Top 100 Clementine Quotes
#1. Ruby is the littler one, right?" said Erika's mother in her regular voice. "How old is she? Two?" "Yes," said Clementine. "What happened? Nobody saw her fall in? Where was her mother? What was Clementine doing?
Liane Moriarty
#2. Playing Juliet in 'Heavenly Creatures' changed my life, and the role of Clementine in' Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind' opened many new doors creatively.
Kate Winslet
#3. Everyting starts to happen at my home at 7 A. M., 7:20, when you hear the orange juicer. That means my daughters are already making the fresh Clementine juice.
Jose Andres
#4. There's a boy across the river with an ass like a peach; alas I was no swimmer and lost my Clementine.
William S. Burroughs
#5. A heartfire, Clementine my darlin', is when you want someone, when you need her so damn bad, not only in your bed but in your life, that you're willin' to burn
.
Penelope Williamson
#6. Anchovies pair really well with fruit like a nectarines or clementine. The fruit complements the sweetness and saltiness of the anchovy.
Jose Andres
#7. No one warned you that having children reduced you right down to some smaller, rudimentary, primitive version of yourself, where your talents and your education and your achievements meant nothing. Clementine
Liane Moriarty
#8. Clementine was thankful her husband understood his mother so thoroughly. She couldn't imagine how difficult it would be if Ralph was one of those men who suffered from an excess of mother-worship.
Tessa Arlen
#9. Anyone ever tell you that you look like an orange in that jumpsuit? Auntie Lenore? More like Auntie Clementine.
Kim Harrison
#10. CLEMENTINE: This is it, Joel. It's going to be gone soon.
JOEL: I know.
CLEMENTINE: What do we do?
JOEL: Enjoy it.
Charlie Kaufman
#11. Thanks, Clementine. See what I mean? Sometimes you have to figure out the problem before you can figure out the solution.
Sara Pennypacker
#12. Clementine learned to feel bad about her white middle-class privilege long before it became fashionable.
Liane Moriarty
#14. What was very interesting to me about Clementine Hunter's work is that she couldn't read or write, and she has recorded history of the plantation life and the southern part of the U.S. - the cotton harvests, pecan picking, washing clothes, funerals, marriages - in pictures.
Robert Wilson
#15. No one answered. Wasting no time, Clementine speed-limped, doing
Brad Meltzer
#16. From the beginning I was aware that there was something improper about the way I felt about Clementine Stark, something I shouldn't tell my mother, but I wouldn't have been able to articulate it. I didn't connect this feeling to sex. I didn't know sex existed
Jeffrey Eugenides
#17. SQUATS, Clementine! And don't stop until class is over. You legs look like they'd snap under the weight of a sack of flour. How do you walk around on those things?"
"I don't know, Professor. One foot in front of the other, I guess.
Christine Manzari
#18. I'm gonna make it up to you, baby, I promise." "The name's Clementine. Not baby. Not Tiny." His hand slid to my ass and cupped it again. "You don't want to be my baby?
Jessica Clare
#19. Love your life. That's a direct route to something people used to call "happiness".
Clementine Holzinger
#20. I loved English literature - if didn't it would have been hard - but I had to learn it myself. I remembered ways to repeat words, to put more emphasis on certain lines.
Benjamin Clementine
#23. The good news is you survived. The bad news is you're hurt and no one can heal you but yourself.
Clementine Von Radics
#24. Confidence came from people. I think I'm very confident in me, as a human being.
Benjamin Clementine
#25. Neither would you, had you grown up in a library of melodramatic romance novels.
Clementine Holzinger
#26. The real self is who you are when you're at home, when you're comfortable, and the false self is what you're pretending - and the reason you pretend is because you want to create a character for the surroundings you're within.
Benjamin Clementine
#27. If you've got great parents, once you grow up and have to live by yourself, you're going to create some fake self as you get comfortable wherever you are.
Benjamin Clementine
#29. When I started singing about my life and what I was going through, I felt more confident. It was my own life, I was being myself, I was telling people what was happening.
Benjamin Clementine
#33. Boys are given the universe in which to carve out their identities, the promise of infinite space for them to expand into and contract upon. Girls are allowed only enough room to be stars, and they must twinkle, twinkle if they want anyone to pay attention to them.
