out on stage, the audience think, 'Nothing can go wrong with them.' We get sick and we have headaches just like they do. When we are cut, we bleed.

  

  Karen Carpenter The Carpenters
  • People
  • Sick
  • Walk

• We need to send Barack Obama back to Chicago. I'd like to send him back to Kenya, back to Indonesia. We have to unmask this man. This is a man that seeks to destroy all concept of God. And I will tell you what, this is classical Marxist philosophy.

  

  Rafael Cruz
  • God
  • Man
  • Philosophy

• I wake up every morning and I feel like I'm juggling glass balls. I live in Los Angeles, my business is run out of London, and most evenings I'm cuddled up in front of Skype, in my dressing gown, speaking with my studio in London. I travel a lot, my team travel a lot, but I wouldn't have it any other way.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • Up
  • Live
  • Business

• When I was younger, of course I had people act inappropriately to me. I've had certain directors yell at me. But I didn't stand for it, and I didn't let it go far enough for it to be in any way abusive to me.

  

  Patricia Clarkson
  • People
  • Me
  • Stand

• The more you play against teams and defenders, the more you get to know them. You know if they are more nervous; you know, on the pitch, people are different. I try to adapt to their character.

  

  Eden Hazard
  • People
  • Different
  • Character

• Growing Greener doesn't produce money for farmland preservation or open space preservation.

  

  Ed Rendell
  • Money
  • Growing
  • Space

• Most people who go to Rajasthan go to Udaipur, Jodhpur or Jaipur.

  

  Gautam Singhania
  • People
  • Most
  • Go

• Often the remedy is deemed the highest good because it helps so many.

  

  Paracelsus
  • Good
  • Because
  • Often

• MAC Cosmetics is incredible for lips; I always wear it.

  

  Kat Graham
  • Always
  • Lips
  • Cosmetics

• Good crime writing holds up a mirror to the readers and reflects in a darker light the world in which they live.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Up
  • World
  • Good

• Small creatures die because larger creatures are hungry. How superior to this human confusion of greed and creed, blood and fire.

  

  Wendell Berry
  • Small
  • Die
  • Fire

• The noblest mind the best contentment has.

  

  Edmund Spenser
  • Mind
  • Contentment

• The summer gig turned into my day job. I was an arts administrator who helped make indie flicks. At the filmmakers' encouragement, I tried shooting a couple of shorts of my own. Directing was stressful, it was not my strength. But writing the scripts and helping others with their scripts - that was a gas. Making stuff up the way I wanted to see it was the biggest kick I ever experienced.

  

  Karen Walton
  • Writing
  • Summer
  • Helping

• Changing my name was traumatic for me.

  

  Eve Best
  • Name
  • Changing
  • Traumatic

• For my writing, and because I love talking to young women about life, I often asked them which would they rather have - a father in the house with them while growing up or a big butt? I tell you 86 percent of the time, girls say a big butt because it gets them further.

  

  Jill Scott
  • Life
  • Up
  • Time

• I do take seriously and am grateful to the ANC that, in the face of its revolutionary mission to ensure a better life for all and the creation of a non-racial, non-sexist and democratic South Africa, it deployed me at the pinnacle of its role in government.

  

  Jacob Zuma
  • Life

• Ever since studying in Russia as a college student, I had been in a long-distance, one-sided love affair with Chechnya's remarkable history, culture and rugged natural beauty.

  

  Anthony Marra
  • Long
  • History
  • Culture

• The old and the young, he thought. The old, who do not care; the young, who do not think.

  

  Clifford D. Simak