R. W. Clark Quotes

When you dream too much of the sun, you forget the trees.

Older women have always been attracted to me.

There must be a cloud in my head, rain keeps falling from my eyes

I'm a survivor in a business that constantly rejects you.

Sometimes you have an idea that is so simple that you can't see how it can fail. But in learning, being right is not always the quickest way to success

If God simply handed us everything we want, He'd be taking from us our greatest prize - the job of accomplishment

You may give gifts without caring, but you can't care without giving.

When a man eats his words, that's recycling.

People help each other through a crisis by each supposing that the other can handle it better than he himself can.

Most of my songs start out as being very aggressive and guitar-driven.

When I got my first guitar, I played along with everything I heard that had guitar in it, like the Ramones, Nirvana and Sublime, as well as whatever hip-hop and R&B stuff was on the radio.

Never was a person more mortified than I was at this time, to see so fair an opportunity to push a victory; Detroit lost for want of a few men.

Guilt was imputed and corruption was conveyed

It's fair to say that, for much of my lifetime, New Zealand certainly was a property-owning democracy and working people, ordinary people, had assets.

In the end, there will always be a fundamental difference of perspective between New Zealand and Australia on defense, whoever is in government.

one doesn't measure friendship by length of time only; depth of time is just as valuable.

And it's the educated barbarian who is the worst: he knows what to destroy.

Inquisitive people aren't really very attractive, are they?

Life to most Greeks may be either tragic or comic or a mixture of both; but one thing it never is - and that is, meaningless.

I say to you that the price of liberty is and always has been blood - human blood.

Vampires are so sexy and powerful - they're so otherworldly; they have eternal life and youth.

We are part of a great whole. All living things are our brothers and sisters.

In the midst of conflict, there is absolutely nothing that produces gains as dramatically as listening.

I was very surprised when last I bought a packet of cigarettes and had to request a refund as I read a warning that told me 'smoking can cause fatal lung cancer'.

You have to take a plan that might work and make it work

Every year it's one more step closer, and then at the end you get to the top and you fall back down. It's crazy.

The heart sometimes leaps forward when the head tells us to be still. When this happens, patience is clearly called for as we seek to find a proper balance between impulse and discretion.

I had some music lessons and my mum played every instrument but the guitar.

If any child of mine becomes an actor I will turn in my grave.

I don't want a lot of strangers looking down at my wrinkles and my big fat belly when I'm dead.

All the PG-13 superhero movies are depriving me of the gore that I need.

We reject: kings, presidents and voting. We believe in: rough consensus and running code.

Anybody who's against birth control and abortion has to be a criminal idiot.

I liked to use my face mask more than the diving helmet for most occasions. I was learning to hold my breath longer now and could go down almost as deep without the helmet which limited my movements.

A student is almost always feeling motivated to practice, if he leaves his lesson feeling capable

I am the type of artist where you can't tell me anything. I have always been that way. I am right. I don't need any input.

Innovation applied across the board of development is having a huge impact, and can have more. All sorts of technology can provide shortcuts, can overcome obstacles which once seemed insuperable.

There is no curse equal to the curse of idleness. It destroys the man, the group, the people, or the nation who suffer under it.

I believe American manhood is too valuable to be sacrificed on foreign soil for foreign issues and causes.

I really don't miss the trials and courtroom appearances.

I certainly understand very much what it's (like when) an expense comes up and you're trying to figure out how to pay for it.

When a scientist's son or daughter becomes a scientist they'll say "Wonderful! Wonderful!" So, why, in the name of God, would a mother be jealous to see her daughter become a successful writer?

If I can't have the proletariat as my chosen people any longer, at least capitalism remains my Satan.

I like Hilary Clinton. I think she's - she's a fantastic leader.

Unless their use by readers bring them to life, books are indeed dead things.

He worked with her as she was and not as he wanted her to be.

A teacher of mine once said there are no true synonyms.

Being efficient is the easy part. Suppressing one's ego completely for hours at a time is really hard.

I think the issue of North Korea is one where the international community as a whole has to work to resolve the crisis.

In terms of having views and being prepared to express them, yes, I think New Zealand's had a leadership role in a lot of things.