C Quotes
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“Clive [Davis] tried to tell me that saying certain words in a song - or as he says, 'putting some balls into it' - isn't bad, it's just strong emotion. Well, there are certain words and emotions I don't want kids hearing, and I'm not changing because they think it's going to sell better. This is going to sound horrible, but I got 12 million votes doing what I did.”
“Clive [Oppenheimer] and I figured out that I'm the only one probably in the film industry who is clinically sane. I say that as a joke, but there's a grain of truth to it. I'm not a stupid daredevil who jumps into the crater of the volcano to get the closest close-up, I'm not one of those. And you have to be aware that you have a crew with you and you are responsible.”
“Clive Davis told me that "Since U Been Gone" would be on the radio in April. It came out in October. I remember counting the months. I remember thinking he was crazy, that he was out of his mind. But he was right. Never doubt Clive Davis.”
“Clive Dunn, as I understand it, retired to the south of Spain, where he worked extensively in watercolours. I don't own any of Clive Dunn's watercolours. I loved him in 'Dad's Army,' loved him. But not enough to actually seek out his watercolour work.”
“Clive follows me all over the place. Have I been to bed with Virginia yet? If not, am I likely to do so in the near future? If not, will I please give it my attention? As it is high time Virginia fell in love.”
“Clive with his tongue well-loosened, imagine my horror when he suddenly said, 'I wonder if I dare ask Vita a very indiscreet question?' and I, being innocent and off my guard, said yes he might, and he came out with 'Have you ever gone to bed with Virginia?' but I think my 'NEVER!' convinced him and everybody else of the truth. This will show you what the conversation was like!”
“Cliven Bundy is breaking the law. He's breaking the law and he wants all of us to pay for his cattle while he's ranting about people who are part of social welfare programs.”
“Clo was looking like the cat who got the cream, the kippers, the peanut butter, the sliced chicken and a lifetime's supply of genetically engineered slow-moving mice.”
Source: The Gap of Time
“Cloaked in the most valuable invisibilities, she’s a seamstress wearing knitted concepts of genius fitted like the elegant dress of a dazzling princess. Yet, no matter how lofty, the messages of her precious lips always land softly with her ability to keep kissing me with the sweetest simplicities.”
“Cloath thee in war, arme thee in peace.”
Source: The works of George Herbert
“Clock measurement is not time itself. In fact, so opposed are they that one could argue the clock is not a synonym, but the opposite of time.”
“Clock watchers never seem to be having a good time.”
Source: View from the Ninth Decade: Jottings from a Merchant's Daybook
“CLOCK, n. A machine of great moral value to man, allaying his concern for the future by reminding him what a lot of time remains to him.”
Source: The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World
“Clocked you before you clocked me, Gwen.”
“Clockers" asks--almost in passing, and there's a lot more to it than this--a pretty interesting question: if you choose to work for the minimum wage when everyone around you is pocketing thousands from drug deals, then what does that do to you, to your head and to your heart? (Hornby's thoughts after reading "Clockers" by Richard Price)”
“Clocks and calendars do not exist to remind us of the Time we've forgotten but to regulate our relations with others and indeed all of society, and this is how we use them.”
Source: The Museum of Innocence
“Clocks and watches he ficed with marvelous delicacy and precision, but he paid no attention to them; he had grown as obliviously accustomed to their many small noises as someone grows to the sound of waves who has always lived by the sea.”
Source: The Mysteries of the Joy Rio
“Clocks are as pointless on the Tennessee as poets are on Earth.”
“clocks in disagreement are worse than no clock at all.”
Source: Cloud Atlas (Enhanced Movie Tie-in Edition): A Novel
“Clocks indeed must have their sacrifice: what is death but an offering to time and eternity?”
“Clocks measure coins, not time.”
Source: Hazrat-e Humanity: The Uncultured Polyglot
“Clocks slay time... time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life.”
Source: FAULKNER READER
“Clocks will go as they are set, but man, irregular man, is never constant, never certain.”
