Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bill Bryson

Because we humans are big and clever enough to produce and utilize antibiotics and disinfectants, it is easy to convince ourselves that we have banished bacteria to the fringes of existence. Don't you believe it. Bacteria may not build cities or have interesting social lives, but they will be here when the Sun explodes. This is their planet, and we are on it only because they allow us to be.

Bill Cosby

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

I should think it's pretty sophisticated. Any judge with a sense of humor and a very clever man, which Peter Smith is, is going to do pretty well.

Zara Phillips

You think you're so clever but I can see you. Go away!

Sam Roberts

Not that our shows weren't bad, but there were instances that were very subtle and contained really clever writing that is not on TV, especially in kids' TV, today, ... Not that our shows were genius, but they were fun to watch.

Edward Luck

These people should have been put under a watch list; to let them creep back into procurement is the height of irresponsibility. Reform, in the end, is really a question of people and you can put in all the rules and regulations you want, but clever determined people who know the system well will find a way of getting around the rules.

This is a very clever move, and probably more a public relations move than anything else.

Robert Taylor

Once more they showed how clever they are.

Mahmoud Abbas

That made sense, but maybe in hindsight it doesn't look so clever.

Education ...it is a worldwide concept which lead to creation of MANY educated people but FEW intellectuals.

It seems I'm kind of a depressing person, ... Life's been rough. No really, I don't pick the stories that come to me. I'm not clever enough to decide where the story is going to go. The voice of the narrator comes to me and then the setting comes and then the time.

This looks to be a clever and unexpected move by the Nasdaq exchange.

Terry Gilliam

If you're going to be one of the sheep, that our clever marketing technique lures into the theater, you're going to be in trouble. I want people to love it or hate it. I don't want people to say, 'Oh, that was OK, not so bad.' We want to get responses from people, see if they are alive.

John Lubbock

If you have written a clever and conclusive, but scathing letter, keep it back till the next day, and it will very often never go at all.

I now fully understand that it was a clever ruse by the Iraqi government to enact an elaborate scheme of deception.

Carles Puyol

I don't have Romário's technique, [Marc] Overmars' pace or [Patrick] Kluivert's strength. But I work harder than the others. I'm like the student who is not as clever, but revises for his exams and does OK in the end.

Ernest Rutherford

I've just finished reading some of my early papers, and you know, when I'd finished I said to myself, 'Rutherford, my boy, you used to be a damned clever fellow.' (1911)

Erika Slezak

The worst storyline Ive ever been involved in I wasnt involved in, because I was clever enough to get pregnant with my second child and they wrote me out and they replaced me with Christine Jones. And thank God - that was the worst storyline.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

The whole point of the Eugenic pseudo-scientific theories is that they are to be applied wholesale, by some more sweeping and generalizing money power than the individual husband or wife or household. Eugenics asserts that all men must be so stupid that they cannot manage their own affairs; and also so clever that they can manage each other's.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

It seems to me,' said the other, 'That you are simply seeking a pretext to insult the Marquis.' By George!' said Syme facing round and looking at him, 'What a clever chap you are!

Gilbert K. Chesterton

We are learning to do a great many clever things. The next great task will be to learn not to do them.

Ha-Joon Chang

The Korean economic miracle was the result of a clever and pragmatic mixture of market incentives and state direction.

H. G. Wells

The fact is, the Time Traveller was one of those men who are too clever to be believed: you never felt that you saw all round him; you always suspected some subtle reserve, some ingenuity in ambush, behind his lucid frankness.

Jean de la Bruyere

A man has made great progress in cunning when he does not seem too clever to others.

Mickey Rooney

Meadowlark Lemon is one very clever man, unique and truly one of a kind.

Kim Basinger

You lose your anonymity just like a helium balloon with a string. Therefore people are going to have their own opinion and they're going to write in whatever clever manner they desire

Mike Birbiglia

There are so many people who are clever. There are 8000 people at Princeton who are more clever than the three of us at this table. BUT, we have the ability to give something that they don't have...which is us.

Ivan Chermayeff

Sometimes there is simply no need to be either clever or original.

H. G. Wells

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. L. Mencken

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.

Grant Morrison

I couldn't think of one clever way to stop this guy, so I just trusted to mindless violence.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

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

We are obliged to regard many of our original minds as crazy at least until we have become as clever as they are.