Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

People more easily tolerate opposition than a contradiction

Thandie Newton

[We assume] that the self is an actual living thing, but it's not. It's a projection which our clever brains create in order to cheat ourselves from the reality of death.

Terry Pratchett

Stupid men are often capable of things the clever would not dare to contemplate...

Terry Pratchett

These weren't cheap modern books; these were books bound in leather, and not just leather, but leather from clever cows who had given their lives for literature after a happy existence in the very best pastures.

Kimora Lee Simmons

You don't have to dumb down - you just have to find a clever, good, secure man. I've found a couple - I've been lucky - but it's probably hard for everybody to find that true love of a good man.

Kin Hubbard

Some fellows get credit for being conservative when they are only stupid.

Melissa Etheridge

There's been so many different types of musicals, and it's a funny genre because there's a fine line between clever and stupid. It really takes a genius to know how to do it.

Michael Parkinson

So much interviewing these days is about the presenter - I?m a clever boy, I?m going to be smart with people; or it?s a trivial - how do you like your eggs boiled?

Sam Donaldson

But as a young kid, I never did, really have an ambition to be a farmer. I never thought, gee, I would like to farm, and I want to raise these crops. I didn't quite know what I wanted to do.

Raymond Loewy

I sought excitement and, taking chances, I was all ready to fail in order to achieve something large.

Ira Glass

It is only by going through a volume of work that you will close that gap, and your work will be as good as your ambitions.

Natalie Massenet

I'm supporting the School for Creative Startups because the project's ambition - to boost innovation and the culture of entrepreneurship - is something I feel strongly about.

Berthe Morisot

My ambition is limited to the desire to capture something transient, and yet, this ambition is excessive.

Carrie Fisher

Ambition is exhausting. It makes you friends with people for the wrong reasons, just like drugs.

Char Miller

The ambition of the mayor to get into the heart of the community is quite laudable. However, shutting off streets will do the exact opposite. If you have no way to get to Main Plaza, you have no reason to go there.

Jenny Offill

Some women make it look so easy, the way they cast ambition off like an expensive coat that no longer fits.

Jason Gardener

It has always been my ambition to win a major outdoor title and that will be the plan at the Commonwealths.

Charles Bukowski

Intellectuals say simple things in difficult ways. Artists say difficult things in simple ways.

Charles Bukowski

An artist is a man who says a difficult thing in a simple way

Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

When you are knitting socks and sweaters and scarves, you aren't just knitting. You are assigning a value to human effort. You are holding back time. You are preserving the simple unchanging act of handwork.

Michael Behe

The basic structure of proteins is quite simple: they are formed by hooking together in a chain discrete subunits called amino acids.

Maurice Saatchi

Simplicity is all. Simple logic, simple arguments, simple visual images. If you can't reduce your argument to a few crisp words and phrases, there's something wrong with your argument. There's nothing long-winded about 'Liberté, égalité, fraternité'.

Max Euwe

Capablanca did not apply himself to opening theory (in which he never therefore achieved much), but delved deeply into the study of end-games and other simple positions which respond to technique rather than to imagination.

Max Lerner

I have a simple principle for the conduct of life- never to resist an adequate temptation.

Maureen Forrester

I have been all over the world. I have met some wonderful people, lots of them very simple, whom nobody will ever hear about, but who have been fabulous to me.

Matthew Tobin Anderson

…It’s like a spiral: They keep making everything more basic so it will appeal to everyone. And gradually, everyone gets used to everything being basic, so we get less and less varied as people, more simple. So the corps make everything even simpler. And it goes on and on.