Top 100 Clarence Quotes
#1. Clarence once mentioned to me during a negotiation but he should be paid not only for playing but for being Clarence.
Bruce Springsteen
#2. The net effect of Clarence Darrow's great speech yesterday seemed to be precisely the same as if he had bawled it up a rainspout in the interior of Afghanistan.
H.L. Mencken
#3. As we watched Judge Clarence
Thomas's Supreme Court confirmation
hearings, all of the commentators
said the same thing: 'One of these
people in the room is lying.' Do you
believe that? You've got two lawyers
and 14 senators in the room, and only
one of them is lying?
Jay Leno
#4. Back home, he sleeps in Clarence's bed. Then he moves across and arranges the pillows beside the ghost of his wife. All three of them lie down together. The pulse of Louis Armstrong sounds out from the record player, the notes moving tenderly through his torment.
Colum McCann
#5. One of the people that became a major source was Clarence Tripp who worked with Kinsey.
Bill Condon
#6. Classroom Activities
1. Using felt and yarn, make a hand puppet of Clarence Thomas. Ta-da! You're Antonin Scalia!
Jon Stewart
#7. There was a boy called Eustace Clarence Scrubb, and he almost deserved it.
C.S. Lewis
#8. While Roberts wanted to give the impression he respected the right to privacy and the precedent of Roe vs. Wade, his answers look dangerously similar to the responses (Associate Justice) Clarence Thomas gave senators during his confirmation hearings 14 years ago.
Nancy Keenan
#9. From the end of the bar, the bartender threw a sidelong look at him, so Clarence pulled out a broken Bluetooth headset and fixed it to his ear.
"I learned this trick while traveling with Mikey," Clarence told Nick. "Makes my brand of crazy the same as everyone else's.
Neal Shusterman
#10. Clarence Jordan, co-founder of Koinonia Farm, wrote, The Good News of the resurrection is not that we shall die and go home with him, but that he is risen and comes home with us, bringing all his hungry, naked, thirsty, sick, prisoner brothers with him.
Shane Claiborne
#11. It's God's world. He washes you clean. He makes you whole. He puts rain in your garden and sunshine in your heart. "Clarence
James McBride
#12. The outcome of the Clarence Thomas hearings and his subsequent appointment to the Supreme Court shows how misguided, narrow notions of racial solidarity that suppress dissent and critique can lead black folks to support individuals who will not protect their rights.
Bell Hooks
#13. Good God, Clarence! You look like a bereaved tapeworm.
P.G. Wodehouse
#14. Every time you open your mouth," Clarence said, "you just seem older and weirder.
Tad Williams
#15. The White House said today that Judge Clarence Thomas, President Bush's Supreme Court nominee, had smoked marijuana while in college.
Clarence Thomas
#16. And if King Edward be as true and just
As I am subtle, false, and treacherous,
This day should Clarence closely be mewed up ...
William Shakespeare
#17. I hope his wife feeds him [Clarence Thomas, Justice, U.S. Supreme Court] lots of eggs and butter and he dies early like many black men do, of heart disease ... He is an absolutely reprehensible person.
Julianne Malveaux
#18. Sarah Palin and Michele Bachmann represent an existential threat to the Democratic Party the way that twenty years ago Clarence Thomas as a black man represented to liberals and the Democratic Party.
Andrew Breitbart
#19. Doesn't anyone wonder why the NAACP does not have events celebrating the first black woman secretary of state?.. Why does an organization whose mission is to advance the lot of blacks not celebrate Clarence Thomas, our black Supreme Court justice?
Star Parker
#20. Apple is to the United States government what Clarence Thomas was to the civil rights coalition. How dare you get this big sidestepping us.
Rush Limbaugh
#21. A Midsummer Night's Dream?" "Of course," said Clarence. "A great piece on love.
Richelle Mead
#22. Clarence Darrow was a unique and courageous man. Several of my favourite actors have played Darrow ... Henry Fonda, Orson Welles and Spencer Tracy.
Kevin Spacey
#23. In her opinion, Alexander Graham Bell and Clarence Birdseye are the two greatest Americans that ever lived excluding Robert E. Lee. She believes we never lost the War Between the States, that General Lee thought General Grant was the butler and just naturally handed him his sword.
Fannie Flagg
#24. The strangest thing about the low quality of Internet argument is that effective argument isn't really so difficult. Sure, not everyone can be Clarence Darrow, but anyone who wants to be at least competent at argument can do it.
Barry Eisler
#25. I don't suppose you offered to help?"
"Sage," Adrian declared. "These hands don't do manual labor." He knocked another ball into a hole. "You want to play?"
"What? With you?"
"No, with Clarence." He sighed at my dumbfounded look. "Yes, of course with me.
Richelle Mead
#26. Justice Scalia is predictable. He can be counted on to come down with a conservative opinion, and generally, to bring Justice Clarence Thomas with him.
