Quotes about clever
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— Richelle Mead
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 tests firsts
Oh, here's a clever one. Do you remember this question from the first test?It reads, 'What wrong with this statement?' And do you know what Constance wrote in reply? She wrote, 'What's wrong with you? Trenton Lee Stewart
clever men fool
The silliest woman can manage a clever man; but it needs a very clever woman to manage a fool. Rudyard Kipling
clever mistake men
For the female of the species is more deadly than the male. A woman's guess is much more accurate than a man's certainty. Take my word for it, the silliest woman can manage a clever man; But it takes a very clever woman to manage a fool. I never made a mistake in my life; At least, never one that I couldn't explain away afterwards
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 understanding brain
Those who are clever, who have a brain, never understand anything. Walt Disney
clever thinking age
I see that I've become a really bad correspondent. It's not that I don't think of you. You come into my thoughts often. But when you do it appears to me that I owe you a particularly grand letter. And so you end in the "warehouse of good intentions": "Can't do it now." "Then put it on hold." This is one's strategy for coping with old age, and with death--because one can't die with so many obligations in storage. Our clever species, so fertile and resourceful in denying its weaknesses. Saul Bellow
clever people may
People may say that what I do is very clever, but it's not really at all. It's not Swift. Rory Bremner
clever people sides
People often get the wrong impression of Mick. The clever businessman is just one side of Mick. The other side is the same as the rest of us, a true rocker! Ronnie Wood
clever ideas political
It has always seemed slightly uncomfortable, the idea of politicised musicians. Very few of them are clever enough to do it; if they're good at the political side, the music side suffers, and vice versa. Robert Smith
clever ideas russia
The idea that if you are very clever you shouldn't be an actor would be laughable in Russia. Samuel West
clever order prose-and-poetry
I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry; that is, prose = words in their best order; - poetry = the best words in the best order. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
clever use members
If the EU and its 25 member states make a clever use of all policy instruments, broadband for all Europeans is certainly not out of reach by 2010. Viviane Reding
clever men thinking
So now the question is, basically, right now, how will the Osama Bin Laden tape affect the election? And I have a feeling that it could tilt the election a bit. In fact, I'm a little inclined to think that Karl Rove, the political manager at the White House, who is a very clever man, that he probably set up bin Laden to this thing. Walter Cronkite
clever ideas people
No, I'm not clever. I've always cared more for people than for ideas. Virginia Woolf
clever offering enough
I was clever enough to know that John Donne was offering something that was awfully enjoyable. I just wasn't clever enough to actually enjoy it. Wallace Shawn
clever thinking artist
There is only one difference between a madman and me. The madman thinks he is sane. I know I am mad. Salvador Dali
clever flower men
The first man to compare the cheeks of a young woman to a rose was obviously a poet; the first to repeat it was possibly an idiot.
clever people feelings
I'm suspicious of people who talk about their feelings to the whole world Salma Hayek
clever forever
Though I'm anything but clever, I could talk like that forever. W. S. Gilbert
clever book cooking
Be subtle, various, ornamental, clever, And do not listen to those critics ever Whose crude provincial gullets crave in books Plain cooking made still plainer by plain cooks. W. H. Auden
clever mean danger
I mean, anyone can let Danger out but the really clever thing is finding somewhere for it to go afterwards. Tove Jansson
clever ironic watches
A lot of modern comedies are difficult to watch too, because they're so ironic and so detached and so quote-unquote clever. They kind of keep you at arm's length. They can be really funny, but they're not really nourishing. Ty Burrell
clever children curiosity
Experimental novels are sometimes terribly clever and very seldom read. But the story that appeals to the child sitting on your knee is the one that satisfies the curiosity we all have about what happened then, and then, and then. This is the final restriction put on the technique of telling a story. A basic thing called story is built into the human condition. It's what we are; it's something to which we react. William Golding
clever men fool
A fool is a person who guesses and gets it wrong, a clever man is one who guesses, regardless of time period, and gets it right. Voltaire
clever tyrants
Clever tyrants are never punished.
clever teenager stupid
The interior of a teenager’s mind is an endless war between Stupid and Clever. William Landay