M. Clarke Quotes

Science can destroy religion by ignoring it as well as by disproving its tenets. No one ever demonstrated, so far as I am aware, the nonexistence of Zeus or Thor, but they have few followers now.

Sometimes I think we're alone in the universe, and sometimes I think we're not. In either case the idea is quite staggering.

Europeans not only colonized most of the world, they colonized information about the world.

His droll little mouth was drawn up like a bow, and the beard of his chin was as white as the snow.

I know it's not ordinary. But who ever loved ordinary?

When something happens, we always say it happens for a reason.

All of the press and stuff - that's the scary stuff. The acting is what I got trained to do.

I am a nationalist, and a Pan-Africanist, first and foremost. I was well grounded in history before ever taking a history course. I did not spend much formal time in school - I had to work.

The children were nestled all snug in their beds,while visions of sugar plums danced in their heads.

If we don't unite, chances are we will go back into slavery.

They always try to play with our minds. But that won't work with our club. We've got 20 guys without brains.

The universe must be full of voices, calling from star to star in a myriad tongues. One day we shall join that cosmic conversation.

Bass players are always the intellectual kind, but nobody knows it.

My favorite definition of an intellectual: 'Someone who has been educated beyond his/her intelligence'.

Getting information from the internet is like getting a glass of water from the Niagara Falls.

It may be that our role on this planet is not to worship God - but to create him.

T'was the night before Christmas, when all through the house, not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse.

I have never read it. You should not waste your time.

I'm used to being the big tough guy, the bodyguard type.

I think that you're just as close to Jesus if you use the equipment he gave you other than to call on him to do for you what you can do for yourself.

Educating a child won't be difficult if you get through to the parent.

If an elderly but distinguished scientist says that something is possible, he is almost certainly right; but if he says that it is impossible, he is very probably wrong.

Can a magician kill a man by magic?” Lord Wellington asked Strange. Strange frowned. He seemed to dislike the question. “I suppose a magician might,” he admitted, “but a gentleman never would.

Now, 'Dasher!' now, 'Dancer!' now, 'Prancer' and 'Vixen!' On, 'Comet!' on, 'Cupid!' on, 'Donner' and 'Blitzen!'

Religion is a byproduct of fear.

I'd give my right arm to be, like, a random extra on 'Girls,' just to walk past one of the scenarios. I'd love that more than anything.

After their encounter on the approach to Jupiter, there would aways be a secret bond between them---not of love, but of tenderness, which is often more enduring.

I am sorry to upset my colleagues by saying we wasted four years in opposition, but if you do get so badly defeated as a party you do have to face up to some painful facts and you do have to change.

My loving sister Mary has always shared the pain and pleasure of my heartbeat in a unique and special way. We have sung our sad and warm songs together.

I could pull all kinds of games on my mother. I couldn't pull any games on my father.

Religion is the most malevolent of all mind viruses.

My mother taught me how to apply my own makeup at 13 years old, and the most important lesson I learned is to never touch my eyebrows and to cleanse, tone, and moisturize twice a day.

Behind every man now alive stand thirty ghosts, for that is the ratio by which the dead outnumber the living.

To make one people better than the other would be ungodly in the first place.

If you don't like the situation, if you are afraid and can't deal with it, nothing wrong with your legs, get out of there.

He understood for the first time that the world is not dumb at all, but merely waiting for someone to speak to it in a language it understands.

It's very difficult sometimes having bands, you know, when all the members aren't on the same page.

We are either progressing or retrograding all the while; there is no such thing as remaining stationary in this life.

One who cares is one who listens.

You can't come out of drama school and think, 'It's all going to be amazing.' You have to expect to work in a bar for at least five years and be a waitress for maybe two!

There's no reason why a player is done at 33, 34. They train better, they eat better, they drink better. This isn't the old days when everybody sat around and drank beer.

You can actually go to school and college to learn how to play and get technical with the electric bass.

Conscience in the soul is the root of all true courage. If a man would be brave, let him learn to obey his conscience.

It doesn’t matter how smart you are, Enigma is always smarter.

We're all in a test. With or without God, we're in a test.

In the closing years of the nineteenth century, African-American historians began to look at their people's history from their vantage point and their point of view.

Your behavior determines, to some extent, the destiny of your nation and your group.

I came out of my mum's stomach going, 'I want to be an actor!'

I've read all the "Game of Thrones" books many times over, so I sometimes find it easier being on set, because it can be hard to get out of character.

If you be faithful, you will have that honor that comes from God: his Spirit will say in your hearts, Well done, good and faithful servants.