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.

Bess Truman

It's very embarrassing to be put on the spot.

Carl T. Rowan

There aren't any embarrassing questions — just embarrassing answers.

Carl T. Rowan

There are no embarrassing answers-just embarrassing questions.

Daniel Clowes

I was 30 before I made a living that was not embarrassing.

Aldous Huxley

It’s embarrassing to tell you this, but it seems to come down mostly to just learning to be kinder.

Dakota Fanning

I never skimp on TV. I watch an embarrassing amount of TV shows. I don't even know how I do it.

Kurt Vonnegut

How embarrassing it is to be human.

Jurgen Habermas

A threatened nation can react to uncertain dangers solely through administrative channels, to the truly embarrassing situation of perhaps overreacting

Jessica Lange

It is an embarrassing time to be an American. It really is. It's humiliating.

Elizabeth Bowen

nobody ever dies of an indignity.

Brent Weeks

If embarrassment were a muscle, I'd be huge.

Colin Firth

Because I am an Englishman I spent most of my life in a state of embarrassment.

Friedrich Nietzsche

One who is always deeply involved in what he is doing is above all embarrassment.

Gwyneth Paltrow

I made a pact with myself that I'd rather have less money than be embarrassed.

Christopher Hitchens

As well as being a vulgar producer of her own spectacle, and an embarrassment to her family, Cindy Sheehan is at best a shifty fantasist.

Meg Cabot

But then I remembered something Grandmere had once assured me of: No one has ever died of embarrassment-never, not once in the whole history of time.

Marilynne Robinson

What an embarrassment that was, being somewhere because there was nowhere else for you to be.

Tony Snow

George Bush has become something of an embarrassment.