Clive Sinclair Quotes

Babies are born bow-legged in South Dakota. By the age of 12, they can purchase guns. At 14, they can take their driving test. Fortunately, since the geographical area of South Dakota can accommodate both France and Germany, but has a population of only 750,000, the chances of hitting anything are pretty slim.

Clive Sinclair

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: british
  • Birth: February 19, 1948

Topics

AgeDrivingBornTestGunsAnything

A lot of the time in modern Britain, certainly in urban life, we barely have any contact at all with the people around us.

John Lanchester

LifeTimePeopleContactModernUs

My degree of closeness to my step-siblings varies among the seven, but I have a great sense of loyalty to all of them, especially the four from my childhood. If those people needed my help, I would be there for them.

Ann Patchett

LoyaltyGreatChildhoodPeopleHelp

Even in making objects, as soon as you start to get the feeling that some form of craft is coming into place, you realize that everything is wrong. Because craft is really just a fetish. It is wasted energy. It's about the object, some space which has nothing to do with the human.

Jeff Koons

SpaceStartEnergyYouWrongPlace

Samarkand, with its magnificent mosques, tombs and dazzling ensembles of ceramic tiles, is still one of the world's most awe-inspiring cities.

Stephen Kinzer

WorldMagnificentStillMostCities

My parents were devoted. Civic minded. We had family counsels. Three of us children against two of them. We lived a 'Leave It to Beaver' time.

Sissy Spacek

FamilyChildrenTimeParentsThree

I'm sorry to say cancer can kill you, but it doesn't make you a better person.

Molly Ivins

SorryBetter PersonBetterYouSay

I've always been very interested in political violence. When I finished high school, I did a small dissertation about political violence and fascism in Italy.

Loretta Napoleoni

SchoolSmallHigh SchoolPolitical

Anyone who has any kind of success in Hollywood wants to make more expensive movies and spend more money, be bigger. I think it's unusual to have success and want to stay small.

Jason Blum

SuccessMoneySmallThinkMovies

It's weird when people start sentences with 'frankly' - as if their other sentences don't count.

Douglas Coupland

PeopleStartWeirdCountSentences

I think it works differently for everyone. Some people do amazing things with research, but for me, it just gets convoluted, and I start to think too much.

Dove Cameron

PeopleAmazingMeResearchStart

Culture is simply a shared way of doing something with passion.

Brian Chesky

PassionCultureDoingWaySomething

Play reaches the habits most needed for intellectual growth.

Bruno Bettelheim

GrowthPlayIntellectualHabitsMost

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