Quotes about clever
clever eye men
Men are born with two eyes, but with one tongue, in order that they should see twice as much as they say. Charles Caleb Colton
clever men worst
The worst sort of clever men are those who know better than the Bible. Charles Spurgeon
clever thinking stories
If a story is funny, and I made it up, then the big message is, `Aren't I clever?' .. If a story is funny and it actually happened, the big message is, `Isn't the world funny?' And actually I think that's a better message. I kind of want to think that about the world -- and it sounds less like boasting. Dave Gorman
clever media people
Social media is a giant distraction to the ultimate aim, which is honing your craft as a songwriter. There are people who are exceptional at it, however, and if you can do both things, then that's fantastic, but if you are a writer, the time is better spent on a clever lyric than a clever tweet. Bryan Adams
clever self land
...and there I suddenly found my articulate self in a dazzling land of smiling, jostling people wearing and not wearing all sorts of costumes and doing all sorts of clever things. And that's when I knew! What other life could there be but that of an actor? Cary Grant
clever dad guy
My dad's a very shrewd, clever guy. C. Thomas Howell
clever sleep brave
But if you must be clever, then be clever. Be brave. Sleep with fists closed and shoot straight. Catherynne M. Valente
clever selfish kissing
Oh, I will be cruel to you, Marya Morevna. It will stop your breath, how cruel I can be. But you understand, don’t you? You are clever enough. I am a demanding creature. I am selfish and cruel and extremely unreasonable. But I am your servant. When you starve I will feed you; when you are sick I will tend you. I crawl at your feet; for before your love, your kisses, I am debased. For you alone I will be weak.
clever garments
Twas a clever quibble. Here, a garment for it. William Shakespeare
clever people world
The world is full of people who are very clever at seeming much smarter than they really are. Kurt Vonnegut
clever two mind
Yet, isn't it strange, isn't it weird, how we can KNOW that someone is not behaving in the way we imagine, and at the same time we can be totally convinced that he is! How clever the human mind is, that it can accept two contradictory things as 'facts.' Yes, I know that in this case one 'fact' was untrue. But the human mind can KNOW something is untrue and still accept it as a 'fact,' and act on it as if it were true. Aidan Chambers
clever ideas sticks
In the end, the thing that really stays with you is not that you were clever enough to connect a sketch to another sketch, but what really sticks with you is when you just have an incredible moment happen, or execute a really funny idea. Bob Odenkirk
clever liars giving
...and wondering where he had read that clever liars give details, but that the cleverest do not. Edith Wharton
clever yesterday today
You can't undo yesterday, you can work on today, tomorrow, you will wonder how you screwed up 2 days in a row Eddie Long
clever feet careers
Mike Leigh taught me about making choices - as an actor, you choose between being honest and clever, and with Mike, it's always about being honest. I learned how to behave on a film set from Jim Broadbent. He was a great example of someone with a fantastic career who kept his feet on the ground. Eddie Marsan
clever army emotional
The great help of being in the Army is to understand why are the armies clever in what they describe as emotional intelligence, making soldiers come to terms with the death of comrades by certain rituals. Antony Beevor
clever book writing
Most of the people who write to me are really clever, really engaged. They just want to say that they have read my book and liked it. Denise Mina
clever smart hard-work
In today's world, we all live with the burden of feeling that anything is possible if we're only clever enough, smart enough, work hard enough. Elizabeth McGovern
clever thinking people
The great thing about Twitter is, you get a lot back, and I read through a lot, and I want my fans to know that I do read a lot, and it's why I do respond or retweet clever posts, and I'm constantly amazed by the cleverness of people on Twitter. I just think it's a really great tool to communicate with fans and influence conversations and raise awareness about things I'm interested in, that I think deserve some attention. Elizabeth Banks
clever men poetic
Mr. Rihani is a man of ardent poetic temperament, a clever poet, and a man of unworldly ideals. Edwin Markham
clever smart lying
For the task assigned them Men aren't smart enough or sly Any rogue can blind them With a clever lie. Bertolt Brecht
clever believe mean
By this method thousands of humans have been brought to think that humility means pretty women trying to believe they are ugly and clever men trying to believe they are fools. And since what they are trying to believe may, in some cases, be manifest nonsense, they cannot succeed in believing it and we have the chance of keeping their minds endlessly revolving on themselves in an effort to achieve the the impossible. C. S. Lewis
clever smart character
I would love for people to think that I am as quick, clever, smart and heroic as the characters that I write, but those characters are characters. Aaron Sorkin
clever expectations looks
I've always felt that improv looks and feels more clever when you're there to experience it live than when you have the degree of separation that television creates. Television raises expectations. Alan Thicke
clever thinking bills
You'll have to ask Bill that, Sookie. And this is the only reason we're going? You're not cleverly using this as an excuse to make out with me?" "I'm not that clever, Eric." "I think you deceive yourself, Sookie," Eric said with a brilliant smile. Charlaine Harris
clever innovation dozen
Clever derivatives broke dozens of companies. It killed them. Bankrupt. We don't need these kinds of innovation in finance. It's OK to be boring in finance. What we want is innovation in widgets. Charlie Munger
clever men political
To succeed in the world, it is much more necessary to possess the penetration to discern who is a fool, than to discover who is a clever man. Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
clever men political
What clever man has ever needed to commit a crime? Crime is the last resort of political half-wits.
clever writing two
While writing 'Cold Mountain,' I held maps of two geographies, two worlds, in my mind as I wrote. One was an early map of North Carolina. Overlaying it, though, was an imagined map of the landscape Jack travels in the southern Appalachian folktales. He's much the same Jack who climbs the beanstalk, vulnerable and clever and opportunistic. Charles Frazier
clever obvious subtlety
Don't be too clever for an audience. Make it obvious. Make the subtleties obvious also. Billy Wilder
clever looks tao-of-pooh
Cleverness, after all, has its limitations. Its mechanical judgments and clever remarks tend to prove inaccurate with passing time, because it doesn't look very deeply into things to begin with Benjamin Hoff
clever heart mind
A clever mind is not a heart. Knowledge doesn't really care, wisdom does.
clever motivation 4th-of-july
He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else. Benjamin Franklin