Clark Clifford famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

The First Lady asked me how many people passed through the White House on tours. When I told her thousands did, she said they should sell something to the tourists and use the profits to help redecorate the White House. She decided to make a small book. It cost 42 cents and sold for a dollar. Over the years it has brought in $42 million.
-- Clark Clifford

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A diary need not be a dreary chronicle of one's movements; it should aim rather at giving salient account of some particular episode, a walk, a book, a conversation.
The buying of more books than one can read is nothing less than the soul reaching toward infinity...
My reading list grows exponentially. Every time I read a book, it'll mention three other books I feel I have to read. It's like a particularly relentless series of pop-up ads.
The World Health Organization ... estimated that 1.6 million years of healthy living are lost every year in Europe because of noise pollution.
One of the penalties of being president of the United States is that you must subsist for four years without drinking anything except Californian wine.
I am shy to admit that I have followed the advice given all those years ago by a wise archbishop to a bewildered young man: that moments of unbelief 'don't matter,' that if you return to a practice of the faith, faith will return.
Once every five hundred years or so, a summary statement about poetry comes along that we can't imagine ourselves living without
The white sun like a moth on a string circles the southpole.
Our republican system was meant for a homogeneous people. As long as blacks continue to live with the whites they constitute a threat to the national life. Family life may also collapse and the increase of mixed breed bastards may some day challenge the supremacy of the white man.
People look at me, and they go, 'You're white, you're smart, you must have went to college. You must have grown up with money.'

Clark Clifford famous quotes

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