Top 100 Clifton Quotes
#1. Billy Barnes signed me and got me my first role in an interracial love story filmed in Atlanta called 'Together For Days' with Clifton Davis. My mother thinks it was my best work. You cannot find a copy of it.
Lois Chiles
#2. But really, aren't there bits of magic everywhere we look?' Dr. Clifton continues. 'We've just stopped seeing it that way.
Emily Bain Murphy
#3. From a footnote: Writes Clifton Fadiman: "A cheese may disappoint. It may be dull, it may be naive, it may be oversophisticated. Yet it remains cheese, milk's leap toward immortality.
Michael Paterniti
#4. So off had gone John to the wars again. But he had not remained for long in the position of a humble volunteer. Colonel Clifton, commanding the 1st Regiment of Dragoons, no sooner heard that Crazy Jack was back then he enrolled him as an extra aide-de-camp.
Georgette Heyer
#5. His name was Clifton and he was black and they shot him. Isn't that enough to tell? Isn't it all you need to know?
Ralph Ellison
#7. Clifton, in life you get what you deserve, no more and certainly no less.
Jeffrey Archer
#8. There's no other way to say this. The official unemployment rate, which cruelly overlooks the suffering of the long-term and often permanently unemployed as well as the depressingly underemployed, amounts to a Big Lie.
Jim Clifton
#9. King Cygnus dozed in his chair, and a dark shadow curled up in the window seat. That dark shadow happened to have a name, which happened to be Darcy; but nobody really notices dark shadows, even named ones. They have a habit of lurking about. People learn to ignore them after a while.
Emma Clifton
#10. To be a good poet, you must care more about the writing, than the writer.
Lucille Clifton
#11. My son is 7 years old. I am 54. It has taken me a great many years to reach that age. I am more respected in the community, I am stronger, I am more intelligent and I think I am better than he is. I don't want to be a pal, I want to be a father.
Clifton Fadiman
#12. I have only two men out of my company and 20 out of some other company. We need support, but it is almost suicide to try to get it here as we are swept by machine gun fire and a constant barrage is on us. I have no one on my left and only a few on my right. I will hold.
Clifton B. Cates
#13. Every pair of eyes facing you has probably experienced something you could not endure.
Lucille Clifton
#14. Even as she was about to read the mysterious, tortured hero's declaration of undying passion to the piquant young heroine, Rosalind found herself obliged instead to look up into Marius's decidedly un-mysterious, non-tortured face.
Emma Clifton
#15. Things don't fall apart. Things hold. Lines connect in thin ways that last and last and lives become generations made out of pictures and words just kept.
Lucille Clifton
#16. In the bigger scheme of things the universe is not asking us to do something, the universe is asking us to be something. And that's a whole different thing.
Lucille Clifton
#17. Our lives are shaped by our interactions with others. Whether we have a long conversation with a friend or simply place an order at a restaurant, every interaction makes a difference.
Donald O. Clifton
#18. dreaming your x-ray vision could see the beauty in me.
Lucille Clifton
#19. When you re-read a classic you do not see in the book more than you did before. You see more in you than there was before.
Clifton Fadiman
#20. There is no reader so parochial as the one who reads none but this morning's books. Books are not rolls, to be devoured only when they are hot and fresh. A good book retains its interior heat and will warm a generation yet unborn.
Clifton Fadiman
#21. What they call you is one thing. What you answer to is something else.
Lucille Clifton
#22. There are some things we can control and others we simply cannot. And our ability to distinguish between them is critical to our happiness and wellbeing. Sometimes unexpected stuff will happen to us or around us. Our true power lies in our response.
Clifton Anderson
#23. Our definition of a weakness is anything that gets in the way of excellent performance.
Donald O. Clifton
#24. Pauling Light - a natural sky phenomenon located near Watersmeet, Michigan.
Mary Clifton
#26. I write from my knowledge not my lack, from my strength not my weakness. I am not interested if anyone knows whether or not I am familiar with big words, I am interested in trying to render big ideas in a simple way. I am interested in being understood not admired.
Lucille Clifton
#27. Come celebrate with me that every day something has tried to kill me and has failed.
