Famous Quotes & Sayings

Elaine Stritch

Making clever speeches takes a lot of work and a lot of time.

Antonia Fraser

I love hearing details of writers' craft, as cannibals eat the brains of clever men to get cleverer.

Bertrand Russell

Man is a rational animal—so at least I have been told. … Aristotle, so far as I know, was the first man to proclaim explicitly that man is a rational animal. His reason for this view was … that some people can do sums. … It is in virtue of the intellect that man is a rational animal. The intellect is shown in various ways, but most emphatically by mastery of arithmetic. The Greek system of numerals was very bad, so that the multiplication table was quite difficult, and complicated calculations could only be made by very clever people.

Bobby Robson

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.

Christopher Fowler

The queen of crime, Agatha Christie, was always more concerned about the clockwork cleverness of the plot, never the investigator.

Gary Sick

I think in fact the regime, which initially thought they had been very clever in getting him elected ... realize they've got a tiger by the tail. I don't think they're all that pleased about it.

E. F. Schumacher

The disease having been caused by allowing cleverness to displace wisdom, no amount of clever research is likely to produce a cure.

George Bernard Shaw

To be clever enough to get a great deal of money, one must be stupid enough to want it

Michael Young

Today we frankly recognize that democracy can be no more than aspiration, and have rule not so much by the people as by the cleverest people; not an aristocracy of birth, not a plutocracy of wealth, but a true meritocracy of talent.

Thomas Tusser

A fool and his money are soon parted.

Alonzo Mourning

We can't look at them. We've got to go out there and do it ourselves. We're foolish if we're trying to look at the referees.

Marquis de Lafayette

It is foolishly thought by some that democratical constitutions will not, cannot, last; that the States will quarrel with each other; that a king, or at least a nobility, are indispensable for the prosperity of a nation.

Joshua Johnson

We have a lot of talent for a nonscholarship team. People just don't understand. They're thinking, 'nonscholarship, I-AA, midmajor.' Don't let that fool you. This is a whole other level. It doesn't get better than this.

H. Hart

Waist-deep in the Big Muddy, and the big fool said to push on.

Uzi Landau

Who is the Palestinian fool who will sit in negotiations and will have to pay so that we evacuate territory, when he knows if he simply waits, Israel will evacuate the territory?

Charles Rogers

You listen to everybody, but Shawn played the game. You'd be a fool if you didn't listen to him.

John Paxson

You can have a team full of guys who play hard and hustle, ... But let's not fool ourselves. You need talent to win.

Casper Dien

I think it would be foolish to think we are the only life forms in this universe.

Carrie Fisher

I was born into big celebrity. It could only diminish.

Ashley Tisdale

Producing is just a big learning experience.

Diablo Cody

Juno: WOOOAH! ....Dreeeaaam BIG!

Billy Sunday

It is not necessary to be in a big place to do big things.

Bing Crosby

Everyone knows I'm just a big, good-natured slob.

Beth Moore

How often we expect big things from God without preparing for big things from him

Jason Calacanis

Longevity is a big part of credibility.

Brian Lamb

I'm anti-big power. I don't know if that's populist or not.

Ashthon Jones

But I'm a big, firm believer in speaking everything into existence.