Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jane Austen

Emma Woodhouse, handsome, clever, and rich, with a comfortable home and happy disposition, seemed to unite some of the best blessings of existence; and had lived nearly twenty-one years in the world with very little to distress or vex her.

Jason Calacanis

You should know what makes one photo brilliant and another. Why one illustration is instructive and another is banal. Why one blurb is clever and another is trying too hard. Why one video is brilliantly entertaining and another is cheesy. Bottom line: you should want to do great work with a great team-no matter the cost.

Arthur Conan Doyle

It's a wicked world, and when a clever man turns his brain to crime it is the worst of all.

Arthur Conan Doyle

Life, it turns out, is infinitely more clever and adaptable than anyone had ever supposed.

Anton Chekhov

Try to be original in your play and as clever as possible; but don't be afraid to show yourself foolish; we must have freedom of thinking, and only he is an emancipated thinker who is not afraid to write foolish things.

Baltasar Gracian

Two kinds of people are good at foreseeing danger: those who have learned at their own expense, and the clever people who learn a great deal at the expense of others.

Arundhati Roy

Going to Oxford didn't necessarily make a person clever.

Anthony Trollope

I know no place at which an Englishman may drop down suddenly among a pleasanter circle of acquaintance, or find himself with a more clever set of men, than he can do at Boston.

Anthony Trollope

One wants in a Prime Minister a good many things, but not very great things. He should be clever but need not be a genius; he should be conscientious but by no means strait-laced; he should be cautious but never timid, bold but never venturesome; he should have a good digestion, genial manners, and, above all, a thick skin.

Anthony Trollope

A Minister can always give a reason; and, if he be clever, he can generally when doing so punish the man who asks for it. The punishing of an influential enemy is an indiscretion; but an obscure questioner may often be crushed with good effect.

C. S. Lewis

A clever arrangement of bad eggs will never make a good omelet.

Charles Darwin

I have no great quickness of apprehension or wit which is so remarkable in some clever men, for instance Huxley

Charles Darwin

I have been speculating last night what makes a man a discoverer of undiscovered things; and a most perplexing problem it is. Many men who are very clever - much cleverer than the discoverers - never originate anything.

Blaise Pascal

Those who are clever in imagination are far more pleased with themselves than prudent men could reasonably be.

Billie Piper

In the next few years I'd love to play a female version of Doctor Who. I know exactly how I would play her - she would be crafty in a clever kind of way.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Dissimulation is innate in woman, and almost as much a quality of the stupid as of the clever.

Aristophanes

When men drink, then they are rich and successful and win lawsuits and are happy and help their friends. Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever.

Aristophanes

Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever.

Eliezer Yudkowsky

I'm lazy! I hate work! Hate hard work in all its forms! Clever shortcuts, that's all I'm about!

Susan B. Anthony

Cyling has done more to emancipate women than anything else in the world

Bob Dole

The White House is not being very clever in how it takes on our plan, .. In fact the White House is being sloppy. They are taking everything Bob Dole has ever said we ought to do regarding taxes and adding all of those things up and saying it will cost $800 billion.

Billy Collins

Particularly when I thought of myself as a Wallace Stevens acolyte, I wrote very difficult poetry and I was really guilty of not knowing what I was talking about. I was going for a kind of clever verbal effect. I was trying to sound linguistically or verbally interesting. I had a sense, I guess, from just reading a lot of poetry of how a poem would start and how it would end but really I didn't know what I was doing. It had very little connection to my life.

Brandon Sanderson

However a man who was honest and clever was always, ALWAYS more difficult to scam than someone who was both dishonest and clever. Sincerity. It was so difficult , by definition, to fake.

Brandon Sanderson

Entropy shakes its angry fist at you for being clever enough to organize the world. (p 2)

Brandon Sanderson

If you are anything like me --- Clever, fond of goat cheese, and devilishly handsome --- then you have undoubtedly read many books.

Brandon Sanderson

The problem with being clever, Serene thought with a sigh, is that everyone assumes you're always planning something.

Barbara Mertz

I have learned that particularly clever ideas do not always stand up under close scrutiny.

Craig Ferguson

I'm crazy. I know I'm crazy 'cause Desmond Tutu told me, and he's very clever. He said, 'You must free yourself, be more of who you are. Be more crazy.' And I'm going to.

Elizabeth Hurley

A bit of lusting after someone does wonders for the skin.

Barbara Ehrenreich

Natural selection, as it has operated in human history, favors not only the clever but the murderous.

Brian Tracy

Most companies, 97 percent or more, put all their focus on clever advertising and clever taglines to get people to buy average or mediocre products. You need to back off and offer a really good product or service.

Brian Kernighan

If you're as clever as you can be when you write it, how will you ever debug it?

Brian Henson

We are deeply saddened to hear about the passing of Jonathan Hardy. The clever wit and joy he brought to his performance of Rygel was a true gift to the world of Farscape. My sincerest condolences go out to Jonathan's family and to his many fans around the world.