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.

Andrew Coyle Bradley

In speaking, for convenience, of devices and expedients, I did not intend to imply that Shakespeare always deliberately aimed at the effects which he produced.

Haruki Murakami

Your work should be an act of love, not a marriage of convenience.

Henry Winkler

Mr. Cunningham would have gone over to his neighbors and had a family meeting with them and talked it out over cake. ... Happy Days

Jay Wright

Obviously this was an incredible Big East battle. We just said to ourselves, this is BIG EAST game No. 1 - it tells you what this league will be like...Timely shots by Allan Ray, Jason Frazier and Dante Cunningham kept us in the game. Every time Louisville made runs at us, those guys made big plays. Game number one in the Big East, that's what it's going to be like.

Plato

Knowledge without justice ought to be called cunning rather than wisdom.

Robert Gottlieb

We know how Merce Cunningham works and how he thinks - we've been told, over and over again, by him and by others.

Anthony Hopkins

I'm devious, cruel, cunning and addictive.

Takao Toshikawa

Koizumi has been very cunning and sly by showing this drama as reform-minded forces versus old-fashioned forces.

Keith Ashdown

Under this bill, Duke Cunningham still would be able to get away with trading bribes for earmarks.

Marta Tucker

At this point it would be speculation. It will be necessary for Mr. Cunningham to have a doctor's verification that he's able to return to work.

Chas Konopka

Cunningham and Polley were enforcers at the net.