Clive Quotes

Thick skin is not the thing to have if you are an artist of any kind. It's got to be bulletproof in the sense that it lets the bullet in, and it travels through, and it comes out the other side. I've had everything hurled at me, especially in Australia. Australia is where the tough journalists are. ~ Clive James

Acting is a sport. On stage you must be ready to move like a tennis player on his toes. Your concentration must be keen, your reflexes sharp; your body and mind are in top gear, the chase is on. Acting is energy. In the theatre people pay to see energy. ~ Clive Swift

There are lives lived for love, and lives lived for art. We, happy band, have chosen the later persuasion. ~ Clive Barker

There are many men but rare fathers ~ Bernard Kelvin Clive

I'm just constantly trying to renew and give myself new challenges and push myself to uncomfortable places, trying to get better. ~ Clive Owen

What did it matter, anyway, he thought, whether this was a real place or a dream? It felt real, and that was all that mattered. ~ Clive Barker

I think babies cry when they're born because they're born with the knowledge of all the terrible shit that's gonna happen to them. That's why I never had kids. Every life is a death sentence. We just forget it later in life, like dreams we lose the second we wake up. Whether we worry about it or not, the shit's still going to fly. The important thing is we're here. At least for now. ~ Clive Barker

The first language that I learned was Italian in Italy in the early and middle-'60s and I had to do that to keep up with the young men who were courting my wife. ~ Clive James

A good book allows the imagination to soar. ~ Clive Maddison

Keep your eyes on the prize and know that the trials are only for a while, so smile. ~ Bernard Kelvin Clive

You have been waiting for a gift all the while but you forgot that you are the gift - unwrap the gem within and shine! ~ Bernard Kelvin Clive

Every growing brand thrives on brand influencers and advocates ~ Bernard Kelvin Clive

Clive was rapidly coming to the conclusion that being engaged to somebody meant that he spent an awful lot of time not doing things he wanted to do. ~ Nick Hornby

There were no chambers now along the passageway and consequently no lights. There was a glow up ahead, however - fitful and cold, but bright enough to illuminate both the ground she stumbled over, which was bare earth, and the silvery frost on the walls. ~ Clive Barker

Everyone is calm and collected but I am telling you something - I am not calm and I am not collected. It's a sick world out there. ~ Clive Stafford Smith

Many years ago, when I lived in the mini-Siberia they call East Anglia, I was awakened in the early hours by the sound of a pantechnicon being loaded. Peeping through the curtains, I observed the grocer doing a runner with all his chattels and his family. ~ Clive Sinclair

The scent of sweet cherry had attracted hundreds of ants. They were crawling over it and into it, many drowning for their greed. ~ Clive Barker

I am going to have to stick to the script. If I muck around with the words it will defeat the object. ~ Clive Anderson

Politicians or pundits can distort or cherry-pick climate science any way they want to try and gain temporary influence with the public. But any serious industrialist who's facing 'climate exposure' - as it's now called by money managers - cannot afford to engage in that sort of self-delusion. ~ Clive Thompson

My 'act' was schoolwork. I was your basic, garden-variety, ambitious, upwardly mobile, hard-working Jewish boy from Brooklyn. I was bound to go beyond my parents. It was simply the way things were. ~ Clive Davis

Ambient awareness is the experience of knowing what's going on in the lives of other people - what they're thinking about, what they're doing, what they're looking at - by paying attention to the small stray status messages that people are putting online. We're now able to stitch together these fantastic details and mental maps of what is going on in other people's lives. ~ Clive Thompson

It feels like I've died," he said to Caz when he'd finished.
"Well, you didn't."
"And I should be grateful, right?"
"Right."
"Well, I'm not. ~ Clive Barker

I keep a bedside journal. I am very affected by dream information. They might be scary to other people, but they're mine, so they don't feel scary. I'd wake up in a cold sweat if I didn't dream these things ... ~ Clive Barker

When you broadcast your book reading voluntarily, it creates moments of fascinating serendipity. ~ Clive Thompson

We're social creatures, so we think socially. ~ Clive Thompson

Stand out or Fade out! for 'me-too' Brands have a shorter shelf life ~ Bernard Kelvin Clive

The stock market is like a small row boat on a rough sea, bouncing around as it drifts, whereas the macro economy is like a large ocean liner, very ponderous and difficult to maneuver but without such a rough journey. ~ Clive Granger

That's often the best place to beat a goalkeeper, isn't it, between the legs? ~ Clive Tyldesley

Such indeed was her image, that neither could Shakespeare describe, nor Hogarth paint, nor Clive act, a fury in higher perfection. ~ Henry Fielding

The power of the brand is not in the name but what has been invested in that name over the years. ~ Bernard Kelvin Clive

Anyway, it's gone. And there's nothing left in my pocket to charm you. So from now on it's going to have to be tears or nothing I'm afraid.
That's all I've got left to tell you see: tears, tears, tears. ~ Clive Barker

