Top 100 Clive's Quotes
#1. Well, I drank enough to sustain a small Spanish village, I haven't had an orgasm in a thousand years, and I will probably die old and alone in a beautifully designed apartment with all of Clive's illegitimate children swarming around me ... How do you think I feel?
Alice Clayton
#2. It's my mission to tell the Australians from abroad in my work that Australia is a wonderful place.
Clive James
#3. Samuel Eto'o is reputedly the highest-paid player in the world at £350,000 per week - that's £5,000 a day
Clive Tyldesley
#4. Very often when you see families it's all perfect and neat, and parenting isn't like that. You do have constant negotiations. Things are ever developing and ever changing, and you constantly have to evaluate how you deal with your kids.
Clive Owen
#5. I think the great trick of doing my sort of thing is to learn to use your downtime, and of course in the media and especially in television, there's a heck of a lot of time of waiting around. And I think the trick is to use that.
Clive James
#6. Beware of the thief who is after your cash; but be more cautious of the thief in the mind that's after your kind, your promise - your dream, your future.
Bernard Kelvin Clive
#7. The Language Laboratory at Cambridge is a very good way of finding out about grammar and the vocabulary and that's why I learned to read German and later on I added Spanish, the standard European languages.
Clive James
#9. All things are true. God's an Astronaut. Oz is Over the Rainbow, and Midian is where the monsters live. - Peloquin
Clive Barker
#10. It's better to dare to dream big and achieve half of your dreams than to dream small dreams and achieve all
Bernard Kelvin Clive
#11. I believe that we live in a time of fractured families where maybe fathers aren't getting enough time to see their kids because life's complications and hardships get in the way of those things.
Clive Owen
#12. Schoolchildren and older people like the idea of planting trees. For children, it's interesting that an acorn will grow into an oak, and for older people it's a legacy. And the act of planting a tree is not that difficult.
Clive Anderson
#13. I don't like to make a distinction between the writer and the painter , finally , because I do both things anyway . Everybody's dreaming and trying to put down their dreams in the way that their hand knows best . I feel as much a unity , as much comradeship , with painters as I do writers .
Clive Barker
#14. It's great to celebrate the victories along the way in living your dreams
but never allow the praises of your past pause you from pursuing higher heights.
Bernard Kelvin Clive
#15. When I was growing up in north-west London, our milkman's cart was pulled by a horse, and cattle still grazed on the meadows near Church Farm.
Clive Sinclair
#17. I can honestly say I've never chosen a film because where it's shot is convenient.
Clive Owen
#19. Perhaps the House had heard Harvey wishing for a full moon, because when he and Wendell traipsed upstairs and looked out the landing window, there
hanging between the bare branches of the trees
was a moon as wide and as white as a dead man's smile.
Clive Barker
#20. Movies are certainly a director's medium, so getting the opportunity to work with really good directors is everything to me.
Clive Owen
#21. I've had some great times with actresses, but that's in a movie.
Clive Owen
#22. Personal Branding is the combination of one's skills and talents to produce value for people that creates an impression, a perception and reputation in the mind of others
Bernard Kelvin Clive
#23. It seemed like an impossible task to do full justice to all Luther classics. And yet these landmark artists have done just that. Memorable performances of wonderful songs that ensure Luther's legacy will live on forever.
Clive Davis
#24. Brand integrity is the ability to present one's brand both in words and deeds to be true, respectable and acceptable without compromising on standards (brand's promise).
Bernard Kelvin Clive
#25. I have a problem with a lot of men's fragrances because they are very strong. Somebody somewhere thinks that masculine means powerful smells, and I find them overbearing and not very pleasant.
Clive Owen
#26. Never apologize for who you are and what you do and more especially never apologize for dreaming big even if they don't come true. Many will criticize you and call you names but hey it's your life, it's your dream. Make it happen.
Bernard Kelvin Clive
#27. People should be stopped from writing poetry. There's far too much of it. And if they're any good, they'll go ahead anyways.
Clive James
#28. Does the beef salute the butcher as it throbs to it's knees?
Clive Barker
#29. The century's getting old and stale; it needs new tribes.
Clive Barker
#30. The inevitable effect of a biographer's hindsight is to belittle the subject's foresight.
Clive James
#31. Study nothing except in the knowledge that you already knew it. Worship nothing except in adoration of your true self. And fear nothing except in the certainty that you are your enemy's begetter and its only hope of healing.
Clive Barker
#32. That's half of your trouble," muttered the crocodile. "You believe everything's true."
"That's because everything is," replied Mr. Bacchus.
Clive Barker
#33. Richard Christian Matheson is a master of compression. He knows how to catch a moment in words and convey it straight to the reader's heart.
Clive Barker
#34. It's only when you've lost someone that you realize the nonsense of that
phrase "It's a small world". It isn't. It's a vast, devouring world, especially if you're alone.
Clive Barker
#35. I don't feel there's any reason to apologise for having a wicked imagination. I think it's important as a maker of fantasy and of horror.
Clive Barker
#36. There's nothing heroic about sacrificing yourself for him," Zeffer pointed out. "He wouldn't do it for you." "I know that.
