Quotes about clever
clever today tomorrow
Good executives never put off until tomorrow what they can get someone else to do today. John C. Maxwell
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 half men mr none
The clever men at Oxford,Know all that there is to be knowed. But they none of them know one half as much, As intelligent Mr Toad. Kenneth Grahame
clever half men mr none oxford
The clever men at Oxford / Know all that there is to be knowed. / But they none of them know one half as much / As intelligent Mr Toad.
cleverness human jackie nature planning predict prepare run smack wall
All he has is his wits. He's not a superhero. He doesn't have any Jackie Chan martial-arts moves, ... And every episode, his planning and preparation and cleverness run smack into the wall of fate, chance, accident, human nature -- things you can't predict or prepare for. Wentworth Miller
clever fear halloween
You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you. Eric Hoffer
clever people important
As so often, the ordinary rank and file of the electorate have seen a truth, an important fact, which has escaped so many more clever people the underlying value of that which is traditional, that which is prescriptive. Enoch Powell
clever men walking-forward
A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward. Franklin D. Roosevelt
clever style doubt
Elton John himself never seems pretentious but Bernie Taupin's lyrics often do - sometimes pretentious in a clever sort of way, but pretentious nonetheless. There is a conflict between Elton's and Bernie's personal styles, no doubt about it. Jon Landau
clever love-you men
Somewhere in this world is a man who loves you, who understands how precious and clever and kind you are. A man who has always loved you and, to his detriment, suspects he always will. Jojo Moyes
clever intelligent valleys
Never stay up on the barren heights of cleverness, but come down into the green valleys of silliness. Ludwig Wittgenstein
clever wicked wickedness
The wicked are always surprised to find that the good can be clever. Luc de Clapiers
clever unfair beneficial
All that is unfair, offends us if it's not beneficial for us
clever insult taunting
A graceful taunt is worth a thousand insults. Louis Nizer
clever men trying
A fool tries to look different: a clever man looks the same and is different. John Buchan
clever heart modern victoria
Victoria is a clever satirist, ... She understands the awfulness that's at the heart of a lot of modern culture. Trevor Nunn
clever children fate
Come in, Bean. Come in Julian Delphiki, longed-for child of good and loving parents. Come in, kidnapped child, hostage of fate. Come and talk to the Fates, who are playing such clever little games with your life. Orson Scott Card
clever pathways hell
How clever of me. I have found such a pathway into hell that I can never get back out.
clever enemy stronger
From now on the enemy is more clever than you. From now on the enemy is stronger than you. From now on you are always about to lose.
clever man perhaps ready rough somewhat
You, for example, clever to a fault, / The rough and ready man that write apace, / Read somewhat seldomer, think perhaps even less.
clever justice ifs
If they are just, they are better than clever. Sophocles
clever tired reality
Most people tire of a lecture in ten minutes; clever people can do it in five. Sensible people never go to lectures at all. But the people who do go to a lecture and who get tired of it, presently hold it as a sort of grudge against the lecturer personally. In reality his sufferings are worse than theirs. Stephen Leacock
clever loneliness jealous
So, now I shall talk every night. To myself. To the moon. I shall walk, as I did tonight, jealous of my loneliness, in the blue-silver of the cold moon, shining brilliantly on the drifts of fresh-fallen snow, with the myriad sparkles. I talk to myself and look at the dark trees, blessedly neutral. So much easier than facing people, than having to look happy, invulnerable, clever. Sylvia Plath
clever smart numbers
...the number one reason knitters knit is because they are so smart that they need knitting to make boring things interesting. Knitters are so compellingly clever that they simply can't tolerate boredom. It takes more to engage and entertain this kind of human, and they need an outlet or they get into trouble. "...knitters just can't watch TV without doing something else. Knitters just can't wait in line, knitters just can't sit waiting at the doctor's office. Knitters need knitting to add a layer of interest in other, less constructive ways. Stephanie Pearl-McPhee
clever years dangerous
Cleopatra stood at one of the most dangerous intersections in history; that of women and power. Clever women, Euripides had warned hundreds of years earlier, were dangerous. Stacy Schiff
clever fighting ideas
At one time my only wish was to be a police official. It seemed to me to be an occupation for my sleepless intriguing mind. I had the idea that there, among criminals, were people to fight: clever, vigorous, crafty fellows. Later I realized that it was good that I did not become one, for most police cases involve misery and wretchedness-not crimes and scandals. Soren Kierkegaard
clever philosophy expectations
My scholarly expectation is then that I may succeed in becoming clever in philosophy in spite of my stupidity.
clever stupid philosophy
I am so stupid that I cannot understand philosophy; the antithesis of this is that philosophy is so clever that it cannot comprehend my stupidity. These antitheses are mediated in a higher unity; in our common stupidity.
clever rip passion
The individual (no matter how well-meaning he might be, no matter how much strength he might have, if only he would use it) does not have the passion to rip himself away from either the coils of Reflection or the seductive ambiguities of Reflection; nor do the surroundings and times have any events or passions, but rather provide a negative setting of a habit of reflection, which plays with some illusory project only to betray him in the end with a way out: it shows him that the most clever thing to do is nothing at all.
clever war men
I cannot see the war as historians see it. Those clever fellows study all the facts and they see the war as a large thing, one of the biggest events in the legend of the man, something general, involving multitudes. William Saroyan
clever way speak
To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves. Nothing is often a good thing to say, and always a clever thing to say. Will Durant
clever real writing
Lots of people working in cryptography have no deep concern with real application issues. They are trying to discover things clever enough to write papers about Whitfield Diffie
clever heart political
I do love poop. I can't help it. The heart wants what it wants. I enjoy being clever and pithy and political, but nothing's going to get me like dumb stuff. Sarah Silverman