Clive James Quotes

I'm Certainly Not A Linguist. I Learned What Languages I Could Learn In Order To Read Books And I Can't Really Speak Them. I Couldn't Have Stayed Out Of Jail In Most Of Them.

Everyone Has A Right To A University Degree In America, Even If It's In Hamburger Technology.

I Taught Myself Russian, Which Was Very, Very Useful, Especially For Poetry And In Fact If You Can't Read Pushkin In Russian, You're Really Missing Something.

My Niece Is - Her Name Is Sasha, Is Currently Learning Russian At Melbourne University And I Look Forward To The Day When I Can Talk To Her About Pushkin.

This Quality Becomes Important At A Time When Almost Everyone Is A Poet. And As I Said, We Live In An Age Where Almost Everybody Is A Poet, But Scarcely Anyone Can Write A Poem.

If We Want A Book To Do More Than What It Does, That's A Condemnation. If We Want It To Do More Of What It Does, That's An Endorsement.

Sometimes I Feel If I Was Young Again, I Would Wrap A Bandana Around My Head Like Douglas Fairbanks Sr. And I Would Become A Pirate Of The Web. And I Would Go Around Stealing Poems And Assembling Into One Spot Like A Treasure Cave.

In Between The Queen And The First Lady, Nancy Reagan, Sat Tony Richardson, Looking Very Calm. Later On It Emerged That This Was Because, Having Not Been Apprised Of The Placement Until He Was About To Sit Down, He Had Died Of Fright. To Have Expired Was To Be Fortunate.

Snooker Is Just Chess With Balls.

The Streets, At Least In This Part Of Town, Seemed Impossibly Clean In Comparison To London. The Public Telephones Were Unvandalised. For A London Telephone Booth To Look Like That It Would Have To Be Guarded Around The Clock By The Sas.

Mocking Hugh Hefner Is Easy To Do, And In My Mind Should Be Made Easier.

John Mcenroe Has Hair Like Badly Turned Broccoli.