Famous Quotes & Sayings

Brendan Behan

Message? What the hell do you think I am, a bloody postman?

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.

Bertrand Russell

Our great democracies still tend to think that a stupid man is more likely to be honest than a clever man.

Bertrand Russell

A stupid man's report of what a clever man says can never be accurate, because he unconsciously translates what he hears into something he can understand.

Benjamin Disraeli

If you're not very clever you should be conciliatory.

Benjamin Disraeli

Nine-tenths of the existing books are nonsense and the clever books are the refutation of that nonsense.

Kenneth Grahame

The clever men at Oxford, know all that there is to be knowed. But they none of them know one half as much, as intelligent Mr. Toad.

Rafael Benitez

He's a clever player, he plays well between the lines he can play on the right or the left side. He gives us more chances, more opportunities, more space and more game intelligence.

It is great cleverness to know how to conceal our cleverness.

Kyle was very clever tonight, and he did some things with Jason at midfield to create some opportunities on goal.

It's quite similar to guitar solos, only with programming you have to use your brain. The most important thing is that it should have some emotional effect on me, rather than just, 'Oh, that's really clever.'

He was one of a kind. Not only did he have a great voice, he didn't pander to the lowest common denominator. He did word games, all sorts of clever stuff. He was very entertaining.

There is hardly a man clever enough to recognize the full extent of the evil he does.

He handles himself very well with people, and he rides a very, very clever race. He lets horses run away from the gate, and he places them. And then he sits still, and he watches. If somebody goes outside, he goes inside. Or somebody goes inside, he goes outside. He knows how to cover all bases.

Steve Bruce

He is going to have an X-ray but it is not looking very clever.

He is a very clever and subtle negotiator.

If the fraud is clever enough, it is likely that referees and editors will not notice it.

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.

Douglas Adams

ABOYNE (vb.) To beat an expert at a game of skill by playing so appallingly that none of his clever tactics or strategies are of any use to him.

Doris Lessing

Capable people do not understand incapacity; clever people do not understand stupidity.

e. e. cummings

O gouvernment francais, I think it was not very clever of You to put this terrible doll in La Ferte; for when Governments are found dead there is always a little doll on top of them, pulling and tweaking with his little hands to get back at the microscopic knife which sticks firmly in the quiet meat of their hearts.

E. B. White

I’ve got a new friend, all right. But what a gamble friendship is! Charlotte is fierce, brutal, scheming, bloodthirsty—everything I don’t like. How can I learn to like her, even though she is pretty and, of course, clever?

Douglas Hofstadter

I would proclaim that the vast majority of what [say, Scientific American] is true-yet my ability to defend such a claim is weaker than I would like. And most likely the readers, authors, and editors of that magazine would be equally hard pressed to come up with cogent, non-technical arguments convincing a skeptic of this point, especially if pitted against a clever lawyer arguing the contrary. How come Truth is such a slippery beast?

Alberto Moravia

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

Anne Rice

It's so easy to persecute an older, overweight, unwise, crude, ignorant woman who may very well be a good person at heart who has achieved a great deal in her life. So easy to vilify her and hate her and try to destroy her life. Woe to anyone today who is not slender, young, clever and politically correct.

Amelia Warner

It so depends on each script, because you can say... I always thought I wouldn't have wanted to do something that was kind of like as big and commercial as 'The Dark is Rising,' but I really liked the script. I thought it was really clever.

Ambrose Bierce

Death is not the end. There remains the litigation over the estate.

Ambrose Bierce

Witticism. A sharp and clever remark, usually quoted and seldom noted; what the Philistine is pleased to call a joke.

Anthony Hopkins

I've been composing music all my life and if I'd been clever enough at school I would like to have gone to music college.