Clive Cussler Quotes

When I type 'The End,' it's like being paroled from prison.

Clive Cussler

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• I believe in the Prince of Peace. I believe that War is Murder. I believe that armies and navies are at bottom the tinsel and braggadocio of oppression and wrong, and I believe that the wicked conquest of weaker and darker nations by nations whiter and stronger but foreshadows the death of that strength.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • Believe
  • War
  • Death

• We lived in Atlanta for a couple of years, and had a lot of fun, but my best work happens when I isolate myself. It's all about turning inward.

  

  Washed Out
  • Work
  • Fun
  • Myself

• My interests span biology, though sometimes I feel like an anachronism, somebody from the Victorian era when there weren't so many boundaries dividing the sciences.

  

  Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
  • Sometimes
  • Feel
  • Biology

• I had cottage cheese for lunch and a glass of wine when I got home tonight.

  

  Sally Quinn
  • Home
  • Wine
  • Lunch

• We need to give the Iraqis a chance to build their own future. It should be in their hands. It must be in their hands. That is what democracy is all about. We can teach it, we can explain it, but they must want it enough to make it work for them.

  

  Barbara Boxer
  • Work
  • Future
  • Democracy

• Teasing and a sense of humor, if you can develop that in your kids, and if you can exercise it with the kids, just makes for a pleasanter atmosphere.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Kids
  • You
  • Exercise

• I was raised Jewish and bar mitzvahed.

  

  Dan Futterman
  • Jewish
  • Bar
  • I Was Raised

• I live in, literally, the same home when I was swiping my first bank card and wondering if I'd have to put back the Charmin. We still don't have a dishwasher. My mom has done all these gardens so now my house looks like the garden shack in the middle of Versailles.

  

  Rachael Ray
  • Live
  • Done
  • Home

• Pre-Internet, maybe it took six months for a fashion message to get across to a customer base. Fashion messages are now being sent out overnight, simultaneously, to every market in the world.

  

  Natalie Massenet
  • World
  • Fashion
  • Customer

• Good acting is good acting, however you learn it. Some people who haven't studied are amazing. Some people like Leonardo DiCaprio are naturally gifted - he's learned technique by working with people early on.

  

  Sam Rockwell
  • People
  • Good
  • Amazing

• You can't take good health for granted.

  

  Jack Osbourne
  • Good
  • Health
  • Good Health

• In terms of 'Solaris,' I didn't really think about the religious aspect an awful lot. There's one scene at a dinner party, and it's discussed, but it wasn't an overwhelming theme for me.

  

  Natascha McElhone
  • Think
  • Party
  • Religious

• I'd like to go back to standup. I don't like to think I've done my last gig. At the moment it terrifies me, I get really nervous. It's a great buzz when it goes well.

  

  Mackenzie Crook
  • Great
  • Done
  • Think

• There is a marvelous peace in not publishing. It's peaceful. Still. Publishing is a terrible invasion of my privacy.

  

  J. D. Salinger
  • Peace
  • Peaceful
  • Privacy

• What would be ugly in a garden constitutes beauty in a mountain.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Nature
  • Beauty
  • Garden

• A camel makes an elephant feel like a jet plane.

  

  Jackie Kennedy
  • Like
  • Feel
  • Elephant

• Those who think the information brought out at a criminal trial is the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth are fools. Prosecuting or defending a case is nothing more than getting to those people who will talk for your side, who will say what you want said.

  

  F. Lee Bailey
  • People
  • Truth

• Have you considered that these prophecies were not divine revelations, but merely manipulation from some secular power?

  

  Dan Simmons
  • Power
  • Manipulation

• You can have an amazing director and terrible script, and the film's not going to be great. But if you have the most incredible script and an okay director, you could still get a really good film.

  

  Douglas Booth
  • Good
  • Great
  • Amazing

• I'm not the perfect bride after all.

  

  Jenna Bush
  • Perfect

• I've been able to sell a number of pilots. Most have been based on my personal experience, so basically, my pitches have been like 'Sit-'n-Spin' pieces.

  

  Maggie Rowe
  • Experience
  • Like
  • Personal

• The adrenaline feeling of jumping out of cliffs and bikes and all of that is very specific to the film. In 'Pac Rim' I'm not doing that so much. There isn't that touch stonework for me in it, but there is a lot of action.

  

  Idris Elba
  • Feeling
  • Me
  • Action

• Epigenetics doesn't change the genetic code, it changes how that's read. Perfectly normal genes can result in cancer or death. Vice-versa, in the right environment, mutant genes won't be expressed. Genes are equivalent to blueprints; epigenetics is the contractor. They change the assembly, the structure.

  

  Bruce Lipton
  • Death
  • Environment
  • Cancer

• When I type 'The End,' it's like being paroled from prison.

  

  Clive Cussler