Clue Quotes

• Perhaps here we have a clue to the reason why royal rule used to exist formerly, namely the difficulty of finding enough men of outstanding virtue.

  

  Aristotle
  • Reason
  • Virtue
  • Rule

• Progress is not a straight line; the future is not a mere projection of trends in the present. Rather, it is revolutionary. It overturns the conventional wisdom of the present, which often conceals or ignores the clues to the future.

  

  An Wang
  • Future
  • Wisdom
  • Present

• And as I grew older, I then auditioned for the Royal Academy of Music in London, and they said, well, no, we won't accept you, because we haven't a clue - you know - of the future of a so-called 'deaf' musician. And I just couldn't quite accept that.

  

  Evelyn Glennie
  • Music
  • Accept
  • Auditioned

• I have no clue. I have ovaries; therefore, I repel all things mechanical.

  

  M. Leighton
  • All Things
  • Clue
  • Ovaries

• If one draws things in a manner which provides only the barest clue to their meaning, the viewer is forced to fill in the gaps by using his own imagination. He is compelled to participate in the creative act, which I consider very important.

  

  Antoni Tapies
  • Important
  • Imagination
  • Gaps

• I didn’t have a clue what love was about until I met Sharon.

  

  Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath
  • Mets
  • Clue
  • Sharon

• A couple of clues came my way of what I might be getting myself into when I sat down with a number of actors who had played Richard III in the past. And I was hoping of course, that one of them or all of them were gonna give me the magic key, the secret way in to play Richard III but none of them did that.But every one of them did say the following, "Be careful."

  

  Kevin Spacey
  • Past
  • Giving
  • Couple

• But I'm taking small steps 'Cause I don't know where I'm going I'm taking small steps And I don't know what to say. Small steps, Trying to pull myself together And maybe I'll discover A clue along the way!

  

  Louis Sachar
  • Trying
  • Together
  • Small

• I've had editors over the years who couldn't find a clue if it was stapled to their butt.

  

  Len Wein
  • Find
  • Editors
  • Clue

• I have no clue why, but maybe sometimes when there's someone you don't hear from, it's the person you want to hear from the most.

  

  Janet Jackson
  • Why
  • Want
  • Sometimes

• It's the way I feel about acting. That we are given clues by a writer about someone's essence or persona and it's our job to try to figure out which of those clues are true, which of clues we decide to follow and which of those clues we think are red herrings, or only in the way another character thinks of that character.

  

  Kevin Spacey
  • Thinking
  • Trying
  • Character

• The clue to happiness is being interested in life. People's happiness is as great as they can create it.

  

  L. Ron Hubbard
  • People
  • Life
  • Great

• By now, we have learnt that game-changing ideas do not come from experts, they come from people who haven't got a clue and ask stupid questions.

  

  Chris Boardman
  • People
  • Ideas
  • Stupid

• When you're a celebrity, people think they know you, but they don't have a clue.

  

  Albert William Upton
  • People
  • Celebrity
  • Clue

• Christ is indispensable to any scientific theory, even if its practitioners do not have a clue about him.

  

  William A. Dembski
  • Religion
  • Christ
  • Atheism

• My hunch, for what it's worth, is that most of us probably find it much, much harder than we realize to really imagine what catastrophe is like. I have a hunch that we all labor under this rather convenient illusion that if we read about the Syrian refugee crisis, we can imagine what it feels like to set off from your home and your life with all your possessions in two bin liners. We all think that we can imagine that and my guess is that none of us have got a clue.

  

  Decca Aitkenhead
  • Imagine
  • Realize
  • Guess

• Happy, vibrant, successful people think and behave in certain ways. So do miserable and unfulfilled people. In other words, there are patterns of success and patterns of failure. The good news is, success leaves clues.

  

  Anthony Robbins
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Successful

• Forensics I've always found absolutely fascinating. Anything to do with clues. And checking things out and solving.

  

  Sandra Bullock
  • Found
  • Fascinating
  • Forensics

• Irish readers, British readers, American readers: is it odd that I haven't a clue about how differently they react? Or better say, I cannot find the words to describe my hunch about them.

  

  Seamus Heaney
  • Reader
  • British
  • Havens

• I wasn't frightened of people, but I didn't have a clue about the adult world.

  

  Shirley Henderson
  • People
  • World
  • Adults

• We have concluded that the rocks here were once soaked in liquid water. It changed their texture, and it changed their chemistry. We've been able to read the tell-tale clues the water left behind, giving us confidence in that conclusion.

  

  Steven Squyres
  • Giving
  • Water
  • Chemistry

• Long ago, I realized that success leaves clues, and that people who produce outstanding results do specific things to create those results. I believed that if I precisely duplicated the actions of others, I could reproduce the same quality of results that they had.

  

  Anthony Robbins
  • People
  • Action
  • Quality

• I have no clue. I just know I would want to play the least amount of shows that the most people would be able to come to.

  

  Kathleen Hanna Bikini Kill
  • People
  • Play
  • Shows

• To have seen Italy without having seen Sicily is to not have seen Italy at all, for Sicily is the clue to everything.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Italy
  • Clue
  • Sicily

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