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?

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.

e. e. cummings

O gouvernment francais, I think it was not very clever of You to put this terrible doll in La Ferte; for when Governments are found dead there is always a little doll on top of them, pulling and tweaking with his little hands to get back at the microscopic knife which sticks firmly in the quiet meat of their hearts.

E. B. White

I’ve got a new friend, all right. But what a gamble friendship is! Charlotte is fierce, brutal, scheming, bloodthirsty—everything I don’t like. How can I learn to like her, even though she is pretty and, of course, clever?

Douglas Hofstadter

I would proclaim that the vast majority of what [say, Scientific American] is true-yet my ability to defend such a claim is weaker than I would like. And most likely the readers, authors, and editors of that magazine would be equally hard pressed to come up with cogent, non-technical arguments convincing a skeptic of this point, especially if pitted against a clever lawyer arguing the contrary. How come Truth is such a slippery beast?

Eric Beder

the whole urban style has been co-opted by preppies.

Brian Henson

So while you're trying to improvise, you're also trying to puppeteer, you're doing everything that you need to do to perform a puppet in our style, for a camera.

Diana Vreeland

Money has nothing to do with style at all, but naturally it helps every situation.

Demi Lovato

My personal style is kind of sophisticated edgy, I guess. I wear a lot of black and it's what I feel comfortable in.

Eddie Van Halen

I was so used to doing old blues licks with the first three fingers. When I started using my pinky and finding more spread things, that's when I started getting my own style.

Sandra Ford

Let's face it, there are no plain women on television.

John Adams

There's just a real style to these boats.

Hao Fang

We just wanted to keep the style of the magazine.

Douglas Adams

I seem to be having tremendous difficulty with my life-style

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.

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.

Greg Biffle

We got ourselves into a little hole in Daytona. But I have no doubt this team will turn it around this weekend.