The literary critic, or the critic of any other specific form of artistic expression, may detach him...
CLIVE JAMES As a work of art it has the same status as a long conversation between two not very bright drunks.
CLIVE JAMES All television ever did was shrink the demand for ordinary movies. The demand for extraordinary movi...
CLIVE JAMES Anyone afraid of what he thinks television does to the world is probably just afraid of the world.
CLIVE JAMES It is only when they go wrong that machines remind you how powerful they are.
CLIVE JAMES Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor i...
CLIVE JAMES Everyone has a right to a university degree in America, even if it's in Hamburger Technology.
CLIVE JAMES Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.
CLIVE JAMES A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing.
CLIVE JAMES Everyone has a right to a university degree in America, even if it's in Hamburger Technology.
CLIVE JAMES Stop worrying -- nobody gets out of this world alive.
CLIVE JAMES Stop worrying / nobody gets out of this world alive.
CLIVE JAMES Disco dancing is just the steady thump of a giant moron knocking in an endless nail.
CLIVE JAMES As far as talent goes, Marilyn Monroe was so minimally gifted as to be almost unemployable, and anyo...
CLIVE JAMES A decade ago, critics suggested biotech crops would not be valuable in the developing world. Now 90 ...
CLIVE JAMES Every sentence he manages to utter scatters its component parts like pond water from a verb chasing ...
CLIVE JAMES A traditional fixture at Wimbledon is the way the BBC TV commentary box fills up with British player...
CLIVE JAMES The British Secret Service was staffed at one point almost entirely by alcoholic homosexuals working...
CLIVE JAMES She was good at playing abstract confusion in the same way that a midget is good at being short.
CLIVE JAMES Even in moments of tranquility, Murray Walker sounds like a man whose trousers are on fire.
CLIVE JAMES Prejudices are useless. Call Los Angeles any dirty name you like --Six Suburbs in Search of a City, ...
CLIVE JAMES Murray [Walker] sounds like a blindfolded man riding a unicycle on the rim of the pit of doom.
CLIVE JAMES In his quieter moments he sounds like his trousers are on fire
CLIVE JAMES I am cautiously optimistic the stellar growth in the first decade of commercialization will be surpa...
CLIVE JAMES In the Bob Hope Golf Classic, the participation of President Gerald Ford was more than enough to rem...
CLIVE JAMES Whoever called snooker 'chess with balls' was rude, but right.
CLIVE JAMES Fiction is life with the dull bits left out
CLIVE JAMES Jewelery isn't really my thing, but I've always got my eye on people's watches.
CLIVE OWEN The story of Rod Stewart, the story of Carlos Santana is so inspiring to young musicians because it ...
CLIVE DAVIS The subject of bisexuality really needs much more discussion. It's a status that does exist.
CLIVE DAVIS I don't think the Internet has replaced cities in any significant way, nor really could it. Citi...
CLIVE THOMPSON Santa Cruz is blessed not only with natural wonders, but also with gifted souls who can fashion natu...
CLIVE SINCLAIR All I've ever wanted to do is darken the day and brighten the night.
CLIVE BARKER Tel Aviv is buzzing with so much life, you could bottle it and sell it as honey, and even Jerusalem ...
CLIVE SINCLAIR You have to turn a blind eye to politics in nearly all Westerns.
CLIVE SINCLAIR The stock market is like a small row boat on a rough sea, bouncing around as it drifts, whereas the ...
CLIVE GRANGER In the 1880s, a weedy Easterner named Owen Wister had something like a nervous breakdown. Wyoming, w...
CLIVE SINCLAIR Angels have very nasty tempers. Especially when they’re feeling righteous.
CLIVE BARKER I think that God that we have created and allowed to shape our culture through, essentially Christia...
CLIVE BARKER Any fool can be happy. It takes a man with real heart to make beauty out of the stuff that makes us ...
CLIVE BARKER [Horror fiction] shows us that the control we believe we have is purely illusory, and that every mom...
CLIVE BARKER To you who have never died, may I say: Welcome to the world!
CLIVE BARKER It appears I am destined for something; I will live.
