Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Alexander McQueen

Having money hasn't changed me. If anything it's made my life worse. People come up to you who knew you before you were famous and who didn't come up to you before. I'm a clever designer. I can do what the client wants. But I'm prepared to forget about money if it affects my creativity because, remember, I started off with nothing. And I can do that again.

E. L. James

I really like clever men who challenge you.

Donald Trump

I have always thought that Donald Trump was an incredibly clever politician, but he`s - at some point he`s going to become unwound and maybe this is it.

Duke of Wellington

I mistrust the judgment of every man in a case in which his own wished are concerned

Dalai Lama

Although individuals may be highly intelligent, they are sometimes dogged by skepticism and doubts. They are clever, but they tend to be hesitant and skeptical and are never really able to settle down. These people are the least receptive.

Dalai Lama

If every 8 year old in the world is taught meditation, we will eliminate violence from the world within one generation

Dick Schaap

I came up with new leads for game stories by being observant and clever, by using the many gifts of the English language to intrigue and hook a reader.

David Ogilvy

Don’t just create content to get credit for being clever — create content that will be helpful, insightful, or interesting for your target audience.

Clement Attlee

I just love Chinese food. My favourite dish is number 27

Clement Attlee

A lot of clever people have got everything except judgement

Cornelia Funke

There was another reason [she] took her books whenever they went away. They were her home when she was somewhere strange. They were familiar voices, friends that never quarreled with her, clever, powerful friends -- daring and knowledgeable, tried and tested adventurers who had traveled far and wide. Her books cheered her up when she was sad and kept her from being bored.

Cornel West

Clever gimmicks of mass distraction yield a cheap soulcraft of addicted and self-medicated narcissists.

David Liss

Seduction is an absolute pleasure to read -- clever, suspenseful, exciting, mysterious, learned, and engrossing. Some of the best historical fiction I've read in quite some time and just plain reading fun. M.J. Rose is at the top of her game, and that is saying something.

Curtis Jackson

Even the worst that happens to you can be converted into GOLD if you are clever enough.

Confucius

Clever talk can confound the workings of virtue, just as small impatiences can confound great projects.

Confucius

Straight-forwardness, without the rules of propriety, becomes rudeness.

Confucius

Clever talk and domineering manner have little to with being a Man at His Best.

Confucius

It is better to play than do nothing.

Daniel Tosh

I'm a nobody, nobody is perfect, therefore I am perfect!

Dalia Mogahed

I don't think there's any clever way for the establishment to take Donald Trump down. It's very simple. Another candidate is going to have to find a way either to out-maneuver him, or to just frankly beat him in the argument.

David Levithan

You can't actually have a romance between friends. That sort of defeats the definition of the word "romance." The word you're looking for is "love." It's a love between friends, just as there's also love between lovers, or possible lovers, or even ex-lovers. Same holds true for "bromance" - it's just a clever word used to avoid the word love, for straight boys who don't want that old-fashioned taint of gayness. Dudes, you love each other. Deal with it.

Dean Martin

You're not drunk if you can lie on the floor without holding on.

Angela Carter

The notion of a universality of human experience is a confidence trick and the notion of a universality of female experience is a clever confidence trick.

Amy Tan

I thought I was clever enough to write as well as these people and I didn't realize that there is something called originality and your own voice.

Andy Warhol

In some circles where very heavy people think they have very heavy brains, words like "charming" and "clever" and "pretty" are all put-downs; all the lighter things in life, which are the most important things, are put down.

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.

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

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.'