Top 100 Clyde Quotes
#1. The first time I heard Clyde McPhatter singing with the Dominoes at the Apollo I just fell off my chair
Ahmet Ertegun
#2. Footage of him and Bonnie Rae into an old black and white photo of Bonnie and Clyde, she began to tell their story, as if it were breaking news and
Amy Harmon
#3. Bonnie and Clyde were almost like a modern-day Robin Hood, stealing 'the government's money.' I think that's a bit of why they were glorified.
Lane Garrison
#4. We're almost like Bonnie & Clyde. Of course, he's Bonnie and I'm Clyde.
Alex Riley
#5. You want to know the secret to raising good kids?"
"What's that? asked Thomas.
"High expectations."
Thomas laughed. "Alright, well what's the secret to a happy marriage?"
Clyde smiled back, but his face started to fall, and he chose his words carefully. " ... Low expectations.
Chris Nicolaisen
#6. Clyde had a theory that women had a book, a homemade, photocopied three-ring binder called "Surprising Things to Do in a Relationship," which they passed around to one another, adding pages from time to time, hiding it under the bed. He figured that Desiree could run home tonight and add a new page.
Neal Stephenson
#7. Stops at the end of the road collected Clyde Lidgards like dams collected silt.
C.J. Box
#8. The theme of the dance was "Great Romances," or some such nonsense. There were projections of supposedly great couples from the past on the walls of the gym. Romeo and Juliet, Antony and Cleopatra, Hermione and Ron, Bonnie and Clyde, etc.
Gabrielle Zevin
#9. People like Clyde McPhatter who came out of the black churches - like Sam Cooke and Aretha Franklin - were all church singers who became great pop singers because gospel singing is very close to the blues.
Ahmet Ertegun
#10. Laughter is the only thing that cuts trouble down to a size where you can talk to it. -- character Billy Clyde Puckett in Semi-Tough
Dan Jenkins
#11. I want a partner in crime and a Bonnie to my Clyde. I've just been so focused on my career. Women don't like being number two, so I've been glad to keep my distance so I could focus on me, get my life together and take care of my mom without disappointing the woman I love.
Shemar Moore
#12. I'll never turn her away, Clyde. She's my mate. I'll protect her till my dying breath. I'll even swallow my pride and ask a favor as momentous as the one I just asked of a man who has done nothing but try to drive a wedge between her and myself.
J.L. Sheppard
#13. I lost faith in the Oscars the first year I was a movie critic - the year that Bonnie and Clyde didn't win.
Roger Ebert
#14. [ ... ] They taught us to never ever underestimate the power of chocolate on a female."
"Is that so?"
"If someone had waved a Hershey bar in front of Bonnie at the right time of the month, she'd have given up Clyde in a heartbeat.
Serena B. Miller
#15. Clyde's mother was an ample, olive-dark woman with the worn and disappointed look of someone who had spent her life doing things for others: occasionally the mulling plaintiveness of her voice suggested that she regretted this.
Truman Capote
#16. There's one good thing about snow, it makes your lawn look as nice as your neighbor's. - Clyde Moore
Peter Geiger
#17. Anyway, madness and genius. They're the disturbed pals of the human condition. The Bonnie and Clyde, the Thelma and Louise, the baking soda and vinegar. Insanity just walks alongside the brilliant like some creepy, insistent shadow.
Deb Caletti
#18. Leon reads aloud from an article in the Reader's Digest about voting to select a national flower. Leon votes for dandelions. Joseph and Clyde vote for grass.
Milton Rokeach
#19. From heart-break some people have suffered
from weariness some people have died.
But take it all in all;
our troubles are small,
'til we get like Bonnie and Clyde
Amy Harmon
#20. I don't think the people wanna see me play Clyde Johnson the architect.
Bernie Mac
#21. Bonnie and Clyde grew up in absolute poverty. They didn't go to school or have any money; the only way they could figure out how to get ahead was to steal. The banks were foreclosing on everyone's homes. I think a lot of people will be able to relate to that struggle.
Jeremy Jordan
#22. She had the buns of Bonnie and the guns of Clyde.
Jack Bunbury
#23. I wish that my life could be like the movies, like 'Bonnie and Clyde' or 'The Hunger' or 'Harold and Maude.' And ... it can be! It maybe just takes somebody else who is as fearless as you. It takes a person who will not hesitate.
