Quotes about clever
clever stupid men
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
clever men rome
Many clever men like you have trusted to civilization. Many clever Babylonians, many clever Egyptians, many clever men at the end of Rome. Can you tell me, in a world that is flagrant with the failures of civilisation, what there is particularly immortal about yours?
clever stupid men
The doctrine of human equality reposes on this: that there is no man really clever who has not found that he is stupid.
clever men trying
A fool tries to look different: a clever man looks the same and is different. John Buchan
clever crash dummy goes hill original people races rumor ski
The dummy races are always popular. People get graded for how clever and original the dummy is, how well it goes down the hill and how spectacular the crash is -- it goes over a ski jump. Rumor has it that one of the dummies will look like me this year.
clever self guilt
A culture in which guilt is automatically assumed to be neurotic and unhealthy has devised a remarkably clever way of protecting its self-interest. Jonathan Kozol
clever school eye
Our lips met hungrily, and his clever artistic hands wrapped around my hips. A sudden buzz from my regular cell phone startled me from the kissing. "Don't," said Adrian, his eyes ablaze and breathing ragged. "What if there's a crisis at school?" I asked. "What if Angeline 'accidentally' stole one of the campus buses and drove it into the library?" "Why would she do that?" "Are you saying she wouldn't?" He sighed. "Go check it. Richelle Mead
clever hands truth-is
Do what? Come up with a clever pun referencing Jerome's demonic status? The truth is, I usually keep a stash of them on hand and—
clever flirting thinking
More than his exterior hit me. I felt warm and safe just being with him. He brought comfort after my terrible day. So often with other people I felt a need to be center of attention, to be funny and always have something clever to say. It was a habit I needed to shake. But with him I never felt like I had to be anything more than what I already was. I didn’t have to entertain him or think up jokes or even flirt. It was enough to just be together, to be so completely comfortable in each other’s presence—we lost all sense of self-consciousness.
clever reading writing
And out of a desire essentially to imitate what I was reading, I began to write, like a clever monkey. Russell Banks
clever two car
When it comes to cars, only two varieties of people are possible - cowards and fools. Russell Baker
clever boxing spotlight
Dempsey himself said you only spend so much time in the spotlight before they change the bulb. He had a very clever way with words. Roger Kahn
clever lists laundry
We were clever enough to turn a laundry list into poetry. Umberto Eco
clever men fool
Show me a man or woman who cannot stand mysteries and I will show you a fool, a clever fool - perhaps - but a fool just the same. Raymond Chandler
clever humorous doors
A clever, imaginative, humorous request can open closed doors and closed minds. Percy Ross
clever worry should
One should not worry about the future, particularly if it hasn't happened yet. Mel Gibson
clever yield answers
If we keep demanding that God yield up His answers, perhaps some day we will understand them. And then we will be something more than clever apes, and we shall dance with God. Mary Doria Russell
clever ideas dinner
But I don't sit down at dinner and have clever ideas. Mark Rylance
clever men want
When a man wants a mystery, it is generally better to leave him mystified. Nobody loves a clever woman. Philippa Gregory
clever trying pasta
Eve was still frowning at the pasta like she suspected it was going to do something clever, like try to escape from the pot. Rachel Caine
clever names saws
Haagen-Dazs (a clever Scandi-sounding name invented by Americans in 1961) was bought for its Euro-sounding sophistication by the kind of Americans who first bought those Mercs and Beemers, while Ben & Jerry's (now owned by Unilever) brought a post-hippy sensibility to bear. Buyers saw the brand as saying 'all-natural, organic and Fairtrade.
clever persons knows
You cannot trust a person until you know where and how he lives Paulo Coelho
clever book boys
I don't have any one way to tell a story. I don't have any rule book of how it's supposed to be done. But I've always said that if a story would be more emotionally involving told, beginning, middle, and end, I'll tell it that way. I won't jigsaw it, just to show what a clever boy I am. I don't do anything in my script just to be clever. Quentin Tarantino
clever winning want
Emotion will always win over coolness and cleverness. It's when a scene works emotionally and it's cool and clever, then it's great. That's what you want.
clever canvas enough
It is not enough for a painter to be a clever craftsman; he must love to 'caress' his canvas, too. Pierre-Auguste Renoir
clever mean thinking
Which means that in order to defeat her, I have to think of a way to defeat myself. And how can I be a better fighter than myself, if she knows the same strategies I know, and is exactly as resourceful and clever as I am? Veronica Roth
clever people poetry
When clever people ask me where I get a poem, I despair. Robert Frost
clever philosophy secret
We dance round in a ring and suppose, but the secret sits in the middle and knows.
clever exercise people
I can assure you that there is the greatest practical benefit in making a few failures early in life. You learn that which is of inestimable importance that there are a great many people in the world who are just as clever as you are. You learn to put your trust, by and by, in an economy and frugality of the exercise of your powers, both moral and intellectual; and you very soon find out, if you have not found it out before, that patience and tenacity of purpose are worth more than twice their weight of cleverness. Thomas Huxley
clever mistake people
No mistake is so commonly made by clever people as that of assuming a cause to be bad because the arguments of its supporters are, to a great extent, nonsensical
clever responsibility color
You cannot take any people, of any color, and exempt them from the requirements of civilization - including work, behavioral standards, personal responsibility, and all the other basic things that the clever intelligentsia disdain - without ruinous consequences to them and to society at large. Thomas Sowell
clever mean common-sense
It may be expecting too much to expect most intellectuals to have common sense, when their whole life is based on their being uncommon -- that is, saying things that are different from what everyone else is saying. There is only so much genuine originality in anyone. After that, being uncommon means indulging in pointless eccentricities or clever attempts to mock or shock.
clever believe advice
My advice to you concerning applause is this: enjoy it but never quite believe it Robert Montgomery