Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ellie Goulding

I would never create an image for myself; I'm not that clever.

Ellie Goulding

My fans are so funny, they make me laugh so much. I've got some really, really, funny, clever fans.

Elizabeth Goudge

But a hare, now, that is a different thing altogether. A hare is not a pet but a person. Hares are clever and brave and loving, and they have fairy blood in them. It’s a grand thing to have a hare for a friend.

Elizabeth Gilbert

To show a longing for anything that one cannot have, for instance, is not a clever position.

Judith Viorst

Passionate investment leaves us vulnerable to loss. And sometimes, no matter how clever we are, we must lose.

Kate Morton

I want to be independent. To meet interesting people. ... I just mean new people with clever things to say. Things I've never heard before. I want to be free. Open to whatever adventure comes along and sweeps me off my feet.

Kate Moss

Calvin was very clever. We did the pictures and made the commercial, and that really worked.

John Keegan

The great Chinese classics have always said that it's better not to fight; that the clever man achieves his ends without violence; that a battle delayed is better than a battle fought.

Livy

Men are only clever at shifting blame from their own shoulders to those of others.

Livy

Envy is blind, and is only clever in depreciating the virtues of others.

Lyndon LaRouche

The ruling British elite are like animals--not only in their morality, but in their outlook on knowledge. They are clever animals, who are masters of the wicked nature of their own species, and recognize ferally the distinctions of the hated human species. Nonetheless, obsessively dedicated to being such animals, they can not [sic] assimilate those qualities unique to true human beings.

Lyndon B. Johnson

"All men are created equal." "Government by consent of the governed." "Give me liberty or give me death." And those are not just clever words, and those are not just empty theories.

Malcolm McDowell

The most dangerous people are always clever, compelling, and charismatic.

Gene Wolfe

Then I could not help wondering what the watching gods thought of us, with our clever masks and our jokes. What we think of crickets, perhaps, whose singing we hear with pleasure, though some of us smash them with our heels when they venture into sight.

Fred Wilson

Foursquare's adoption of a game dynamic when it launched is a particularly clever implementation of a social hook.

Josh Billings

It is a statistical fact that the wicked work harder to reach hell than the righteous do to enter heaven

Karl Kraus

The secret of the demagogue is to make himself as stupid as his audience so they believe they are clever as he.

Otto von Bismarck

The less people know about how sausages and laws are made, the better they'll sleep at night

Paul Di Filippo

Immensely clever and libidinously hilarious.The most astonishing thing about Love in a Dead Language is its ingenious construction. Insofar as any printed volume can lay claim to being a multimedia work, this book earns that distinction.

Patrick Warburton

So, deadpan I think just means not acknowledging for one second that you think that this is funny and clever.

Haruki Murakami

Has the dark shadow really disappeared? Or is it inside me, concealed, waiting for its chance to reappear? Like a clever thief hidden inside a house, breathing quietly, waiting until everyone’s asleep. I have looked deep inside myself, trying to detect something that might be there. But just as our consciousness is a maze, so too is our body. Everywhere you turn there’s darkness, and a blind spot. Everywhere you find silent hints, everywhere a surprise is waiting for you.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

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

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?

Gilbert K. Chesterton

The doctrine of human equality reposes on this: that there is no man really clever who has not found that he is stupid.

John Buchan

A fool tries to look different: a clever man looks the same and is different.

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

This was quite a clever statement. They get economics out of the way and that's pretty accurate.

Jim Dale

I'd rather get a good clean laugh with good material, than an easy laugh by swearing or shocking. That's not clever or comedic, anybody can get a laugh that way, it's too easy.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Clever people, people who are cunning, do not know what love is because their minds are so sharp, because they are so clever, because they are so superficial - which means to be on the surface, and love is not a thing that exists on the surface.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Thought is so cunning, so clever, that it distorts everything for its own convenience.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Fear is the destructive energy in man. It withers the mind, it distorts thought, it leads to all kinds of extraordinarily clever and subtle theories, absurd superstitions, dogmas, and beliefs.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

A mind that is always comparing, always measuring, will always engender illusion. If I am measuring myself against you, who are clever, more intelligent, I am struggling to be like you and I am denying myself as I am. I am creating an illusion.

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.