Permit no man to make a mockery of you just because you may not be proficient in something. Remember you are gifted no matter how insignificant it may be, it's your prized possession, value it ~ Bernard Kelvin Clive

I believe in first impression but most importantly I believe in God's impression ~ Bernard Kelvin Clive

The music began, and it was one of those life-changing moments. I saw an artist, Janis Joplin. She was exhilarating. She was vibrating. And she was like no other artist that I had ever seen before ... It struck me that hard. Maybe the word is epiphany, when you get that special sensation. ~ Clive Davis

Know your limit and circle of influence; you are not called to meet the needs of everyone ~ Bernard Kelvin Clive

When I finally embraced abstinence it was because of the simple urge to work a longer day. Thus, without joining Alcoholics Anonymous, I was at last able to leave Piss-Artists Notorious. ~ Clive James

It's my mission to tell the Australians from abroad in my work that Australia is a wonderful place. ~ Clive James

The subject of bisexuality really needs much more discussion. It's a status that does exist. ~ Clive Davis

It was that sleep itself - the act of closing the eyes and relinquishing control of her consciousness - was something she was temperamentally unsuited to. ~ Clive Barker

Roscoe Tanner seems to have found a way of making his service go even faster, so that the ball is now quite invisible, like Stealth, the American supersonic bomber which nobody has ever seen. ~ Clive James

Brands and customers alike, do evolve ~ Bernard Kelvin Clive

I would never give anybody any advice about anything. ~ Clive Owen

- when the sun goes out and there's only night, we'll live on the earth. It'll be ours. ~ Clive Barker

It's better to dare to dream big and achieve half of your dreams than to dream small dreams and achieve all ~ Bernard Kelvin Clive

Audiences can be very judgmental. ~ Clive Owen

Remember, Lucius, that everything you learn is already a part of you, even to the Godhead Itself. Study nothing except in the knowledge that you already knew it. Worship nothing except in adoration of your true self. And fear nothing"--there the Maestro stopped and shuddered, as though he had a presentiment--"fear nothing except in the certainty that you are your enemy's begetter and its only hope of healing. For everything that does evil is in pain. Will you remember those things? ~ Clive Barker

It's great to celebrate the victories along the way in living your dreams
but never allow the praises of your past pause you from pursuing higher heights. ~ Bernard Kelvin Clive

I work on the assumption, or let it be the fear, that the reader will stop reading if I stop being interesting. ~ Clive James

Art is the outward integration inspired by the artist's inner disintegration. ~ Clive James

To attribute foreseeable necessity to the catastrophe of Germany and the European Jews would be to give it a meaning that it didn't have. There is an unseemly optimism in such an assumption. In the history of mankind there is more that is spontaneous, wilful, unreasonable and senseless than our conceit allows. - GOLO MANN, GESCHICHTE UND GESCHICHTEN, P. 170 ~ Clive James

Well, she's lucky. She still has her little dominion here in Coldheart Canyon. ~ Clive Barker

A man who wants to find out who he really is should try watching the woman he loves as she dances the tango with a maestro. ~ Clive James

Until you become so passionate about you and your business no one will. You are your first cheerleader and business promoter. ~ Bernard Kelvin Clive

When you become too predictable you lose your brand's luster. ~ Bernard Kelvin Clive

So quickly? Todd cleared away another wave of tears and looked down at the body on the table. Dempsey's eye was still half-open, but it didn't look back at him any longer. Where there'd been a sliver of bright life, where there'd been mischief and shared rituals - where, in short, there'd been Dempsey - there was nothing. ~ Clive Barker

It's a big thing to call yourself a poet. All I can say is that I have always written poems. I don't think I'm interested in any discussion about whether I'm a good poet, a bad poet or a great poet. But I am sure, I want to write great poems. I think every poet should want that. ~ Clive James

The world is dominated by those who ascend into the higher powers in the spiritual realms ~ Bernard Kelvin Clive

I never want to be the producer that I too often got. ~ Clive Barker

Forecasts vary in horizon, from a few seconds up to a few days in financial markets, compared to from one to several months for macro variables. We have to provide uncertainty intervals around the central forecasts to indicate the extent to which we are unclear about the future. ~ Clive Granger

I don't see why people want new plays all the time. What would happen to concerts if people wanted new music all the time? ~ Clive Barnes

You have to taste the sour urine before you break the jug. ~ Clive Barker

I love to mix it up. I love to keep doing different things. ~ Clive Owen

Evil, however powerful it seemed, could be undone by its own appetite. ~ Clive Barker

Everywhere, in the wreckage around him, he found evidence to support the same bitter thesis: that he had encountered nothing in his life - no person, no state of mind or body - he wanted sufficiently to suffer even passing discomfort for. ~ Clive Barker

