Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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!

Bob Odenkirk

In the end, the thing that really stays with you is not that you were clever enough to connect a sketch to another sketch, but what really sticks with you is when you just have an incredible moment happen, or execute a really funny idea.

Edith Wharton

...and wondering where he had read that clever liars give details, but that the cleverest do not.

Eddie Long

You can't undo yesterday, you can work on today, tomorrow, you will wonder how you screwed up 2 days in a row

Eddie Marsan

Mike Leigh taught me about making choices - as an actor, you choose between being honest and clever, and with Mike, it's always about being honest. I learned how to behave on a film set from Jim Broadbent. He was a great example of someone with a fantastic career who kept his feet on the ground.

Edwin Markham

Mr. Rihani is a man of ardent poetic temperament, a clever poet, and a man of unworldly ideals.

Benjamin Franklin

He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Brendan Behan

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

Jane Goodall

In a very unscientific statement, I feel that there's been a disconnect between this clever brain and the heart.

Jane Goodall

Here we are, the most clever species ever to have lived. So how is it we can destroy the only planet we have?

Jane Goodall

Empathy is really important.. Only when our clever brain and our human heart work together in harmony can we achieve our full potential.

Antony Beevor

The great help of being in the Army is to understand why are the armies clever in what they describe as emotional intelligence, making soldiers come to terms with the death of comrades by certain rituals.

Denise Mina

Most of the people who write to me are really clever, really engaged. They just want to say that they have read my book and liked it.