Henry Clausen famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

  • If a poem is each time new, then it is necessarily an act of discovery, a chance taken, a chance that may lead to fulfillment or disaster

  • For a justice of this ultimate tribunal [the U.S. Supreme Court], the opportunity for self-discovery and the occasion for self-revelation is great.

  • The loss of illusions and the discovery of identity, though painful at first, can be ultimately exhilarating and strengthening.

  • Serendipity is the way to make discoveries, by accident but also by sagacity, of things one is not in quest of. Based on experience, knowledge, it is the creative exploitation of the unforeseen.

  • I'm obsessed with speed. I'm always asking myself, 'Why can't we do things faster? Why can't it happen more efficiently? Why is this requiring three meetings instead of one?'

  • The swells were amazing! As big as three-story apartment buildings!

  • I look at Jerusalem as being a beacon for the three monotheistic religions.

  • If someone offers you a three picture deal at 20 you'd take it. I would have killed for it.

  • I was thrilled to be able to read at three. I just thought everyone loved reading as much as I did.

  • Failure is sucess if we learn from it.

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