I don't believe in God but I'm very interested in her.
ARTHUR C. CLARKE I have a fantasy where Ted Turner is elected President but refuses because he doesn't want to give u...
ARTHUR C. CLARKE Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
ARTHUR C. CLARKE When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly...
ARTHUR C. CLARKE Whether we are based on carbon or on silicon makes no fundamental difference; we should each be trea...
ARTHUR C. CLARKE Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrify...
ARTHUR C. CLARKE I'm sure the universe is full of intelligent life. It's just been too intelligent to come here.
ARTHUR C. CLARKE Never attribute to malevolence what is merely due to incompetence
ARTHUR C. CLARKE Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
ARTHUR C. CLARKE The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the...
ARTHUR C. CLARKE It was a pity that there was no radar to guide one across the trackless seas of life. Every man had ...
ARTHUR C. CLARKE It has yet to be proven that intelligence has any survival value.
ARTHUR C. CLARKE Reading computer manuals without the hardware is a frustrating as reading sex manuals without the so...
ARTHUR C. CLARKE Every revolutionary idea seems to evoke three stages of reaction. They may be summed up by the phras...
ARTHUR C. CLARKE Invade me now, my ruthless friend,
And make me cower in the dark.
Remind me that I'm all a...
ARTHUR C. CLARKE In the long run, there are no secrets. in science. The universe will not cooperate in a cover-up.
ARTHUR C. CLARKE Our lifetime may be the last that will be lived out in a technological society.
ARTHUR C. CLARKE If an elderly but distinguished scientist says that something is possible, he is almost certainly ri...
ARTHUR C. CLARKE How inappropriate to call this planet Earth when it is clearly Ocean.
ARTHUR C. CLARKE The best measure of a man's honesty isn't his income tax return. It's the zero adjust on his bathroo...
ARTHUR C. CLARKE It is not easy to see how the more extreme forms of nationalism can long survive when men have seen ...
ARTHUR C. CLARKE Reading computer manuals without the hardware is as frustrating as reading sex manuals without the s...
ARTHUR C. CLARKE I have a fantasy where Ted Turner is elected President but refuses because he doesn't want to gi...
ARTHUR C. CLARKE The best measure of a man's honesty isn't his income tax return. It's the zero adjust on...
ARTHUR C. CLARKE Every revolutionary idea seems to evoke three stages of reaction. They may be summed up by the phras...
ARTHUR C. CLARKE I don't pretend we have all the answers. But the questions are certainly worth thinking about.
ARTHUR C. CLARKE The greatest tragedy in mankind's entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion.
ARTHUR C. CLARKE It may be that our role on this planet is not to worship God - but to create him.
ARTHUR C. CLARKE This is the first age that's ever paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic si...
ARTHUR C. CLARKE Perhaps, as some wit remarked, the best proof that there is Intelligent Life in Outer Space is the f...
ARTHUR C. CLARKE Sometimes I think we're alone in the universe, and sometimes I think we're not. In either ca...
ARTHUR C. CLARKE We have to abandon the idea that schooling is something restricted to youth. How can it be, in a wor...
ARTHUR C. CLARKE New ideas pass through three periods: 1) It can't be done. 2) It probably can be done, but it...
ARTHUR C. CLARKE . . . the newspapers of Utopia, he had long ago decided, would be terribly dull.
ARTHUR C. CLARKE The more wonderful the means of communication, the more trivial, tawdry, or depressing its contents ...
ARTHUR C. CLARKE Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
ARTHUR C CLARKE Sometimes I think we're alone in the universe, and sometimes I think we're not. In either case, the ...
ARTHUR C. CLARKE I don't believe in astrology; I'm a Sagittarius and we're skeptical.
ARTHUR C. CLARKE Human judges can show mercy. But against the laws of nature, there is no appeal.
ARTHUR C. CLARKE The limits of the possible can only be defined by going beyond them into the impossible.
ARTHUR C. CLARKE Before you become too entranced with gorgeous gadgets and mesmerizing video displays, let me remind ...
ARTHUR C. CLARKE I don’t believe in astrology; I’m a Sagittarius and we’re skeptical.
