Quotes about clever
clever winning government
To straddle the middle ground and win elections, we have to be in charge of the political agenda. This can only be done by not being beaten in the argument with our critics. They complain that I come down too hard on their arguments. But wrong ideas have to be challenged before they influence public opinion and make for problems. Those who try to be clever at the expense of the government should not complain if my replies are as sharp as their criticisms. Lee Kuan Yew
clever thinking imagination
Daisy was a consciously happy young woman without any of the usual endowments that make for conscious happiness, money apart. She was not pretty, she was not clever, she had no friends, no talents, nor even an imagination to make her think she was happy when she was really miserable. As she was never miserable, she had no need of an imagination. Laura Riding
clever smart shopping
Sephora's business is really smart and clever - I'm all for anything that gets people up and out and into the social experience of shopping. Marc Jacobs
clever ambition simple
I think I have an inner confidence that my tastes are pretty simple, that what I find funny finds a wide audience. I'm not particularly intellectual or clever or minority-focused in my creative instincts. And I'm certainly not aware of suppressing more sophisticated ambitions. Rowan Atkinson
clever hard-work years
I haven't had a cramp since '99. That was my only time, in Davis Cup, when I was panicky. I was young. I'm very proud of that. Never pulled out. Never had cramps. Never lost very much because of fitness, especially later on in my career where I knew I've put in the hard work. I've done that. I've been very fortunate and clever as well to understand how I need to work, when I need to work. So I'm very happy to have stayed injury free for so long. I hope I can still maintain a few good years on the tour. I really hope so. Roger Federer
clever mean thinking
A narrative thread gives people permission to think about other things whilst being carried by its flow. It does not mean that one has to compromise one's vision, or question formal concerns. It's just being more subtle and clever by having one accessible thread. Sally Potter
clever heart desire
let's get away from all the clever humans who put words in our mouth let's only say what our hearts desire. Rumi
clever quality female
Take male strategies for success in the world. If you've got all the advantages, if you're attractive and clever and all of that, you will generally go for very high quality females. Susan Blackmore
clever awards publicity
Awards sell tickets, and they're a clever publicity stunt. Tony Randall
clever stupid men
One has the idea of a stupid man as perfectly healthy and ordinary, and of illness as making one refined and clever and unusual. Thomas Mann
clever stupid men
I never heard tell of any clever man that came of entirely stupid people. Thomas Carlyle
clever past imagination
Many sci-fi authors, we know, are as clever and tricky as so many Coyotes. Ms. Le Guin, though, has matured from the vividness and imagination she had from the beginning into wisdom and a clearsightedness that reaches past sympathy. Tom Shippey
clever writing together
There’s no way to really preserve a person when they’ve gone and that’s because whatever you write down it’s not the truth, it’s just a story. Stories are all we’re ever left with in our head or on paper: clever narratives put together from selected facts, legends, well edited tall tales with us in the starring roles Steven Hall
clever people energy
I no longer find such pleasure in that preeminently good society, of which I was once so fond. It seems to me that beneath a cloak of clever talk it proscribes all energy, all originality. If you are not a copy, people accuse you of being ill-mannered. Stendhal
clever people internet
The great thing about the Internet is, it has made it easier for people who are clever and resourceful to promote themselves. Shepard Fairey
clever littles patient
Maybe I'm a little biased, but shows like 'Dexter' and 'Southland,' I'm just enthralled by that sort of storytelling, kind of clever and patient. Shawn Hatosy
clever way enough
There is always a way out for those clever enough to find it. Rick Riordan
clever heart passion
There is not a passion so strongly rooted in the human heart as envy. Richard Brinsley Sheridan
clever white mad
O Lord, Sir - when a heroine goes mad she always goes into white satin.
clever people choices
The throne we honour is the people's choice.
clever looks newspapers
The newspapers! Sir, they are the most villainous - licentious -abominable - infernal - Not that I ever read them - No - I make it a rule never to look into a newspaper.
clever speech aspersion
An aspersion upon my parts of speech!
clever rivals headstrong
She's as headstrong as an allegory on the banks of the Nile.
clever tales makers
Tale-bearers are as bad as the tale-makers.
clever reading writing
You write with ease, to show your breeding, But easy writing's vile hard reading.
clever gallantry conscience
Conscience has no more to do with gallantry than it has with politics.
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I was struck all on a heap.
clever memories our-memories
Illiterate him, I say, quite from your memory.
clever aversion littles
'Tis safest in matrimony to begin with a little aversion.
clever pineapples politeness
He is the very pineapple of politeness.
clever people lasts
Our ancestors are very good kind of folks; but they are the last people I should choose to have a visiting acquaintance with.
clever trying quarrels
The quarrel is a very pretty quarrel as it stands - we should only spoil it by trying to explain it.
clever hands cowardice
My valour is certainly going! - it is sneaking off! - I feel it oozing out as it were at the palms of my hands!