Top 100 The Clash Quotes
#1. I need contrast-the old and the new, the rough and the soft. The clash of it all is very sexy.
Catherine Malandrino
#2. Science must always clash hard with religion in order to expose man's inherent insufficiency to reason and expose the Super Being's existence.
John Onyango Agumba
#3. I don't think there's anything in the compromise that means that there's a clash of ethics.
Peter Singer
#4. In the emerging world of ethnic conflict and civilizational clash, Western belief in the universality of Western culture suffers three problems: it is false; it is immoral; and it is dangerous.
Samuel P. Huntington
#5. The Clash were innovative, radical and helped drive a change in music that was ground-breaking. In comparison to some of the music today they sounded like they meant it. I still listen to their music today to remind myself what music made with commitment sounds like.
Chrissie Hynde
#6. You haven't seen a thing until you've seen this man fight. My sword is sharp. My heart strong. My spirit ferocious - and I am going to live. Let the swords clash. Let the fight begin.
Carew Papritz
#7. If the day comes when you would find me again, give that coin to any man from Braavos, and say these words to him
valar morghulis.
Jaqen H'ghar, A Clash of Kings
George R R Martin
#8. Pretending that the world's religions are the same does not make our world safer. Like all forms of ignorance, it makes our world more dangerous. What we need on this furiously religious planet is a realistic view of where religious rivals clash and where they can cooperate.
Stephen R. Prothero
#9. About the idea of a clash between cultures, between civilisations, I don't believe in it. It's something some political leaders tried to use, and that the media tried and are still trying to sell us, in order to simplify the world and their work.
Paulo Coelho
#10. Some scholars have been arguing that a civilizational clash between organized religions is the next step in human history.
Mary Douglas
#11. Love is what brings you together, Lucy. But it's the blood, sweat, and tears of hard work that keeps you together
Nicole Williams
#12. The Clash had a unique, special relationship with Scotland. Perhaps it was something to do with the energy, anger and beauty in their music. In Scotland at that time, there was a lot of to be angry about. And a great need of some energy and beauty.
John Niven
#13. When Bill Clinton chose Al Gore in 1992 - from the same generational, ideological, and geographical background as his - it underscored his campaign's central argument that this was a clash between the past and the future, that 'Don't Stop Thinking About Tomorrow' was indeed the campaign's anthem.
Jeff Greenfield
#14. Of course we have our moments of depression; but there are other moments too, when time, unmeasured by the clock, runs on into eternity and, catching his smile, I know we are together, we march in unison, no clash of thought or of opinion makes a barrier between us.
Daphne Du Maurier
#15. They're like Generation X on steroids. They walk in with high expectations for themselves, their employer, their boss. If you thought you saw a clash when Generation X came into the workplace - that was the fake punch. The haymaker is coming now.
Paul Greenberg
#16. The storms come and go, the waves crash overhead, the big fish eat the little fish, and I keep on paddling. (Varys)
George R R Martin
#17. Thinking about it later he understood that a battle was a distillation of time: many years of preparation and decades of innovation and change were squeezed into a clash of very short duration. And when it was over the impact radiated backwards and forwards through time, determining the future
Amitav Ghosh
#18. History is always written by the winners. When two cultures clash, the loser is obliterated, and the winner writes the history books-books which glorify their own cause and disparage the conquered foe. As Napoleon once said, 'What is history, but a fable agreed upon?
Dan Brown
#19. I do miss the excitement of seeing history up close, of having intimate knowledge, through direct experience, of what happens when people and governments clash, but I do not miss the danger or the constant displacement.
Deborah Copaken Kogan
#20. The innocent seriousness with which she told her story and I'd listened to so often and myself told
wide eyed hugging in heaven together
hipsters of America in the 1950's sitting in a dim room
the clash of the streets beyond the window's bare soft sill.
Jack Kerouac
#21. One is that you legislate according to natural selection, the other is that you don't. You have compassion, you try and help people. It's a fundamental clash between two people who happen to love each other, which complicates everything.
Bill Nighy
#22. My fear in converting it to 3-D is that people will say, 'Oh, it's the 3-D 'Clash of the Titans.' No, it's 'Clash of the Titans,' the movie, and then, on top of that, you have the 3-D conversion. The 2-D movie works as well as the 3-D movie. I want to make sure that people like the 2-D version.
