Clive Sinclair Quotes

The summer of 1976 was so hot that bars of chocolate melted on the shelves before confectioners could sell them.

Clive Sinclair

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• I don't believe that intelligence can be reduced to a number, frankly. But I can see how doing exactly that produces a useful sorting mechanism in our society in order to separate children into categories of promising and doomed. The tests seem arbitrary and without real scientific value and yet have lasting consequences.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Believe
  • Children
  • Real

• If my career path takes me elsewhere, that's great. But comedy is my forte.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • Great
  • Career
  • Me

• When I was a very young lawyer, I had a senior partner who advised me never to get mad, except on purpose.

  

  Warren Christopher
  • Purpose
  • Mad
  • Partner

• We should not judge Islam by terrorists. All civilizations and cultures produce terrorists. Every time there is a flag-burning, killing, or provocative films, I'm worried, not because something radical will happen, and this time, some people are killed. We're very sorry for that.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
  • People
  • Time
  • Judge

• There are many respects in which America, if it can bring itself to act with the magnanimity and the empathy appropriate to its size and power, can be an intelligent example to the world.

  

  J. William Fulbright
  • World
  • Power
  • America

• People often ask me whether I believe in God. I haven't seen God. But I think that one's beliefs are one's God - and, in those terms, yes, God is there.

  

  Kapil Dev
  • People
  • God
  • Believe

• Yeah, I lost court cases and misdemeanor juries, but of felony jury trials I was successful 105 of 106 times.

  

  Vincent Bugliosi
  • Lost
  • Successful
  • Trials

• Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • End
  • Aim
  • Noble

• To win the Championship in the first year will be hard. We need time to become competitive and win races.

  

  Valentino Rossi
  • Time
  • Win
  • Year

• Any negotiated, peaceful solution to the problems between the United States and peoples, or any people of Latin America, which does not imply force or the use of force, must be addressed in accordance with international principles and norms.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • People
  • America
  • Latin

• I have had strange animals as pets all my life. I was shy growing up, and shy people tend to interact better with animals than people. Animals are direct, not duplicitous.

  

  Yvonne Craig
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• I don't know whether I want to improve religion or not. I prefer to get rid of it.

  

  B. F. Skinner
  • Want
  • Know
  • Religion

• As a species, we can at times be dimwitted and cruel. But we're also capable of learning.

  

  K. A. Applegate
  • Learning
  • Capable
  • Cruel

• It was a wonderful experience to play in the NFL, and I have no regrets. I truly will miss playing for the Lions. I consider the Lions' players, coaches, staff, management and fans my family. I leave on good terms with everyone in the organization.

  

  Barry Sanders
  • Good
  • Family
  • Experience

• A good maxim allows you to have the last word without even starting a conversation.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Good
  • You
  • Conversation

• That's why teenagers fascinate me – they're like children with drivers' licenses. Like children in that their impulses are so direct.

  

  Nancy Jo Sales
  • Children
  • Teenagers
  • Impulses

• I once had a friend who did the hair for sci-fi movies, and after a particularly bad break-up I stupidly went to her salon and told her she could do anything she liked. She dyed the bottom cherry red and the top peroxide blonde.

  

  Sally Phillips
  • Up
  • She
  • Bad

• If I had caused any trouble worth mentioning, you would have read about it in 'Star' magazine, which is probably why I didn't cause any trouble worth mentioning.

  

  Danica McKellar
  • Why
  • Star
  • Trouble

• I have always been attracted to the bleaker aspects of life. I love drama.

  

  Marianne Faithfull
  • Life
  • Drama

• I don't relax. I can't take vacations. I'm obsessive-compulsive, and I worry with every project that I'm going to fail. When it starts to go well, and I sense that something beautiful and important and meaningful is being created, it's a fantastic feeling, and I find it very hard to stop.

  

  Mary Ellen Mark
  • Important
  • Beautiful
  • Feeling

• Sandalwood, tagara, lotus, jasmine - the fragrance of virtue is unrivalled by such kinds of perfume.

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Virtue
  • Perfume
  • Jasmine

• I grew up in Alice, Texas, a small oil town with one theater that only showed Roy Rogers movies. So when I got the role, I had never even seen a Bond film and had only had a vague notion about the idea of a Bond girl.

  

  Lois Chiles
  • Up
  • Girl
  • Small

• I would not a bit mind sleeping in the cool grass in summer, and when winter came on sheltering myself by the warm close-thatched rick, or under the penthouse of a great barn, provided I had love in my heart.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Mind
  • Heart
  • Love

• The summer of 1976 was so hot that bars of chocolate melted on the shelves before confectioners could sell them.

  

  Clive Sinclair
  • Summer
  • Chocolate