Famous Quotes & Sayings

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?

Daniel Kahneman

I don't try to be clever at all. The idea that I could see what no one else can is an illusion.

D. H. Lawrence

And still I look for the men who will dare to be roses of England wild roses of England men who are wild roses of England with metal thorns, beware! but still more brave and still more rare the courage of rosiness in a cabbage world fragrance of roses in a stale stink of lies rose-leaves to bewilder the clever fools and rose-briars to strangle the machine.

Amelia Warner

It so depends on each script, because you can say... I always thought I wouldn't have wanted to do something that was kind of like as big and commercial as 'The Dark is Rising,' but I really liked the script. I thought it was really clever.

Ambrose Bierce

Death is not the end. There remains the litigation over the estate.

Ambrose Bierce

Witticism. A sharp and clever remark, usually quoted and seldom noted; what the Philistine is pleased to call a joke.

Anthony Hopkins

I've been composing music all my life and if I'd been clever enough at school I would like to have gone to music college.

Angela Carter

The notion of a universality of human experience is a confidence trick and the notion of a universality of female experience is a clever confidence trick.

Michael Beasley

It was an honor to be a part of history, but honestly I don't remember all the games we've played. I do remember the trips, though, and that's what we will miss the most ? all those good times.

Leroy Franklin

These are two very big games for us. We have a young team that is really is starting to come on and we're getting better with each game.

Rien Long

These are the games d-linemen live for. We were grooving.

Jerry Stackhouse

This is starting to become who we are. We feel that we are going to win these games and have the wherewithal to sustain anything any team throws at us.

Jim Tressel

This is one of those games that I don't know that you have to worry about getting anyone's attention,

Marc Bulger

You want it to be more balanced, ... You're not going to win many games in the NFL throwing it 60 or 70 times. It might work in high school and sometimes in college, but in the NFL you've got to have a running game.

Andy Reid

You're not going to win too many games in the NFL with six turnovers. When you really get down to it today, that was the problem.

Flip Saunders

You never feel like you're in good shape. These are all winnable games, but they're all games you have to go out and play. No one's going to give you the game.

Scott Johnson

You only score two runs and that is what happens. You are not going to win many games like that. Jones pitched well enough to win.

Brian Jacques

Any weapon is a good weapon as long as ye can use it with honor and skill.

Roy H. Williams

If you want the truth to prevail, you must cause people to realize the truth. This requires much more skill than is required to simply tell it.

Sugar Ray Leonard

Were all given some sort of skill in life. Mine just happens to be beating up on people.

Tony Gilroy

What you need to know to direct a movie is [of] such great variety. I've worked with people who were maestros, who know everything. I've worked with people who were empty and lost, who had no clue what they were doing. You wouldn't hire them to paint your apartment. And then there's everything in-between. There's no list of skills you have to have to sit in that chair.

Shiv Khera

There are good leaders who actively guide and bad leaders who actively misguide. Hence, leadership is about persuasion, presentation and people skills.

Gregory Maguire

She assumes that skill will guide her fingertips, that shapely lines will uncoil out of the pencil the moment she starts. Surely talent is a thing curled deep inside, just waiting to be exercised, and at the slightest invitation it will stretch, shake itself, make itself known? Talent, it seems, is not so insistent.

Iris Chang

I have certainly amassed many historical research gathering skills.

Immanuel Kant

The schematicism by which our understanding deals with the phenomenal world ... is a skill so deeply hidden in the human soul that we shall hardly guess the secret trick that Nature here employs.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

There is great skill in knowing how to conceal one's skill.