ARTHUR C. CLARKE How inappropriate to call this planet earth when it is quite clearly Ocean.
ARTHUR C. CLARKE If we have learned one thing from the history of invention and discovery, it is that, in the long ru...
ARTHUR C. CLARKE The inspirational value of the space program is probably of far greater importance to education than...
ARTHUR C. CLARKE It may be that the old astrologers had the truth exactly reversed, when they believed that the stars...
ARTHUR C. CLARKE A hundred years ago, the electric telegraph made possible - indeed, inevitable - the United States o...
ARTHUR C. CLARKE I'm sure we would not have had men on the Moon if it had not been for Wells and Verne and the people...
ARTHUR C. CLARKE At the present rate of progress, it is almost impossible to imagine any technical feat that cannot b...
ARTHUR C. CLARKE The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible.
ARTHUR C. CLARKE There is hopeful symbolism in the fact that flags do not wave in a vacuum.
ARTHUR C. CLARKE The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible.
ARTHUR C. CLARKE The difference between machines and human beings is that human beings can be reproduced by unskilled...
ARTHUR C. CLARKE Politicians should read science fiction, not westerns and detective stories.
ARTHUR C. CLARKE It may be that our role on this planet is not to worship God-but to create him.
ARTHUR C. CLARKE CNN is one of the participants in the war. I have a fantasy where Ted Turner is elected president bu...
ARTHUR C. CLARKE The greatest tragedy in mankind's entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion.
ARTHUR C. CLARKE The intelligent minority of this world will mark 1 January 2001 as the real beginning of the 21st ce...
ARTHUR C. CLARKE I don't pretend we have all the answers. But the questions are certainly worth thinking about..
ARTHUR C. CLARKE Sometimes I think we're alone in the universe, and sometimes I think we're not. In either case the i...
ARTHUR C. CLARKE In my life I have found two things of priceless worth - learning and loving. Nothing else - not fame...
ARTHUR C. CLARKE How inappropriate to call this planet "Earth," when it is clearly "Ocean.
ARTHUR C. CLARKE What is human memory?" Manning asked. He gazed at the air as he spoke, as if lecturing an invisible ...
ARTHUR C. CLARKE Behind every man now alive stand thirty ghosts, for that is the ratio by which the dead outnumber th...
ARTHUR C. CLARKE One of the greatest tragedies in mankind's entire history may be that morality was hijacked by relig...
ARTHUR C. CLARKE It may be that our role on this planet is not to worship God, but to create him.
ARTHUR C. CLARKE New ideas pass through three periods: 1) It can't be done. 2) It probably can be done, but it's not ...
ARTHUR C. CLARKE Every revolutionary idea seems to evoke three stages of reaction. They may be summed up by the phras...
ARTHUR C. CLARKE As his body became more and more defenseless, so his means of offense became steadily more frightful...
ARTHUR C. CLARKE We have to abandon the idea that schooling is something restricted to youth. How can it be, in a wor...
ARTHUR C. CLARKE This is the first age that's ever paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since ...
ARTHUR C. CLARKE I am an optimist. Anyone interested in the future has to be otherwise he would simply shoot himself.
ARTHUR C. CLARKE All human plans [are] subject to ruthless revision by Nature, or Fate, or whatever one preferred to ...
ARTHUR C. CLARKE Magic's just science that we don't understand yet.
ARTHUR C. CLARKE This is only a work of fiction , The Truth as always will be far stranger
ARTHUR C. CLARKE There were, however, a few exceptions.
One was Norma Dodsworth, the poet, who had not unpleasan...
ARTHUR C. CLARKE Western man had relearned-what the rest of the world had never forgotten-that there was nothing sinf...
ARTHUR C. CLARKE My favourite definition of an intellectual: 'Someone who has been educated beyond his/her intelligen...
ARTHUR C. CLARKE ["The Devil in the Dark"] impressed me because it presented the idea, unusual in science fiction the...
ARTHUR C. CLARKE There's no real objection to escapism, in the right places... We all want to escape occasionally. Bu...
