Quotes about clever
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 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 smart people
He's clever,' thought Ivan,' I must admit there are some smart people even among the intelligentsia Mikhail Bulgakov
clever temptation resistance
I can resist anything but the temptation to make a clever witticism. Oscar Wilde
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 stealing chicks
If you really dig a chick, you should talk to her, not steal her picture. Michael Nesmith
clever expression should-have
Education without social action is a one-sided value because it has no true power potential. Social action without education is a weak expression of pure energy. Deeds uninformed by educated thought can take false directions. When we go into action and confront our adversaries, we must be as armed with knowledge as they. Our policies should have the strength of deep analysis beneath them to be able to challenge the clever sophistries of our opponents. Martin Luther King, Jr.
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 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 sick nuisance
I am sick to death of cleverness. Everybody is clever nowadays.
clever long hearing
I like hearing myself talk. It is one of my greatest pleasures. I often have long conversations all by myself. Sometimes I am so clever I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.
clever book writing
If you're going to have a book full of clever people and nobody ever jokes, it's just not going to ring true to the reader. That said, humor writing is the hardest kind of writing there is. Patrick Rothfuss
clever people important
Humor is important. If you're going to tell any sort of realistic story, you're going to have to have humor in it, because people are funny. Clever people especially.
clever cat thinking
I have an apple that thinks its a pear. And a bun that thinks it’s a cat. And a lettuce that thinks its a lettuce." "It’s a clever lettuce, then." "Hardly," she said with a delicate snort. "Why would anything clever think it’s a lettuce?" "Even if it is a lettuce?" I asked. "Especially then," she said. "Bad enough to be a lettuce. How awful to think you are a lettuce too.
clever boys doors
I take back everything I ever said about that boy being clever." He turned around to face the bar while leveling an accusatory finger at the closed door. "That," he said firmly to the room in general, "is what comes of working with iron every day.
clever keeping-your-mouth-shut half
Half of seeming clever is keeping your mouth shut at the right times.
clever giving directors
If a film is very clever and well-written, that's what gives you freedom as a director. Patrice Leconte
clever fun hate
Never drink diet soda. It shows you have no nerve. Only drink real colas, caffeine-packed energy drinks, or vitamin water. Hate champagne because that’s what everyone expects you to love. Energy drinks are the best party drinks. You never get tired, you never get a hangover, and you can make fun of all the loaded people who think they’re clever but are really acting stupid. Paris Hilton
clever rude
To be rude is as good as being clever. Letitia Elizabeth Landon
clever book vision
One of the most extraordinary examples in recent decades [of unitary visions of constitutional enterprise] is found in a book called "Takings"... Epstein makes an extremely clever but stunningly reductionist argument that the whole Constitution is really designed to protect private property... Can a constitution reflecting as diverse an array of visions and aspirations as ours really be reducible to such as sadly single-minded vision as that? Laurence Tribe
clever party cutting
It is a truth universally acknowledged that one only comes up with clever, cutting remarks long after the other party is happily slumbering away. Lauren Willig
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.
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.