Quotes about clever
clever intelligent valleys
Never stay up on the barren heights of cleverness, but come down into the green valleys of silliness. Ludwig Wittgenstein
clever wicked wickedness
The wicked are always surprised to find that the good can be clever. Luc de Clapiers
clever unfair beneficial
All that is unfair, offends us if it's not beneficial for us
clever insult taunting
A graceful taunt is worth a thousand insults. Louis Nizer
clever men trying
A fool tries to look different: a clever man looks the same and is different. John Buchan
clever crash dummy goes hill original people races rumor ski
The dummy races are always popular. People get graded for how clever and original the dummy is, how well it goes down the hill and how spectacular the crash is -- it goes over a ski jump. Rumor has it that one of the dummies will look like me this year.
clever half men mr none
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. Kenneth Grahame
clever half men mr none oxford
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.
clever fear halloween
You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you. Eric Hoffer
clever people important
As so often, the ordinary rank and file of the electorate have seen a truth, an important fact, which has escaped so many more clever people the underlying value of that which is traditional, that which is prescriptive. Enoch Powell
clever believe policy
Clever policy consists in making nations believe they are free. Napoleon Bonaparte
clever opportunity men
All great events hang by a single thread. The clever man takes advantage of everything, neglects nothing that may give him some added opportunity; the less clever man, by neglecting one thing, sometimes misses everything.
clever protect feels
I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them. Orson Welles
clever noble opponents
Most observers of the French Revolution, especially the clever and noble ones, have explained it as a life-threatening and contagious illness. They have remained standing with the symptoms and have interpreted these in manifold and contrary ways. Some have regarded it as a merely local ill. The most ingenious opponents have pressed for castration. They well noticed that this alleged illness is nothing other than the crisis of beginning puberty. Novalis
clever addiction ironic
We tend to get what we expect. Norman Vincent Peale
clever doe alarms
If liberalism has grown so weak and ineffective, why does it evoke such alarm on the part of conservatives? It turns out that while liberals are weak and spineless, they are also sneaky and clever. Eric Alterman
clever contained fun shows subtle
Not that our shows weren't bad, but there were instances that were very subtle and contained really clever writing that is not on TV, especially in kids' TV, today, ... Not that our shows were genius, but they were fun to watch. Sam Roberts
clever creep determined height people question rules system watch
These people should have been put under a watch list; to let them creep back into procurement is the height of irresponsibility. Reform, in the end, is really a question of people and you can put in all the rules and regulations you want, but clever determined people who know the system well will find a way of getting around the rules. Edward Luck
clever cleverness move public relations
This is a very clever move, and probably more a public relations move than anything else.
clever
Once more they showed how clever they are. Robert Taylor
clever
You think you're so clever but I can see you. Go away! Zara Phillips
cleverness hindsight maybe
That made sense, but maybe in hindsight it doesn't look so clever. Mahmoud Abbas
clever few games given pennant players race swing
They can take the players they're given and by deploying them in a clever way, swing the pennant race not by 10-20 games but by a few games.
clever decide depressing narrator pick seems setting stories voice
It seems I'm kind of a depressing person, ... Life's been rough. No really, I don't pick the stories that come to me. I'm not clever enough to decide where the story is going to go. The voice of the narrator comes to me and then the setting comes and then the time.
clever teenager responsibility
Teenagers are extremely funny, and extremely clever and intellectually curious. But they're also willing to ask questions about the meaning of life without disguising them around irony, and ask questions about what are our responsibilities to other people without having to couch it in irony. John Green
clever drawing abstract
But it is a pipe." "No, it's not," I said. It's a drawing of a pipe. Get it? All representations of a thing are inherently abstract. It's very clever.
clever unique men
Meadowlark Lemon is one very clever man, unique and truly one of a kind. Mickey Rooney
clever writing people
You lose your anonymity just like a helium balloon with a string. Therefore people are going to have their own opinion and they're going to write in whatever clever manner they desire Kim Basinger
clever way
Everybody is clever, just in their own ways Matt Groening
clever soul requirements
I saw how greatly he suffered the requirement of being clever. It separated him from his soul, and it didn't get him anything other than a living Mark Helprin
clever work-out something-new
Being clever was when you looked at how things were and used the evidence to work out something new. Mark Haddon
clever mind literature
No one wants to know how clever you are. They don't want an insight into your mind, thrilling as it might be. They want an insight into their own.
clever boys thinking
I'm not a boy-writer, I've never been. I wanted to be a boy-writer when I was young, and I think that held me back. I wanted to be very clever, and funny, but I'm not very clever and not terribly funny. I've finally accepted my limits, and I do what I can do. Paul Auster