Clifford Irving Quotes

I became chairman of the inmates committee. Got into a lot of trouble. Was accused of fomenting a riot. Was accused of plotting to kill the warden.

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• Music is my release.

  

  Ed Westwick
  • Music
  • Release

• Japanese people are not known for expressing their feelings through singing and dancing, but I like to sing a lot. I don't just sing to myself in the shower. I sing everywhere.

  

  Tao Okamoto
  • People
  • Myself
  • Singing

• I own a guitar, a piano, a bass.

  

  Adam Driver
  • Guitar
  • Piano
  • Bass

• Thank god, and now all I have are, twenty one years together, in January and, you know, I, you know I forgot this all about things. And anyway the first place is good thing.

  

  Olga Korbut
  • Good
  • God
  • Together

• Prayer is an act of love; words are not needed. Even if sickness distracts from thoughts, all that is needed is the will to love.

  

  Saint Teresa of Avila
  • Love
  • Words
  • Thoughts

• It's superficial that people think I'm cool because I wear certain clothes and I have tattoos. The funniest part is, when they get to know me, they're always surprised by how nerdy I am.

  

  Zoe Kravitz
  • Clothes
  • Tattoos
  • Nerdy

• In the history of America, we've never had an energy plan. We don't even realize the resources we have available to us.

  

  T. Boone Pickens
  • America
  • History
  • Energy

• You were born to win, but to be a winner, you must plan to win, prepare to win, and expect to win.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Win
  • Born
  • Plan

• From now on, the technology companies that succeed will be those that have developed skills at listening and a sophisticated understanding of their customers' industries.

  

  Samuel J. Palmisano
  • Technology
  • Understanding
  • Listening

• You have to learn a few things, which you do along the way, but basically, poetry is a matter of the ear. Iambic pentameters or what constitutes a stanza comes naturally - your ears will know.

  

  Vikram Seth
  • Know
  • Poetry
  • Learn

• Object-oriented programming is an exceptionally bad idea which could only have originated in California.

  

  Edsger Dijkstra
  • Bad
  • Idea
  • California

• All the rappers in rave music are like the sloppy seconds of rappers who couldn't make it.

  

  Watkin Tudor Jones
  • Music
  • Like
  • Rave

• Everyone has a different training style and being a female, sometimes you find you have to get really aggressive. Some people respond really well to aggression, some people don't.

  

  Cara Castronuova
  • People
  • Different
  • Style

• Having set one's family in consonance with the community, he should make his family prosperous to ensure the prosperity of the community.

  

  Ramana Maharshi
  • Family
  • Community

• An individualist is a man who says: 'I'll not run anyone's life – nor let anyone run mine. I will not rule nor be ruled. I will not be a master nor a slave. I will not sacrifice myself to anyone – nor sacrifice anyone to myself.'

  

  Ayn Rand
  • Life
  • Sacrifice

• Undernourished, intelligence becomes like the bloated belly of a starving child: swollen, filled with nothing the body can use.

  

  Andrea Dworkin

• Medicare provided guaranteed equal coverage, something that the private sector could not.

  

  Bennie Thompson

• Obviously, I'm at the beginning of my career, contrary to what anyone else thinks. I'm 19 years old. In any other country, everywhere else, you're a prospect. And that's what I am right now in Europe. I'm a prospect. I'm not a seasoned veteran.

  

  Freddy Adu
  • Country
  • Career
  • Beginning

• If people are all the same underneath, how has society changed so fast and so radically? Life now is completely different to how it was 32,000 years ago. It's changed like that of no other species has. What's made that difference?

  

  Matt Ridley
  • People
  • Life
  • Different

• Even though I don't have a lot of spare time, what I do have I'm very protective of, and so I make sure to have a normal life and to remember that, while it's important to keep in mind these conflicts are ongoing, it's also important to enjoy simple pleasures, too.

  

  Clarissa Ward
  • Life
  • Time
  • Important

• Blair is regarded by most people in Britain as a smarmy git.

  

  Paddy Ashdown
  • People
  • Blair
  • Smarmy

• There is nothing in the world that I loathe more than group activity, that communal bath where the hairy and slippery mix in a multiplication of mediocrity.

  

  Vladimir Nabokov
  • World
  • Groups
  • Mediocrity

• I became chairman of the inmates committee. Got into a lot of trouble. Was accused of fomenting a riot. Was accused of plotting to kill the warden.

  

  Clifford Irving