Clive Barker
#37. If someone like my father chooses to criticise Israeli policies, it's not because he is a self-hating Jew, but because he is not prepared to live in a state of self-denial.
Clive Sinclair
#38. On the environmental front there's concern about global warming and high levels of carbon dioxide, and trees take in CO2 and store carbon.
Clive Anderson
#40. Politicians or pundits can distort or cherry-pick climate science any way they want to try and gain temporary influence with the public. But any serious industrialist who's facing 'climate exposure' - as it's now called by money managers - cannot afford to engage in that sort of self-delusion.
Clive Thompson
#41. Consider these current rough estimates: Each day, we compose 154 billion e-mails, more than 500 million tweets on Twitter, and over 1 million blog posts and 1.3 million blog comments on WordPress alone. On Facebook, we write about 16 billion words per day. That's just in the United States:
Clive Thompson
#42. For an actor, it's very important to get a clear idea of what a director wants, and their intention for what they want to get out of a scene and how they want to shoot it. Having that knowledge is really valuable, for an actor. It means you can deliver more.
Clive Owen
#43. With period dramas, it's very easy to get excited because I love to do them.
Clive Standen
#44. Awaken to the opportunities available for you today. It's not too late to be, do, and have, whatever you so desire. It's only late if you don't begin today, the time is now. Go, make it happen!
Bernard Kelvin Clive
#45. That's fucked," he remarked, sounding a damn sight less nonchalant than he felt.
Clive Barker
#46. In Italy, for the same price as a typical British hamburger meal including sweet, a builder's labourer could eat like a king - rather better in fact, because pasta dishes gain from being kept simple.
Clive James
#47. Finally, slowly, like a newly lighted oil lamp gathering kerosene up into its wick, Wally's face began to glow. He turned to Mack Fulton. "Mack, you know what's on my mind?
Clive Cussler
#48. Clive remained behind Simon's knees.
Simon's Knees . . .
What a great name for a band.
Alice Clayton
#49. A lot of the projects that I do, I like to be involved with earlier. I just feel that, certainly from an acting point of view, it's easier to do my job, if I'm included in what the intentions are, for why people are doing what they're doing, especially with a director.
Clive Owen
#50. There's not a big gun culture in England at all still.
Clive Owen
#51. It's noble to be skilled, but ultimately people pay for solutions your skills can provide not the skills you possess
Bernard Kelvin Clive
#52. It doesn't matter if a character is a lawyer, a cop or a geography teacher. If there's a story in there, where the character has a passion and a fire in his belly and story to tell, then it's enough for an actor to get excited about.
Clive Standen
#53. The cast of 'Vikings' is a real team, a true ensemble. It's a mad, eclectic, great bunch! But we support each other and trust each other completely. There are no egos.
Clive Standen
#54. I'm not afraid," he said. "What's the use of fear? You can't buy it or sell it, you can't make love to it. You can't even wear it if they strip off your shirt and you're cold.
Clive Barker
#55. That's often the best place to beat a goalkeeper, isn't it, between the legs?
Clive Tyldesley
#56. I like New York. There are similarities with London that make it feel rather like home, but at the same time it's slightly fictional.
Clive Anderson
#57. I can't go to bed with John Wayne, so I do the next best thing: I go to bed with my girlfriend, who once met the great man. That's how much I love westerns.
Clive Sinclair
#58. It's important to me that everyone is treated with respect.
Clive Owen
#59. This was work (music industry) but it was the awakening to what was to become a life's passion.
Clive Davis
#60. I just like to keep challenging myself, keep it varied. It's a craft, and I'm constantly trying to learn and get better at it.
Clive Owen
#61. One of the few things in dance to match the Royal Ballet's curtain calls is the Royal Ballet's dancing.
Clive Barnes
#62. Consumers care less about your brand's vision statement, they want value delivered
Bernard Kelvin Clive
#63. When there's an idiot driving crazily in front of you, that can wind the best of you up.
Clive Owen
#64. The secret for an artist is to make that a subject and not bang your head against the wall and give up. But to turn it into and treat the new subject matter, which is one's own vanishing.
Clive James
#65. I am attached to the west coast of Scotland - it's gorgeous to look at and challenging. You have to contend with the possibility of being blown away or rained on. And in the summer months you can be eaten alive by midges.
Clive Anderson
#66. Anytime you announce your dream; two things happen, it's either it motivates you to get it done or the feeling of accomplishment sets in and discourages you from pursuing it
Bernard Kelvin Clive
#67. There's certainly a huge element of luck in me ending up where I've ended up.
Clive Owen
#68. A newspaper runs a story, a friend posts a link on Facebook, a blogger writes a post, and it's interesting. But the real intellectual action often takes place in the comments.
Clive Thompson
#69. Then we realized that your Kind like to make laws. Like to decree what's what, and whether it's good or not. And the world, being a loving thing, and not wishing to disappoint you or distress you, indulges you. Behaves as though your doctrines are in some way absolute.
Clive Barker
#70. I am not asking anyone to accept Christianity if his best reasoning tells him that the weight of the evidence is against it.
