Simonon Clash Quotes

#1. What did it feel like to die? Was it a peaceful sleep? Some thought it was full of either trumpet-blowing angels or angry devils. Perhaps I was already dead.

Laurie Halse Anderson

#2. For clearly it is impossible to touch eternity with one hand and life with the other.

Yukio Mishima

#3. The slight reproach to which the virtue of patriotism is commonly liable, the noble are most likely to incur.

Henry David Thoreau

#4. There was a point after the whole intensity of the Clash finally subsided when I just found that painting grounded me in a way that music didn't.

Paul Simonon

#5. The World will always need "magic". Without it, Life is nothing but cheap tricks.

Solange Nicole

#6. Whatever the practical origins of aesthetic discernment may have been, it has been used to create great works of art. When the very loftiest human creations are seen to derive from humble origins and functions, what needs revision is not our esteem for these creations but our notion of nobility.

Robert Nozick

#7. Because Jesus was someone, you're free to be no one.

Tullian Tchividjian

#8. When parents or gamers ask me, 'What's the best game to play?' I say that playing face-to-face is more beneficial than playing online.

Jane McGonigal

#9. The future? The future was the clay in their hands.

Colson Whitehead

#10. Capitalism is astonishingly efficient at generating new wealth, but it operates beneficently only
when the market is shaped by moral forces coming from both the law and the culture-derived ultimately from religion.

Charles W. Colson

#11. The idea is that when the teaching begins to happen, it is an experience - but experience needs language, and at the same time, language needs experience.

Chogyam Trungpa

#12. How some woman hadn't convinced Ollie to marry her solely so she could get custody of Grandma Campbell's kitchen was a mystery to Allie.

Elizabeth Hunter