Marilyn Manson
#24. I agree with Clyde Wilson that America can't be saved or returned to its roots until the Republican Party is destroyed.
Thomas DiLorenzo
#25. [Clyde Ross] was stationed in California. He found that he could go into stores without being bothered. He could walk the streets without being harassed. He could go into a restaurant and receive service.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
#26. I played in a movie called Ring of Fear with Clyde Beatty and Pat O'Brien.
Mickey Spillane
#27. I ever get out of here," I said over the noise of my enemy hitting the far wall with shattering force, "I will personally beat Clyde Clary to death with nothing but an old shoe.
Robert J. Crane
#28. and Clyde. Bolivia and Paraguay, the two poorest countries in South America, were fighting in the name of Standard Oil and Shell and bleeding over oil in the Chaco.
Anonymous
#29. Atlantic's Jerry Wexler believes first-rate records are made by first-rate voices. He certainly has worked with enough of them: Clyde McPhatter, Joe Turner, La Vern Baker, Ray Charles, Otis Redding, Solomon Burke, Wilson Pickett and Aretha Franklin.
Jon Landau
#30. The media was completely influential in the rise and fall of Bonnie and Clyde.
Holliday Grainger
#31. I'm originally from Dallas, Texas, where Bonnie and Clyde were from, so when I was a little kid, my grandfather used to drive me past the Barrow Filling Station. At my elementary school, there was a barn outside that they used to say was a Bonnie and Clyde hangout.
Lane Garrison
#32. The way I saw it, that was the real mistake the Barrow gang had made.
It seemed to me that they'd have been a lot less likely to get gunned down if Bonnie had just had the sense to be Clyde.
Saundra Mitchell
#33. Week after Clyde left you I heard that Cocoa wake up to her cootchie spoilt like a rotten oyster. Didn't get better for three months. Bertrina she good friends with Cocoa She knows your prayer works.
Kathryn Stockett
#34. So what, then? Pete? Clyde?"
Cabel rolls over, pretending to sleep.
"It's Fred, isn't it?"
"Janie. Stop."
"You named your thing Janie?" She giggles.
Cabel groans deeply. "Go to sleep.
Lisa McMann
#35. 'Bonnie and Clyde' was the first show and the first role that I got to originate. Being part of that from the ground up and investing three years of my life into seeing that show come to Broadway was really rigorous but also so exciting.
Laura Osnes
#36. Experimental film by the '70s had become much more mainstream after 'Bonnie and Clyde' and stuff in the late '60s, when you were seeing bigger movies where people were exploring the medium a lot more.
Noah Hawley
#37. We're Bonnie and Clyde! Wanted and unwanted. Caged and cornered. We're lost and we're alone. We're a big, tangled mess. We're a shot in the dark. We're two people who have nowhere else, no one else, and yet, suddenly that feels like enough for me! I'm sorry if it's not enough for you.
Amy Harmon
#38. 'Bonnie and Clyde,' while one of the best movies ever made, was far more interested in portraying Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker as romantic anti-establishment Robin Hoods than what they really were: white-trash spree killers.
Bryan Burrough
#39. Like the Society for Creative Anachronism, The Ballad of the White Horse depicted "the Middle Ages as they should have been." Chesterton's ballad made a lasting impression on Robert E. Howard, who praised it in letters to his friend Clyde Smith.
Joseph Laycock
#40. Bonnie and Clyde became not just a big hit, but a movie that went through young audiences like a first slug of Scotch. It affected clothes, talk, manners. Though set in the thirties it had the feeling of 1966, the most dangerous moment in American young people remembered.
Edward Jay Epstein
#41. Charles Barkley, Clyde Drexler and I used to argue for hours about who the best athletes are. I thought football players were better overall.
Warren Moon
#42. I would guess it didn't exactly represent a profile in courage for the vice president to wander over there to the F-word network for a sit down with Brit Hume. I mean, that's a little like Bonnie interviewing Clyde, ain't it?
Jack Cafferty
#43. How sweet to move at summer's eve
By Clyde's meandering stream,
When Sol in joy is seen to leave
The earth with crimson beam;
When islands that wandered far
Above his sea couch lie,
And here and there some gem-like star
Re-opes its sparkling eye.