Louis Leterrier
#23. People come to the Bible with expectations that do not fit the Bible, and this clash becomes one main reason, though not the only one, why people do not find the Bible's claims acceptable.
Vern Sheridan Poythress
#24. Wit is the clash and reconcilement of incongruities; the meeting of extremes round a corner.
Leigh Hunt
#25. I saw the first 'House Party' - not the other 10. I love pop culture references. If you saw 'Moneyball', watch it again, looking for all the Clash posters.
Brian Shactman
#26. It is the clash of two different worlds that makes British-ness unique - we have an aristocratic, noble history, but it is always contrasted with something rebellious.
Christopher Bailey
#27. When these images clash - as in The Fascist octupus has sung its swan song, the jackboot is thrown into the melting pot - it can be taken as certain that the writer is not seeing a mental image of the objects he is naming; in other words he is not really thinking.
George Orwell
#28. The wide world is full of people wanting help, Jon. Would that some could find the courage to help themselves.
- Lord Commander Mormont
George R R Martin
#29. And in this respect, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has been a tragedy, a clash between one very powerful, very convincing, very painful claim over this land and another no less powerful, no less convincing claim.
Amos Oz
#30. The colors I use may clash or vibrate against one another but this is done intentionally.
Frank Bruno
#31. Persecution is simply the clash between two irreconcilable value-systems.
John Stott
#32. The world is a chaos, an irreducible plurality of forces, instincts and drives which ceaselessly clash.
Luc Ferry
#33. Call up your vermin to your back, sir, and fall on! The sooner the clash begins, the sooner ye'll taste this steel throughout your vitals.
Robert Louis Stevenson
#34. I know a lot of Americans in Paris who have married Frenchmen. They keep bringing up their experience, the clash of civilizations, the clash of personalities.
Leslie Caron
#35. The views of intellectuals influence the politics of tomorrow ... What to the contemporary observer appears as the battle of conflicting interests has indeed often been described long before in a clash of ideas confined to narrow circles.
Friedrich Hayek
#36. Some people harbour an awkward clash of feelings - homosexual attraction on the one hand and shame or embarrassment about that attraction on the other. It is well known that the mind struggles to sustain conflicting views.
Evan Davis
#37. Even during the years of the Cold War, the intense confrontation between the Soviet Union and the United States, we always avoided any direct clash between our civilians and, most certainly, between our military.
Vladimir Putin
#38. I didn't read this book
I inhaled it. This a terrific new take on a great old rock n roll story, a clash of the musical titans.
William McKeen
#39. Actors get to go to these amazing worlds. In 'Terminator,' I was a cyborg with feelings; in 'Avatar,' I lived for 15 months on a fantastical planet, and in 'Clash of the Titans,' I get to fight a scorpion the size of a dump truck. It's a bizarre job, but you explore yourself.
Sam Worthington
#40. The Last Canyon by John Vernon is a beautiful retelling of John Wesley Powell's 1869 exploration of the Grand Canyon and his and his men's inevitable and tragic clash with a tribe of Paiute Indians who lived on the canyon's northern edge.
Nancy Pearl
#42. Clearly, the Chinese need the resources, but I don't think they want to clash with the industrial world which happens to be the market for their goods.
Daniel Yergin
#43. Throughout the Arab and Islamic world the feeling is that we are now in top gear for a war of civilizations, a clash of civilizations. Support for the United States is very low and there are no voices within the Muslim world, except for a very few.
Husain Haqqani
#44. The religion of the God who became man has met the religion (for such it is) of man who makes himself God. And what happened? Was there a clash, a battle, a condemnation? There could have been, but there was none
Pope Paul VI
#45. Violent statements and threats cannot provide a solution to the problem. They can only exacerbate feeling and make a clash of forces inevitable.
Stafford Cripps
#46. To be a DJ was to be God. To be a DJ at an alternative public radio station ? That was being God with a mission. It was thinking you were the first person to discover The Clash and you had to spread the word.
Carrie Vaughn
#47. The Clash, in particular, transcends any category.
Scott Raab
#48. To go north, you must journey south. To reach the west, you must go east. To go forward you must go back, and to touch the light you must pass beneath the shadow.
George R R Martin
#49. We need to promote closer cooperation between our militaries and our intelligence. We also need to enhance people-to-people contact, because this leads to better understanding between nations, and reduce the space for a clash of nationalism.
Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono
#50. Morality in its noblest forms remains inexplicable unless one takes into account that power of growth in the human soul which has led generation after generation from lower religious and ethical standards to higher ones which often clash with worldly advantages.
Ellen Key
#51. Enmity [Revengeful Karma] is the main seed of conflict [clash].
Dada Bhagwan
#52. You can't has,' he whispered softly, 'not yours.
Wil Wheaton
#53. If you ask me who the members of the Rolling Stones or Led Zep or the Clash were, I'd be able to tell you every member. But I couldn't name a single member of Arctic Monkeys.
Dave Gahan
#54. I discovered the Clash, the Pistols, obviously the Ramones, Blondie.
Jerry Only
#55. Although the garment was beautifully designed and well made, the color, a dark velvet that captured the intense tones of a ripe plum or black cherries, would prove a jarring clash with her hair. She added ruefully, "Not with this carrot top. I'll look a fright.
Lisa Kleypas
#56. Constructions of a-rhythmical forms, the clash between concrete and abstract forms ... The acute angle is passionate and dynamic, expressing will and a penetrating force.
Carlo Carra
#57. [2015] it's a time that there's a clash of ideologies, similar to the Cold War. I think that a story like this has been waiting to be told, and I think it's a fresh look at the whole earth-shattering business of the collapse of the Soviet Union.
Steven Knight
#58. Personal matters have diverted attention away from the important work Sesame Street is doing, and I cannot allow it to go on any longer. I am deeply sorry to be leaving and am looking forward to resolving these personal matters privately.
Kevin Clash
#59. Well, when you're recording an album, artists have what they feel like is good music, and the label, they're trying to sell the album. So those two ideas clash sometimes, but in the end it always works out. When you put the two together, that's a good thing.
Kris Allen
#60. 'Clash Of The Titans' is one of the biggest movies I've done; it was certainly the most effects I've worked with.
Mads Mikkelsen
#61. A man of letters is often a man with two natures,
one a book nature, the other a human nature. These often clash sadly.
Edwin Percy Whipple
#62. I wondered if people ever blamed the end of friendships on geographical differences, the divides that come from being born in different areas, culture clash.
Jennifer Close
#63. I love my accent, I thought it was useful in Gone In 60 Seconds because the standard villain is upper class or Cockney. My Northern accent would be an odd clash opposite Nic Cage.
Christopher Eccleston
#64. I came into this whole business by going to see Rock Against Racism gigs with the Clash.
Billy Bragg
#65. In fact, some have said that the clash between Catholicism and Protestantism illustrates the old maxim that religious freedom is the product of two equally pernicious fanaticisms, each cancelling the other out
Fareed Zakaria
#66. I don't actually believe in a clash of civilizations. I believe in a clash of the civilized and the noncivilized.
Madeleine Albright
#67. Considering how effortlessly religious dogma has become intertwined with political ideology, how can we overcome the clash-of-monotheisms mentality that has so deeply entrenched itself in the modern world? Clearly, education and tolerance are essential.
Reza Aslan
#68. It was dusk and the light had an ultra-violet quality to it, a final burst of pigmentation as night and day rushed at each other in a clash of colour prisms before darkness finnaly, inevitably won out.
Karen Swan
#69. Global economic growth will soon clash with physical barriers. It is physically impossible to fulfil the ideal of progressivism: the spread of techno-scientific consumer culture to ten billion people. When this dream has faded, another will emerge.
Guillaume Faye
#70. The clash is born of the fact that the child within me sees with undiluted clarity what the adult within me is incessantly working to deny. And in these most vexing moments, to be the adult is to defer to the child.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#71. We will be misguided in our intentions if we point at one single thing and say that it will prevent war, unless, of course, that thing happens to be the will, the determination, and the resolve of people everywhere that nations will never again clash on the battlefield.
Leslie Groves
#72. I like words. I like the way they clash around together and bang up against each other, especially in songs.
Jimmy Webb
#73. I don't believe in the clash of cultures. The culture is one. The culture is a ring off the same chain. Picasso was very much influenced by the African arts, and he influenced a whole other generation of artists. So everything influences everything.
Marjane Satrapi
#74. We read our own political content into The Clash, and they accepted it.
Billy Bragg
#75. In the songs all knights are gallant, all maids are beautiful, and the sun is always shining.
George R R Martin
#76. Our religion will not clash with nor contradict the facts of science in any particular.