ARTHUR C. CLARKE Training was one thing, reality another, and no one could be sure that the ancient human instincts o...
ARTHUR C. CLARKE The image of Jupiter, with its ribbons of white cloud, its mottled bands of salmon pink, and the Gre...
ARTHUR C. CLARKE For the last time, David Bowman slept.
ARTHUR C. CLARKE Hal in full control of the ship. The
ARTHUR C. CLARKE This would involve disconnection—the computer equivalent of death. Despite
ARTHUR C. CLARKE His mind wandered, seeking other examples. People—particularly older ones—still spoke of putting...
ARTHUR C. CLARKE The crew of Apollo 8, who at Christmas, 1968, became the first men ever to set eyes upon the Lunar F...
ARTHUR C. CLARKE Astronomy was full of such intriguing but meaningless coincidences. The most famous was the fact tha...
ARTHUR C. CLARKE How foolish that expectation had been! He knew now that one might as well hope to see the wind, or s...
ARTHUR C. CLARKE Men knew better than they realized, when they placed the abode of the gods beyond the reach of gravi...
ARTHUR C. CLARKE Woody, a commander can be wrong, but never uncertain.
ARTHUR C. CLARKE Floyd made it a rule never to worry about events over which he could have absolutely no control; any...
ARTHUR C. CLARKE In a rare flash of humor, she had replied: “Woody, a commander can be wrong, but never uncertain.
ARTHUR C. CLARKE They had not yet attained the stupefying boredom of absolute omnipotence;
ARTHUR C. CLARKE The core of Jupiter, forever beyond human reach, was a diamond as big as the Earth.
ARTHUR C. CLARKE This hydrogen was under such enormous pressure that it had become a metal.
ARTHUR C. CLARKE A major part of his job was deciding when warnings could be ignored, when they could be dealt with a...
ARTHUR C. CLARKE He left the unspoken question hanging in the air. How did one annoy a two- kilometre-long black rect...
ARTHUR C. CLARKE But it had been widely argued that advanced intelligence could never arise in the sea; there were no...
ARTHUR C. CLARKE They had not yet attained the stupefying boredom of omnipotence; their experiments did not always su...
ARTHUR C. CLARKE Good morning, Dr. Chandra. This is Hal. I am ready for my first lesson.
ARTHUR C. CLARKE ALL THESE WORLDS ARE YOURS, EXCEPT EUROPA.
ATTEMPT NO LANDING THERE.
USE THEM TOGETHER. US...
ARTHUR C. CLARKE Some dangers are so spectacular and so much beyond normal experience that the mind refuses to accept...
ARTHUR C. CLARKE Floyd could imagine a dozen things that could go wrong; it was little consolation that it was always...
ARTHUR C. CLARKE And because, in all the Galaxy, they had found nothing more precious than Mind, they encouraged its ...
ARTHUR C. CLARKE Humor was the enemy of desire.
ARTHUR C. CLARKE After their encounter on the approach to Jupiter, there would aways be a secret bond between them---...
ARTHUR C. CLARKE It must be wonderful to be seventeen, and to know everything.
ARTHUR C. CLARKE What was more, they had taken the first step toward genuine friendship. They had exchanged vulnerabi...
ARTHUR C. CLARKE A faith that cannot survive collision with the truth is not worth many regrets.
ARTHUR C. CLARKE Dave Bowman: Hello, HAL. Do you read me, HAL?
HAL: Affirmative, Dave. I read you.
Dave B...
ARTHUR C. CLARKE 1. When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certai...
ARTHUR C. CLARKE Just like the cosmonauts and their pee plants, all we have is each other.
ARTHUR C. CLARKE Sometimes, during the lonely hours on the control deck, Bowman would listen to this radiation. He wo...
ARTHUR C. CLARKE Let us say that you might have become a telepathic cancer, a malignant mentality which in its inevit...
ARTHUR C. CLARKE The opinions expressed in this book are not those of the author
ARTHUR C. CLARKE Even by the twenty-second century, no way had yet been discovered of keeping elderly and conservativ...
ARTHUR C. CLARKE Reliability depended on redundancy and automatic checking, and human intervention was much more like...
