M. Clarke Quotes

Our houses are at least 12 feet under water. All you can see on TV are rooftops. And the bridge we came across, the I-10 twin span, is now split.

He who believes in goodness has the essence of all faith. He is a man of cheerful yesterdays and confident to-morrows.

Effective leaders let people discover things for themselves.

Throw in the humor, throw in that personality, try things you wouldn't normally try.

I'm the biggest sports fan there is, I love sports, but I'm still convinced that it's teachers who deserve the big salaries, not athletes.

I came up during that time when music, to me, was really music. It wasn't about talking about a woman and calling them a derogatory name or something like that. It was real music.

People can criticise me all day long. It just washes off me. You might as well be talking to a wall.

you must learn to live as I do - in the face of constant criticism, opposition and censure. That, sir, is the English way.

We must never forget that Black History is American History. The achievements of African Americans have contributed to our nation's greatness.

Magic's just science that we don't understand yet.

Oh! And they read English novels! David! Did you ever look into an English novel? Well, do not trouble yourself. It is nothing but a lot of nonsense about girls with fanciful names getting married.

Magic, madam, is like wine and, if you are not used to it, it will make you drunk.

Those wanderers must have looked on Earth, circling safely in the narrow zone between fire and ice, and must have guessed that it was the favourite of the Sun's children.

It must be wonderful to be seventeen, and to know everything.

It was a sign of growing up, when the dark made no more difference to you than the day.

For, though the room was silent, the silence of half a hundred cats is a peculiar thing, like fifty individual silences all piled one on top of another.

This gentleman here, Michael Hussey, is just an absolute freak.

I went on iTunes and looked at versions of Christmas songs. Everyone has done them!

I do want to have holidays and see my family and friends.

It is the grace of God, that shows and condemns the sin that humbles us.

There is no such thing as chance or accident; the words merely signify our ignorance of some real and immediate cause.

Whether the family of the Clarkes were of Norman extraction cannot be easily ascertained.

However, all gifts seem now to be absorbed in one and a man must be either a Preacher or nothing.

Multitudes of words are neither an argument of clear ideas in the writer, nor a proper means of conveying clear notions to the reader.

I sometimes wonder how we spent leisure time before satellite television and Internet came along…and then I realise that I have spent more than half of my life in the ‘dark ages’!

Science demands patience.

Absolutely no religious rites of any kind, relating to any religious faith, should be associated with my funeral.

You don't believe in organized religion, yet a major theme in so many of your works seems to be a quest for God.

When all else failed, you had to rely on eyeball intrumentation.

The best proof that there's intelligent life in the universe is that it hasn't come here.

Training was one thing, reality another.

The Shuttle is to space flight what Lindbergh was to commercial aviation.

Can the synthesis of man and machine ever be stable, or will the purely organic component become such a hindrance that it has to be discarded?

We always thought the living Earth was a thing of beauty. It isn’t. Life has had to learn to defend itself against the planet’s random geological savagery.

Good morning, doctors. I have taken the liberty of removing Windows 95 from my hard drive.

Floyd could imagine a dozen things that could go wrong; it was little consolation that it was always the thirteenth that actually happened.

A man who grows that much hair,' critics were fond of saying, 'must have a lot to hide.

Our own grandchildren may demonstrate that-sometimes- Gigantic is Beautiful.

The piece of equipment I'm most found off is my telescope. The other night I had a superb view of the moon.

Almost any seat was comfortable at one-sixth of a gravity.

Creationism, perhaps the most pernicious of the intellectual perversions now afflicting the American public.

The numbers of distinct human societies or nations, when our race is twice its present age, may be far greater than the total number of all the men who have ever lived up to the present time.

Any smoothly functioning technology will have the appearance of magic.

Look, whispered Chuck, and George lifted his eyes to heaven. (There is always a last time for everything.) Overhead, without any fuss, the stars were going out.

That's one of those meaningless and unanswerable questions the mind keeps returning to endlessly, like the tongue exploring a broken tooth.

The West needs to relearn what the rest of the world has never forgotten - that there is nothing sinful in leisure as long as it does not degenerate into mere sloth.

I doubt if there is a single field of study so theoretical, so remote from what is laughingly called everyday life, that it may not one day produce something that will shake the world.

The success of a science fiction writer is if he can write a good read.

Some things have eternal value, and compassion is one of them. I hope we never lose that. Compassion for humans as well as animals.

Don't mess up the environment until you're quite sure what you're doing.