230 Quotes by Clive James

It is only when they go wrong that machines remind you how powerful they are.

A life without fame can be a good life, but fame without a life is no life at all.

A traditional fixture at Wimbledon is the way the BBC TV commentary box fills up with British players eliminated in the early rounds.

Everyone has a right to a university degree in America, even if it's in Hamburger Technology.

Television is simultaneously blamed, often by the same people, for worsening the world and for being powerless to change it.

Even in moments of tranquility, Murray Walker sounds like a man whose trousers are on fire.

The Language Laboratory at Cambridge is a very good way of finding out about grammar and the vocabulary and that's why I learned to read German and later on I added Spanish, the standard European languages.

Among artists without talent Marxism will always be popular, since it enables them to blame society for the fact that nobody wants to hear what they have to say.

Disco dancing is just the steady thump of a giant moron knocking in an endless nail.