M. Clarke Quotes

I called the great French violinist Jean-Luc Ponty and I said 'So, who's the new cat? Who's got the stuff? And he said Zach Brock.

There are few words in the music business or in art that I'll say people or some writers are overgenerous with words like 'legend' or 'genius', 'he's a pioneer' and all of that.

I don't think a guy that really has no understanding about people, or has no interest in understanding people would make a good film composer.

It's a very strange league, the Championship, because on any given match day, any team can beat any other team.

That's what I hope to put out onto the pitch - a team that knows how to win matches.

Drawing teaches habits of close observation that will always be useful.

And how shall I think of you?' He considered a moment and then laughed. 'Think of me with my nose in a book!

It is curious and we magicians collect curiosities, you know.

He hardly ever spoke of magic, and when he did it was like a history lesson and no one could bear to listen to him.

An explorer cannot stay at home reading maps other men have made.

How is a magician to exist without books? Let someone explain that to me. It is like asking a politician to achieve high office without the benefit of bribes or patronage.

A piece of writing is like a piece of magic. You create something out of nothing.

Unfortunately, Childermass's French was so strongly accented by his native Yorkshire that Minervois did not understand and asked Strange if Childermass was Dutch.

Ha!' said the tall man drily. 'He was in high luck. Rich old uncles who die are in shockingly short supply.

But, though French, she was also very brave.

Well, Henry, you can cease frowning at me. If I am a magician, I am a very indifferent one. Other adepts summon up fairy-spirits and long-dead kings. I appear to have conjured the spirit of a banker.

The land is all too shallow It is painted on the sky And trembles like the wind-shook rain When the Raven King passed by

It would need someone very remarkable to recover your name, Stephen, someone of rare perspicacity, with extraordinary talents and incomparable nobility of character. Me, in fact.

What nobility of feeling! To sacrifice your own pleasure to preserve the comfort of others! It is a thing, I confess, that would never occur to me.

The governess was not much liked in the village. She was too tall, too fond of books, too grave, and, a curious thing, never smiled unless there was something to smile at.

He smiles but rarely and watches other men to see when they laugh and then does the same.

Lovers are rarely the most rational beings in creation.

It has been remarked (by a lady infinitely cleverer than the present author) how kindly disposed the world in general feels to young people who either die or marry.

He gave her his heart. She took it and placed it quietly in the pocket of her gown. No one observed what she did.

It is also true that his hair had a reddish tinge and, as everybody knows, no one with red hair can ever truly be said to be handsome.

..The argument he was conducting with his neighbor as to whether the English magician had gone mad because he was a magician, or because he was English.

Bryon tilted his head to a very odd angle, half-closed his eyes and composed his features to suggest that he was about to expire from chronic indigestion.

To be more precise it was the color of heartache.

You mean to say he became mad deliberately?' ...Nothing is more likely,' said the duke.

This is a very grave matter, punishable by...well, I do not exactly know what, but something rather severe, I should imagine.

It was an old fashioned house --the sort of house in fact, as Strange expressed it, which a lady in a novel might like to be persecuted in.

There is nothing in the world so easy to explain as failure - it is, after all, what everybody does all the time.

We examine and highlight the history of the African descendants in America, and know that each and every one of us has come this far because of our faith in this country.

I have to earn re-election. Thats the way I see it.

Good Dems are good Dems. They want a representative that really reflects their values.

I would put myself towards left of center.

My father has been the real anchor of the family. Hes the one who has always encouraged my mother, my brother and me.

Even after facing jail, Martin Luther King, Jr. courageously and boldly spoke out against racial inequality.

After a dream like that, you're grateful that it was just a dream, that no matter how bad your actual life, it couldn't be worse than your dream life.

Philosophy is the critically reflective, systematically articulated attempt to illumine our human experience in depth and set it in a vision of the whole.

It did not seem odd to Max that what he had imagined about Stumps was really true, because this was exactly how games you made up worked. Of course they were true. In your mind.

To be taught what TRUE LOVE is .....also teaches you NEVER TO LOVE AGAIN ...for true love comes once in a lifetime and last for all eternity ~DC~

Oh no, " I said, because if our life is just one endless song about hope and regret, then "oh no" is apparently that song's chorus, the words we always return to.

Everyone thought that things were getting back to normal. They had no idea that normal didn’t exist for me any more. Normal had been smashed on the rocks beneath the bridge.

When you're writing, you're creating something out of nothing ... A successful piece of writing is like doing a successful piece of magic.", 6 March 2012]

One of the greatest tragedies in mankind's entire history may be that morality was hijacked by religion.

My favourite definition of an intellectual: 'Someone who has been educated beyond his/her intelli

The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.

She moved like water, graceful and soft and lovely. Every part of me wanted to stick out my foot and trip her, just to see her stumble.

Her brain is like a filing cabinet – everything neatly stored in categories. My brain is more like soup – everything all blended and mushed together.