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They will empty your eyes of everything you love
— Lucille Clifton
Our definition of a weakness is anything that gets in the way of excellent performance.
— Donald O. Clifton
It grows inside you, poisonous and festering, and it tells you its name is Pride, but it's a liar. Its name is Hate.
— Clifton Adams
Taking the time to build community, to get to know your people will have long-lasting benefits.
— Clifton Taulbert
To feel at home, stay at home.
— Clifton Fadiman
Ginsberg, Clifton, Sedgwick - are
— Maggie Nelson
The end of a thing, is never the end, something is always being born like a year of a baby.
— Lucille Clifton
Directors have been trying to get me to do comedy for a long time, ever since 'One Eight Seven.'
— Clifton Collins Jr.
What they call you is one thing. What you answer to is something else.
— Lucille Clifton
The adjective is the banana peel of the parts of speech.
— Clifton Fadiman
Books act like a developing fluid on film. That is, they bring into consciousness what you didn't know you knew.
— Clifton Fadiman
She just stood there and looked at the empty highway, and you could almost tell how bored she was by the way she stood.
— Clifton Adams
Was my first landscape, red brown as the clay of her georgia.
— Lucille Clifton
I think we must quote whenever we feel that the allusion is interesting or helpful or amusing.
— Clifton Fadiman
I come to comfort the afflicted and to afflict the comfortable.
— Lucille Clifton
Say it clear, and it will be beautiful.
— Lucille Clifton
People wish to be poets more than they wish to write poetry, and that's a mistake. One should wish to celebrate more than one wishes to be celebrated.
— Lucille Clifton
Wine is a civilizing agent.
— Clifton Fadiman
Your weaknesses will never develop, while your strengths will develop infinitely.
— Donald O. Clifton
Every pair of eyes facing you has probably experienced something you could not endure.
— Lucille Clifton
dreaming your x-ray vision could see the beauty in me.
— Lucille Clifton
Gertrude Stein was masterly in making nothing happen very slowly.
— Clifton Fadiman
Annie Taliaferro had that hammerhead look about her, like a breachy range cow, or a bunch-quitting steer.
— Clifton Adams
Insomnia is a gross feeder. It will nourish itself on any kind of thinking, including thinking about not thinking.
— Clifton Fadiman
There are two kinds of writers; the great ones who can give you truths, and the lessor ones, who can only give you themselves.
— Clifton Fadiman
I tried to use the questions and answers as an armature on which to build a sculpture of genuine conversation.
— Clifton Fadiman
One's first book, kiss, home run is always the best.
— Clifton Fadiman
If there is any difference between you and me, it may simply be that I get up every day and have a chance to do what I love to do, every day.
— Donald O. Clifton
They ask me to remember but they want me to remember their memories and I keep on remembering mine
— Lucille Clifton
For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
— Clifton Fadiman
People will tie in with a fanatic if for no other reason than to break the monotony of their lives.
— Mark Clifton
Books are like eggs. Somethings you have to crack them open to get anything out.
— Clifton L. Taulbert
I think it's not a big secret that I like to work a lot. I really go out for projects when I find things I'm passionate about.
— Clifton Collins Jr.
Having the right perspective is tough when you're alone. Surround yourself with people who will help you see things you cannot readily see.
— Clifton Anderson
The drinking of wine seems to me to have a moral edge over many pleasures and hobbies in that it promotes love of one's neighbor.
— Clifton Fadiman
No matter how much spin, effort, lunch or dinner you give the media, they will not fail to notice whether you have won or lost.
— Robin Renwick, Baron Renwick Of Clifton
Who among us can imagine ourselves unimagined? who among us can speak with so fragile tongue and remain proud?
— Lucille Clifton
Experience teaches you that the man who looks you straight in the eye,
particularly if he adds a firm handshake, is hiding something. — Clifton Fadiman
particularly if he adds a firm handshake, is hiding something. — Clifton Fadiman
You start acting just as soon as you walk into the door of that casting office. You can't just be yourself because they don't want to hire you.
— Clifton Collins Jr.
If food is the body of good living, wine is its soul.
— Clifton Fadiman
I have no desire to prolong uncertainty.
— Clifton Webb
In my downtime, for fun, I engage in philosophical internet debates. Yeah, I'm that guy.
— Scott Clifton
Cheese is milk's leap toward immortality.
— Clifton Fadiman
At an early age, you started hearing it: It's a virtue to be "well-rounded." ... They might as well have said : Become as dull as you possibly can be.
— Donald O. Clifton
Being a child is in itself a profession.
— Clifton Fadiman
I am a black woman poet and I sound like one.
