Quotes from Arthur C. Clarke
The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible.
- Arthur C. Clarke
When beauty is universal, it loses its power to move the heart, and only its absence can produce any emotional effect.
- Arthur C. Clarke
We are just tenants on this world. We have just been given a new lease, and a warning from the landlord.
- Arthur C. Clarke
But please remember: this is only a work of fiction. The truth, as always, will be far stranger.
- Arthur C. Clarke
When in doubt, say nothing and move on.
- Arthur C. Clarke
Evil men could be destroyed, but nothing could be done with good men who were deluded.
- Arthur C. Clarke
If man can live in Manhattan, he can live anywhere.
- Arthur C. Clarke
Men had sought beauty in many forms—in sequences of sound, in lines upon paper, in surfaces of stone, in the movements of the human body, in colours ranged through space.
- Arthur C. Clarke
He wanted to close his eyes and shut out the pearly nothingness that surrounded him, but that was an act of a coward and he would not yield to it.
- Arthur C. Clarke
After the struggle for sheer existence, they had no energy left for a civilization.
- Arthur C. Clarke
Please leave me alone; let me go on to the stars.
- Arthur C. Clarke
But there was no substitute for reality; one should beware of imitations.
- Arthur C. Clarke