Kenneth Clark Quotes

Heroes do not easily tolerate the company of other heroes.

Kenneth Clark

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• The smarter the journalists are, the better off society is. For to a degree, people read the press to inform themselves - and the better the teacher, the better the student body.

  

  Warren Buffett
  • People
  • Society
  • Teacher

• Living in a small Italian hilltown, and having lived in a small town in south Georgia, I understand that you can recognize a family gene pool by the lift of an eyebrow, or the length of a neck, or a way of walking.

  

  Frances Mayes
  • Family
  • Small
  • Walking

• I think about my parents all the time, especially on Sunday when I'm at Mass. My mother always said, 'We do not pray to win elections. We pray for people's health, we pray that God's will be done, we pray that we do our best. But we do not pray to win elections.'

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • People
  • Time
  • God

• A 'Friends' shoot night could extend well into the small hours of the morning.

  

  Warren Littlefield
  • Friends
  • Night
  • Small

• The more I find out about the dynamic and how it works, the more I realize how lucky I am to have ever got anything. Like... there was no need to put me in 'Cinderella Man' - there was no need. Why? Just get an American actor - it would've been cheaper, probably.

  

  Paddy Considine
  • American
  • Actor
  • Works

• Thought can be so seductive and hypnotic that it absorbs your attention totally, so you become your thoughts.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • Attention
  • Thoughts
  • Thought

• The BBC provides the commentary on our lives, the soundtrack of the nation. It is one of the most powerful unifying forces in the United Kingdom today.

  

  Gavyn Davies
  • Today
  • Powerful
  • Nation

• A movie will do in one second, with one image, what it will take a novelist at least a page to describe.

  

  Yann Martel
  • Movie
  • Will
  • Image

• Nature is not human hearted.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Nature
  • Human
  • Hearted

• But at a time when our discourse has become so sharply polarized - at a time when we are far too eager to lay the blame for all that ails the world at the feet of those who think differently than we do - it's important for us to pause for a moment and make sure that we are talking with each other in a way that heals, not a way that wounds.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Time
  • World
  • Important

• But maybe you're just as glad he’s not a shrink, eh? Awful to have your spouse analyzing your unconscious desires across the dinner table, eh?

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin

• If my tone is mocking, the tone of someone accustomed to helplessness, this is natural: the poet is a condemned man for whom the State will not even buy breakfast - and as someone said, 'If you’re going to hang me, you mustn’t expect to be able to intimidate me into sparing your feelings during the execution.'

  

  Randall Jarrell
  • Breakfast

• Globalization is the economic treason that dare not speak it name.

  

  Pat Buchanan

• As all the perfumes of the vanished dayRise from the earth still moistened with the dewSo from my chastened soul beneath thy rayOld love is born anew.

  

  Alfred de Musset
  • Soul
  • Earth

• I would have liked it to have stayed serious and have the adventures of a family lost in space. This isn't to take anything away from Jonathan and the Robot. I watch his performance today and he still makes me laugh.

  

  Mark Goddard
  • Family
  • Today
  • Lost

• Essentially, I spent most of my childhood with my mother and my older sister, and I suppose I had rather a romantic vision of how things might be if there were men around; I saw myself in a country house with six children and a garden. That has never been achieved - and I still regret it.

  

  Claire Tomalin
  • Men
  • Country
  • Children

• It is extremely necessary to realize that the world doesn't only have one way of seeing things.

  

  Christian Louboutin
  • World

• I make a rod for my own back because people see my novels as quasi documentaries. But it is never history that's the main event of my books. It's my characters.

  

  Christopher Koch
  • People
  • History

• Russians aren't perfect. Their politics are messed up, and they keep going through self-defeating economic cycles. But I have a lot of respect for Russia, and a lot of love for Russians.

  

  Chris Hadfield
  • Up
  • Respect
  • Perfect

• A good picture, any picture, has to be bristling with razor blades.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Picture
  • Blades
  • Bristling

• There is only good art and mediocre art.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Good
  • Art
  • Mediocre

• If any writer thinks the world is full of middle class people of nice sensibilities, then he is out of his mind.

  

  Bill Vaughan
  • People
  • World
  • Thinking

• Heroes do not easily tolerate the company of other heroes.

  

  Kenneth Clark