F. Lee Bailey
#27. The Temple that the Jews will build on their return to Jerusalem will probably be destroyed by the Earthquake..." (Clarence Larkin, The Book of Revelation, 1919)
Joey Faust
#28. It was 1538 and John Lambert had been outed as an Edian when, after hearing Frederic Clarence had written a pamphlet denouncing Edian magic, he turned into a dog and ate the papers, prompting Clarence to cry out, "That dog ate my scriptwork!" (277)
Cynthia Hand
#29. Nathaniel Septimus Ernest Bertram Lysander Tybalt Zacharias Edmund Alexander Humphrey Percy Quentin Tristan Augustus Bartholomew Tarquin Imogen Sebastian Theodore Clarence Smythe.
David Walliams
#30. I had the great opportunity to work with some of the greatest artists - the Beach Boys, the Temptations, the Four Tops. Otis Redding. Wilson Pickett. Stevie Wonder. So many great singers. And don't forget Clarence Carter!
Percy Sledge
#31. I did not realize at the time, as I have discovered since, that anyone who attempts any thing original in this world must expect a bit of ridicule. Clarence Birdseye
Mark Kurlansky
#32. Talking to Clarence can be like talking to a child, although it is much more charming in children.
Diane Schoemperlen
#33. When Mr. Ferris found out about the Broadway play, Clarence didn't stop rocking during the whole lab.
Gary D. Schmidt
#34. In 1990, I was in 'The Three Sisters' at the Royal Court and won the Clarence Derwent award for my supporting role as Natasha - the prize was £100. I could have paid the gas bill, but I ended up buying a porcelain and silver Bavarian coffee set in an antiques shop in Penzance.
Lesley Manville
#35. If a liberal were to attack Justice Clarence Thomas on the grounds that he's black, we would all go crazy.
Newt Gingrich
#36. We stay in U2's hotel. They bought a hotel, The Clarence, a nice place and it's in an area where everything's happening, so many fantastic restaurants and bars and the people are so friendly.
Bonnie Tyler
#37. Love, in my experience," began Clarence, "generally is a series of zany hijinks.
Richelle Mead
#38. The Duke of Clarence ... a prisoner in the Tower, was secretly put to death and drowned in a barrel of Malmesey wine.
Robert Fabyan
#39. In July of 1983, I left Washington, DC area and have had minimal contact with Judge Clarence Thomas since.
Anita Hill
#40. I have no personal vendetta against Clarence Thomas. I seek only to provide the committee with information which it may regard as relevant.
Anita Hill
#41. As Branford Marsalis said in a beautiful essay he write upon Clarence's death, C was blessed with 'the power of musical intent.
Bruce Springsteen
#42. But things were changing. Everywhere one looked the boundary between the moral and the wicked seemed to be degrading. Elizabeth Cady Stanton argued in favor of divorce. Clarence Darrow advocated free love. A young woman named Borden killed her parents.
Erik Larson
#43. Clarence Darrow, America's best-known trial lawyer, was also one of American history's most skilled orators.
Jill Lepore
#44. This play is dedicated to the memory of Clarence Darrow, The Great Defender, whose mental frontiers were the four corners of the sky.
Tennessee Williams
#45. The story I have told throughout my work life I could not have told as well without Clarence.
Bruce Springsteen
#46. One of the things that drives me batty is people who think they're court watchers, who say, "Oh, Clarence Thomas. You know, his clerks do all the work for him. You know, he doesn't deserve to be there, and has never done anything."
Dahlia Lithwick
#47. I think the only reason Clarence Thomas is on the court is because he is black
Joe Biden
#48. Forty million Americans smoked marijuana; the only ones who didn't like it were Judge Ginsberg, Clarence Thomas and Bill Clinton.
Jay Leno
#49. The time will come when all people will view with horror light way in which society and its courts of law now take human life; and when that time comes, the way will be clear to device some better method of dealing with poverty and ignorance and their frequent byproducts, which we call crime.
Clarence Darrow
#50. Not only in running but in much of life is a sense of balance and proportion necessary.
Clarence DeMar
#51. I got plenty of cautions that one or two of these marathons was all a man should do in a lifetime.
Clarence DeMar
#52. Father expected a good deal of God. He didn't actually accuse God of inefficiency, but when he prayed his tone was loud and angry, like that of a dissatisfied guest in a carelessly managed hotel.
Clarence Day
#53. He believed there were too many black clergy who were selling heaven to the people.2
Clarence Taylor
#54. The business man who gains success at the expense of the poor and miserable gains nil respect from his peers.
Clarence H. Burns
#55. The truth is that brains have little to do with either the making or accumulating of money.
Clarence Darrow
#56. It does no service to the cause of racial equality for white people to content themselves with judging themselves to be nonracist. Few people outside the clan or skinhead movements own up to all-out racism these days. White people must take the extra step. They must become anti-racist.
Clarence Page
#58. Using references of current technology, Martin Luther King Jr. could mentally cut and paste better than any individual I have ever known.
Clarence Benjamin Jones
#59. My grandfather, as I said, was industrious. He'd had a variety of jobs and decided sometime in the 1940s that he would never work for anyone. He was also a very independent man.
