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

• I often say after eight years in Washington, I longed for the realism and sincerity of Hollywood.

  

  Fred Thompson

• 'Good Morning America' exploited Joan Lunden's pregnancy, but you won't see me bringing my babies on the air. The only reason I'm talking about the babies at all is that they've been with me on the show since I became pregnant. After a while, I had to acknowledge this pumpkin tummy.

  

  Jane Pauley
  • Good
  • America
  • Morning

• When things are investigated, then true knowledge is achieved; when true knowledge is achieved, then the will becomes sincere; when the will is sincere, then the heart is set right ; when the heart is set right, then the personal life is cultivated; when the personal life is cultivated, then the family life is regulated; when the family life is regulated, then the national life is orderly; and when the national life is orderly, then there is peace in this world.

  

  Confucius
  • Heart
  • Achieved
  • Personal Life

• ...what happened in New York and Washington is the same thing that England and America did to Berlin every day for three years during World War II -- and Germany did the same thing to England.

  

  Ian "Lemmy" Kilmister Motörhead
  • New York
  • England
  • World War II

• Changing our consumer behaviour is similar to quitting smoking. Unless people are shocked into doing it, either by social disapproval or family disapproval or fear of the medical consequences, they'll just keep on smoking.

  

  John Quelch
  • People
  • Family
  • Fear

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

  

  Clifford D. Simak