Brigham Young
#77. I reject the idea that there is some sort of existential "clash of civilizations." I am an interventionist, but not a militarist. War should always be a last resort.
Bernard-Henri Levy
#78. I have a lot of different influences. Everything from Maroon 5, Gwen Stefani, The Clash, Kanye West - just a lot of different artists.
Brie Larson
#79. The clash between Popper and Kuhn is not about a mere technical point in epistemology.
Imre Lakatos
#80. Really? Brixton? Where nobody speaks fucking English?" Okay, that wasn't quite fair, and supposedly Brixton was getting "gentrified." "Remember Guns of Brixton, the Clash?
Amy Lane
#81. War is not one-sided. It takes two blades to clash. It matters little who comes out on top, there is still a dead man at the end.
Mitch Rowland
#82. My films are about ideals that clash with the world. Every time it's a man in the lead, they have forgotten about the ideals. And every time it's a woman in the lead, they take the ideals all the way.
Lars Von Trier
#83. The name's Jude Ryder since you're going to be my wife soon. And I didn't used to do girlfriends, flowers, or dates. And then I met you, and that didn't work for you. So I changed for you and you changed for me too,
Nicole Williams
#84. She had expressed herself, as women will, in a smug broadside of pastel shades. Nothing clashed because nothing had the strength to clash; everything murmured of safety among the hues; all was refinement.
Mervyn Peake
#85. As far as cities, I love London. I go to London very often because I think the young people there are very creative. I also love New York, of course, and the clash of different cultures you find there.
Nicki Minaj
#86. An economy that adds value through information, ideas, and intelligence-the Three I Economy-offers a way out of the apparent clash between material growth and environmental resources.
Charles Handy
#87. Cricket makes no sense to me. I find it beautiful to watch and I like that they break for tea. That is very cool, but I don't understand. My friends from The Clash tried to explain it years and years ago, but I didn't understand what they were talking about.
Jim Jarmusch
#88. The ones who look the most suspicious are likely innocent. It's the ones who look innocent I need to beware.
George R R Martin
#89. We aren't particularly talented. We try harder!
Joe Strummer
#90. I inspect the notebook of CDs laying on the floor. There's the usual suspects in there, Green Day and The Clash and The Smiths, yeah, but there's also Ella and Frank, even Dino, some Curtis Mayfield and Minor Threat and Dusty Springfield and Belle & Sebastian,
Rachel Cohn
#91. When you scan the globe's hot spots, every civil war and massacre, every act of terror and every clash between states has its unique local circumstances.
Atifete Jahjaga
#92. I'm a 'Clash of the Titans'/'Star Wars' baby. I'm not a new 'Star Wars' baby. I'm not an 'Avatar' baby. That full CG doesn't work for me. I need interactivity. I need to feel the goo. I need to feel people coming out of animatronics and just interacting with props.
Louis Leterrier
#93. 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
#94. I preyed on this sort of thing, discontentment, a clash of passions among the rivals, and the zealots. Open sores opened secrets. That's how I roll."
Jackson Guild, The Trinity Conspiracy, Betrayal at Black Mesa
Jeff Shear
#95. The legions of reporters who cover politics don't want to quit the clash and thunder of electoral combat for the dry duty of analyzing the federal budget. As a consequence, we have created the perpetual presidential campaign.
Hugh Sidey
#96. We got off the Clash of the Titans tour and I said that my wife and I were working on having a baby and sure enough we found out that she was pregnant. So I told them nine months in advance that I wasn't going to tour in September so I could witness the birth of my first son.
Dave Lombardo
#97. Human beings have hope. Not matter how desperate things are, they convince themselves that they can change things for the better.
- John Gregory (Clash of the Demons)
Joseph Delaney
#98. So here we have it. The equivocating distinction between civilisation and savagery, between the "massacre of innocent people" or, if you like, "a clash of civilisations" and "collateral damage". The sophistry and fastidious algebra of infinite justice.
Arundhati Roy
#99. Some rhyme a neebor's name to lash;
Some rhyme (vain thought!) for needfu' cash;
Some rhyme to court the countra clash,
An' raise a din;
For me, an aim I never fash;
I rhyme for fun.
Robert Burns
#100. I grew up in the '90s. I listened to a lot of The Clash, Velvet Underground and Roxy Music. I wasn't into Boyzone, or anything.
Aaron Taylor-Johnson
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