Quotes about clever
clever couple writing
We had met with Ben Stiller here in LA when I was shooting The Ring and he was doing Meet The Fockers and we have friends in common. But we didn't know each other well. He's fantastic and we really had a great time on this and we were both laughing at where we were at, this other couple, and how it was mirroring what we were going through as well. It was clever writing in that way. Naomi Watts
clever hate hatred
Take care that no one hates you justly. Publilius Syrus
clever men reputation
Take from a man his reputation for probity, and the more shrewd and clever he is, the more hated and mistrusted he becomes. Marcus Tullius Cicero
clever kids men
I was a weedy kid, not like one of those working-class men who can accommodate not being academically clever by physical strength and prowess. Ken Livingstone
clever silly thinking
People think you can't be clever if you have breasts. Kelly Brook
clever blood games
Yet I have a clever touch and pander to your vices. While looking on in exultation. And so I play my game, with the exuberance of experience, the strange and terribly subtle final aims of my Asiatic Blood that remain a mystery to you. Paul Meyer
clever philosophy loss
There is no good talking to him," said a Dragon-fly, who was sitting on the top of a large brown bulrush; "no good at all, for he has gone away." "Well, that is his loss, not mine," answered the Rocket. "I am not going to stop talking to him merely because he pays no attention. I like hearing myself talk. It is one of my greatest pleasures. I often have long conversations all by myself, and I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying." "Then you should definitely lecture on Philosophy," said the Dragon-fly. Oscar Wilde
clever people sick
I am sick to death of cleverness. Everybody is clever nowadays. You can't go anywhere without meeting clever people. The thing has become an absolute public nuisance. I wish to goodness we had a few fools left. ALGERNON: We have. JACK: I should extremely like to meet them. What do they talk about? ALGERNON: The fools? Oh! about the clever people of course. JACK: What fools.
clever mean hypocrisy
How clever are you, my dear! You never mean a single word you say!
clever weakness charm
She is very clever, too clever for a woman. She lacks the indefinable charm of weakness.
clever temptation resistance
I can resist anything but the temptation to make a clever witticism.
clever intelligent men
My idea of the perfect man would be someone intelligent and clever enough, but also kind and compassionate enough to stand up to me - to stand up to me with compassion. Madonna Ciccone
clever men ass
At 50, a man can be an ass without being an optimist but not an optimist without being an ass Mark Twain
clever lying blood
The Bible is full of interest. It has noble poetry in it; and some clever fables; and some blood-drenched history; and some good morals; and a wealth of obscenity; and upwards of a thousand lies. This Bible is built mainly out of fragments of older Bibles that had their day and crumbled to ruin. So it noticeably lacks in originality, necessarily. Its three or four most imposing and impressive events all happened in earlier Bibles; there are only two new things in it: hell, for one, and that singular heaven I have told you about.
clever law lunch
A good lawyer knows the law; a clever one takes the judge to lunch.
clever men ideas
I don't like this idea of division: that if you're a clever woman then you've got to be a particular way. Because men don't. Men please themselves. Marian Keyes
clever teenager responsibility
Teenagers are extremely funny, and extremely clever and intellectually curious. But they're also willing to ask questions about the meaning of life without disguising them around irony, and ask questions about what are our responsibilities to other people without having to couch it in irony. John Green
clever drawing abstract
But it is a pipe." "No, it's not," I said. It's a drawing of a pipe. Get it? All representations of a thing are inherently abstract. It's very clever.
clever way
Everybody is clever, just in their own ways Matt Groening
clever soul requirements
I saw how greatly he suffered the requirement of being clever. It separated him from his soul, and it didn't get him anything other than a living Mark Helprin
clever work-out something-new
Being clever was when you looked at how things were and used the evidence to work out something new. Mark Haddon
clever mind literature
No one wants to know how clever you are. They don't want an insight into your mind, thrilling as it might be. They want an insight into their own.
clever stealing chicks
If you really dig a chick, you should talk to her, not steal her picture. Michael Nesmith
clever ignorance men
There's a road to hell that is paved with good intentions but it's a long route. The quicker path is paved with the kind of ignorance that clever men who just don't want to know are best at. Mark Lawrence
clever intelligent people
Clever people seem not to feel the natural pleasure of bewilderment, and are always answering questions when the chief relish of a life is to go on asking them.
clever real stupid
As is so often the case with pieces that appear in the Onion, I honestly could not decide whether this was a clever hoax or not - the arguments were almost exactly as stupid as the real thing. Christopher Hitchens
clever real smart
System uptime, data protection, and identity theft are weighty issues. It takes real ingenuity to out-think the fraudsters who are trying to steal identities and hack into enterprise systems. The 12 smart companies that debuted security solutions today at DEMO have designed serious, and seriously clever, innovations. Chris Shipley
clever thinking people
It's the people who try to be clever who never are; the people who are clever never think of trying to be. Gilbert Parker
clever leaving germany
Both Einstein and Freud were clever in leaving Germany, because both of them would doubtlessly have been caught by Himmler and murdered. Hans Frank
clever men good-man
Credulity is always a ridiculous, often a dangerous failing: it has made of many a clever man, a fool; and of many a good man, a knave. Frances Wright
clever causes energy
Sometimes the very learned and clever can be brilliantly foolish, especially when seized by an apparently good cause. George Pell
clever eunuchs versions
Clever is the eunuch version of funny. George Meyer
clever school boys
As Littlewood said to me once [of the ancient Greeks], they are not clever school boys or "scholarship candidates," but "Fellows of another college." G. H. Hardy