Clash Quotes

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

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

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

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 of ideas is the sound of freedom.

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.

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

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

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.

And in this respect, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has been a tragedy, a clash between one very powerful, very convincing, very painful claim over this land and another no less powerful, no less convincing claim.

Light is meaningful only in relation to darkness, and truth presupposes error. It is these mingled opposites which people our life, which make it pungent, intoxicating. We only exist in terms of this conflict, in the zone where black and white clash.

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

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

Everything that could produce a clash between the Arab world and the West seemed dangerous to me.

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

I know a lot of Americans in Paris who have married Frenchmen. They keep bringing up their experience, the clash of civilizations, the clash of personalities.

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

So there's always been this clash between what is the public good - that which belongs to all of us in common - and what can be exploited for a private interest.

We read our own political content into The Clash, and they accepted it.

Freedom rings where opinions clash.

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.

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 don't think there's anything in the compromise that means that there's a clash of ethics.

I feel like all of my characters now take this congested situation, they clash, and from there you purge yourself.

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 love my accent, I thought it was useful in Gone In 60 Seconds because the standard villain is upper class or Cockney. My Northern accent would be an odd clash opposite Nic Cage.

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.

Culture clash is terrific drama.