Famous Quotes & Sayings

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

To be rude is as good as being clever.

Laurence Tribe

One of the most extraordinary examples in recent decades [of unitary visions of constitutional enterprise] is found in a book called "Takings"... Epstein makes an extremely clever but stunningly reductionist argument that the whole Constitution is really designed to protect private property... Can a constitution reflecting as diverse an array of visions and aspirations as ours really be reducible to such as sadly single-minded vision as that?

Lauren Willig

It is a truth universally acknowledged that one only comes up with clever, cutting remarks long after the other party is happily slumbering away.

Paul Meyer

Yet I have a clever touch and pander to your vices. While looking on in exultation. And so I play my game, with the exuberance of experience, the strange and terribly subtle final aims of my Asiatic Blood that remain a mystery to you.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Take from a man his reputation for probity, and the more shrewd and clever he is, the more hated and mistrusted he becomes.

Ken Livingstone

I was a weedy kid, not like one of those working-class men who can accommodate not being academically clever by physical strength and prowess.

Kelly Brook

People think you can't be clever if you have breasts.

Elizabeth Hurley

A bit of lusting after someone does wonders for the skin.

Barbara Ehrenreich

Natural selection, as it has operated in human history, favors not only the clever but the murderous.

Mel Gibson

One should not worry about the future, particularly if it hasn't happened yet.

Mary Doria Russell

If we keep demanding that God yield up His answers, perhaps some day we will understand them. And then we will be something more than clever apes, and we shall dance with God.

Mark Rylance

But I don't sit down at dinner and have clever ideas.

Philippa Gregory

When a man wants a mystery, it is generally better to leave him mystified. Nobody loves a clever woman.

Rachel Caine

Eve was still frowning at the pasta like she suspected it was going to do something clever, like try to escape from the pot.

Haagen-Dazs (a clever Scandi-sounding name invented by Americans in 1961) was bought for its Euro-sounding sophistication by the kind of Americans who first bought those Mercs and Beemers, while Ben & Jerry's (now owned by Unilever) brought a post-hippy sensibility to bear. Buyers saw the brand as saying 'all-natural, organic and Fairtrade.

Paulo Coelho

You cannot trust a person until you know where and how he lives

Quentin Tarantino

I don't have any one way to tell a story. I don't have any rule book of how it's supposed to be done. But I've always said that if a story would be more emotionally involving told, beginning, middle, and end, I'll tell it that way. I won't jigsaw it, just to show what a clever boy I am. I don't do anything in my script just to be clever.

Quentin Tarantino

Emotion will always win over coolness and cleverness. It's when a scene works emotionally and it's cool and clever, then it's great. That's what you want.

Pierre-Auguste Renoir

It is not enough for a painter to be a clever craftsman; he must love to 'caress' his canvas, too.

Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf

Bush is a very stupid man. The American people are not stupid, they are very clever. I can't understand how such clever people came to elect such a stupid president.

Mike Holloway

[I am] loyal, ambitious and clever.

Terry Pratchett

Things like crowns had a troublesome effect on clever folk; it was best to leave all the reigning to the kind of people whose eyebrows met in the middle when they tried to think. In a funny sort of way, they were much better at it.

Terry Pratchett

You are very clever," said the old man shyly. "I would like to eat your brains, one day.

Terry Pratchett

This man was so absent-mindedly clever that he could paint pictures that didn’t just follow you around the room but went home with you and did the washing-up.

Terry Gilliam

[Steven Spielberg's films] are comforting, they always give you answers and I don't think they're very clever answers. ... The success of most Hollywood films these days is down to fact that they're comforting. They tie things up in nice little bows and give you answers, even if the answers are stupid, you go home and you don't have to think about it. ... The great filmmakers make you go home and think about it.

Ted Leonsis

A successful business is either loved or needed.

Lewis Thomas

We're as clever as we think we are, but we'll be a lot cleverer when we learn to use not just one brain but to pool huge numbers of brains. We're at a level technologically where we can share information and think collectively about our problems. We do it in science all the time - there's no reason why we can't do it in other endeavors.

Leonard Maltin

You want to make an impression. Being clever helps.

Lee Kuan Yew

To straddle the middle ground and win elections, we have to be in charge of the political agenda. This can only be done by not being beaten in the argument with our critics. They complain that I come down too hard on their arguments. But wrong ideas have to be challenged before they influence public opinion and make for problems. Those who try to be clever at the expense of the government should not complain if my replies are as sharp as their criticisms.

Laura Riding

Daisy was a consciously happy young woman without any of the usual endowments that make for conscious happiness, money apart. She was not pretty, she was not clever, she had no friends, no talents, nor even an imagination to make her think she was happy when she was really miserable. As she was never miserable, she had no need of an imagination.

Marc Jacobs

Sephora's business is really smart and clever - I'm all for anything that gets people up and out and into the social experience of shopping.

Kate Morton

I want to be independent. To meet interesting people. ... I just mean new people with clever things to say. Things I've never heard before. I want to be free. Open to whatever adventure comes along and sweeps me off my feet.

Kate Moss

Calvin was very clever. We did the pictures and made the commercial, and that really worked.