Clash Quotes

Four personalities are bound to clash.

Punk rock seemed to make sense. I was listening to The Clash and I really loved their social messages and they have a great history of fighting racism.

People today sometimes get uncomfortable with empirical claims that seem to clash with their political assumptions, often because they haven't given much thought to the connections.

I'm definitely nostalgic about the music of my youth; The Clash and Fishbone and that whole music scene. I still have all that music to this day. There was some great music going on in the late 70s and 80s.

The history of philosophy is to a great extent that of a certain clash of human temperaments.

We got off the Clash of the Titans tour and I said that my wife and I were working on having a baby and sure enough we found out that she was pregnant. So I told them nine months in advance that I wasn't going to tour in September so I could witness the birth of my first son.

I started going to Madame Louise's, the lesbian club where all the punk bands used to go - the Sex Pistols, the Clash. I remember seeing Billy Idol walk in there; he was gorgeous.

Frequently you have a clash between the more sterile letter of the law and the justice that underlies it, and I think one of the things I've been trying more or less, where it was possible, is to go with the justice rather than the letter of the law.

I came into this whole business by going to see Rock Against Racism gigs with the Clash.

Well, my definition of a tragedy is a clash between right and right.

There is a tragic clash between Truth and the world. Pure undistorted truth burns up the world.

The great thing about The Clash of course is that they keep searching for answers beyond that.

The clash of ideas is the sound of freedom.

We are living at a time when creeds and ideologies vary and clash. But the gospel of human sympathy is universal and eternal.

I discovered the Clash, the Pistols, obviously the Ramones, Blondie.

Clearly, the Chinese need the resources, but I don't think they want to clash with the industrial world which happens to be the market for their goods.

Cricket makes no sense to me. I find it beautiful to watch and I like that they break for tea. That is very cool, but I don't understand. My friends from The Clash tried to explain it years and years ago, but I didn't understand what they were talking about.

I don't think we ever clash but we do become frosty.

America is not just a democracy, it represents a certain culture of competitive mobility and personality aspirations, politics is not merely a clash of interests, but a clash of dreams.

Some colors reconcile themselves to one another, others just clash.

When you're going for a joke, you're stuck out there if it doesn't work. There's nowhere to go. You've done the drum role and the cymbal clash and you're out on the end of the plank.

Hate is always a clash between our spirit and someone else's body.

What we are witnessing now is a clash of civilisations, not just between states but within them.

Violent statements and threats cannot provide a solution to the problem. They can only exacerbate feeling and make a clash of forces inevitable.

Groups break up because they never got across what they wanted to do personally, and they have creative differences, and egos start to clash.

The clash between Popper and Kuhn is not about a mere technical point in epistemology.

The legions of reporters who cover politics don't want to quit the clash and thunder of electoral combat for the dry duty of analyzing the federal budget. As a consequence, we have created the perpetual presidential campaign.

Freedom rings where opinions clash.

This is indeed a clash of civilisations, not between Islam and Christendom but between reason and superstition.

When I am finishing a picture, I hold some God-made object up to it - a rock, a flower, the branch of a tree or my hand - as a final test. If the painting stands up beside a thing man cannot make, the painting is authentic. If there's a clash between the two, it's bad art.