Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kenneth Grahame

The clever men at Oxford, know all that there is to be knowed. But they none of them know one half as much, as intelligent Mr. Toad.

Rafael Benitez

He's a clever player, he plays well between the lines he can play on the right or the left side. He gives us more chances, more opportunities, more space and more game intelligence.

Francois VI Duc de La Rochefoucauld

There is hardly a man clever enough to recognize the full extent of the evil he does.

Richard D. James

It's quite similar to guitar solos, only with programming you have to use your brain. The most important thing is that it should have some emotional effect on me, rather than just, 'Oh, that's really clever.'

Ray Walker

He was one of a kind. Not only did he have a great voice, he didn't pander to the lowest common denominator. He did word games, all sorts of clever stuff. He was very entertaining.

Steve Bruce

He is going to have an X-ray but it is not looking very clever.

Robert Smith

It has always seemed slightly uncomfortable, the idea of politicised musicians. Very few of them are clever enough to do it; if they're good at the political side, the music side suffers, and vice versa.

Viviane Reding

If the EU and its 25 member states make a clever use of all policy instruments, broadband for all Europeans is certainly not out of reach by 2010.

Walter Cronkite

So now the question is, basically, right now, how will the Osama Bin Laden tape affect the election? And I have a feeling that it could tilt the election a bit. In fact, I'm a little inclined to think that Karl Rove, the political manager at the White House, who is a very clever man, that he probably set up bin Laden to this thing.

Rob Corddry

I remember interviewing someone I actually felt bad for, and therefore didn't want to take an ironic stance against him. It actually turned out to be a really funny piece.

Michael Harrison

It's ironic two things are going on at the same time. There's a real predisposition in FM radio to entertaining new talk formats, just as they're losing their major talk talent.

Philip Levine

It's ironic that while I was a worker in Detroit, which I left when I was twenty six, my sense was that the thing that's going to stop me from being a poet is the fact that I'm doing this crummy work.

Joseph Conrad

It is respectable to have no illusions, and safe, and profitable and dull.

Julian Barnes

Irony - The modern mode: either the devil’s mark or the snorkel of sanity.

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Irony is the form of paradox. Paradox is what is good and great at the same time.

John Gunther

Count Hermann Keyserling once said truly that the greatest American superstition was the belief in facts.

Joe Wright

I find it ironic that happy endings now are called fairytale endings because there's nothing happy about most fairytale endings.

Henry James

Don’t underestimate the value of irony—it is extremely valuable.

Rob Corddry

Apparently it's cool to watch The Daily Show.

Richard Dawkins

I sympathize with politicians who have to watch every syllable they utter for fear it will be misused by somebody with an agenda.

Will Estes

I don't really get a chance to watch much television. I mostly watch BBC Worldwide and repeats of Seinfeld and Everybody Loves Raymond

Sarah Palin

The news makes me sad, so I don't watch it.

Tracy Morgan

You will be surprised but I do a lot of studying and I watch National Geographic.

Verne Troyer

It's hard for me to even watch comedies I'm in.

Robert Walpole

Persons extremely reserved are like old enamelled watches, which had painted covers, that hindered your seeing what o'clock it was.

Robert Winston

I love the French detective series 'Spiral.' It's quite brutal to watch, but I'm already hooked.

Sarah Mlynowski

Biological clock? I don't even own a watch.