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.

William John Wills

Our clothes are going to pieces fast. Send provisions as soon as possible.

Jamey Wright

We have the pieces to the puzzle. We have a lot of weapons.

Karlyn Supple

We have a lot of speed. We just have to put the puzzle pieces together.

Ken Williams

I still have 17 pieces of shrapnel in my neck.

Tom Carr

We have taken in some real pieces of junk.

Jill Buford

I don't think any one of these is the solution. It's going to be a combination of them all. This is just a big puzzle and we need to put all the pieces together.

Jacqueline Grebmeier

Here we put all the pieces of the puzzle together.

Charlie Batch

He's been able to put this together and make sure the right pieces are in place. And we were pieces of this team.

Cary Elwes

Im something of a history buff. Its deliberate that a lot of my films have been period pieces.

Betsey Johnson

I'm not the type of person who dwells too much on bad things.

Djuna Barnes

I talk too much because I have been made so miserable by what you are keeping hushed.

Bryce Courtenay

Words are like diamonds. Polish them too much, and all you get are pebbles.

Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa

When you start working on a series, it's almost too much work. It's like a movie a week.

Alan Ladd

Maybe I thought too much about picking up the money and not enough about the really good parts.

Charles Spurgeon

Don't rely too much on labels, for too often they are fables

China Mieville

Everything has changed. I cannot be used anymore. Those days are over. I know too much. What I do now, I do for me.

Edward Gorey

Z is for Zillah who drank too much gin.

David Hockney

It's no good saying I wished I could go out more, because I can't. But I don't bother about it too much.