Clementine Ford
#36. I was not good
to the last person I loved
so I punished my heart
(I let it bleed out
then roughly sewed it back together)
Clementine Von Radics
#37. Even if someone thinks there's a mistake I've made on the piano, to me it's not a mistake; it's how it's meant to be.
Benjamin Clementine
#38. The day has the color and the sound of winter. Thoughts turn to chowder ... chowder breathes reassurance. It steams consolation.
Clementine Paddleford
#39. We're all competent in different ways, we've just got to find a way to push ourselves up more.
Benjamin Clementine
#40. Painting is a lot harder than pickin' cotton. Cotton's right there for you to pull off the stalk, but to paint, you got to sweat your mind.
Clementine Hunter
#41. IV. There is a certain kind of girl who reads Lolita at fourteen and finds religion. I painted my eyes black and sucked barroom cherries to red my tongue. There was a boy who promised Judas really did love Jesus. I learned early every kiss and betrayal are up for interpretation.
Clementine Von Radics
#42. I've always been shy, but every time that I sing or I perform, when music comes out of me, it is the only thing I can relate to, it's the only thing I can give.
Benjamin Clementine
#43. I felt like I was homeless anyway, so the change in environment wasn't that much of a big deal. I felt pretty much the same. After six months of living on the streets [in Camden], I started singing, busking.
Benjamin Clementine
#44. I'm scared you will realize I'm just bones and questions and leave me for something solid.
Clementine Von Radics
#45. Poetry itself is music. I'm just lucky that I can convert it into music.
Benjamin Clementine
#46. I started understanding William Blake and George Orwell more and more. It's amazing how we go to school when we're so young, read all of these books, just trying to memorize them. When you start to live, you don't have to memorize anything.
Benjamin Clementine
#47. We are not in love. Not the way I've been told
being in love feels like. But we have been sleeping
beside each other for so many nights and I
am the most beautiful doormat you have ever
walked over.
Clementine Von Radics
#48. I think it is all about creating characters, mixing them up with the stars and the light-years, and coming back to Earth, because we're from this universe. We're not just New York or London; we're stars.
Benjamin Clementine
#49. I want a tattoo of the first morning we woke up together. I want the memory to hurt.
Clementine Von Radics
#54. People like us are not good with words.
What we mean gets muddled and wrong
somewhere between our minds
and our mouths.
We make art to say how we feel.
Here: These are the chords
to Make You Feel My Love.
Clementine Von Radics
#55. You are on the floor crying,
and you have been on the floor crying
for days.
And that is you being brave.
That is you getting through it
as best you know how.
No one else can decide
What your tough looks like.
Clementine Von Radics
#56. I cannot believe her when she says
I am beautiful. She cannot want me,
not the way I want her. My want
is an Empire State Building
I monster-climb with her
clutched in my fist. They make old,
flickering horror movies
about the way I look at her mouth.
Clementine Von Radics
#57. I'm not dismissing prostitutes, but a lot has changed. This so-called gentrification, it can never be stopped.
Benjamin Clementine
#58. I know
you and I
are not about poems or
other sentimental bullshit
but I have to tell you
even the way
you drink your coffee
knocks me the fuck out.
Clementine Von Radics
#59. All of us need to stop apologizing for having been to hell and come back breathing
Clementine Von Radics
#61. That's how I always try to start my thoughts. I write them down first, eventually it turns into a poem, and if I feel like composing something to it, then I do that.
Benjamin Clementine
#62. If history bothered to document our stories, there wouldn't be enough paper in the world to bear witness to all the women who've been imprisoned because our emotions proved too inconvenient for men to handle and too terrifying for them to ignore.
Clementine Ford
#63. Now may be a good time to go on a long journey. The stars think you need to clear your head. The stars think you need to run.
Clementine Von Radics
#65. There Is A Lion In My Living Room
I feed it raw meat
so it does not hurt me.
It is a strange thing
to nourish what could kill you
in the hopes it does not kill you.
Clementine Von Radics
#66. God I want you
in some primal, wild way
animals want each other.
Untamed and full of teeth.
God I want you,
In some chaste, Victorian way.
A glimpse of your ankle
just kills me.
Clementine Von Radics
#67. General [De Gaulle], you must not hate your friends more than you hate your enemies
Clementine Churchill
#68. When I started writing again, especially when I listened to French music and Bob Dylan and Leonard Cohen, I realized that these lots talked about themselves. The greatest artists, they didn't sing; they only spoke.