Andrew Park
#44. I mean, bullies are all alike, really. That's why I beat them up. -- Ruby Clyde Henderson
Corabel Shofner
#45. But Bonnie refused to consider giving herself up. She told Clyde and the others that whenever he went down, she wanted to be with him.
Jeff Guinn
#46. Unfortunately, a lot of the concepts in the Bible are based on ancient mythology that doesn't fit the findings of science.
Clyde Tombaugh
#47. EVEN RANDOMNESS IS WITHIN A SET OF PARAMETERS; THRESHOLDS ...
Clyde DeSouza
#48. It was depressing, very depressing. I worried about how I would make a living. I didn't want to stay on the farm. It didn't offer the challenge I wanted and yet, without a college education, I felt that I was really out of luck.
Clyde Tombaugh
#49. If you are a good person, you will probably be a good father. Try not to worry too much. If you don't feel apprehensive just before your first child arrives, you are abnormal. Though catastrophe doesn't come as often in childbirth as it did a few generations ago, we naturally fear it.
Clyde Edgerton
#50. When I was in the fourth grade, I became intensely interested in geography and I learned it well.
Clyde Tombaugh
#51. Young man, I am afraid you are wasting your time. If there were any more planets they would have been found long before this.
Clyde Tombaugh
#52. You have to have hope. Otherwise, I don't think you could handle it. Of course, you have to have both luck and pluck to make it.
Clyde Tombaugh
#53. You have to compete with others in the field. Sometimes the competition gets pretty fierce because you're competing for funds or grants to do your work, the financial work.
Clyde Tombaugh
#54. The inside of his skull, it tasted like roses and barbed wire and butterflies. Switchblades and heroin and grassy green gardens.
Mercedes M. Yardley
#55. Because all writers are human beings first and writers second, my guess is that any advice for living with a writer is about the same as advice for living with a plumber or a refrigerator salesperson.
Clyde Edgerton
#56. I was always looking ahead. I used to do all kinds of things for entertainment. When I was young, we had no radio, no TV. We were 30 miles from the public library, out in the sticks in Western Kansas, and so I'd do arithmetic exercises.
Clyde Tombaugh
#57. I once tried to raise two tomato plants, and they died in spite of the fact I fertilized them every morning. Duh.
Clyde Edgerton
#58. With This Ring
I give my all to you
Now and my whole life through
With this ring
Clyde Otis
#59. A working definition of fathering might be this: fathering is the act of guiding a child to behave in ways that lead to the child's becoming a secure child in full, thus increasing his or her chances of being happy and fruitful as a young adult.
Clyde Edgerton
#60. I had to wonder what sadistic pleasure and entertainment human suffering must provide to the divine game players who decided the fate of their pawns in a board game they made of life.
Clyde DeSouza
#61. Every human is like all other humans, some other humans, and no other human.
Clyde Kluckhohn
#62. What you do is, you have your drawing board and a pencil in hand at the telescope. You look in and you make some markings on the paper and you look in again.
Clyde Tombaugh
#63. Because I was born in the South, I'm a Southerner. If I had been born in the North, the West or the Central Plains, I would be just a human being.
Clyde Edgerton
#64. A person that much interested in science is going to neglect his social life somewhat, but not completely, because that isn't healthy either. So one has to work it out according to one's own inclinations, how one wants to proportion these things.
Clyde Tombaugh
#65. Yet, it's our emotions and imperfections that makes us human.
Clyde DeSouza
#66. But this was the real world wasn't it? Miracles must happen in some parallel universe.
Clyde DeSouza
#67. It's amazing how once the mind is free of emotional pollution, logic and clarity emerge.
Clyde DeSouza
#68. I thought I'd better check this third plate, which is another date, see if there's an image there in the right place that would be consistent with the images on the other plates. That was the final proof.
Clyde Tombaugh
#69. Emotions are like a virus, a common cold, disrupting the flow of logic in people's minds.
Clyde DeSouza
#70. Everytime you think of your father, you resurrect him. Why shouldn't he continue a posthuman life in this world while he's resting in the other?
Clyde DeSouza
#71. There are hits and there are misses ... and then there are misses.
Clyde Bruckman
#72. Emotions - Happiness, anger, jealousy ... is the mind experiencing "presence" in our holographic existence.
Clyde DeSouza
#73. You realize, there is no free-will in anything we create with Artificial Intelligence ...
