Quotes About Clarke

the only rule regulating shipboard sex was "So long as you don't do it in the corridors and frighten the simps.

Oh, yes, safe for humans. Animals too. But there is an exclusion zone.

This is as bad as the Pandora party! It's nothing less than interstellar xenophobia!

The gate opened. The gate closed. In a moment of time too short to be measured, space opened and turned on itself.

when a man sells his independence of thought for money or status, without realizing it he also sells his capacity for independence of thought; and, like the worn-out columnists and commentators, he must play the same old record over and over, because he has no capacity for taking a fresh point of view.

was the mark of a barbarian to destroy something one could not understand; but perhaps men were barbarians, beside the creatures who had made this thing.

The Great Bird will take its flight on the back of the great bird, bringing glory to the nest where it was born.

Some women, Commander Norton had decided long ago, should not be allowed aboard ship; weightlessness did things to their breasts that were too damn distracting

religion was the by-product of fear—a reaction to a mysterious and often hostile universe.

I believe that Rama is a cosmic Ark, sent here to save—those who are worthy of salvation.

I am not a creature of giant business and I think that small- and medium-sized businesses will derive the most benefit from the removal of bureaucratic obstacles to trade.

It would need someone very remarkable to recover your name, Stephen, someone of rare perspicacity, with extraordinary talents and incomparable nobility of character. Me, in fact.

How is a magician to exist without books? Let someone explain that to me. It is like asking a politician to achieve high office without the benefit of bribes or patronage.

Do you trust the House? I ask Myself. Yes, I answer Myself. And if the House has made you forget, then it has done so for good reason. But I do not understand the reason. It does not matter that you do not understand the reason. You are the Beloved Child of the House. Be comforted. And I am comforted.

I only wish he had not married, said Mr. Norell fretfully. Magicians have no business marrying.

Some years ago there was in the city of York a society of magicians.

Scientology is probably one of the most misunderstood things, and it's sad that it's so misunderstood.

might be followed. They were the hunters, not the prey. Bosch wondered what Lewis and Clarke were doing. Did they expect that he

Ha! cried Dr John contemptuously. Magic! That is chiefly used for killing Frenchmen, is it not?

Other countries have stories of kings who will return at times of great need. Only in England is it part of the constitution.

It seemed that it was not only live magicians which Mr. Norrell despised. He had taken the measure of all the dead ones too and found them wanting.

Excess of grief may bring on quite as fine a bout of madness an an excess of any thing else. Truth to tell, I was not quite myself for a time. Truth to tell, I was a little wild.

Several people seized Strange bodily. One man started shaking him vigorously, as though he thought that he might in this way dispel any magic before it took effect.

an evil set of men who wedded general stupidity to wickedness of purpose).