Lucille Clifton
#29. The kind of poetry to avoid in the pretty-pretty kind that pleased our grandmothers, the kind that Longfellow and Tennyson, good poets at their best, wrote at their worst.
Clifton Fadiman
#30. In a sense our brains are like an archive, where material is well-preserved and properly catalogued, but also dissolves, or becomes re-shelved or misplaced, or in some cases never makes it there to begin with.
Clifton Crais
#31. Each of these strategies-get a little better at it, design a support system, use one of your strongest themes to overwhelm your weakness, find a partner, and just stop doing it-can help you as you strive to build your life around your strengths.
Donald O. Clifton
#33. By the end of high school I was not of course an educated man, but I knew how to try to become one.
Clifton Fadiman
#34. A man who is careful with his palate is not likely to be careless with his paragraphs.
Clifton Fadiman
#35. Children when they ask you why your mama so funny say she is a poet she don't have no sense
Lucille Clifton
#38. People will tie in with a fanatic if for no other reason than to break the monotony of their lives.
Mark Clifton
#39. Mr. Faulkner, of course, is interested in making your mind rather than your flesh creep.
Clifton Fadiman
#40. May you kiss
the wind then turn from it
certain that it will
love your back
Lucille Clifton
#41. A bottle of wine begs to be shared; I have never met a miserly wine lover
Clifton Fadiman
#42. The tantrums of cloth-headed celluloid idols are deemed fit for grown-up conversation, while silence settles over such a truly important matter as food.
Clifton Fadiman
#43. There was no real animosity in his voice or his mind. It was the simple desire to obstruct found in everyone, and often expressed where there is no fear of retaliation.
Mark Clifton
#44. Sometimes when we're focused on quickly getting to our destination, we'll encounter unexpected roadblocks and detours. Always remember that there's more than one path that will lead you to where you're going. Who knows? You might just enjoy that new, more scenic route!
Clifton Anderson
#45. One measure of friendship consists not in the number of things friends can discuss, but in the number of things they need no longer mention.
Clifton Fadiman
#47. My Mama Moved Among the Days My Mama moved among the days like a dreamwalker in a field; seemed like what she touched was here seemed like what touched her couldn't hold, she got us almost through the high grass then seemed like she turned around and ran right back in right back on in
Lucille Clifton
#48. If there is any difference between you and me, it may simply be that I get up every day and have a chance to do what I love to do, every day.
Donald O. Clifton
#49. You start acting just as soon as you walk into the door of that casting office. You can't just be yourself because they don't want to hire you.
Clifton Collins Jr.
#50. I keep hearing tree talk water words and i keep knowing what they mean.
Lucille Clifton
#51. Your weaknesses will never develop, while your strengths will develop infinitely.
Donald O. Clifton
#52. I would say that President Roosevelt probably was more intimately in touch with the press corps at the White House than President Truman was.
Clifton Daniel
#54. Socrates called himself a midwife of ideas. A great book is often such a midwife, delivering to full existence what has been coiled like an embryo in the dark, silent depths of the brain.
Clifton Fadiman
#55. Leaving work with a bag full of Guinness and thank-you notes is better than getting paid.
Clifton Kenny
#56. Rosalind exploded with a shriek worthy of a tea-kettle.
Emma Clifton
#58. I think it's not a big secret that I like to work a lot. I really go out for projects when I find things I'm passionate about.
Clifton Collins Jr.
#59. Directors have been trying to get me to do comedy for a long time, ever since 'One Eight Seven.'
Clifton Collins Jr.
#60. Muhammad Ali: Superman Don't need no seat belt. Flight Attendant: Superman Don't need no airplane, either.
Clifton Fadiman
#61. The German mind has a talent for making no mistakes but the very greatest.
Clifton Fadiman
#64. I think that were beginning to remember that the first poets didn't come out of a classroom, that poetry began when somebody walked off of a savanna or out of a cave and looked up at the sky with wonder and said, "Ahhh." That was the first poem.
Lucille Clifton
#65. He has made a profession out of a business and an art out of a profession.