— Lucille Clifton
A man who is careful with his palate is not likely to be careless with his paragraphs.
— Clifton Fadiman
Face your potential. It's been staring at you for far too long.
— Clifton Anderson
The scientist who would rather refute than comprehend demonstrates he has chosen the wrong calling.
— Mark Clifton
Come celebrate with me that every day something has tried to kill me and has failed.
— Lucille Clifton
A sense of humor is the ability to understand a joke - and that the joke is oneself.
— Clifton Fadiman
walked erect out of my sleep
— Lucille Clifton
Don't be afraid of poetry.
— Clifton Fadiman
We must let go of those things that don't serve us. In order to receive the blessings intended for us, we have to make room for them.
— Clifton Anderson
When you re-read a classic you do not see in the book more than you did before. You see more in you than there was before.
— Clifton Fadiman
Dream and imagine what you want and you will bring it into reality.
— Leonard Clifton
Rosalind exploded with a shriek worthy of a tea-kettle.
— Emma Clifton
The future lays a path for me.
Which one my chosen destiny? — Cheri Kay Clifton
Which one my chosen destiny? — Cheri Kay Clifton
Always use $$$ where possible Using a monetary value is always the best way to hold your audience's attention and have them remember the KPI.
— Brian Clifton
Science fiction is a kind of archaeology of the future.
— Clifton Fadiman
Children when they ask you why your mama so funny say she is a poet she don't have no sense
— Lucille Clifton
I don't go get a poem. It calls me and I accept it.
— Lucille Clifton
Mr. Faulkner, of course, is interested in making your mind rather than your flesh creep.
— Clifton Fadiman
We cannot create what we can't imagine.
— Lucille Clifton
so many languages have fallen off the edge of the world
— Lucille Clifton
Reading is not an operation performed on something inert but a relationship entered into with another vital being.
— Clifton Fadiman
I know that YouTube has made me smarter just by having to think about my views and how to defend them.
— Scott Clifton
We are all citizens of history.
— Clifton Fadiman
May you kiss
the wind then turn from it
certain that it will
love your back — Lucille Clifton
the wind then turn from it
certain that it will
love your back — Lucille Clifton
The only reason for being young is to outgrow it.
— Clifton Fadiman
Your will to succeed remains one of your greatest assets.
— Clifton Taulbert
I see life as a challenge but success is what you make of it.
— Clifton Cameron
[Wine is] poetry in a bottle.
— Clifton Fadiman
No one can be guaranteed success without failures along the way. But one thing that guarantees failure is never taking action.
— Clifton Anderson
I would say that President Roosevelt probably was more intimately in touch with the press corps at the White House than President Truman was.
— Clifton Daniel
One newspaper a day ought to be enough for anyone who still prefers to retain a little mental balance.
— Clifton Fadiman
I knew what she was, and it made no difference at all. She was hard, as ruthless as she was beautiful, as brittle as bone china.
— Clifton Adams
As between mileage and experience choose experience.
— Clifton Fadiman
Leaving work with a bag full of Guinness and thank-you notes is better than getting paid.
— Clifton Kenny
A good memory is one trained to forget the trivial.
— Clifton Fadiman
When everyone thinks something is true, it does not make it anything more than effective marketing.
— Clifton Hill
Muhammad Ali: Superman Don't need no seat belt. Flight Attendant: Superman Don't need no airplane, either.
— Clifton Fadiman
The man who attracts luck carries with him the magnet of preparation.
— Clifton Fadiman
I found nothing really wrong with this autobiography except poor choice of subject.
— Clifton Fadiman
Believe in your characters with all your heart, & they will believe in you. Only then will they trust you enough to reveal themselves.
-RCSJR — Robert Clifton Storey Jr.
-RCSJR — Robert Clifton Storey Jr.
Faithfully he followed the pattern of the scientist determined to interpret the facts to suit the theory.
— Mark Clifton
Reading to small children is a specialty.
— Clifton Fadiman
When you travel, remember that a foreign country is not designed to make you comfortable. It is designed to make its own people comfortable.
— Clifton Fadiman
I didn't just grow up in one environment, so it was easy for me, as a child, just to imitate and just be all these different people.
— Clifton Collins Jr.
It's time you met Mother," said Marius. It was about as far from a declaration of undying passion as a man could get.
— Emma Clifton
I believe that everyone is destined for greatness, but most people aren't willing to pay the price it takes to get there.
— Clifton Anderson
Poems come out of wonder, not out of knowing.
— Lucille Clifton
Telling the truth about children's lives is radical.
— Lucille Clifton