C.S. Lewis
#71. Clive Dunn, as I understand it, retired to the south of Spain, where he worked extensively in watercolours. I don't own any of Clive Dunn's watercolours. I loved him in 'Dad's Army,' loved him. But not enough to actually seek out his watercolour work.
Hugh Laurie
#73. The idea of the split personality is as old as Genesis. For a start, Eve was manufactured from Adam's rib. Then there's Cain and Abel, twins at war. They were followed by Esau and Jacob, likewise divisible into hairy and smooth types.
Clive Sinclair
#74. He gave a moment's consideration to the possibility of lingering to wash his face and hands (maybe even to changing his puke-splattered shirt), but he decided to forgo cleanliness in favor of making a fast exit.
Clive Barker
#75. Transactive memory works best when you have a sense of how your partners' minds work - where they're strong, where they're weak, where their biases lie. I can judge that for people close to me. But it's harder with digital tools, particularly search engines.
Clive Thompson
#76. I certainly knew from an early age ... how to tell stories; how to create pictures in other people's heads.
Clive Barker
#77. The sight of her had pierced him, making her the enterer, had she but known it, and him the entered. Perhaps she had known, on reflection. Perhaps she'd fled from his passivity, from his ease beneath the spike of her beauty. If so, he would undo her revulsion with tonight's business. Here,
Clive Barker
#78. If you explode onto the scene at a very young age, there are so many people pulling you in different directions. It takes time to recalibrate and see what's important.
Clive Owen
#79. Jewelery isn't really my thing, but I've always got my eye on people's watches.
Clive Owen
#80. Every year in late June, Custer's Last Stand is reenacted on the high plains of Montana. When Custer led out the 7th Cavalry in 2003 - the year I witnessed it - the audience stood and cheered with turbo-charged patriotism.
Clive Sinclair
#81. It's all part of the dance, she thought; the dust, her hands, the light that was spiraling around her: it's all part of the same wonderful dance. And I'm in it.
Clive Barker
#82. Audience engagement is critical to the survival of your brand; if you don't engage them you endanger your brand. It's social interaction.
Bernard Kelvin Clive
#83. To be able to fly ? To be smoke , or a wolf ;to know the night , and live in it forever ? That's not so bad . You call us monsters . But when you dream it's of flying , and changing , and living without death .
Clive Barker
#84. People, regardless of political views, matter in this state and in this country and in this world. And, you know, when people attack people's basic rights and livelihoods, I'm concerned about it. And as a citizen of Queensland and nothing else, I've got the right to express my view.
Clive Palmer
#85. I actually didn't like that feeling of being out of touch because what I do depends on being in touch. But it's fun to talk about. That's one of the real dangers of drugs: they're too much fun to talk about.
Clive James
#86. I've got deeper journeys to take. Metaphysical journeys. Journeys to see Christ. Shaman journeys. It's what I've been elected by God to do.
Clive Barker
#87. Once in a while, I smell Clive on my skin and it stops my day. It's a train crossing; I wait to pass. Eventually the lights stop flashing, the barriers lift. I keep moving.
Marie-Helene Bertino
#88. The paintings of Francis Bacon to my eye are very beautiful. The paintings of Bosch or Goya are to my eye very beautiful. I've also stood in front of those same paintings with people who've said, 'let's get on to the Botticellis as soon as possible.' I have lingered, of course.
Clive Barker
#89. But she felt as though whatever she'd been given in the Devil's Country it was affecting her mind, not her body, and it was not doing anything remotely healing. Quite the reverse.
Clive Barker
#90. ... there's nothing in the world more fun than doing something you're good at.
Clive Barker
#91. Personal Brand Focus: Immediately you try to reach the masses with your brand you dilute your brand's power and falls into the average zone. You cease to be remarkable
Bernard Kelvin Clive
#92. Zombies are the ideal late twentieth-century monsters. A zombie is the one thing you can't deal with. It survives anything. Frankenstein's monster and Dracula could be sent down in so many ways. Zombies, though, fall outside all this. You can't argue with them. They just keep coming at you.
Clive Barker
#93. It's true, people don't imagine I'd be particularly woody.
Clive Anderson
#94. In 1935, Faber & Faber published an anthology entitled 'My Best Western Story' in which the genre's leading practitioners contributed what they considered their finest. Alas, literature the stories ain't; they appear more like fossils from a spent mine.
Clive Sinclair
#95. Hinde Esther Singer was born in Poland on March 31, 1881, the daughter of Bathsheva and Pinchos Mendel Singer. Bathsheva was an intellectual, but both Bathsheva's father and her husband disapproved of erudite women.
Clive Sinclair
#97. That's not fair!"
"Life's not fair, Kaspar. You know that. You had a slave for - how long?"
"Twelve years."
"Did you treat him 'fairly'? No, of course not. You beat him when you were in a bad mood, because it made you feel better, and when you felt better you beat him some more.
Clive Barker
#99. As for theatre, there's ups and downs to everything. Theatre is ephemeral. But that is part of its charm because you can always say the production was better than it was.
Clive Barker
#100. The worst piece of advice I've gotten in my whole career is from somebody who said, 'Remember, it's all about likeability.'
Clive Owen
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