ROBERT CLIVE My God, Mr. Chairman, at this moment I stand astonished at my own moderation!
ROBERT CLIVE One of the few things in dance to match the Royal Ballet's curtain calls is the Royal Ballet's danci...
CLIVE BARNES Television is the first truly democratic culture - the first culture available to everybody and enti...
CLIVE BARNES Everybody is a book of blood; wherever we're opened, we're red.
CLIVE BARKER I would say, from an all-around point of view, Bruce Springsteen is one of the two great poet lords ...
CLIVE DAVIS It is great good health to believe, as the Hindus do, that there are 33 million gods and goddesses i...
CLIVE BARKER Ambient awareness is the experience of knowing what's going on in the lives of other people - wh...
CLIVE THOMPSON I certainly don't think of myself as an action hero.
CLIVE OWEN Schoolchildren and older people like the idea of planting trees. For children, it's interesting ...
CLIVE ANDERSON The adage that you're either gay or straight or you're lying, well, that's not true. Bis...
CLIVE DAVIS In 1966, I bought my parents a carriage clock for their silver wedding anniversary. It was last woun...
CLIVE SINCLAIR The idea of the split personality is as old as Genesis. For a start, Eve was manufactured from Adam&...
CLIVE SINCLAIR I swear, the bigger the bully, the smaller the dick.
CLIVE BARKER Though I respect hugely the effort and the care and the beauty of games, I want to be working with p...
CLIVE BARKER Every year in late June, Custer's Last Stand is reenacted on the high plains of Montana. When Cu...
CLIVE SINCLAIR If you are a rich person straining every sinew to keep every last pound in your pocket, there comes ...
CLIVE ANDERSON The paintings of Francis Bacon to my eye are very beautiful. The paintings of Bosch or Goya are to m...
CLIVE BARKER Perhaps a wiser eye than hers would be able to read tomorrow in tonight's stars, but where was the f...
CLIVE BARKER I'm sort of one of those weird actors who whenever I do a play, I think, 'Oh, we should film...
CLIVE OWEN Many years ago, when I lived in the mini-Siberia they call East Anglia, I was awakened in the early ...
CLIVE SINCLAIR We live in the Age of the Next New Thing; we're assaulted day and night by tastemakers telling u...
CLIVE BARKER I don't feel there's any reason to apologise for having a wicked imagination. I think it'...
CLIVE BARKER I think anybody who bets on horses and says they win is probably a liar.
CLIVE OWEN As I get older, I've been having a better and better time.
CLIVE OWEN Belfast during the Troubles looked like a different world.
CLIVE OWEN Some people think that horror films are some sort of second class filmmaking, and the only way to by...
CLIVE BARKER My own zigzag path through life led me back to Santa Cruz in the early Eighties, and I have revisite...
CLIVE SINCLAIR It would be a big mistake to think that Chekhov was a natural, that he did not have to work for his ...
CLIVE SINCLAIR I have the normal complement of anxieties, neuroses, psychoses and whatever else - but I'm absol...
CLIVE BARKER In 1935, Faber & Faber published an anthology entitled 'My Best Western Story' in which ...
CLIVE SINCLAIR As a teenager I was crazy about David Bowie. He was a huge inspiration for me. I dressed a little bi...
CLIVE OWEN I don't want to see another church; the smell of the places makes me sick. Stale incense, old sweat,...
CLIVE BARKER I still see the world as a place of bitter irony and black humour, failed hopes, dashed plans. I hop...
CLIVE SINCLAIR I remember when I watched 'Hellraiser' with my mother. She cried when she saw my name in the...
CLIVE BARKER There was supposedly no point showing 'Nightbreed' to critics because the people who see the...
CLIVE BARKER Harvey wasn't interested in the clothes, it was the masks that mesmerized him. They were like snowfl...
CLIVE BARKER I do not mean for one second to suggest that 'White Doves at Morning' was written with a mov...
CLIVE SINCLAIR Television is the first truly democratic culture, the first culture available to everybody and enti...
CLIVE BARNES To you who have never died, may I say: Welcome to the world!.
