Clive James Quotes


"Fiction is life with the dull bits left out."
- Clive James
(Related: Life, Fiction)

"She was good at playing abstract confusion in the same way that a midget is good at being short."
- Clive James
(Related: Being, Confusion)

"A life without fame can be a good life, but fame without a life is no life at all."
- Clive James
(Related: Life, Fame)

"It is only when they go wrong that machines remind you how powerful they are."
- Clive James
(Related: Machines, Wrong)

"Even in moments of tranquility, Murray Walker sounds like a man whose trousers are on fire."
- Clive James
(Related: Fire, Man, Moments, Tranquility)

"Anyone afraid of what he thinks television does to the world is probably just afraid of the world."
- Clive James
(Related: Television, World)

"Everyone has a right to a university degree in America, even if it's in Hamburger Technology."
- Clive James
(Related: Technology, America, Right, University)

"Disco dancing is just the steady thump of a giant moron knocking in an endless nail."
- Clive James
(Related: Dancing)