Quotes About Clive

It would follow that 'significant form' was form behind which we catch a sense of ultimate reality.

The great grey beast February had eaten Harvey Swick alive.

Among his memories of the whole and the human, sharpest was that of Decker.

He stood dressed in voluminous robes of thrice-burned silk (the blackest, most portentous; the silk of all melancholias) and studied the lightless waters of the Izabella as the barge sped on.

Speculative horror has become our generation's most viable tradition of the passed story.

Well, she's lucky. She still has her little dominion here in Coldheart Canyon.

God's an astronaut Oz is over the rainbow and Median is where the monsters live.

serving time for murder whose name was Miguel Quentin is anybody's guess.

It was the cash that brought him to Bisbee, not the prized yellow metal.

That madwoman threatened to shoot off my testicles.

Call it theft of Mr. Spock's logic.

On 23 June 1757, marching through a drenching rainfall at the head of 900 Englishmen of the 39th Foot and 2000 Indian sepoys, an audacious general named Robert Clive routed the army of a troublesome Nawab in the rice paddies outside a Bengali village called Plassey.

I am going to have to stick to the script. If I muck around with the words it will defeat the object.

Superman is, after all, an alien life form. He is simply the acceptable face of invading realities.

Significant Form" is the one quality common to all works of visual art.

The driving force of any ideology stands revealed: it can't be coherent without being intolerant.

As a work of art, it reminds me of a long conversation between two drunks

row of damaged books which Davenport had failed to return to the London Library.

sat transfixed by the rhythm of that voice – the strong view lightly stated. It wasn't words plus pictures.

Any critic who complains about the monotony of what he is being paid to look at is really complaining about the condition of his own soul.

For the vast majority of people in this country the reality of climate change is not in doubt.

I've had some great times with actresses, but that's in a movie.

I think that horror fiction is one of the ways to approach these problems of death.