Clue Quotes - Page 3

• With directors, some have a kind of in-built ability to just know how to work with actors and get the best out of actors, and some don't have a clue about acting. I think it'd be a good idea if directors put themselves in front of the camera, or even went on a six-week drama course, just to know a little bit about what that feels like.

  Paddy Considine

  Drama, Thinking, Ideas

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• I tried to be a better person for her– but it was to impress her, to get her to want me. But when I’m around you, I want to be better because… well, because it feels right. Because I want to. You make me want to become something greater than myself. I want to excel. You inspire me in every act, every word, every glance. I look at you, and you’re like… like light made into flesh. […] You have no clue how beautiful you are or how brightly you shine.

  Richelle Mead

  Beautiful, Light, Shining

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• I didn’t have a clue what love was about until I met Sharon.

  Ozzy Osbourne

  Mets, Sharon

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• The Summer after high school, when we first met, we make out in your Mustang, to Radiohead, and on my 18th birthday, we got matching tattoes, Used to steal your parents liquor, then climb to the roof, Talk about our future like we had a clue, Never thought I'd wondering I'd be losing you In another life, I would be your belle

  Katy Perry

  Summer, School, Parent

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• He realized something was going on between Logan and me. I wish he'd clue me in on exactly what it was, because I had no idea.

  Jennifer Estep

  Ideas, Wish, No Idea

  Jennifer Estep (2012). “Mythos Academy Bundle: First Frost, Touch of Frost, Kiss of Frost & Dark Frost”, p.403, Kensington Publishing Corp.

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• Heat skittered through her belly, then directly south. “Sawyer.” In answer, he brought his head up and kissed her. Deep, hungry, tasting her in a purposely slow, thorough manner before pulling back to once again look into her eyes. Oh, God. “Sawyer, what are we doing?” she whispered. He shook his head. “No f#cking clue.

  Jill Shalvis

  Eye, Looks, Answers

  Jill Shalvis (2015). “Lucky Harbor Collection 1: Simply Irresistible, The Sweetest Thing, Head Over Heels”, p.443, Hachette UK

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• Talking about the future, like we had a clue. Never plans that one day, I'd be losing you

  Katy Perry

  Talking, One Day, Losing

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• I want to be one of those people, be they writers, poets, musicians, who leaves clues for the next generation. The really good people leave clues that help feed the human race. That's my aspiration.

  Julian Casablancas

  Race, People, Generations

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• Your novels show only the tiniest fraction of detective work, the brilliant crime, the tantalizing clues, the dramatic chase, the final battle atop a lofty peak with ocean waves crashing down below, and then… justice served! If they wrote about the real world, four-fifths of the story would consist of the hero sitting in a library for months and following false leads.

  Stefan Petrucha

  Real, Hero, Ocean

  Stefan Petrucha (2012). “Ripper”, Penguin

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• I think it was T.S. Eliot who talked about good poetry being felt before it’s understood. I believe that. There are some bands where I love their lyrics but I don’t have a clue what they’re on about.

  Marcus Mumford

  Believe, Thinking, Band

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• Continue your quest by taking the test. Yes, but what test? What test was I supposed to take? The Kobayashi Maru? The Pepsi Challenge? Could the clue have been any more vague?

  Ernest Cline

  Challenges, Pepsi, Quests

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• a really good play is ambiguous - which is exactly why it endures. Every succeeding generation develops theories about it. The play's words provide very little clue. On the contrary, words are notoriously imprecise and open to every kind of interpretation, so you must search.

  Glenda Jackson

  Play, Generations, Littles

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• my crime books are actually novels and are written as such. One might even say that each one is really two novels, one of which is the story I tell the reader, and the other the buried story I know and let slip now and then into a clue to whet the reader's interest.

  Mary Roberts Rinehart

  Book, Two, Stories

  Mary Roberts Rinehart (1957). “The Mary Roberts Rinehart crime book”

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• Do you solemnly swear never to conceal a vital clue from the reader? Do you promise to observe seemly moderation in the use of gangs, conspiracies, Super Criminals and Lunatics and utterly and forever to forswear Mysterious Poisons unknown to science? Will you honor the King's English? ... If you fail to keep your promise, may other writers steal your plots and your pages swarm with misprints.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Kings, Forever, Honor

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• It's just as hard for man to break the habit of thinking of himself as central to the species as it was to break the habit of thinking of himself as central to the universe. He sees himself quite unconsciously as the main line of evolution, with a female satellite revolving around him as the moon revolves around the earth. This not only causes him to overlook valuable clues to our ancestry, but sometimes leads him into making statements that are arrant and demonstrable nonsense.

  Elaine Morgan

  Moon, Men, Thinking

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• Even a small, everyday lie is a clue to the personality and preoccupations of the liar, like a dream or any other confection of the mind, that is half-conscious and half-unconscious, as all creative acts must be.

  Helen McCloy

  Dream, Liars, Lying

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• An observer of men who finds himself steadily repelled by some apparently trifling thing in a stranger is right to give it great weight. It may be the clue to the whole mystery. A hair or two will show where a lion is hidden. A very little key will open a very heavy door.

  Charles Dickens

  Men, Keys, Hair

  Charles Dickens, Peter Preston (1998). “The Mystery of Edwin Drood and Other Stories”, p.358, Wordsworth Editions

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• I have no clue. I just know I would want to play the least amount of shows that the most people would be able to come to.

  Kathleen Hanna

  Play, People, Would Be

  "Kathleen Hanna on Bikini Kill, growing up, and being a feminist icon". Interview with Marah Eakin, www.avclub.com. November 20, 2012.

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• Creativity is a scavenger hunt. It's your obligation to pay attention to clues, to the thing that gives you that little tweak.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Creativity, Giving, Attention

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• How can this strange story of God made flesh, of a crucified Savior, of resurrection and new creation become credible for those whose entire mental training has conditioned them to believe that the real world is the world which can be satisfactorily explained and managed without the hypothesis of God? I know of only one clue to the answering of that question, only one real hermeneutic of the gospel: a congregation which believes it.

  Lesslie Newbigin

  Real, Believe, Training

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• I think the benefit of a Catholic childhood is your belief in visual symbols as transmitters of information and clues about life, whether it's the mystery of life or life in general.

  Robert Gober

  Thinking, Childhood, Catholic

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• It is clear to me that unless we connect directly with the earth, we will not have the faintest clue why we should save it.

  Helen Caldicott

  Nature, Earth, Should

  Helen Caldicott (2009). “If You Love This Planet: A Plan to Save the Earth (Revised and Updated)”, p.235, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Search then the ruling passion: This clue, once found, unravels all the rest.

  Alexander Pope

  Passion, Found, Ruling

  1734 Epistles to Several Persons,'To Lord Cobham', l.174-8.

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• Success leaves clues. Go figure out what someone who was successful did, and model it. Improve it, but learn their steps. They have knowledge.

  Tony Robbins

  Successful, Steps, Figures

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• The clue to happiness is being interested in life. People's happiness is as great as they can create it.

  L. Ron Hubbard

  People

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