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.

Arundhati Roy

Going to Oxford didn't necessarily make a person clever.

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.

Jon Landau

Elton John himself never seems pretentious but Bernie Taupin's lyrics often do - sometimes pretentious in a clever sort of way, but pretentious nonetheless. There is a conflict between Elton's and Bernie's personal styles, no doubt about it.

Jennifer McMahon

At the heart of every story is conflict - whether external or internal, make it a good one, and remember that this problem is going to shape your character, leaving her forever changed.

Alija Izetbegovic

The time of confrontation and conflicts should be replaced with a time of construction and prosperity.

Donald Rumsfeld

What will follow will not be a repeat of any other conflict. It will be of a force and scope and scale that has been beyond what has been seen before.

Thom Mayne

I'm interested in conflict and confrontation.

Nigella Lawson

I don't like conflict.

Cherif Bassiouni

One wants to engage the local judiciary and the local population. It is important that any kind of post-conflict justice be owned by the people affected.

Andrew Mitchell

It is conflict overall that mires people in poverty. That is the first law of development.

Ellen Jones

We don't see it as a conflict of interest because of that.

Scott Skiles

I suppose that's a good question. I don't know. Would there be a conflict of interest there because he was in Washington? I really haven't given that a whole lot of thought.

Porter Goss

Things are going a lot better than the press has been reporting on virtually all fronts. We're going to be there for a while. It is dangerous, it is dirty, it is hot, it is not pleasant, but it is moving forward and the strategic doubt does not exist.

Joe Girardi

The WBC will provide a lot of excitement, so it's a good thing, but I'm going to miss my players, no doubt about it.

Bertrand Russell

Be isolated, be ignored, be attacked, be in doubt, be frightened, but do not be silenced.

Arjun Atwal

When I have any kind of doubts in my mind about making a putt, most of the time I don't make it. If you're out on the PGA Tour, most guys know how to putt. It's a matter of how strong your head is.

Anushka Sharma

I constantly doubt myself. I only feel confident in front of the camera.

Wallace Smith

There is no doubt that it was a providential act.

Edward Abbey

A crude meal, no doubt, but the best of all sauces is hunger.

Aristotle

Doubt is the beginning of wisdom

Mike Schulze

We've got a good plan in place. It's going to come together, there's no doubt in our minds. It'll be a lot of work for a lot of people.

Sue Thompson

Elton turned over the keys to his vault in London and said do whatever you want to do.

Elgin Baylor

Elton is really excited about the makeup of this team,

Ruben Patterson

(Anthony) can't do it all by himself each and every night.

Raymond Chandler

Down these mean streets a man must go who is not himself mean.

Augustine Birrell

An ordinary man can...surround himself with two thousand books...and thenceforward have at least one place in the world in which it is possible to be happy.

Tom Renney

He started to push himself as he got more comfortable with the brace.

Hans-Ulrich Obrist

Mr. Koons's work has always inspired architects, which I think is very interesting. I think he is an artist who has reinvented himself so many times and reinvented so many different series.

Richard Bentley

It is a maxim with me that no man was ever written out of reputation but by himself

Dave Bristow

The 19-year-old turned himself in after we got in touch with him.

Janet Reno

I would like to see the day ... where I can meet Elian, wherever he is, and sit down and talk to him, not about the tragedy and trauma that he has been through, but about himself and what his interests are, ... He is obviously a wonderful little boy.

Terri Smith

Who knows what he's going to do. It's two different programs. You go from Kent State to Michigan State, that's two different worlds. He owes it to himself to go there, take a look and see what they have to offer.

John Fahey

So what I do is this - when I go to the venue, I become the entertainer John Fahey.

Peter King

Now John Kerry voted for the war and now he says that he would still vote for the war, so what's the difference?

Jeffrey Lichtman

This is not the same John Gotti that he was in '92, or even in '99.

Brian Gray

When I made it down to work the state tournament, I think John was tickled just as much as dad.

Tobe Berkovitz

The problem with John Kerry is he had his opportunity -- the 2004 Campaign.

Alex Pettyfer

Being an actor in L.A. is like being in prison: you go, you serve your time, you try to replicate Johnny Depp's career - and then you move to Paris.

Marlon Brando

At Paramount, I sat at lunch with John Wayne. I couldn't even talk.

Philip Kerr

I think John le Carre is, at 77, the greatest living writer alive. He is a master craftsman.

Larry King

... various work sites and pick up stray nails and returned them, and clearly, he never lost his perspective. My condolences to you and your family. Sincerely, John Kennedy.

Emmylou Harris

I have to have a guitar sitting around. I sing in the shower. I sing around the house. The music comes secondary. The lyrics come first.

Anthony Sampson

Muddle is the extra unknown personality in any committee.

Jane Goodall

To me, trees are living beings and they have their own sort of personalities.

Booth Tarkington

Whatever does not pretend at all has style enough.

David M. Kelley

I always found that if you handle a problem in a benevolent way and a transparent way and involve other people, so it's just not your personal opinion, that people get to the other side of these difficult conversations being more enthusiastic.

Samora Machel

Personalities and fame pass; the revolution must remain.

T. S. Eliot

Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion,

Stone Gossard

It's a very complex scenario, and certainly Dave was, and is, not the only person in Pearl Jam with personality flaws. Everybody in this band exhibits some form of neurotic behavior. And we couldn't find a balance, a mutual respect for each other.

Sonia Choquette

We have bodies. We have personalities. We have histories, stories and experiences. But we are not those things - we are Spirit.

Tia Carrere

When I first met my agent, I said, If something comes up and it fits my age range and personality, I would like you to send me up for it, even if it specifies blonde or brunette.

Allan Bristow

As of right now, that's our only option, ... We'll look for others. But right now that seems to be the best.

Jeff Sluman

Other days, making one or two birdies seems like it's going to be impossible.

Diane Siri

I've accomplished most of the things I set out to do. It just seems like the right time to make a transition.

Rick Dickson

Somebody said it was a week ago Sunday this all began, ... It seems like many years ago.

Kenny Chesney

now he seems to think he can tell Renee what to do, what to wear, where to go and who to see.

Peter Hitchens

The whole of the U.S. system seems to be creaking at the moment,

Todd Rundgren

It seems like there are two worlds out there - one that has revolved around 'Breaking Bad,' and then the one that I've been in, which just kind of observes it from afar.

Jay Bilas

Even though it seems like a short timeframe, there's a lot that can happen.

Jill Wagner

When work seems like a job, I don't do it anymore. I always want it to be something I'm interested in and something that challenges me.

and City

the sort of person who'd back Proposition 14.

Paul Stoddart

And we were only seeing, at best, the sort of mid-30s.

Bruce Sevy

We all kind of get to go to Italy. Sometimes you just need a break, and that's sort of what this play is about.

Robert Manne

You have short-term winners and losers, and that's the toughest thing to sort out.

Pat Gillick

more of a staying-in-touch, passing-through sort of thing.

Thom Browne

I always like playing with some sort of typical convention or idea and turning it over.

Ray Stevenson

I feel like I don't exist. It's like I'm some sort of an alias.

Jay Frank

We have one person in custody. They are still trying to sort things out.

Gordon Fischer

I think he does sort of have this patina of independence. But I don't think he is all that independent from the White House.