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clever wine mind
Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever. Aristophanes
clever nice heart
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? Charles Bukowski
clever ideas trying
I don't try to be clever at all. The idea that I could see what no one else can is an illusion. Daniel Kahneman
clever thinking things-in-life
In some circles where very heavy people think they have very heavy brains, words like "charming" and "clever" and "pretty" are all put-downs; all the lighter things in life, which are the most important things, are put down. Andy Warhol
clever men able
Man is extraordinarily clever in preventing himself from being happy; it would seem that the less able he is to endure misfortune the more apt he is to attach himself to it. Andre Gide
clever thinking ideas
You are so terribly nimble, so clever. I distrust your cleverness. You make a wonderful pattern, everything is in its place, it looks convincingly clear, too clear. And meanwhile, where are you? Not on the clear surface of your ideas, but you have already sunk deeper, into darker regions, so that one only thinks one has been given all your thoughts, one only imagines you have emptied yourself in that clarity. But there are layers and layers -- you're bottomless, unfathomable. Your clearness is deceptive. You are the thinker who arouses most confusion in me, most doubt, most disturbance. Anais Nin
clever writing thinking
I do wish I could write like some of the American women, who can be clever and heartfelt and hopeful; people like Lorrie Moore and Jennifer Egan. But Ireland messed me up too much, I think, so I can't. Anne Enright
clever entrepreneur insanity
We entrepreneurs are loners, vagabonds, troublemakers. Success is simply a matter of finding and surrounding ourselves with those open-minded and clever souls who can take our insanity and put it to good use. Anita Roddick
clever dazzling figures frugal happy million paid
We haven't paid 25 million and 10 million and all the dazzling figures you see being banded about for strikers at the moment. We've been very clever and frugal in our dealings. He's not cheap, he's not for nothing, but we're very happy with the deal. Bobby Robson
mentally
That's just the way he pitches. I think it has more to do with him mentally concentrating really well. He hasn't let anything get away from him. Tony Russa
men iron envy
As rust corrupts iron, so envy corrupts man. Antisthenes
men religion useless
Men would never be superstitious, if they could govern all their circumstances by set rules, or if they were always favoured by fortune: but being frequently driven into straits where rules are useless, and being often kept fluctuating pitiably between hope and fear by the uncertainty of fortune's greedily coveted favours, they are consequently for the most part, very prone to credulity. Baruch Spinoza
men desire tongue
Surely human affairs would be far happier if the power in men to be silent were the same as that to speak. But experience more than sufficiently teaches that men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more easily than their words. Baruch Spinoza
men simplicity fame
The greatest truths are the simplest, and so are the greatest men. Augustus Hare
men great-men
Great men can't be ruled. Ayn Rand
men dedication pages
If a dedication page were to precede the total of my work, it would read: To the glory of Man. Ayn Rand
men thinking moral
If I were to speak your kind of language, I would say that man's only moral commandment is: Thou shalt think. But a 'moral commandment' is a contradiction in terms. The moral is the chosen, not the forced; the understood, not the obeyed. The moral is the rational, and reason accepts no commandments. Ayn Rand
men together taught
Men have been taught that it is a virtue to stand together. But the creator is the man who stands alone. Ayn Rand
able should wells
If you're my friend I should be able to talk to you but I can't, and if I can't talk to you, well, what is the point of you? Of us? David Nicholls
able wake-up kind
I kind of feel like I have grown as just like a human being as a human being by being able to adapt and adjust and know that like you can't ever rest on your laurels, you have to sort of wake up; you actually have to be present. Nicole Beharie
able actors yes-or-no
The only thing that we as actors really can control is to be able to say 'yes' or 'no' to the material. Bryan Cranston
able wonderful just-one
I've never been able to do just one draft. That seems a wonderful thing. Do you know anyone who can? Rebecca West
able heads-up stills
I've been able to do things that allow me to hold my head up and still be popular. Sam Waterston
able lucky born
I was born with success. Lucky for me, I am able to handle it. Also, I damn well deserve it. Larry Hagman
able pretending ifs
If you re not speaking your own truth, you will never be able to be all you are meant to be. You cannot be pretending to be somebody else. Oprah Winfrey
able tasks should
I do my very utmost to live and act in such a manner that the Führer should remain satisfied with me... but whether I shall always be able to cope with the tasks entrusted to me in the future as well, is an open question. Martin Bormann
able want do-whatever-you-want
What I like about being alone is being able to do whatever you want and it's for yourself. Molly Ringwald