ARTHUR C. CLARKE Atheism is unprovable, so uninteresting. However unlikely it is, we can never be certain that God on...
ARTHUR C. CLARKE Civilization and Religion are incompatible” and “Faith is believing what you know isn’t true.
ARTHUR C. CLARKE Yet among all the distractions and diversions of a planet which now seemed well on the way to becomi...
ARTHUR C. CLARKE How long a minute is depends on what side of the bathroom door you're on
ARTHUR C. CLARKE If an elderly but distinguished scientist says that something is possible he is almost certainly rig...
ARTHUR C. CLARKE Human judges can show mercy. But against the laws of nature, there is no appeal.
ARTHUR CLARKE It has yet to be proven that intelligence has any survival value.
ARTHUR CLARKE It is not easy to see how the more extreme forms of nationalism can long survive when men have seen ...
ARTHUR CLARKE The intelligent minority of this world will mark 1 January 2001 as the real beginning of the 21st ce...
ARTHUR CLARKE This is the first age that's ever paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since ...
ARTHUR CLARKE Reading computer manuals without the hardware is as frustrating as reading sex manuals without the s...
ARTHUR CLARKE Every revolutionary idea seems to evoke three stages of reaction. They may be summed up by the phras...
ARTHUR CLARKE The greatest tragedy in mankind's entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion.
ARTHUR CLARKE The best measure of a man's honesty isn't his income tax return. It's the zero adjust on his bathroo...
ARTHUR CLARKE Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
ARTHUR CLARKE You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
ARTHUR C. COXE Watch every detail that affects the accuracy of your work.
ARTHUR C. NIELSEN We will have bigger bureaucracies, bigger labor unions, and bigger state-run corporations. It will b...
ARTHUR C. BROOKS Give your clients the earliest delivery consistent with quality - whatever the inconvenience to us.
ARTHUR C. NIELSEN Whether we look at capitalism, taxes, business, or government, the data show a clear and consistent ...
ARTHUR C. BROOKS Free enterprise is essentially a formula not just for wealth creation, but for life satisfaction.
ARTHUR C. BROOKS The system that enables the most people to earn the most success is free enterprise, by matching up ...
ARTHUR C. BROOKS Yes, free markets tend to produce unequal incomes. We should not be ashamed of that. On the contrary...
ARTHUR C. BROOKS There is nothing inherently fair about equalizing incomes. If the government penalizes you for worki...
ARTHUR C. BROOKS Generally speaking, I try not to generalize.
ADDISON C. ARTHUR It really is impossible not to like him. His success was his failure.
ARTHUR C. DANTO The Rockwell magazine cover was more a part of the American reality than a record of it.
ARTHUR C. DANTO His was a landscape of amiable codgers, nurturing moms, adorable dogs, callow soldiers with hearts o...
ARTHUR C. DANTO The Rockwell [magazine] cover was more a part of the American reality than a record of it.
ARTHUR C. DANTO The share repurchase program reflects our confidence in the performance of Sears, and our commitment...
ARTHUR C. MARTINEZ You could easily take some aspects of the INS, like green cards, and put that with Labor (Department...
ARTHUR C. HELTON The people it serves have no viable recourse.
ARTHUR C. HELTON The truth is that relative income is not directly related to happiness. Nonpartisan social-survey da...
ARTHUR C. BROOKS Employ every economy consistent with thoroughness, accuracy and reliability.
ARTHUR C. NIELSEN Keep the problems of clients and prospects confidential. Divulge information only with their consent...
ARTHUR C. NIELSEN Liberals are more likely to see people as victims of circumstance and oppression, and doubt whether ...
ARTHUR C. BROOKS Accept business only at a price permitting thoroughness. Then do a thorough job, regardless of cost ...
ARTHUR C. NIELSEN My father has been the real anchor of the family. He's the one who has always encouraged my moth...
YVETTE CLARKE I would put myself towards left of center.
YVETTE CLARKE It was August 28th, 1963, and the greatest civil rights coalition in modern history had descended up...
YVETTE CLARKE Only Congress has the authority to adequately and holistically address our broken immigration system...
