Clapper Quotes

#1. Like one of those damned clapper lights. Love on. Love off.
Robert musing about his parents love for him

M.L. Rhodes

#2. Well, I aren't like a bird-clapper, forced to make a rattle when the wind blows on me. I can keep my own counsel when there's no good i' speaking.

George Eliot

#3. Clapper has been straight and direct in the answers that he's given, and has actively engaged in an effort to provide more information about the programs that have been revealed through the leak of classified information

Jay Carney

#4. When Clapper raised his hand and lied to the American public, was anyone tried? Were any charges brought? Within 24 hours of going public, I had three charges against me.

Edward Snowden

#5. And it'd be very hard to make up something as strange as the Dutch tulipmania in the seventeenth century, for example. Or the mysterious case of Thomas Clapper. Or the entire civic history of Seattle, Washington.

Stephen Briggs

#6. There was a man with tongue of wood who essayed to sing,
and in truth it was lamentable;
but there was one who heard the clip-clapper of this tongue of wood,
and knew what the man wished to sing,
and with that the singer was content.

Stephen Crane

#7. Meant to be" allows for lazy. The idea of destiny alleviates anxiety; it comforts us. We stop believing that we had ownership, that we could have done something to change the outcome. It's lazier than The Clapper.

Stephanie Klein

#8. There is no more direct or honest person than Jim Clapper.

Dianne Feinstein

#9. He hath a heart as sound as a bell, and his tongue is the clapper; for what his heart thinks his tongue speaks.

William Shakespeare

#10. I would like to have a 'Lost' clapper board with the numbers and the clock at the top.

Henry Ian Cusick

#11. Imagine how titanic an echo chamber this great city would seem without the noise of eve none of mine. A huge bronze bell deprived of one hidden small iron clapper, its sole reason for being, its single means of song.

Allan Gurganus

#12. I hope the string and clapper arrangement he calls a mind has been permanently put out of action.

Dorothy Dunnett

#13. I am writing a book called 'The History of Australia in Hundred Objects.' It's of things we have invented in Australia. And you know, some of them are amazing. We invented the clapper boards used in films. We invented those cranes - those big long cranes used on construction sites.

Barry Humphries

#14. I think I look okay.

Nicole Richie

#15. In the end, we will never, ever be able to guarantee that there will not be an Edward Snowden or another Chelsea Manning because this is a large enterprise composed of human beings with all their idiosyncrasies.

James R. Clapper

#16. Some of you expressed surprise that I showed up-so many emails to read!

James R. Clapper

#17. A golden dragon. Splendid. My life expectancy has just become shorter than a gnome's todger.

Thaddeus White

#18. When shit brings you down, just say 'fuck it', and eat yourself some motherfucking candy.

David Sedaris

#19. A smoked salmon sandwich of a football match if ever there has been one.

Peter Drury

#20. But maybe because the dot-com world gives people positions at a younger age, and many women are prominent in this business, it will help change the view about who can run big companies.

Christie Hefner

#21. What I said was, the NSA does not voyeuristically pore through U.S. citizens' e-mails. I stand by that.

James R. Clapper

#22. We must remain mindful of the potential impact of over-correcting the authorizations of the intelligence community.

James R. Clapper

#23. I responded in what I thought was the most truthful, or least untruthful manner.

James R. Clapper

#24. We all shed salty tears and shed red blood. All is one.

Thich Thien-An

#25. Boys are marvellous creatures. Perhaps they will sink below the brutes; perhaps they will attain to a woman's tenderness.

E. M. Forster