Clambake Quotes

#1. And you think he'll tell?" Matt asked. "We will make him tell us." Han Shan-tung muttered the words casually, but there was something about the way he spoke that made the skin crawl.

Anthony Horowitz

#2. We met, 'twas in a crowd, and I thought he would shun me.

Thomas Haynes Bayly

#3. Whether it was a song, a person, or a story, there was a lot you couldn't know from just an excerpt, a glance, or part of a chorus.

Sarah Dessen

#4. What they might become in darkness nobody cared to think.

William Golding

#5. For art is order, but it is born out of the chaos of life.

May Sarton

#6. Growing up in Harlem, I had the chance to practice with a Negro League team. At fifteen, I was over six feet tall and a fair athlete, but my skills didn't come close to some of the players I saw.

Walter Dean Myers

#7. Also, when you think about a show that you used to watch as a kid or as a teenager, you look at it through sort of rose colored glasses when you remember it.

Jordana Brewster

#8. Your values define who you truly are. Your true identity is the sum total of your values.

Assegid Habtewold

#9. Bright, flowery plants ... were busy committing the olfactory equivalent of aggravated assault.

Jim Butcher

#10. I broke something and realized I should break something once a week to remind me how fragile life is.

Andy Warhol

#11. Parenthood ... It's about guiding the next generation, and forgiving the last.

Peter Krause

#12. In entertainment value, the Democratic clambake usually lays it over the Republican conclave like ice cream over parsnips.

Red Smith

#13. The beauty of the past belongs to the past.

Margaret Bourke-White

#14. A lack of knowledge always leads to defeat and destruction

Sunday Adelaja

#15. I love my kitchen. On the weekends, we have friends over, the kids are buzzing around, and we cook and talk.

Hannah Storm

#16. I don't believe in quotas. America was founded on a philosophy of individual rights, not group rights.

Clarence Thomas

#17. I asked him at the clambake in 2001, at the writers' retreat Xanadu, what he'd done during the war, which he called 'civilization's second unsuccessful attempt to commit suicide,

Kurt Vonnegut