Clarifier Quotes

#1. For most of us, the first experience of love, even if it doesn't work out-perhaps especially when it doesn't work out-promises that here is the thing that validates, that vindicates life.

Julian Barnes

#2. I feel like I've been marinated in Australian theatre.

Cate Blanchett

#3. Success depends on our using, and not opposing ...

Thomas Troward

#4. My group ridiculed and made fun of anyone who was not like us, and that comprised almost everyone! People with negative identity drop out and stand on the sidelines of life, making fun of everyone else. In actuality I was terrified of life.

John Bradshaw

#5. America fears the unshaven legs, the unshaven men's cheeks, the aroma of perspiration, and the limp prick. Above all it fears the limp prick.

Walter Abish

#6. Disappointment feels like slamming a brick in the wall

Jodi Picoult

#7. I believe it is very important to learn different fighting styles to make you a flexible fighter.

Tomoki Kameda

#8. I've arrived at the age where a platonic friendship can be sustained on the highest moral plane.

Charlie Chaplin

#9. I confess that Roy was a little bit dictatorial in his editing and he ruined quite a number of my pictures, which he stopped doing later. He used to punch a hole through a negative. Some of them were incredibly valuable. He didn't understand at the time.

Ben Shahn

#10. Red is the great clarifier - bright and revealing. I can't imagine becoming bored with red - it would be like becoming bored with the person you love.

Diana Vreeland

#11. What are you hiding? No one ever asks that.

Sarah Vowell

#12. I was ready to get out of the box and play something a little different than what everybody has seen.

Ice Cube

#13. Kids have been a great clarifier - incredibly rewarding.

Joanne Whalley

#14. Former President Bush, to celebrate his 80th birthday, jumped out of an airplane. And if you've seen the polls, you know he's not the only Bush in freefall.

David Letterman

#15. My mum still says the biggest mistake I ever made was not being Benedict Lloyd-Hughes. She's very upset. But the only one who calls me Benedict in real life is my granny.

Ben Lloyd-Hughes

#16. Meeting a namesake is one of the most delicate and most brief surprises.

Michael Chabon

#17. I still believe in rock and roll, it pays my bills.

Jimmy Buffett