There is always a way out, as there is a way in ~ Bernard Kelvin Clive

There must be some one quality without which a work of art cannot exist; possessing which, in the least degree, no work is altogether worthless. ~ Clive Bell

Innovation invasion is a brand's wheel that turns fortunes ~ Bernard Kelvin Clive

As I get older, I've been having a better and better time. ~ Clive Owen

Strong brands are not built through shortcuts and copycats ~ Bernard Kelvin Clive

Sometimes crisis triggers the genius within ~ Bernard Kelvin Clive

A lot of the projects that I do, I like to be involved with earlier. I just feel that, certainly from an acting point of view, it's easier to do my job, if I'm included in what the intentions are, for why people are doing what they're doing, especially with a director. ~ Clive Owen

Don't choose men by their CVs but by their TVs; their Talents and Visions. ~ Bernard Kelvin Clive

Ideas love speed ~ Bernard Kelvin Clive

Literacy in North America has historically been focused on reading, not writing; consumption, not production. ~ Clive Thompson

You've got to seize the opportunity if it is presented to you. ~ Clive Davis

I can't remember ever being involved in a fight in a movie where I haven't done most of it. ~ Clive Owen

I was very keen on playing a victim. ~ Clive Owen

Hitting the first molecules of the upper atmosphere created friction that merely warmed the rod. The lower it fell, the more the heat built, until the entire length of the rod glowed red then yellow, and, finally, a brilliant white. ~ Clive Cussler

We're too much ourselves. Afraid of letting go of what we are, in case we are nothing, and holding on so tight, we lose everything else. ~ Clive Barker

A personal (Brand) is more than just a creative name, cute logo or a complimentary card; it's a promise of value, it's a distinctive voice, it' s a core message, it's passion driven by purpose, it's a positive impact that creates an impression ~ Bernard Kelvin Clive

I have done well out of TV, but not well enough to buy football clubs. I'm not sure it's ever a way to make money. ~ Clive Anderson

I think it is true to say that I am not the first Nobel Prize winner in economics to have little formal training in economics. ~ Clive Granger

Why should I waste my imagination on myself? - SERGEI DIAGHILEV ~ Clive James

Please Note:
Although it is true that some have
been captured; we would like to
assure you that no thoughts, or
images, have been harmed during
the making of this book. ~ Clive Blake

When I was very young, one of my favourite books was Captain's Courageous and I suppose one of the reasons I loved it, it was a life I knew I should have had, learning all the different bits of the ship and learning to catch fish and rig sails and to -all the things that I never learned and I never learned the discipline, but I hungered after it. ~ Clive James

Wherever I go, I will speak of you with love. ~ Clive Barker

Funny that. We live in islands of Hours and we never seem to have time enough for anything ... ~ Clive Barker

Leavening the flat bread of what we know, with the yeast of what we dream may come to pass. ~ Clive Barker

I went to UC Santa Cruz, overlooking the Bay of Monterey and Santa Cruz, in 1969. Back then, the city was part-hippie, part-surfer, but mostly retired chicken farmer. ~ Clive Sinclair

Brands are like shoes, they come in sizes and styles; one size & style doesn't fit everyone. ~ Bernard Kelvin Clive

But she felt as though whatever she'd been given in the Devil's Country it was affecting her mind, not her body, and it was not doing anything remotely healing. Quite the reverse. ~ Clive Barker

A referred brand is a preferred brand; and a preferred brand is a referred brand ~ Bernard Kelvin Clive

Trying to teach creativity is the major hoax of our time along with the Iraq war and plastic surgery"
~ Snarky comment of Clive from "The River Swimmer" (pg 47) ~ Jim Harrison

Rob Engle and I are concerned with extracting useful implications from economic data, and so the properties of the data are of particular importance. ~ Clive Granger

The places where death comes to take love away, where we lose each other and lose ourselves; that's where the connections begin. It takes a brave soul to look there and not despair."
"I've tried to be brave," she said.
"I know," he said softly. "I know. ~ Clive Barker

I will say it one last time: Demonation! The feeling of it! There are no words -how can there be?- to describe what it feels like to become words, to feel your life encoded, and laid out in black ink on white paper. All my love and hatred, melted into words. It was like the End of the World. ~ Clive Barker

I have deeper journeys to take. Metaphysical journeys to see Christ. Shaman journeys. It's what I have been elected by God to do. ~ Clive Barker

Be wary of the praise of men; don't let it pump you up unnecessarily and don't let it paralyze your progress ~ Bernard Kelvin Clive

As Primo Levi was to warn the world after the Holocaust, it will always be in the interests of the perpetrators, after a great crime is identified, to say that they, too, were helplessly caught up in it, and also suffered. But Ordzhonokidze was saying more that that. ~ Clive James

All honest labor becomes easy; it only becomes hard when done with unwillingness. ~ Clive James