Famous Quotes & Sayings

Brian Kernighan

If you're as clever as you can be when you write it, how will you ever debug it?

Baltasar Gracian

Two kinds of people are good at foreseeing danger: those who have learned at their own expense, and the clever people who learn a great deal at the expense of others.

Aristophanes

Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever.

Charles Bukowski

there's a bluebird in my heart that wants to get out but I'm too clever, I only let him out at night sometimes when everybody's asleep. I say, I know that you're there, so don't be sad. then I put him back, but he's singing a little in there, I haven't quite let him die and we sleep together like that with our secret pact and it's nice enough to make a man weep, but I don't weep, do you?

Elizabeth Bowen

Mr. [Aldous] Huxley has been the alarming young man for a long time, a sort of perpetual clever nephew who can be relied on to flutter the lunch party. Whatever will he say next? How does he think of those things? He has been deplored once or twice, but feeling is in his favor: he is steadily read. He is at once the truly clever person and the stupid person's idea of the clever person; he is expected to be relentless, to administer intellectual shocks.

Michael Vaughan

England fans are very clever and have special ways of getting tickets and I'm sure we'll be well supported in Australia.

Douglas Hofstadter

I would proclaim that the vast majority of what [say, Scientific American] is true-yet my ability to defend such a claim is weaker than I would like. And most likely the readers, authors, and editors of that magazine would be equally hard pressed to come up with cogent, non-technical arguments convincing a skeptic of this point, especially if pitted against a clever lawyer arguing the contrary. How come Truth is such a slippery beast?

Donald Trump

I have always thought that Donald Trump was an incredibly clever politician, but he`s - at some point he`s going to become unwound and maybe this is it.

Adolf Hitler

Through clever and constant application of propaganda, people can be made to see paradise as hell, and also the other way round, to consider the most wretched sort of life as paradise.

Brian Tracy

The more you do for others without expectation of return, the more you'll get back from the most unexpected sources.

Anthony Hopkins

I've reached a happy stage in my life - you can call it "happy" - but I have no expectations anymore. I'm glad I'm not young anymore.

Chuck Palahniuk

What makes earth feel like hell is our expectation that it should feel like heaven.

Chuck Jones

Dell is to a degree in the penalty box because expectations and probable results have gotten ratcheted down.

Anna Friel

When you're given something new, it's always exciting 'cause you're the first one to do it. You're not having to live up to any expectations, or be compared to anyone who's ever done it before.

Ambrose Bierce

prospect, n. An outlook, usually forbidding. An expectation, usually forbidden.

Rashida Jones

I don't like expectations.

Steven Erikson

Any reasonable ruler would have the expectation and the demand the other way round.

Sri Mulyani Indrawati

People now, especially with the Internet, are connected. They have an expectation of behaviour, of accountability, avoiding conflict and fair and just competition.

John McNamara

Profit is a new kind of shark that looks just like a dolphin.

Matt Walton

These low numbers may make us look good, but it also looks like we're not telling everything. Penn's numbers may look bad, but at least you know they're telling you everything.

Clark Yingst

Technically, it looks like no more than a reflex rebound, an oversold bounce.

Malia Davis

See how he looks at her when she's eating. He's totally in love.

Al-Waleed bin Talal

So, if you look at what's common among some of the companies I have, including the Four Seasons, NewsCorp, George V, the Plaza, these are all irreplaceable brands in their own fields.

Ariel Pink

It was not designed for me to be 35 and still doing the same thing. But in another sense, it's like I've had an extended adolescence. It helps that I look young, too.

Diana Ross

I look forward to the future - and going into the studio to make new music.

Billy Bob Thornton

The thing about a motion picture is that look of film on a big screen takes you into a magical.

Deborah Tannen

We tend to look through language and not realize how much power language has