Classic Quotes - Page 28

• I am afraid. I am not solid, but hollow. I feel behind my eyes a numb, paralyzed cavern, a pit of hell, a mimicking nothingness.

  Sylvia Plath

  Eye, Feminism, Pits

  Sylvia Plath (2013). “The Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.60, Anchor

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• In the classic old business cycle, there would be a diminution in sales; it would take a little while for this information to reach corporate headquarters. And there would be an inventory pileup. And then - bam - businesses would react, sometimes violently, by cutting production.

  Alan Blinder

  Cutting, Would Be, Inventory

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• If you are a man of learning, read something classic, a history of the human struggle and don't settle for mediocre verse.

  Rumi

  Struggle, Reading, Learning

  Mevlana Jalaluddin Rumi (2016). “Love is a Stranger”, p.24, Shambhala Publications

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• If you study the classic examples of endgame play you will see how the king was brought up as soon as possible even though there seemed no particular hurry at the time.

  Alexander Kotov

  Kings, Play, Example

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• It's like this, by not giving my album a classic rating, you diminish your magazine's credibility. And that's real.

  Kanye West

  Inspirational, Real, Giving

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• BYU takes on defending national champion Florida State in the Pigskin Classic in Jacksonville, Fla., eight days after announcing that the 2000 season would be his last before retirement: We looked at it. We knew it would make things tougher. But how many chances does anyone get to play Florida State? It was too good to pass up.

  LaVell Edwards

  Retirement, Play, Florida

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• Murray sounds like a blindfolded man riding a unicycle on the rim of the pit of doom, the men actually facing the danger are all so taciturn that you might as well try interviewing the cars themselves.

  Clive James

  Men, Car, Trying

  Clive James (1983). “Glued to the box: television criticism from the Observer, 1979-82”, Jonathan Cape

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• Every sentence he manages to utter scatters its component parts like pond water from a verb chasing its own tail.

  Clive James

  Water, Ponds, Verbs

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• Delivering the State of the Union? That bloke couldn't deliver pizza.

  Clive James

  Unions, States, Blokes

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• A sceptic finds Dallas absurd. A cynic thinks the public doesn't

  Clive James

  Thinking, Dallas, Absurd

  Clive James (1983). “Glued to the box: television criticism from the Observer, 1979-82”, Jonathan Cape

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• His pear-shaped head, I could now see, was situated on top of a pear-shaped body, which his black gown caused to resemble a piece of fruit going to a funeral.

  Clive James

  Funeral, Black, Fruit

  Clive James (2009). “May Week Was In June”, p.16, Pan Macmillan

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• It is almost better to be an impulse shirt-buyer than an impulse shoe-buyer. I have worn shirts that made people think I was a retired Mafia hit-man or a Yugoslavian sports convener from Split, but I have worn shoes that made people think I was insane.

  Clive James

  Sports, Men, Thinking

  "Falling Towards England". Book by Clive James, 1985.

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• The entrée wasn't tender enough to be a paving stone and the gravy couldn't have been primordial soup because morphogenesis was already taking place.

  Clive James

  Soup, Stones, Enough

  Clive James (2013). “The Complete Unreliable Memoirs”, p.323, Pan Macmillan

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• The repeat run of Fawlty Towers (BBC2) drew bigger audiences than ever and deservedly so. Statistical surveys reveal that only the television critic of the Spectator is incapable of seeing the joke, which is that Basil Fawlty has the wrong temperament to be a hotel proprietor, just as some other people have the wrong temperament to be television critics.

  Clive James

  Running, People, Television

  Clive James (2017). “Glued To The Box”, p.127, Pan Macmillan

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• Twin miracles of mascara, her eyes looked like the corpses of two small crows that had crashed into a chalk cliff.

  Clive James

  Eye, Two, Miracle

  Clive James (2017). “Clive James On Television”, p.486, Pan Macmillan

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• First-rate science fiction was, and remains, more interesting than second-rate art.

  Clive James

  Art, Interesting, Firsts

  Clive James (2015). “From the Land of Shadows”, p.77, Pan Macmillan

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• I was wrong, however, to suppose that Sellers thought the world revolved around him. He thought the cosmos did too, and history, and the fates... Like every egomaniac, he behaved as if everybody else spent their day being as interested in him as he was.

  Clive James

  Fate, Egomaniacs, Cosmos

  "North Face of Soho". Book by Clive James, 2006.

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• Beyoncé and pathos are strangers. Amy Winehouse and pathos are flatmates, and you should see the kitchen.

  Clive James

  Kitchen, Amy, Stranger

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• One of the virtues of the NHS... it doesn't worry you about money at the moment when you're least capable of doing anything about it.

  Clive James

  Nhs, Worry, Moments

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• I was brought up on the proletarian left, and I remain there. The fair go for workers is fundamental, and I don't believe the free market has a mind.

  Clive James

  Believe, Mind, Fundamentals

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• Experts say men think of sex every 10 seconds... What do they think of in the other nine?

  Clive James

  Sex, Men, Thinking

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• The thing about making a documentary in Las Vegas is there isn't much to film apart from other people making documentaries about Las Vegas.

  Clive James

  Vegas, People, Documentaries

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• She wasn't just beautiful. She was like the sun coming up: coming up giggling. She was giggling as if she had just remembered something funny.

  Clive James

  Beautiful, Sun, Remembered

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• You bloody silly fool!

  Prince Philip

  Silly, Fool, Bloody

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• Do you work in a strip club?

  Prince Philip

  Clubs

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