YVETTE CLARKE Good Dems are good Dems. They want a representative that really reflects their values.
YVETTE CLARKE I have to earn re-election. That's the way I see it.
YVETTE CLARKE We examine and highlight the history of the African descendants in America, and know that each and e...
YVETTE CLARKE I hope that the opening of the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial will be a life-altering experien...
YVETTE CLARKE Even after facing jail, Martin Luther King, Jr. courageously and boldly spoke out against racial ine...
YVETTE CLARKE There is no doubt that Stop-and-Frisk does not yield the desired results, and it is apparent that it...
YVETTE CLARKE My mother taught me how to apply my own makeup at 13 years old, and the most important lesson I lear...
EMILIA CLARKE My dad took me for an audition once, to show me, 'OK, you want to be a child actor, this is what...
EMILIA CLARKE After my last audition for 'Game of Thrones,' they said, 'Congratulations, princess.'...
EMILIA CLARKE I went on iTunes and looked at versions of Christmas songs. Everyone has done them!
VINCE CLARKE I used to do all my programming on a BBC computer. It was limited to 16 tracks, and you used the key...
VINCE CLARKE When we start to write for a new record, we never really know what we're doing. We don't com...
VINCE CLARKE I'm a lover of songs.
VINCE CLARKE I started writing songs at age 15.
VINCE CLARKE When I was 20, I thought anyone in the music business over 25 is past it. Then at 30, you think anyo...
VINCE CLARKE I'm actually doing a show. from my shed. on the internet. but it won't be music or anything,...
VINCE CLARKE Collaboration is no longer painful - or precious.
VINCE CLARKE With a track like 'White Christmas,' everybody has done that song in every format you can im...
VINCE CLARKE I was offered and accepted a part in 'A Few Best Men,' and then the Australian actor's u...
NOEL CLARKE The Scriptures of the Old and New Testament, said an eminent scholar, have God for their Author, the...
ADAM CLARKE Even papists could not see that a moral evil was detained in the soul through its physical connectio...
ADAM CLARKE The words contained in it were inspired by the Holy Spirit into the minds of faithful men, called Pr...
ADAM CLARKE And hence he must be invisible; for a spirit cannot be seen by the eye of man: nor is there any thin...
ADAM CLARKE As preachers of the gospel of Jesus, do not expect worldly honors: these Jesus Christ neither took t...
ADAM CLARKE He who is completely sanctified, or cleansed from all sin, and dies in this state, is fit for glory.
ADAM CLARKE But this Christ or Redeemer took not upon him the nature of angels, but the seed of Abraham, that is...
ADAM CLARKE Now it would be as absurd to deny the existence of God, because we cannot see him, as it would be to...
ADAM CLARKE Many talk much, and indeed well, of what Christ has done for us: but how little is spoken of what he...
ADAM CLARKE To be filled with God is a great thing, to be filled with the fullness of God is still greater; to b...
ADAM CLARKE However, all gifts seem now to be absorbed in one and a man must be either a Preacher or nothing.
ADAM CLARKE Now an infinite happiness cannot be purchased by any price less than that which is infinite in value...
ADAM CLARKE Deeply consider that it is your duty and interest to read the Holy Scriptures.
ADAM CLARKE If you go forward in the spirit of the original apostles and followers of Jesus Christ, trusting not...
ADAM CLARKE It is to be regretted that few persons who have arrived at any degree of eminence or fame, have writ...
ADAM CLARKE Man may be considered as having a twofold origin - natural, which is common and the same to all - pa...
ADAM CLARKE It is the grace of God, that shows and condemns the sin that humbles us.
ADAM CLARKE Pride works frequently under a dense mask, and will often assume the garb of humility.
ADAM CLARKE Few men can be said to have inimitable excellencies: let us watch them in their progress from infanc...
ADAM CLARKE The Bible is proved to be a revelation from God, by the reasonableness and holiness of its precepts;...
ADAM CLARKE If you be faithful, you will have that honor that comes from God: his Spirit will say in your hearts...
ADAM CLARKE Prayer requires more of the heart than of the tongue.
ADAM CLARKE