Clue Quotes

I see that children fill the existential hollowness many people feel; that when we have children, we know they will need us, and maybe love us, but we don't have a clue how hard it is going to be.
Anne Lamott

Love, Children, Hard

There are a lot of bands who claim to be punk and they only play the music, they have no clue what it's all about. It's a lifestyle. It's not about popularity and all that crap.
Billie Joe Armstrong

Music, Play, Punk

None of us is responsible for the complexion of his skin. This fact of nature offers no clue to the character or quality of the person underneath.
Marian Anderson

Nature, Character, Person

Three children have become adults since a phone call with Jo Rowling, containing one small clue, persuaded me that there was more to Snape than an unchanging costume, and that even though only three of the books were out at that time, she held the entire massive but delicate narrative in the surest of hands.
Alan Rickman

Time, Children, Small

I thought, well of course, Kinsey absolutely adored teaching. He was a wonderful teacher. So these kids really inspired me. So that was a clue I hung onto. He loved young people, he absolutely loved them. And he loved teaching them and trying to help them.
Liam Neeson

Teacher, Help, Trying

I have no clue why, but maybe sometimes when there's someone you don't hear from, it's the person you want to hear from the most.
Janet Jackson

Someone, Person, Why

I sleep with a light on in the bathroom so I can see where I'm at, because I wake up and have no clue!
Carrie Underwood

Sleep, Light, Wake

In some sense man is a microcosm of the universe; therefore what man is, is a clue to the universe. We are enfolded in the universe.
David Bohm

Sense, Universe, Microcosm

I've had editors over the years who couldn't find a clue if it was stapled to their butt.
Len Wein

All the actors I respect, especially old-Hollywood actors, the reason I think so many of them have had long careers is that there is a sort of mystery about them. You don't know what they do on Friday nights when they go home from work. You have no clue. You have this sort of fantasy about them.
Kate Mara

Work, Home, Respect

When you're a celebrity, people think they know you, but they don't have a clue.
Willie Aames

And as I grew older, I then auditioned for the Royal Academy of Music in London, and they said, well, no, we won't accept you, because we haven't a clue - you know - of the future of a so-called 'deaf' musician. And I just couldn't quite accept that.
Evelyn Glennie

Music, Future, Said

I haven't a clue if there is life on other planets but I'd be charmed if we found a unicellular organism on Mars. It would change our whole concept of life on Earth.
Tommy Lee Jones

Life, Change, Whole

What we prefer to read is sort of like sexual preference, you like what you like. Most of the time you have no clue why.
Laurell K. Hamilton

Time, Why, Read

That idea of URL was the basic clue to the universality of the Web. That was the only thing I insisted upon.
Tim Berners-Lee

Idea, Basic, Web

I don't know what drives me, I don't have a clue, but I'm driven more today than I ever have been.
Vince McMahon

Today, Driven, Drives

I've always thought that the balance between the side of my mind that knows what it is doing and the side that really hasn't got a clue has to be carefully maintained because if you write too knowingly then you get chilly, and if you write too unknowingly you write bollocks that nobody else can understand.
Andrew Motion

Mind, Thought, Understand

Once I've discovered the story, I might restructure it, maybe move things around, set up a clue that something is going to happen later, but that happens much later in an editorial capacity.
Michael Ondaatje

Happen, Around, Once

Well, you give me too much credit for foresight and planning. I haven't got a clue what the hell I'm doing.
Robert B. Parker

Give, Hell, Credit

In New York, you couldn't wish for a nicer audience, or in L.A., Chicago, Boston. But when you get into secondary markets, they don't have a clue.
Bryan Ferry

Wish, Audience, York

Facebook? I have no clue about it. MySpace, none of that. I'm the worst.
Maggie Q

Worst, Facebook, None

There's too many people in seats of power who just haven't got a clue what they're doing. They're bean counters, and it just pisses me off because consequently our kids go to see crap movies.
Pierce Brosnan

Power, Movies, Kids

They didn't train me to be in the ring for five and a half hours punching air. So, it was hard, I had to get some body contact in there somewhere, it was mostly body shots and stuff. I had no clue, really.
Michelle Rodriguez

Hard, Body, Stuff

My theory is that if you look confident you can pull off anything - even if you have no clue what you're doing.
Jessica Alba

Off, Theory, Confident

The clue to book jacket photography is to look friendly and approachable, but not too glamorous.
Antonia Fraser

Book, Friendly, Glamorous

I'm definitely the most tech-savvy in my family. My wife wouldn't have a clue, as far as getting the computer working. All of my kids, it's amazing. Like everybody's kids, they're more savvy than I am, probably.
Chris O'Donnell

Family, Amazing, Wife

Nashville was totally different than I ever dreamed. I had only seen the music business on television and been to a couple of concerts. I had no clue.
Faith Hill

Music, Business, Different

I admire Dickens beyond words. He is one of the greatest plotters of all times. Didn't have a clue about women, but he sure could plot.
Donna Leon

Women, Greatest, Words

I remember one of my last shows, the Final Jeopardy! clue was something like 'These two boys' names are top 10 boys' names in the U.S., they both end with the same letter, and they're both names of Jesus' apostles.' Now, obviously that's not a knowable fact.
Ken Jennings

End, Jesus, Remember

I wasn't frightened of people, but I didn't have a clue about the adult world.
Shirley Henderson

Adult, Frightened

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