Clive James (Vivian Leopold James) Quotes

The entrée wasn't tender enough to be a paving stone and the gravy couldn't have been primordial soup because morphogenesis was already taking place.

Clive James

• Stone
• Soup
• Morphogenesis

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• I feel like my kind of music is a big pot of different spices. It's a soup with all kinds of ingredients in it.

  

  Abigail Washburn
  • Music
  • Different
  • Kind

• I'll say that I don't think you can throw a stone and not come in contact with someone who knows someone or has problems with substance abuse.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Think
  • Problems
  • Abuse

• What's a soup kitchen?

  

  Paris Hilton
  • Kitchen
  • Soup

• We are bits of energy floating about in various guises, and when we die we rejoin the big cosmic soup of the universe.

  

  Bat for Lashes
  • Energy
  • Die
  • Universe

• As for real chicken soup, I have it once or twice a week.

  

  Jack Canfield
  • Real
  • Week
  • Soup

• I carry a small spiral notebook with me at all times and have been doing this for many years. There's a shoe box in my closet filled with these notebooks, each riddled with notes and impressions, ideas, schemes, and soup recipes.

  

  Patrick deWitt
  • Small
  • Me
  • Ideas

• After my first video, I went out and had chicken noodle soup with my sister and manager. We were like, 'How rock n' roll are we? Celebrating the first video with chicken soup.'

  

  Fleur East
  • Rock
  • Sister
  • Soup

• Miso makes a soup loaded with flavour that saves you the hassle of making stock.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • You
  • Stock
  • Soup

• The last resort of kings, the cannonball. The last resort of the people, the paving stone.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • People
  • Kings
  • Stone

• Nothing is written in stone, as a career is an unpredictable journey.

  

  Zlatan Ibrahimovic
  • Career
  • Journey
  • Stone

• Without a doubt, even when I play with Black Label, when we have different guys I play with, everyone always brings their own magic, their own flavor to the soup, hands down.

  

  Zakk Wylde Black Label Society
  • Different
  • Black
  • Doubt

• When I was having that alphabet soup, I never thought that it would pay off.

  

  Vanna White
  • Never
  • Thought
  • Soup

• Kids are meant to believe that their stepping stone to massive money is 'The X Factor.'

  

  Iain Duncan Smith
  • Believe
  • Money
  • Kids

• Most of my films have a lot of character development and exploration, whereas in most horror movies the characters are just cardboard.

  

  Larry Cohen
  • Character
  • Movies

• The division of labor among nations is that some specialize in winning and others in losing.

  

  Eduardo Galeano
  • Winning

• There is a spirit and a need and a man at the beginning of every great human advance. Every one of these must be right for that particular moment of history, or nothing happens.

  

  Coretta Scott King
  • Great
  • History
  • Beginning

• I think the word 'woke' is now over. The first time I heard my mature, white dad use that term, I was like 'OK, this is done.'

  

  Elaine Welteroth
  • Time
  • Done
  • Dad

• As a media artist and filmmaker, I'm constantly considering the role of situational context when creating my work.

  

  Jason Silva
  • Work

• Are God and Nature then at strife, That Nature lends such evil dreams? So careful of the type she seems, So careless of the single life; ... 'So careful of the type', but no. From scarped cliff and quarried stone She cries, 'A thousand types are gone: I care for nothing, all shall go' ... Man, her last work, who seemed so fair, Such splendid purpose in his eyes, Who rolled the psalm to wintry skies, Who built him fanes of fruitless prayer, Who trusted God was love indeed And love Creation's final law- Tho' Nature red in tooth and claw With ravine, shrieked against his creed.

  

  Alfred Lord Tennyson
  • Work
  • God
  • Nature

• There is nothing conceptually better than rock 'n' roll. No group, be it Beatles, Dylan or Stones, have ever improved on Whole Lot of Shaking for my money. Or maybe I'm like our parents: that's my period and I dig it and I'll never leave it.

  

  John Lennon The Beatles
  • Rock N Roll
  • Stone
  • Beatles

• If she is afraid of mirrors she is afraid of herself.

  

  Isobelle Carmody
  • Mirror
  • Afraid
  • Herself

• The rivalry between the Montague and the Capulet kids seems very modern to me. Juliet is a free spirit, full of untapped love and passion. I think a lot of girls can relate to her. And it's very relevant in terms of kids defying their parents.

  

  Hailee Steinfeld
  • Parents
  • Passion
  • Spirit

• I drive a lot in the summertime, but after that, I don't drive if there's snow predicted for anywhere in 500 miles.

  

  R. L. Stine
  • Snow
  • Drive
  • Miles

• The entrée wasn't tender enough to be a paving stone and the gravy couldn't have been primordial soup because morphogenesis was already taking place.

  

  Clive James
  • Stone
  • Soup
  • Morphogenesis