CLIVE BARKER The Labour Party has lost the last four elections. If they lose another, they get to keep the libera...
CLIVE ANDERSON While Elvis was a country boy who sang 'black' . . . Chuck Berry provided the mirror image where cou...
CLIVE ANDERSON I'm not bald... I'm just taller than my hair
CLIVE ANDERSON You can be a famous poisoner or a successful poisoner, but not both, and the same seems to apply to ...
CLIVE ANDERSON Neil Gaiman is a star. He constructs stories like some demented cook might make a wedding cake, buil...
CLIVE BARKER I like snappy dialogue and short descriptions and lots of action.
CLIVE CUSSLER Nothing else wounds so deeply and irreparably. Nothing else robs us of hope so much as being unloved...
CLIVE BARKER The only reason we don't notice how absolutely interwoven our thinking processes have become wit...
CLIVE THOMPSON It's always the thrill of the unknown. Everybody dives in the Grand Cayman or Bermuda. I don't dive ...
CLIVE CUSSLER Do not mistake a crowd of big wage-earners for the leisure class.
CLIVE BELL If we're brutally honest, this is the game we look forward to most, ... a little more spice followin...
CLIVE WOODWARD This work shows that stem cells can be used as drug delivery vehicles in the brain.
CLIVE SVENDSEN I say 'spectacle' rather than 'story' because in the end, it isn't the intricaci...
CLIVE BARKER Deadwood lies at the northern tip of the Black Hills, where the land is ancient and rubbed smooth by...
CLIVE SINCLAIR In the cold light of day we need to see how we played technically and tactically, this is going to b...
CLIVE WOODWARD Rod gets more and more comfortable in the genre with each album, and that's why he won his Grammy fo...
CLIVE DAVIS Most digital divide projects have had a philanthropic impetus, but HP has said that if this thing is...
CLIVE SMITH Most digital divide projects have had a philanthropic impetus, but HP has said that if this thing is...
CLIVE SMITH I only heard last night that it (a citing) might happen and it was confirmed this morning,
CLIVE WOODWARD I saw the same tapes that the citing commission would have seen and to me there was plenty of eviden...
CLIVE WOODWARD There's something to play if there's conflict going on. Whatever that conflict is, that'...
CLIVE OWEN Research gathered over recent years has highlighted the countless benefits to people, wildlife and t...
CLIVE ANDERSON Retail investors can currently gain access to products with hedge-fund investment characteristics th...
CLIVE BRIAULT My forte is the plotting. You sit down, and you work out a plot.
CLIVE CUSSLER The genius idea of industrialism was the concept of the Model T: In exchange for something cheap and...
CLIVE THOMPSON A potentially useful property of forecasts based on cointegration is that when extended some way ahe...
CLIVE GRANGER Forecasts vary in horizon, from a few seconds up to a few days in financial markets, compared to fro...
CLIVE GRANGER A teacher told my mother that I would never become successful, which illustrates the difficulty of l...
CLIVE GRANGER Whale was gay, I'm gay; Whale was English, I'm English. Whale made some horror movies, and I've made...
CLIVE BARKER For me really good acting is about subtext.
CLIVE OWEN Martin and I spoke earlier this month about his decision. I made it clear during the Rugby World Cup...
CLIVE WOODWARD My grandfather was a ship's cook, and he came back from the Far East very often with strange lit...
CLIVE BARKER I wanted to fold into the 'Hellraiser' narrative something about the guy - the Frenchman Lem...
CLIVE BARKER Everyone in Tel Aviv knows Yosl Bergner. In 2006, the mayor made him a Freeman of the City. Now he c...
CLIVE SINCLAIR Heinrich Heine once imagined the exiled Israelite as a dog who regains his stolen manhood only when ...
CLIVE SINCLAIR It benefits from its nine-person cast, superb from top to bottom, and, let's face it, expectations s...
CLIVE BARNES I've never worked where it was hard to be gay. Besides, being gay is a spectacular irrelevance to ge...
CLIVE BARKER You cut up a thing that's alive and beautiful to find out how it's alive and why it's beautiful, and...
CLIVE BARKER Be regular and orderly in your life, that you may be violent and original in your work.
