Quotes about clever
clever regret als
But a slow, deeply satisfied smile came over him, and his breath quickened. 'So softly it starts,' he whispered. 'Foolishly clever and with an unsurvivable trust. It just saved your miserable life, that questionable show of thought, my itchy-witch.' Al’s smile shifted, becoming lighter. 'And now you will live to possibly regret it. Kim Harrison
clever choices despair
There were no more choices, no more options, no more clever ways out of a tough situation. And the rush, I realized in a brutal wash of despair, is a false god I’ve chased my entire life. One that cost me everything in the blind search for sensation. My entire existence amounted to nothing.
clever thinking games
I think people really appreciate clever commercials, as do I. I think they're very entertaining. You just have to wade through all the garbage. That's one of the reasons people watch the Super Bowl. A lot of them watch it to see the commercials and not the actual game. Kevin Nealon
clever player knowing
Imagine how foolish you'd look if, like one clever salesman who once pitched to me, you tried to license your product to a big industry player without knowing they just launched a competing product. With the right background research, he could have avoided that and other landmines - and so can you. Kevin O'Leary
clever years ideas
It seems to take me about five years to get a record together, which is not a clever idea. Ian Hunter
clever humor life looks sees showing
He really is a poet. He is chronicling life from an 18-year-old's perspective. He's not showing off with long words, but with clever sentences. He looks around him and sees there is humor there.
clever crazy today
It used to be that painters were crazy and sculptors clever. Today it's the other way around. Giorgio de Chirico
clever roaming-around labyrinth
There are things roaming around inside my head as clever as Theseus in the Labyrinth. It's just that nobody ever gave them the necessary piece of string, so they'll never find their way out. Geraldine McCaughrean
clever fool bigs
Clever as I am, I remain just as big a fool as anyone else. J. K. Rowling
clever speaks-out games
Many are whispering that Voldemort must be behind it. However, that is the point: They whisper. They daren’t confide in each other, not knowing whom to trust; they are scared to speak out, in case their suspicions are true and their families are targeted. Yes, Voldemort is playing a very clever game. Declaring himself might have provoked open rebellion: Remaining masked has created confusion, uncertainty, and fear.
clever fear games
Voldemort is playing a very clever game. Declaring himself might have provoked open rebellion. Remaining masked has created confusion, uncertainty, and fear.
clever design needs
Sometimes there is simply no need to be either clever or original. Ivan Chermayeff
clever mistake men
Things that would have made fame of a less clever man seemed tricks in his hands. It is a mistake to do things too easily. H. G. Wells
clever eye psych
What are the hallmarks of a competent writer of fiction? The first, it seems to me, is that he should be immensely interested in human beings, and have an eye sharp enough to see into them, and a hand clever enough to draw them as they are. The second is that he should be able to set them in imaginary situations which display the contents of their psyches effectively, and so carry his reader swiftly and pleasantly from point to point of what is called a good story. H. L. Mencken
clever thinking guy
I couldn't think of one clever way to stop this guy, so I just trusted to mindless violence. Grant Morrison
clever children men
A clever child brought up with a foolish one can itself become foolish. Man is so perfectible and corruptible he can become a fool through good sense. Georg C. Lichtenberg
clever work crazy
We are obliged to regard many of our original minds as crazy at least until we have become as clever as they are.
clever women believe
Seducing one's neighbor to a good opinion and then afterwards believing devoutly in this neighbor's opinion--who can match women in this clever ploy? Friedrich Nietzsche
clever passion men
Passion often renders the most clever man a fool, and sometimes renders the most foolish man clever. Francois de La Rochefoucauld
clever good-luck men
A clever man reaps some benefit from the worst catastrophe, and a fool can turn even good luck to his disadvantage.
clever men enough
There are but very few men clever enough to know all the mischief they do.
clever eye mind
The most clever and polite are content with only seeming attentive while we perceive in their mind and eyes that at the very time they are wandering from what is said and desire to return to what they want to say.
clever silly men
No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does.
cleverness deceptive
Too great cleverness is but deceptive delicacy, true delicacy is the most substantial cleverness.
clever passion men
Passion makes idiots of the cleverest men, and makes the biggest idiots clever.
clever people lucky
There are no accidents so unlucky from which clever people are not able to reap some advantage, and none so lucky that the foolish are not able to turn them to their own disadvantage.
clever men evil
There is scarcely any man sufficiently clever to appreciate all the evil he does.
clever desire becoming
The desire of appearing clever often prevents our becoming so.
clever opportunity people
There are no circumstances, however unfortunate, that clever people do not extract some advantage from.
clever fall men
A clever man should handle his interests so that each will fall in suitable order of their value.
clever people easier
It's easier to know people in general than one person in particular
clever desire cleverness
The desire to seem clever often keeps us from being so.
cleverness knows principal
The principal point of cleverness is to know how to value things just as they deserve.