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?

Charles Bukowski

I'm very clever at hiding poems perhaps more clever than I am at writing them.

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 Adams

ABOYNE (vb.) To beat an expert at a game of skill by playing so appallingly that none of his clever tactics or strategies are of any use to him.

Doris Lessing

Capable people do not understand incapacity; clever people do not understand stupidity.

Jimmy Rushing

I liked roaming around by myself.

Terry Jones

Sarah: That's not fair! Jareth: You say that so often, I wonder what your basis for comparison is?