CLIVE BARKER "Gather experience. . . Look at what you should not look at. A feeling of anxiety is the sure and ce...
CLIVE BARKER My imagination is my polestar; I steer by that.
CLIVE BARKER Nothing ever begins. There is no first moment; no single word or place from which this or any other ...
CLIVE BARKER [Before all that, however, Barker was the founder of and a director with a small theater troupe in L...
CLIVE BARKER I do love these events. It is a chance to interact in a direct and personal way. So when I do agree ...
CLIVE BARKER The threads can always be traced back to some earlier tale, and to the tales that preceded that; tho...
CLIVE BARKER I've always thought that the most extraordinary special effect you could do is to buy a child at the...
CLIVE BARKER On the crassest level, the lady gets into the box, the lady is sawn in half, the lady is in two piec...
CLIVE BARKER But I think humans are innately religious as a species, so you don't need a specific excuse for exam...
CLIVE BARKER I'm a great dog fanatic. My own dog died a little while ago and I take it very personally when thing...
CLIVE BARKER [As for Clive Barker -- he spent virtually all day with his fans. First at an autograph session that...
CLIVE BARKER I've never felt so good in my life,
CLIVE BARKER I have the normal complement of anxieties, neuroses, psychoses and whatever else - but I'm absolutel...
CLIVE BARKER Here is a list of fearful things:The jaws of sharks, a vulture's wings,The rabid bite of the dog's o...
CLIVE BARKER A meeting was held to discuss some Zimbabwe Cricket ideas for making progress on negotiations. But t...
CLIVE FIELD There is an idea, broadly held on Wall Street, that names with X's are more memorable and tend to ca...
CLIVE CHAJET I feel blessed that I found not just a profession, but a 24/7 way of life that I purely love. That c...
CLIVE DAVIS A textbook requires a consistent sense of style and a linear structure, hallmarks of a single author...
CLIVE THOMPSON I'm not the kind of actor who goes into exhaustive research for each role.
CLIVE OWEN I'm a huge fan of 'The Exorcist.'
CLIVE OWEN A rose is the visible result of an infinitude of complicated goings on in the bosom of the earth and...
CLIVE BELL For, to appreciate a work of art we need bring with us nothing from life, no knowledge of its ideas ...
CLIVE BELL Comfort came in with the middle classes.
CLIVE BELL Perhaps the House had heard Harvey wishing for a full moon, because when he and Wendell traipsed ups...
CLIVE BARKER However this miraculous place worked, it seemed real enough. The sun was hot, the soda was cold, the...
CLIVE BARKER We all agree now - by 'we' I mean intelligent people under sixty - that a work of art is lik...
CLIVE BELL Even when she was alive, Esther Kreitman's novels, short stories and translations received far l...
CLIVE SINCLAIR Every journalist who is not too stupid or too full of himself to notice what is going on knows that ...
CLIVE OWEN One of the major successes of the tournament so far has been the refereeing, because I can't recall ...
CLIVE WOODWARD I owe my discovery of the Hot Club of Cowtown to Kinky Friedman, leader of the Texas Jewboys. When I...
CLIVE SINCLAIR My years with Aretha Franklin have been very special, as were the years making records with Dionne W...
CLIVE DAVIS This accomplishment, which is hard to attain in the airline industry, is one we have now achieved ov...
CLIVE BEDDOE Once you lose six or seven players, it impinges on your bench. That is not to be disrespectful to th...
CLIVE GRIFFITHS Horror fiction shows us that the control we believe we have is purely illusory, and that every momen...
CLIVE BARKER Memory, prophecy, and fantasy—
The past, the future, and
The dreaming moment between—<...
CLIVE BARKER Wherever I go, I will speak of you with love.
CLIVE BARKER Copywriting cuts the communication cord between word and feeling. By offering instant gratification,...
CLIVE SINCLAIR I have been very disappointed in the behavior of both teams during this series and I would urge the ...
CLIVE LLOYD We take our normal precautions which are professional and thorough,
CLIVE WOODWARD It seemed like an impossible task to do full justice to all Luther classics. And yet these landmark ...
