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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
clever fear games
Voldemort is playing a very clever game. Declaring himself might have provoked open rebellion. Remaining masked has created confusion, uncertainty, and fear. J. K. Rowling
clever book cooking
Be subtle, various, ornamental, clever, And do not listen to those critics ever Whose crude provincial gullets crave in books Plain cooking made still plainer by plain cooks. W. H. Auden
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I now fully understand that it was a clever ruse by the Iraqi government to enact an elaborate scheme of deception. Michael Long
clever arguing ifs
If you’re that clever you can argue yourself into anything. Julian Barnes
clever giving directors
If a film is very clever and well-written, that's what gives you freedom as a director. Patrice Leconte
clever rude
To be rude is as good as being clever. Letitia Elizabeth Landon
clever people trying
People try to do all sorts of clever and difficult things to improve life instead of doing the simplest, easiest thing-refusing to participate in activities that make life bad. Leo Tolstoy
clever stupid handsome
It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness. A handsome woman talks nonsense, you listen and hear not nonsense but cleverness. She says and does horrid things, and you see only charm. And if a handsome woman does not say stupid or horrid things, you at once persuade yourself that she is wonderfully clever and moral.
book character missing
The reason I never want a book to end is that I start to feel like the characters are my friends. I'll miss them when they're gone. Miley Cyrus
books-and-reading collection depends finished greatest professors university
What we become depends on what we read after all the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is the collection of books. Thomas Carlyle
book firsts stolen
I was going to do a book about the first prearranged Karpov-Kasparov match, '84-'85. But the God-damn Jews have stolen my entire file on that. Bobby Fischer
bookstores exactly manner
Bookstores don't exactly dot the American highway in the grand manner of Sbarros. Rosecrans Baldwin
book voice space
My books hold between their covers every story I've ever known and still remember, or have now forgotten, or may one day read; they fill the space around me with ancient and new voices. Alberto Manguel
book wanted
I wanted to live among books.
book space darkness
The shelves of books we haven't written, like those of books we haven't read, stretches out into the darkness of the universal library's farthest space. We are always at the beginning of the beginning of the letter A.
book reading sleep
At night, here in the library, the ghosts have voices.... The various qualities of my readings seem to permeate my every muscle, so that when I finally decide to turn off the library light, I carry into my sleep the voices and the movements of the book I've just closed.
book unpacking activity
Unpacking books is a revelatory activity.
writing needs gypsy
I need to keep traveling, being a gypsy, having experiences and writing about them. Delta Goodrem
writing publish
Write the unpublishable.. .and then publish it. Denis Johnson
writing challenges paper
Writing is very difficult. You have 120 pages of blank paper and it's like, "Go fill that up with some funny stuff," and that's challenging. Bobby Farrelly
writing years fascination
I love to keep poking and prodding at it. I’ve thought about it so much over the years that that fascination is bound to spill over into my writing. Douglas Adams
writing pockets would-be
You cannot see what I see because you see what you see. You cannot know what I know because you know what you know. What I see and what I know cannot be added to what you see and what you know because they are not of the same kind. Neither can it replace what you see and what you know, because that would be to replace you yourself." "Hang on, can I write this down?" said Arthur, excitedly fumbling in his pocket for a pencil.
writing expression personality
Many words and expressions which only a matter of decades ago were considered so distastefully explicit that, were they merely to be breathed in public, the perpetrator would be shunned, barred from polite society, and in extreme cases shot through the lungs, are now thought to be very healthy and proper, and their use in everyday speech and writing is evidence of a well-adjusted, relaxed and totally un****ed-up personality.
writing way saws
Taking photographs and writing is my way of saying I was here, I saw this, I felt this, I heard this. Duane Michals
writing problem interest
My biggest kick in music -playing or writing- is when I have a problem. Without a problem to solve, how much interest do you take in anything? Duke Ellington
writing play ifs-and
I like any and all of my associations with music -writing, playing, and listening. We write and play from our perspective, and the audience listens from its perspective. If and when we agree, I am lucky.