“Clockwork Angel Quotes: 1
He frowned in annoyance - it was much less fun showing off without Jem to show off to.
- about Will Herondale”
Source: The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel Sampler
“Clockwork could not run counter to its nature. The seconds, minutes, and hours moved only forward. Patient, precise, and unstoppable. Memory was an indulgence, an illusion that broke like a wave upon the juggernaut of time. The past remained the past.”
Source: The Clockwork Three
“Clockwork mice and clockwork minds both can run great distances with no sense of why?”
Source: Little Planet on The Prairie: Dunya Benim, Sorumluluk Benim
“Clockwork Prince pg. 298 "Though rather despite myself, I thought him a pretty bit of poison to start with, but I have come around. There is a soul under all that bravado. And he is really alive, one of the most alive people I have ever met. When he feels something, it is as bright and sharp as lightning.”
“Clogged with yesterday's excess, the body drags the mind down with it.”
“Cloisters, ancient libraries ... I was confusing learning with the smell of cold stone.”
Source: The History Boys: With GCSE and A Level study guide
“Clone ourselves through teaching others.”
Source: Aliveihood
“Cloned chickens walking around without heads,
The food is contaminated, the water got lead in it.
Population control, make the babies sick,
All these RFID chips, RU-486...
This is a war against consciousness,
Controlling your soul, sort of a psychological dictatorship.
And we are on the front lines,
Guilty as charged if intellect is a crime.”
“Clones are people two.”
“Clones fit in. Freaks stand out. Ask me which one I prefer.”
Source: The Girl with No Shadow: A Novel
“Cloning creates ordinary children. They will be unique individuals, not photocopies of individuals.”
“Cloning interferon was not something I wanted to get into.”
“Cloning is great. If God made the original, then making copies should be fine.”
“Cloning looks like a degrading of parenthood and a perversion of the right relation between parents and children.”
“Cloning may be good and it may be bad. Probably it's a bit of both. The question must not be greeted with reflex hysteria but decided quietly, soberly and on its own merits. We need less emotion and more thought.”
“Cloning must be sacrilege to the doctrines of metempsychosis, as it interrupts the sequence of reincarnations and the migration of souls. But it is also sacrilegious where the laws of evolution are concerned, since it is tantamount to an unlimited perpetuation of the species.
In the body, a will to help begins to form. It is the body that chooses, among the innumerable pathogenic elements at its disposal, the illness that will purify you by diet and fever.”
Source: Cool Memories V: 2000 - 2004
“Cloning represents a very clear, powerful, and immediate example in which we are in danger of turning procreation into manufacture.”
“Cloning will enable mankind to reach eternal life.”
Source: Doctor Tandy's First Guide to Life Extension and Transhumanity
“Clooney is just a pretty boy, man, and that's it, OK? I carried him on my back long enough. I'm on my own.”
“Clorinda fui, né sol qui spirto umano
albergo in questa pianta rozza e dura,
ma ciascun altro ancor, franco o pagano,
che lassi i membri a piè de l'alte mura,
astretto è qui da novo incanto e strano,
non so s'io dica in corpo o in sepoltura.”
Source: Jerusalem Delivered
“Close a door, and you'd still feel a breeze through the window.”
Source: Second Glance: A Novel
“Close all the books
Open the Heart’s book
Read out loud and clear
And then you shall BE the TRUTH
And you shall be a mighty kindness.”
“Close all your doors including the doors of your temple and do research to fight coronavirus”
“Close alliances with despots are never safe for free states.”
“Close and Close... and close and close and close cases - Very Helpful - THat's "Now" - Dexter.”
“Close beside my knowledge lies my black ignorance.”
Source: Thus spake Zarathustra
“Close both eyes see with the other one. Then we are no longer saddled by the burden of our persistent judgments our ceaseless withholding our constant exclusion. Our sphere has widened and we find ourselves quite unexpectedly in a new expansive location in a place of endless acceptance and infinite love.”
Source: Tattoos on the Heart: The Power of Boundless Compassion