Clifford D. Simak Quotes

Without consciousness and intelligence, the universe would lack meaning.

Clifford D. Simak

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• If faith produce no works, I see That faith is not a living tree. Thus faith and works together grow, No separate life they never can know. They're soul and body, hand and heart, What God hath joined, let no man part.

  

  Hannah More
  • Life
  • God
  • Heart

• I don't know how to ground myself without the other actor present.

  

  Garry Shandling
  • Know
  • Myself
  • Present

• You always need that spark of imagination. Sometimes I'm midway through a book before it happens. However, I don't wait for the muse to descend, I sit down every day and I work when I'm not delivering lambs on the farm.

  

  Barbara Kingsolver
  • Work
  • Book
  • Day

• I can paint in jail.

  

  Jack Kevorkian
  • I Can
  • Paint
  • Jail

• Latin people love to dance. Nothing is more powerful than a Latin man doing 'Mambo Number 5' by himself.

  

  Taylor Negron
  • People
  • Love
  • Man

• Rand Paul does not like being compared to his father Ron any more than sons named Bush like to dance in their father's shadow, but the crucial difference is that while the Bushes all hail from the relative mainstream of the GOP, the Pauls have an ideological tributary virtually to themselves.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Father
  • Dance
  • Shadow

• I dedicated my 20s, my passion and energy to the name 'Rain.' I always did my best, and I thought if I did, it would eventually show, and even if it didn't turn out well, I wouldn't have any regrets.

  

  Rain
  • Energy
  • Passion
  • Best

• I like being active and riding a bike around my neighborhood and exercising when I can.

  

  Victoria Justice
  • Like
  • Bike
  • Riding

• In an unconstitutional partnership with the state, the church can impose the most irresistible, if covert, controls conceivable.

  

  Madalyn Murray O'Hair
  • Church
  • Most
  • Partnership

• Every sentence spoken by Napoleon, and every line of his writing, deserves reading, as it is the sense of France.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Writing
  • Reading
  • Line

• I never had little brothers, so I was totally not used to hearing a lot of cussing at a young age! I learned what 'pull my finger' meant the hard way.

  

  Danica McKellar
  • Age
  • Never
  • Young

• It's called 'I Wanna Thank You,' and I'm encouraging everybody out there to blog, Tweet, Facebook, anything about it. Let's sign a petition. The petition is called 'Busta Rhymes Make 'I Wanna Thank You' Your First Single.'

  

  Q-Tip
  • You
  • Single
  • Encouraging

• I'm still Christian. I was not raised in a Christian church to hate people. I was taught to love people and accept people. I know what I believe.

  

  Lance Bass NSYNC
  • People
  • Believe
  • Hate

• I get more upset at losing at other things than chess. I always get upset when I lose at Monopoly.

  

  Magnus Carlsen
  • Lose
  • Losing
  • Chess

• He suffered from paralysis by analysis.

  

  Harold S. Geneen
  • Analysis
  • Suffered
  • He

• When a noble life has prepared for old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.

  

  Madame de Stael
  • Life
  • Age
  • Old Age

• We all have regrets, but the thing is to learn from life.

  

  Lamar Odom
  • Life
  • Learn
  • Regrets

• It's a mystery to me why everybody doesn't love jazz. I've never been able to figure that out.

  

  Walter Becker China Crisis
  • Love
  • Why
  • Mystery

• I never expected to write a book about a slum in Ireland that was going to catapult me, as they say, into some kind of - onto the best seller list.

  

  Frank McCourt
  • Book

• So when I do Chinese cooking, I mix everything together, then the kids have to eat their vegetables. They won't have the patience to pick them out.

  

  Martin Yan
  • Kids
  • Together
  • Chinese

• With a face like mine, I'm never going to play a character who conquers the universe, I'm going to play characters who are subject to forces bearing down on them. My career's based on how we are rather than how we wish we were - they get the good-looking boys in for that kind of role.

  

  Eddie Marsan
  • Good
  • Character
  • Career

• I don't even really know what the big bang is, and so when people want to go through and say, 'Well, I believe that the universe started by God starting it,' that's fine by me.

  

  Brian Schmidt
  • People
  • God
  • Believe

• Just focusing on what exists now seems a bit exclusive. And if we include everything that has ever existed as part of the universe, why not include the future as well? This seems to leave us with the definition that the universe is everything that has ever existed, does exist, or will ever exist.

  

  John D. Barrow
  • Why
  • Future
  • Universe

• Without consciousness and intelligence, the universe would lack meaning.

  

  Clifford D. Simak
  • Universe