A Quote by Clive Sinclair

I still see the world as a place of bitter irony and black humour, failed hopes, dashed plans. I hope to make my work sparer, to outgrow my desire to show off.

Clive Sinclair

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Hope Bitter Black Dashed Desire Failed Hopes Humour Irony Make Off Outgrow Place Plans See Show Show Off Still Work World

Quote Author

Clive Sinclair
British - Author
Born: February 19, 1948

The worst mistake that a statesman can make is to promise victory and to see it dashed, the hopes dashed.

Winston Churchill

I was a bit of a humour black sheep. I would make these jokes full of irony and dark cynicism and that just didn't work when I was seven, people did not laugh.

Ayda Field

Even if the hopes you started out with are dashed, hope has to be maintained.

Seamus Heaney

It was not possible for us to produce the same optimism and the same kind of humour or irony. Actually, it was not irony. Lichtenstein is not ironic but he does have a special kind of humour. That's how I could describe it: humour and optimism. For Polke and me, everything was more fragmented. But how it was broken up is hard to describe.

Gerhard Richter

Harlem was an exciting place in the '50s. There were nightclubs that, as a student of Columbia, you dashed off to. The community seemed very viable still.

David Levering Lewis

We have hopes and make plans, and if they are dashed or waylaid, we naturally rationalize and redraw the map to locate ourselves anew. Or else we brood and too firmly root. Very few can step forward again and again in what amounts to veritable leaps into the void, where there are no ready holds, where little is familiar, where you get constantly stuck in the thickets of your uncertainties and fears.

Chang-Rae Lee

Believing in things you cannot see Even with my trembling arms I want to protect someone dear to me The place my thought that proggressed up to now struggle on to To see hopes Even in a black, confined world

Kanon Wakeshima

That was the day my whole world went black. Air looked black. Sun looked black. I laid up in bed and stared at the black walls of my house….Took three months before I even looked out the window, see the world still there. I was surprised to see the world didn’t stop.

Kathryn Stockett

In happy ignorance, I sighed for a world I did not know, where I hoped to find every pleasure and enjoyment which my heart could desire; and now, on my return from that wide world... how many disappointed hopes and unsuccessful plans have I brought back!

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

He had high hopes for society, and though his hopes were too often dashed, he remained a raging optimist.

Randy Pausch

Students, in particular, now find themselves in a world in which heightened expectations have been replaced by dashed hopes.

Henry Giroux

Often parents have a great desire and hopes, and aspirations for their kids but they don't have any practical plans of action.

Stephen Kendrick

On each side of the war against war, hopes soar, hopes dive, hour by hour now. Resignations abound, timetables slip, and the world waits, mesmerised. I'm off to Melbourne to record an arts chat show.

Margo Kingston

I was a failed actor but I still wanted to show off, so I ended up doing live comedy.

Graham Norton

In a recent dream, God revealed to me a door leading us into four new hopes that will prepare us to be like those who were healed and strengthened in hope and able to stand when the lightning bolt hit. We deal with these fissures of hopelessness by stepping into these new hopes. The four new hopes that I saw the Lord giving us in this time are: Hope for the Unseen, Hope Against Hope, Carefree Hope, and Childlike Hope.