Quotes
Quotes - Clarke
Whilst twilight's curtain spreading far,
Was pinned with a single star.
Ha! see where the wild-blazing Grog-shop appears,
As the red waves of wretchedness swell;
How it burns on the edge of tempestuous years--
The horrible Light-house of Hell!
There is hopeful symbolism in the fact that flags do not wave in a vacuum.
Sometimes I think we're alone in the universe, and sometimes I think we're not. In either case, the idea is quite staggering.
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
Never hurry. Take plenty of exercise. Always be cheerful. Take all the sleep you need. You may expect to be well.
Before marriage a man yearns for a woman. Afterward the "y" is silent.
The best measure of a man's honesty isn't his income tax return. It's the zero adjust on his bathroom scale.
If an elderly but distinguished scientist says that something is possible, he is almost certainly right; but if he says that it is impossible, he is very probably wrong.
Energetic action on debt would make a radical difference to the prospects of many of the poorest countries in the world, at no practical cost to creditor countries.
I will not make fish one and flesh of another.
A politician thinks of the next electionâ a statesman, of the next generation.
Never hurry. Take plenty of exercise. Always be cheerful. Take all the sleep you need. You may expect to be well.
Home is home, though it be never so homely.
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
When poverty comes in at doors, love leaps out at windows.
How inappropriate to call this planet Earth when it is clearly Ocean.
You cannot explain failure any more than you can argue with success.
I have a fantasy where Ted Turner is elected President but refuses because he doesn't want to give up power.
I don't believe in God but I'm very interested in her.
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
We take the shortest route to the puck and arrive in ill humor.
Fair words butter no parsnips.