Clarence Thomas
#60. One of my basic feelings is that the mind, and the heart alike, of the photographer must be dedicated to the glory, the magic, and the mystery of light. The mystery of time, the magic of light, the enigma of reality - and their interrelationships - are my constant themes and preoccupations.
Clarence John Laughlin
#62. To know all is to understand all, and this leaves no room for judgement and condemnation.
Clarence Darrow
#63. You certainly get used to winning in general. Winning the Champions League is a very particular feeling, but it's really the journey that makes it special. Every journey that brings you toward a win is important.
Clarence Seedorf
#64. It's love. It's two men - two strong, very virile men - finding that space in life where they can let go enough of their masculinity to feel the passion of love and respect and trust,
Clarence Clemons
#65. Each child should be more intelligent than his parents.
Clarence Darrow
#66. Human action is governed largely by instinct and emotion.
Clarence Darrow
#68. And I thank God I believe in God, or I would probably be enormously angry right now.
Clarence Thomas
#69. The critic's first labor is the task of distinguishing between men, as history and their works display them, and the ideals which one and another have conspired to urge upon his acceptance.
Edmund Clarence Stedman
#70. If you lose the power to laugh, you lose the power to think.
Clarence Darrow
#71. You haven't really lived if you don't wonder how you've lived this long.
D. Clarence Snyder
#72. Give us a man of God's own mould
Born to marshall his fellow-men;
One whose fame is not bought and sold
At the stroke of a politician's pen.
Give us the man of thousands ten,
Fit to do as well as to plan;
Give us a rallying-cry, and then
Abraham Lincoln, give us a Man.
Edmund Clarence Stedman
#73. Every maiden's weak and willin' When she meets the proper villian.
Clarence Day
#74. In old grimy streets, in isolated and decaying houses, sometimes far from the Vieux Carre, in little used and secluded cemeteries, there still sluggishly circulates the ebbing blood of the past, of a vigorous and vividly hued past.
Clarence John Laughlin
#77. I grew up in a religious environment, and I'm proud of it.
Clarence Thomas
#78. I am an agnostic; I do not pretend to know what many ignorant men are sure of.
Clarence Darrow
#79. Faith is not belief in spite of evidence but a life in scorn of the consequences.
Clarence Jordan
#80. Since I was forty and definitely slipping, I have won seven full marathons, got second six times, and third four times ... I'm wondering what I can do after I'm fifty.
Clarence DeMar
#81. I hear people say it affected your self-esteem to be segregated. It never affected mine.
Clarence Thomas
#82. I am pleading for the future; I am pleading for a time when hatred and cruelty will not control the hearts of men. When we can learn by, reason and judgment and understanding and faith that all life is worth saving, and that mercy is the highest attribute of man.
Clarence Darrow
#83. Religion is the belief in future life and in God. I don't believe in either.
Clarence Darrow
#84. Every government on earth is the personification of violence and force, and yet the doctine of non-resistance is as old as human thought - even more than this, the instinct is as old as life upon the earth.
Clarence Darrow
#85. The calm mind allows one to connect with the inner self, the Soul, the very source of our being. That's where the music lives. That's where my music comes from.
Clarence Clemons
#86. As time goes on, new and remoter aspects of truth are discovered which can seldom be fitted into creeds that are changeless.
Clarence Day Jr.
#88. Let us see as steadily and completely as possible the realities of our age: the wasted lives, the scattered and misused resources (human and material), the steel magic of the misdirected machinery, the mad clockwork tragedy of it all.
Clarence John Laughlin
#89. Never forget, almost every case has been won or lost when the jury is sworn.
Clarence Darrow
#90. It is not for the world to judge, but to crown them all alike. Each and all lived out their own being, did their work in their own way, and carried a reluctant, stupid humanity to greater
possibilities and grander heights.
Clarence Darrow
#91. I have suffered from being misunderstood, but I would have suffered a hell of a lot more if I had been understood.
Clarence Darrow
#92. No man is a good citizen, a good neighbor, a good friend, or a good man just because he obeys the law. The intrinsic worth is determined mainly by the intrinsic make-up.
Clarence Darrow
#93. What the poor need is not charity but capital, not caseworkers but coworkers. And what the rich need is a wise, honorable and just way of divesting themselves of their overabundance.
Clarence Jordan
#94. Any discrimination, like sharp turns in a road, becomes critical because of the tremendous speed at which we are traveling into the high-tech world of a service economy.
Clarence Thomas
#95. No iconoclast can possibly escape the severest criticism.
Clarence Darrow
#96. I am an Agnostic because I am not afraid to think. I am not afraid of any god in the universe who would send me or any other man or woman to hell. If there were such a being, he would not be a god; he would be a devil.
Clarence Darrow
#97. I am a friend of the working man, and I would rather be his friend, than be one.
Clarence Darrow
#98. Lo, as I gaze, the statured man,
Built up from you large hand appears:
A type that nature wills to plan
But once in all a people's years.
Edmund Clarence Stedman
#99. The fact that there is a general belief in a future life is no evidence of its truth
Clarence Darrow
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