Famous Quotes & Sayings

James Fixx

Much of my good fortune was a matter of nothing more clever on my part than luck.

Atharva Veda

O camel-like mind, you are so fickle; give up your cleverness and corruption.

Michael Pachter

My guess is they want to sell high- definition discs. You want to get the high-definition monitor owners drooling. It's clever marketing.

Robert Harris

My father left school at 14, my mother at 13. My father was clever and well-read. He took a newspaper, always watched the news, discussed it all the time.

Tina Brown

Obama's gift for delivering set-piece oratorical tours de force had special resonance to Americans fed up with a president who could hardly string two words together without a collision of syntax and whose idea of clever was the single entendre.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

What we shall need is not geniuses, or cynics, or misanthropes, or clever tacticians, but plain, honest, straghtforward men.

Edsger Dijkstra

The competent programmer is fully aware of the limited size of his own skull. He therefore approaches his task with full humility, and avoids clever tricks like the plague.

Warren Spector

From a gameplay standpoint, I've said for years that hero, fiction, and tone have nothing to do with the idea that choices have consequences. And that's really what I'm interested in. I care about you showing how clever and creative you are.

Elizabeth Bowen

Mr. [Aldous] Huxley has been the alarming young man for a long time, a sort of perpetual clever nephew who can be relied on to flutter the lunch party. Whatever will he say next? How does he think of those things? He has been deplored once or twice, but feeling is in his favor: he is steadily read. He is at once the truly clever person and the stupid person's idea of the clever person; he is expected to be relentless, to administer intellectual shocks.

Atharva Veda

O camel-like mind, you are so fickle; give up your cleverness and corruption.

Monk Frost

Only puppets react to the string drawn by the wealthy.

Christopher Fowler

The queen of crime, Agatha Christie, was always more concerned about the clockwork cleverness of the plot, never the investigator.

Leon Kass

Limits have to be set on how far one can simply use the... cleverness that we have to make changes.

Francois VI Duc de La Rochefoucauld

It is great cleverness to know how to conceal our cleverness.

Steve Bruce

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

Winston Churchill

When you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.

Bill Cosby

Is the glass half full, or half empty?It depends on whether you're pouring, or drinking.

Iveta Benesova

She made me feel so uncomfortable because she's very clever, very smart player. She knows exactly where to put the ball. It's like I had no rhythm.

Pat Conroy

There are other writers who try for subtle and minimalists effects, but I don't travel in that tribe.

Ruth Ginsburg

What is subtle about what is described here?

Paul Muni

Nature's far too subtle to repeat herself.

Michael Schudson

The power of ads rests more in the repetition of obvious exhortations than in the subtle transmission of values.

Todd Hollenshead

In the movie, there's a little more subtlety of where they come from, ... Do they actually come from within us and how?

Norah Jones

A lot of my music is slow and subtle. The subtly is what I enjoy about making music.

Laurell K. Hamilton

Ma petite is not a subtle woman. Unless you say it, she will not understand it.

Roger Scruton

Kant's position is extremely subtle - so subtle, indeed, that no commentator seems to agree with any other as to what it is.