R. W. Clark Quotes

Nothing so diminishes democracy as secrecy.

When champions fail, they get back up and try again. They don't let failure discourage them.

As a writer, you paint strokes and leave suggestions so readers can create their own pictures. That allows you to know someone by a small action and it saves countless pages of explanation.

I just was apologizing for maybe being a little goofy.

I have grown up with guns all my life, but people who like assault weapons they should join the United States Army, we have them.

Snowboarding was everything that I knew. That's what I did and I poured everything I had into it. I thought that being successful and achieving my goals would go hand-in-hand with being happy.

Over and above the political, economic, sociological, and international implications of racial prejudices, their major significance is that they place unnecessary burdens upon human beings.

It becomes harder and harder to say where the world stops and the person begins.

Raise your limits as high as you dare and then take them a little further.

A defendant on trial for a specific crime is entitled to his day in court, not in a stadium or a city or nationwide arena.

As New Zealanders, we've been in on the United Nations from the very beginning, played a role in the drafting of the charter - it means a lot to us that those processes are followed.

The eye instinctively looks for analogies and amplifies them, so that a face imagined in the pattern of a wallpaper may become more vivid than a photograph.

You seldom come across anything more enjoyable than a happy person.

Express your most powerful thought in the shortest sentence.

Victor Oladipo is like a baby’s bottom – smooth and sometimes explosive.

Almost all great painters in old age arrive at the same kind of broad, simplified style, as if they wanted to summarise the whole of their experience in a few strokes and blobs of colour.

If I want something I do everything to get it.

We have the resources the world needs. We can build a path for them to get there. That's that delicate balance that we find.

Most faults are not in our Constitution, but in ourselves.

Gravity is one variable in a lot of scientific processes. If you can remove gravity or minimize its effect, then you can understand the other processes that are going on.

As a physician, I understand how important it is to collect data on people so we can understand what's happening with them. I will be in the position to help enable that knowledge.

Reading books is good, Rereading good books is better.

I hate a liar. Maybe because I'm such a good one myself, heh? Anyway, to find someone has told an out and out lie puts him on the other side of the fence from me for all time.

A bad marriage is worse than no marriage at all.

The microgravity or the very, very low amount of gravity that we have up in space forces some changes in different processes. It forces changes in us as human beings.

A leading authority is anyone who has guessed right more than once.

Clark Gable was the only real he-man I've ever known, of all the actors I've met.

How smartly September comes in, like a racing gig, all style, no confusion.

It seems as though women keep growing. Eventually they can have little or nothing in common with the men they chose long ago.

Jet lag is for amateurs.

I would like to be able to admire a man's opinions as I would his dog - without being expected to take it home with me.

Most of us must learn a great deal every day in order to keep ahead of what we forget.

Viewing the child solely as an immature person is a way of escaping comforting him.

The United States has, overall, the most effective system of higher education the world has ever known.

Don't sleep in the subway, darling.

I'm not into power for the sake of it.

My favorite color is green.

The Cathedrals were built to the glory of God; New York was built to the glory of Mammon.

Working with Marilyn Monroe on The Misfits (1961) nearly gave me a heart attack. I have never been happier when a film ended.

Pride, like humility, is destroyed by one's insistence that he possesses it.

My music is for real women and it's about real women and I am a real woman.

I've been a photographer for my whole life and I've done everything with photography that I felt I could do, and I always wanted to be a filmmaker.

Science, for hundreds of years, has spanned the differences between cultures and between countries.

Hello from above our magnificent planet Earth.

Men who use terrorism as a means to power, rule by terror once they are in power.

Opera, next to Gothic architecture, is one of the strangest inventions of Western man. It could not have been foreseen by any logical process.

Everyone should read, we say, but we act as if only those with special talent should write.

To achieve lasting literature, fictional or factual, a writer needs perceptive vision, absorptive capacity, and creative strength.

Well in the end the world can crank itself up to sanctions, as it has with Zimbabwe, another sad case.

I'm a bit of a vagabond - a person who loses time and space because you don't know where you are.