Clive Barker Quotes

I think it's always funny when somebody thinks you're going to do something super sexy and then you don't.

The sun was a molten coin burning a circle in the low-hanging overcast, surrounded by a fairy-ring of moisture.

Oft expectation fails, and most oft there where most it promises; and oft it hits where hope is coldest, and despair most fits.

Dawn came on us like a betrayer; it seemed as though the new sun rose as an ally of our enemies to assist in our destruction.

All the things she planned to feel, the way she planned to look and seem, the appropriate things she planned to say. None of them came to pass.

You see. No shock. No engulfment. No tearing assunder. What you feared would come like an explosion is like a whisper. What you thought was the end is the beginning.

The thing we look forward to often comes to pass, but never precisely in the way we have imagined to ourselves.

Keep everybody guessing as to what your next trick is going to be. Don't become too predictable.

Dark clouds bring waters, when the bright bring none.

Are you an angel that approaching you should be so terrifying?

Every time I learn the truth about something, I’m disappointed

Clouds on clouds, in volumes driven, curtain round the vault of heaven.

I opened the show with this line: "I have decided to give the greatest performance of my life! Oh, wait, sorry, that's tomorrow night.

[on Richard Wagner] A beautiful sunset that was mistaken for a dawn.

and the smile I'd been waiting for stretched across his face like the sun breaking free of the clouds.

Hope clouds observation.

Axl [Rose] is not the type of person to make something up. So I was sort of shocked that he went that direction. That caused me a lot of problems.

I'll tell you how the Sun rose.

I steeled myself for the next response. I knew it was going to be one of the Zen life lessons. [...] Instead he kissed me.

It’s in the very trickery that it pleases me. But show me how the trick is done, and I have lost my interest therein.

I expect a cigar.....not lit, hopefully

The March sunne raises but dissolves not.

In the School of Coquettes Madam Rose is a scholar,-O, they fish with all nets In the School of Coquettes! When her brooch she forgets 'Tis to show her new collar; In the School of Coquettes Madam Rose is a scholar!

I want people to come to the game to see what I will do next.

Scrape the grey sky clean, realize that every dark cloud is a smokescreen meant to blind us from the truth