Clifton Fadiman
#66. Every great accomplishment starts with a first step. No matter how big your goals are. No matter how great your plans are. No matter how immense your dreams are. It all begins with a single step. Take that step today!
Clifton Anderson
#67. It's time you met Mother," said Marius. It was about as far from a declaration of undying passion as a man could get.
Emma Clifton
#69. We need new words for what this is, this hunger entering our loneliness like birds, stunning our eyes into rays of hope. we need the flutter that can save us, something that will swirl across the face of what we have become and bring us grace.
Lucille Clifton
#70. No matter what challenge you're facing or situation you're going through, always remember this. You are bigger, stronger, greater, more significant, more powerful, more resilient, and more important than any of your problems.
Clifton Anderson
#71. In my downtime, for fun, I engage in philosophical internet debates. Yeah, I'm that guy.
Scott Clifton
#72. I tried to use the questions and answers as an armature on which to build a sculpture of genuine conversation.
Clifton Fadiman
#73. Tell the truth ... maybe just to see clearly, as clearly as possible.
Lucille Clifton
#74. Having the right perspective is tough when you're alone. Surround yourself with people who will help you see things you cannot readily see.
Clifton Anderson
#75. If your senses are numbed with delusion and denial, you will stop looking for these true strengths and wind up living a second-rate version of someone's life rather than a worldclass version of your own
Donald O. Clifton
#76. Faithfully he followed the pattern of the scientist determined to interpret the facts to suit the theory.
Mark Clifton
#77. No one can be guaranteed success without failures along the way. But one thing that guarantees failure is never taking action.
Clifton Anderson
#78. Reading is not an operation performed on something inert but a relationship entered into with another vital being.
Clifton Fadiman
#79. Was my first landscape, red brown as the clay of her georgia.
Lucille Clifton
#81. I knew what she was, and it made no difference at all. She was hard, as ruthless as she was beautiful, as brittle as bone china.
Clifton Adams
#82. With people increasingly faced with turmoil, uncertainty and crisis,
I wanted to create music that uplifts the listener and offers a sense of hope to prevail.
Clifton Anderson
#83. And at night my dreams are full of the cursing of me fucking god fucking me.
Lucille Clifton
#85. The adjective is the banana peel of the parts of speech.
Clifton Fadiman
#86. You might as well answer the door, my child,
the truth is furiously knocking.
Lucille Clifton
#87. The scientist who would rather refute than comprehend demonstrates he has chosen the wrong calling.
Mark Clifton
#88. Books are like eggs. Somethings you have to crack them open to get anything out.
Clifton L. Taulbert
#89. Poetry is a matter of life, not just a matter of language.
Lucille Clifton
#90. I come to comfort the afflicted and to afflict the comfortable.
Lucille Clifton
#91. I see life as a challenge but success is what you make of it.
Clifton Cameron
#92. Books act like a developing fluid on film. That is, they bring into consciousness what you didn't know you knew.
Clifton Fadiman
#93. Humans used to desire love, money, food, shelter, safety, peace, and freedom more than anything else. The last 30 years have changed us. Now people want to have a good job, and they want their children to have a good job. This changes everything for world leaders.
Jim Clifton
#94. I do not feel inhibited or bound by what I am. That does not mean that I have never had bad scenes relating to being Black and/or a woman, it means that other people's craziness has not managed to make me crazy.
Lucille Clifton
#95. The lesson of the falling leaves
the leaves believe
such letting go is love
such love is faith
such faith is grace
such grace is god
i agree with the leaves
Lucille Clifton
#96. When everyone thinks something is true, it does not make it anything more than effective marketing.
Clifton Hill
#97. They ask me to remember but they want me to remember their memories and I keep on remembering mine
Lucille Clifton
#98. All people, even one's own children, come with baggage. When they're little, you have to help them carry it. But when they grow up, you have to do that difficult thing of setting their baggage down and taking up your own again.
Lucille Clifton
#99. objective physical science methodology will never permit us to know a man; that such methodology limits us merely to knowing about a man.
Mark Clifton
#100. Believe in your characters with all your heart, & they will believe in you. Only then will they trust you enough to reveal themselves.
-RCSJR
Robert Clifton Storey Jr.