Clyde DeSouza
#74. If coincidences are just coincidences, why do they feel so contrived?
Clyde Bruckman
#75. Tactile receptors weren't needed to experience pain. Tone of voice transported those spores just as easily.
Clyde DeSouza
#76. Kristina, my wife, and I thought about this one day when the kids were, of course, watching television. And we took a big blanket and put it in the backyard and said, 'Let's go out on our back and look at the sky and call it sky television.' We saw all kinds of things.
Clyde Edgerton
#77. I think the driving thing was curiosity about the universe. That fascinated me. I didn't think anything about being famous or anything like that, I was just interested in the concepts involved.
Clyde Tombaugh
#78. She feels "Brutal Dynasty" actually may become the Great American Novel she and her fellow critics have been looking for so long.
Clyde Brion Davis
#79. November comes
And November goes,
With the last red berries
And the first white snows.
With night coming early,
And dawn coming late,
And ice in the bucket
And frost by the gate.
The fires burn
And the kettles sing,
And earth sinks to rest
Until next spring.
Clyde Watson
#80. You can't hack your destiny, brute force ... you need a back door, a side channel into Life.
Clyde DeSouza
#81. Somewhere out there, a higher
form of sadism won the first round.
Well, screw that. I'm not ready to be
pwned.
Clyde DeSouza
#82. I doubt that the phenomenon was any terrestrial reflection, because ... nothing of the kind has ever appeared before or since ... I was so unprepared for such a strange sight that I was really petrified with astonishment.
Clyde Tombaugh
#83. Constructive insurgency: Is the use of legal and imaginative means of resistance to reform a system of repression. Generally through the use of a non-violent nature.
Clyde Lewis
#84. I'll have you understand the United States has got the best navy in the world."
"Well, . . . why, then, do we need a bigger navy?"
"We've got to have a still bigger navy because we're the richest nation on earth.
Clyde Brion Davis
#85. The planets are never the same twice, they're always different, so they could compare the markings I had drawn with their current photographs and they knew that I was drawing what I was really seeing and it wasn't copied from somewhere.
Clyde Tombaugh
#86. How does a pansy, for example, select the ingredients from soil to get the right colors for the flower? Now there's a great miracle. I think there's a supreme power behind all of this. I see it in nature.
Clyde Tombaugh
#87. Myth is necessary because reality is so much larger than rationality ... man is fundamentally mythic ... His real health depends upon his knowing and living his metaphysical totality.
Clyde S. Kilby
#88. It may not be the "Great American Novel" they talk about, because its scope is not broad enough to take in all of America, but it pictures the people and the customs and the drama of upstate New York in the days preceding and following the Civil War with a simplicity that, to my mind, is true art.
Clyde Brion Davis
#89. Bad things happen to good people: The Jesus Christ Syndrome, I labeled it.
Clyde DeSouza
#90. Although my early equipment was very modest, later I made my own and they were more powerful.
Clyde Tombaugh
#91. I shall open my eyes and ears. Once every day I shall simply stare at a tree, a flower, a cloud, or a person. I shall not then be concerned at all to ask what they are but simply be glad that they are. I shall joyfully allow them their "divine, magical, and ecstatic" existence.
Clyde S. Kilby
#92. In our timidity and our shoddy opportunism we are always stirred when a man appears on the horizon willing to stake his all on a conviction.
Clyde S. Kilby
#93. If a novelist were so uncouth and possessed of so little moral sense that he should write of illicit love, his book would be barred from the public libraries and he woukd be ostracized by society.
Clyde Brion Davis
#94. Only in black and white can I see the design and textures. I don't consider color photography art. Black and white is an interpretation. Color is a duplication.
Clyde Butcher
#95. We have seen the death of Republicanism, of special privilege and national boodle.
Clyde Brion Davis
#97. Every time you think of your dad, you're
resurrecting him. Why shouldn't he continue to live
in this world while resting in the other?
Clyde DeSouza
#98. Growing Literacy of the Heart and Mind Cultivates the Landscape of a Child's Future.
Clyde Heath
#99. The only way you're going to save things in life is through love, and that's what we're trying to do ... make people fall in love with Florida.
Clyde Butcher
#100. I shed many a tear when the steam engines went out of style on the railroads. I'd like to seem them come back, but I realize the diesels are more efficient.
Clyde Tombaugh
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