Clive James Quotes (20 Quotes)

Prejudices are useless. Call Los Angeles any dirty name you like --Six Suburbs in Search of a City, Paradise with a Lobotomy, anything -- but the fact remains that you are already living in it before you get there.

A decade ago, critics suggested biotech crops would not be valuable in the developing world. Now 90 percent of farmers who benefit are resource-poor farmers in developing countries. These helped alleviate 7.7 million subsistence farmers in China, India, South Africa, the Philippines from abject poverty.

Fiction is life with the dull bits left out.

Disco dancing is just the steady thump of a giant moron knocking in an endless nail.

If we look at the investment in China in biotech crops, it is very significant.

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

As far as talent goes, Marilyn Monroe was so minimally gifted as to be almost unemployable, and anyone who holds to the opinion that she was a great natural comic identifies himself immediately as a dunce.

Everyone has a right to a university degree in America, even if it's in Hamburger Technology.

As a work of art it has the same status as a long conversation between two not very bright drunks.

Anyone afraid of what he thinks television does to the world is probably just afraid of the world.

I am cautiously optimistic the stellar growth in the first decade of commercialization will be surpassed in the second. The number of countries and farmers growing biotech crops is expected to grow, particularly in developing countries.

In the Bob Hope Golf Classic, the participation of President Gerald Ford was more than enough to remind you that the nuclear button was at one stage at the disposal of a man who might have either pressed it by mistake or else pressed it deliberately in order to obtain room service.

Stop worrying -- nobody gets out of this world alive.

All television ever did was shrink the demand for ordinary movies. The demand for extraordinary movies increased. If any one thing is wrong with the movie industry today, it is the unrelenting effort to astonish.

Even in moments of tranquility, Murray Walker sounds like a man whose trousers are on fire.

A life without fame can be a good life, but fame without a life is no life at all.

In his quieter moments he sounds like his trousers are on fire

It is only when they go wrong that machines remind you how powerful they are.

She was good at playing abstract confusion in the same way that a midget is good at being short.

Whoever called snooker 'chess with balls' was rude, but right.