Clive Cussler Quotes

I'm not working on the Great American Novel. All I am doing, I hope, is entertaining readers.

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• I enjoy pushing my characters to the limit. No matter how far out there I go, I look for things that make the characters human.

  

  Dana Carvey
  • Enjoy
  • Look
  • Limit

• I remember a tour where we played 50 cities in 56 days. We also went to Europe a couple of times.

  

  Jack Irons Pearl Jam
  • Remember
  • Couple
  • Europe

• Again, in Wag the Dog, war has to be declared by an act of congress. But if you go to war, you don't have to declare war. You're just at war and we did that, which is not legal.

  

  Val Kilmer
  • War
  • Dog
  • Legal

• People are entitled to the presumption of innocence.

  

  Barney Frank
  • People
  • Innocence
  • Entitled

• I started playing badminton when I was probably of eight years and ever since have been playing. I didn't go to university.

  

  Rajiv Ouseph
  • Years
  • Go
  • University

• For me, I think there's a lot more room in cable television to tell broader stories. NBC and the networks, they're all very mainstream, and they're a little more conservative in how they approach storytelling.

  

  Gabriel Macht
  • Stories
  • Approach
  • Conservative

• I'd like to imagine that in order to beat me a person would have to play almost perfect tennis.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Perfect
  • Play
  • Person

• We are in favor of greater free markets.

  

  Ed Gillespie
  • Free
  • Greater
  • Favor

• I feel like, as a celebrity, I have a responsibility to tell important stories.

  

  Q'orianka Kilcher
  • Important
  • Responsibility
  • Celebrity

• Beauty can make you powerful in a way that isn't good for you. Being OK is better for the person I have become.

  

  Felicity Huffman
  • Good
  • Powerful
  • Beauty

• No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.

  

  Orville Wright
  • Fly
  • New York
  • Paris

• You haven't lost anything when you know were it is. Death can hide but not divide.

  

  Vance Havner
  • Death
  • Know
  • Lost

• Every generation is obsessed with the decade before they were born.

  

  Fiona Shaw
  • Born
  • Generation
  • Decade

• We must keep both our femininity and our strength.

  

  Indra Devi
  • Strength
  • Both
  • Femininity

• It is even more so when it comes to Iraq, which is a large Arab country with scientific, material, and human resources and is able to accomplish, at the least, what Lebanon accomplished, and more.

  

  Bashar al-Assad
  • Country
  • More
  • Accomplish

• I have always thought that writers come with any variety of attributes. Some are capable and some aren't.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Always
  • Thought
  • Capable

• When I had my first child, I started to try and make fresh food for him daily, and I became frustrated with the amount of work - and time - involved in making baby food at home.

  

  Camila Alves
  • Time
  • Work
  • Home

• I'm never, like I say, I'm never happy, I'm never satisfied, it's never good enough.

  

  R. Lee Ermey
  • Good
  • Happy
  • Enough

• 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

• Some people are really proud of me, and some don't like it. I don't really know what to tell those people. It's like people that don't know me or people that aren't even my friends saying I've changed. I have two friends - exactly two friends. It's like, how can someone that's not even my friend say I've changed?

  

  Bryson Tiller
  • People
  • Friends
  • Friend

• I'm really not a fascist. Everyone wears what they feel great in, or comfortable with. It's a beautiful day, you have an armless shirt: it goes with flip-flops.

  

  Christian Louboutin
  • Great
  • Beautiful

• A great leader should make it clear to her team members that as a matter of culture, her job is to replace herself. A new hire should know from the outset that she will ultimately have to bring in new talent to replace herself so that she can personally better herself and achieve loftier goals.

  

  Joe Lonsdale
  • Great
  • She
  • Job

• There's no end to the inventiveness of critics, I tell you. Because they can't write fiction, they put their impulse into their analysis of work.

  

  Dennis Potter
  • Work

• I'm not working on the Great American Novel. All I am doing, I hope, is entertaining readers.

  

  Clive Cussler
  • Great
  • American
  • Hope