Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Charles Bukowski

there's a bluebird in my heart that wants to get out but I'm too clever, I only let him out at night sometimes when everybody's asleep. I say, I know that you're there, so don't be sad. then I put him back, but he's singing a little in there, I haven't quite let him die and we sleep together like that with our secret pact and it's nice enough to make a man weep, but I don't weep, do you?

Charles Bukowski

I'm very clever at hiding poems perhaps more clever than I am at writing them.

Elizabeth Bowen

Mr. [Aldous] Huxley has been the alarming young man for a long time, a sort of perpetual clever nephew who can be relied on to flutter the lunch party. Whatever will he say next? How does he think of those things? He has been deplored once or twice, but feeling is in his favor: he is steadily read. He is at once the truly clever person and the stupid person's idea of the clever person; he is expected to be relentless, to administer intellectual shocks.

Deepak Chopra

Treat every moment as a gift, that is why it is called the present.

David Bowie

Religion is for people who fear hell, spirituality is for people who have been there.

I am not clear that God manoeuvres physical things? After all, a conjuring trick with bones only proves that it is as clever as a conjuring trick with bones

Samuel Butler

There is no bore like a clever bore.

Traditionally, the stock market does well in the first year of recovery because you have a sharp rise in productivity and moderating wage demands, so unit labor costs plunge and profits grow rapidly. All the data tell you that is happening. What's weighing on the market is the recognition that the last three years' earnings were largely created by clever accountants rather than strong fundamentals.

A. S. Byatt

Why do we take pleasure in gruesome death, neatly packaged as a puzzle to which we may find a satisfactory solution through clues - or if we are not clever enough, have it revealed by the all-powerful tale-teller at the end of the book? It is something to do with being reduced to, and comforted by, playing by the rules.

Adolf Hitler

Through clever and constant application of propaganda, people can be made to see paradise as hell, and also the other way round, to consider the most wretched sort of life as paradise.

Adele Faber

From their struggles to establish dominance over each other, siblings become tougher and more resilient. From their endless rough-housing with each other, they develop speed and agility. From their verbal sparring they learn the difference between being clever and being hurtful. From the normal irritations of living together, they learn how to assert themselves, defend themselves, compromise. And sometimes, from their envy of each other's special abilities they become inspired to work harder, persist and achieve.

Ann Coulter

Instead of seeking wisdom, liberals desire to be seen as clever by being counterintuitive, crazy, and outre.

Andrea Bocelli

I don't like being called 'macho.' Macho basically means stupid and a real Italian man is not macho, he's smart. That's smart in both senses: elegant and clever.

Michael Young

Today we frankly recognize that democracy can be no more than aspiration, and have rule not so much by the people as by the cleverest people; not an aristocracy of birth, not a plutocracy of wealth, but a true meritocracy of talent.

Elaine Stritch

Making clever speeches takes a lot of work and a lot of time.

Alberto Moravia

War has become an affair of machines...and soldiers are little more than clever mechanics.

A. N. Wilson

The really clever people now want to be lawyers or journalists.

A. A. Milne

Pooh hasn't much Brain, but he never comes to any harm. He does silly things and they turn out right. There's Owl. Owl hasn't exactly got Brain, but he Knows Things. He would know the Right Thing to Do when Surrounded by Water. There's Rabbit. He hasn't Learnt in Books, but he can always Think of a Clever Plan. There's Kanga. She isn't Clever, Kanga isn't, but she would be so anxious about Roo that she would do a Good Thing to Do without thinking about it. And then there's Eeyore. And Eeyore is so miserable anyhow that he wouldn't mind about this.

A. A. Milne

But now I am six. And I'm clever as clever. And now I think I'll stay six now forever and ever.

A. A. Milne

When I was One, I had just begun. When I was Two, I was nearly new. When I was Three I was hardly me. When I was Four, I was not much more. When I was Five, I was just alive. But now I am Six, I'm as clever as clever, So I think I'll be six now for ever and ever.

Aeschylus

[Hermes addresses Prometheus :] To you, the clever and crafty, bitter beyond all bitterness, who has sinned against the gods in bestowing honors upon creatures of a day--to you, thief of fire, I speak.

Agatha Christie

They tried to be too clever---and that was their undoing.

Adrian Rogers

When you educate without the Holy Spirit, you only get a clever devil.

Will Durant

One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.

Only puppets react to the string drawn by the wealthy.

Much of my good fortune was a matter of nothing more clever on my part than luck.

O camel-like mind, you are so fickle; give up your cleverness and corruption.

Jane Austen

How clever you are, to know something of which you are ignorant.

Jane Austen

She was sensible and clever, but eager in everything; her sorrows, her joys, could have no moderation.

Jane Austen

I . . . am always half afraid of finding a clever novel too clever--& of finding my own story & my own people all forestalled.