Benjamin Clementine
#69. There's a part in every person that has a fake self. We've had this since infancy due to our parents and our upbringing.
Benjamin Clementine
#70. It's just so strange.
You used to love me,
and now you're a stranger
who happens to know all
of my secrets.
Clementine Von Radics
#71. If I'm being forced to do something I don't want to do, my real self comes out. But whether or not I'm aware of it, no matter what happens, I'm always going to have a fake self and I'm not going to judge my fake self.
Benjamin Clementine
#72. Here's the truth: It is hard to be in love with someone who is in love with someone else.
Clementine Von Radics
#73. In fact, I might be confident for the human race because of what the human race has given me. When I was in the street and bars, people always came up to me and said, "Don't stop, keep going."
Benjamin Clementine
#74. It would be rare to find a woman who hadn't endured some kind of ridicule for stepping out of line. When the market dictates that a woman's value is primarily attached to her looks and deferential behaviour, it's the threat of sexually degrading insults that help to keep her in check.
Clementine Ford
#75. Beer is the Danish national drink, and the Danish national weakness is another beer.
Clementine Paddleford
#76. I was lucky to have read a lot of poetry when I was younger; it helped me to remember a way to write.
Benjamin Clementine
#77. Obviously you live life for yourself and have your choice to believe what you want to believe in, but I know that the Bible can be used to appreciate life.
Benjamin Clementine
#78. If there are as many connections in your brain as there are stars in the universe, why ask for superpowers?
Clementine Beauvais
#79. William Blake is my favorite poet of all time, and he said that he wasn't quite familiar with the sounds of music. If so, he would have been a musician.
Benjamin Clementine
#80. There will always being those
who say you are too young and delicate
to make anything happen for yourself.
They don't see the part of you that smolders.
Don't let their doubting drown out the sound
of your own heartbeat.
Clementine Von Radics
#81. I was very rebellious, but my family was strict Christians - they would ask us, "What's the shortest verse in the Bible?" and I was the one who always said "John 11:35" straightaway. It stayed with me, the Bible has stayed with me.
Benjamin Clementine
#82. I said, I love you
when I meant something much
more specific, I should have said,
Please don't leave me,
I'm afraid to sleep alone.
Clementine Von Radics
#83. I have met a few people, who are so respected in the fashion industry and all around the world, and are still very humble. People who have it all but act like they only just started, it's beautiful. This is what I want to be.
Benjamin Clementine
#84. I like it when cities are melancholic. When it started snowing for example, I felt very lonely. I felt very comfortable and very relaxed. When that happens, I write. So I've been writing, not a lot, but I'm inspired everyday.
Benjamin Clementine
#85. Be merciful until you can't be.
Until you feel your heart begin to harden into a bullet.
Then use that bullet.
Clementine Von Radics
#86. Some people will never be able to get their real self, but that's fine, because their fake self is also part of them.
Benjamin Clementine
#87. When there are so many people willing to degrade women so horrifically just for having the nerve to express an opinion, it doesn't take long for us to regress into silence.
Clementine Ford
#88. He used to love me, and now he's just a stranger who happens to know all my secrets.
Clementine Von Radics
#91. I wasn't quite used to writing a diary - I didn't understand why people did it - but I wrote down notes and they went into a poem.
Benjamin Clementine
#93. I am terrified
I will break his heart
just because I feel restless;
because it is between me
and what I hunger for
Clementine Von Radics
#94. We have the real self and the false self, there's nothing wrong with them, and everyone has both of them.
Benjamin Clementine
#95. But my heart is an old house
(the kind my mother
grew up in)
hell to heat and cool
and faulty in the wiring
and though it's nice to look at
I have no business
inviting lovers in.
Clementine Von Radics
#96. When you look at the media and television, and all this Hollywood stuff, you just judge people.
Benjamin Clementine
#97. No, I'm not ok. But I haven't been ok since I was 11, maybe 12. I am still here though.
I'm still breathing. For me, sometimes, that will have to be enough.
Clementine Von Radics
#98. When you have a lot of fake selves, most of the time it's because you haven't had parents around so you try to build characters to protect yourself.
Benjamin Clementine
#99. I'm from a middle class family but my father squandered all the money, so I didn't really run around with rich people. I was very judgmental towards a lot of them.
Benjamin Clementine
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