CLIVE DAVIS A lot of this game is about the attitude shown by players, and the attitude this week has been immen...
CLIVE WOODWARD We made the change for the France game but playing Australia it's right to go back to Tindall. He is...
CLIVE WOODWARD I think governments around the world, including Australia, have started the process, but there is a ...
CLIVE WILKINSON I had a long and positive chat with Jason this morning when he told me of his decision,
CLIVE WOODWARD You see the genius that Whitney Houston has as an interpreter of material, and you realize why geniu...
CLIVE DAVIS For the past three quarters we have simultaneously increased yield, load factors in the face of incr...
CLIVE BEDDOE Only reason can convince us of those three fundamental truths without a recognition of which there c...
CLIVE BELL It would follow that 'significant form' was form behind which we catch a sense of ultimate reality.
CLIVE BELL Foreign ownership has declined somewhat in recent months with the run-up in the price of fuel, as th...
CLIVE BEDDOE The humanitarian developers behind World of Warcraft have also discovered a way to bribe gamers into...
CLIVE THOMPSON Why are online games so addictive? It's mostly the narcotic appeal of 'leveling.'
CLIVE THOMPSON My history was the Western. I grew up with the Lone Ranger, the Cisco Kid and Bonanza. I felt as muc...
CLIVE SINCLAIR The purity of finding the right artist, that artist that's gonna be the next hall of famer, that...
CLIVE DAVIS The computer industry began with home-brew boxes that everyone had to program for themselves, but th...
CLIVE THOMPSON The summer of 1976 was so hot that bars of chocolate melted on the shelves before confectioners coul...
CLIVE SINCLAIR When I was growing up in north-west London, our milkman's cart was pulled by a horse, and cattle...
CLIVE SINCLAIR On completing my degree, I started a Ph.D. in statistics, although I knew very little about the topi...
CLIVE GRANGER Some men play golf. I've got this crazy thing about maintaining our nation's maritime herita...
CLIVE CUSSLER NUMA is basically trying to preserve our maritime heritage by finding lost shipwrecks of historical ...
CLIVE CUSSLER This was the wonder of advertising; the complete absence of cynicism. It may have many mansions, but...
CLIVE SINCLAIR Back in 1948, a monomaniac called Korczak resolved to impose Crazy Horse's likeness upon a mount...
CLIVE SINCLAIR I always used to say to myself, I'm going to die of lung cancer. That's the choice I'm m...
CLIVE OWEN I have total respect for the self-contained rock artist. Whether you're dealing with Jerry Garci...
CLIVE DAVIS One man's pornography is another man's theology.
CLIVE BARKER It is great good health to believe as the Hindus do that there are 33 million gods and goddesses in ...
CLIVE BARKER Using signaling theory, the conclusion has to be that managers of acquiring companies are using a hi...
CLIVE MCDONNELL Sometimes my plot lines are so convoluted, I get calls from friends at 3 am saying; you SOB, you'll ...
CLIVE CUSSLER Welcome to Briton...
CLIVE OWEN I'm not the kind of actor who goes into exhaustive research for each role.
CLIVE OWEN I was very keen on playing a victim,
CLIVE OWEN He's a very inspired choice for a movie like this because he's very specific and precise and he's ve...
CLIVE OWEN One of the things I'm most proud of about my career is the fact I've managed to keep options open.
CLIVE OWEN I think it's the most successful bedding in of computer technology and people I've ever seen in a mo...
CLIVE OWEN Nothing worth discussing? You were so close.
CLIVE OWEN I had a great time there. It's a very lovely, cultural place. Great restaurants, great places to go....
CLIVE OWEN I never saw it coming. You know, you very often read a thriller and you can see where it's heading o...
CLIVE OWEN He stood dressed in voluminous robes of thrice-burned silk (the blackest, most portentous; the silk ...
CLIVE BARKER Be strong, little mother,” she said to Melissa. “I know you can be.” “Yes?” Melissa said a...
CLIVE BARKER Anybody can shrug and say life is just some accident of mud and lightning. But Henry, it isn't CLIVE BARKER