St. Clement Quotes

The natural law of inertia: Matter will remain at rest or continue in uniform motion in the same straight line unless acted upon by some external force.

The press lives on disaster.

I've known Nicholas Parsons for a fairly long time and his geniune pleasures are in rubber tubes, metal clips

He changed sunset into sunrise.

If the Lord counts the natural beauty of the body inferior to that of the soul, what thinks He of spurious beauty, rejecting utterly as He does all falsehood?

Well, I grew up in the '80s, which was a really massive time for sci-fi.

It is dangerous to play politics with the Budget.

The House of Lords is like a glass of champagne that has stood for five days

Not Churchill. Sixty-five, old for a Churchill.

Art solves nothing, either for the artist himself or for those who receive his art.

Kitsch is Mechanical and operates by formulas.

The writing is just a boring job. It's just a horrible job.

What do I think of L.A.? It's boring, with some amazing nuggets. Like there are some parts of it that are great, but by and large I think it's quite boring.

A companion is but another self; wherefore it is an argument that a man is wicked if he keep company with the wicked.

Long-haired Chihuahuas have no notion they are bite-sized.

Effort and work can become fun when you establish specific desirable goals.

It is interesting to note that life never leaves us stranded. If life hands us a problem, it hands us also the abilities with which to meet the problem.

Give hope (the magic ingredient for success) — you will have hope and be made hopeful.

To be energetic, act energetic.

I think the British have the distinction above all other nations of being able to put new wine into old bottles without bursting them.

Being young is easy, you know, but it takes guts to be old.

Can't publish. Don't rhyme, don't scan.

Kitsch is deceptive. It has many different levels, and some of them are high enough to be dangerous to the naive seeker of true light.

I don't get into 'becauses.' When you come into a studio you see a number of works. My habit is to go to the one I like most. If you start to say, 'because,' you get into art jargon.

It is far better to be happy than to have our bodies act as graveyards to animals.

There are a lot of difficult situations that lead to awkwardness.

Our Pastoral solicitude induces us to earnestly protect and preserve in everything and especially in the sacred rites of the Church the best and old norm.

My major vice is sarcasm with a side of caffeine addiction.

Sometimes the things that seem to be adversities turn out to be opportunities in disguise.

It takes less work to succeed than to fail.

Big doors swing on little hinges.

All personal achievement starts in the mind of the individual.

Your mind is your invisible talisman. The letters PMA (positive mental attitude) are emblazoned on one side, and NMA (negative mental attitude) on the other. These are powerful forces.

I am a diffident man. I find it hard to carry on a conversation.

There's no law that decrees when not to whinge, but you reach a certain age - 80 seems about right - when you're expected to manifest querulousness - the coffee's too hot, the boiled egg's too soft.

I think our police are excellent, probably because I have not done anything that has occasioned being beaten up by these good men.

I was going to talk about Nicholas Parsons' ignorance, but 18 seconds would be a wholly insufficient time.

A large picture can give us images of things, but a relatively small one can best re-create the instantaneous unity of nature as a view - the unity of which the eyes take in at a single glance.

Remember the music is not in the piano.

Fear is an instinct, like hunger or anger. We need it to help us survive, and it is nothing to be ashamed of. It lets us know whether we should fight or flee.

They don't get along with me, but I get along with other people.

To become an expert achiever in any human activity, it takes practice... practice... practice.

If you know what you want, you can find a way to get it.

Perfume companies ought to bottle the smell of crisp bacon. Forget pheromones. I’ll bet a woman with a little spot of bacon grease behind her ears would attract every male within a five-mile radius.

Congealed fat is pretty much the same, irrespective of the delicacy around which it is concealed.

One is also reminded of how, in art, the tortoise so often overtakes the hare.

Not all, but too many of the best writers, composers, and artists of our time begin to be acclaimed only when they no longer have anything to say and take to performing instead of stating.

Design, in its broadest sense, is the enabler of the digital era.

But it is with a different kind of spell that art deludes you ... it leads you to pay religious honor and worship to images and pictures.

I'm actively going out onto the porch and noodling around on my guitar.