Clash Quotes

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

The clash of ideas is the sound of freedom.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Freedom rings where opinions clash.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.