Famous Quotes & Sayings

Orson Scott Card

Come in, Bean. Come in Julian Delphiki, longed-for child of good and loving parents. Come in, kidnapped child, hostage of fate. Come and talk to the Fates, who are playing such clever little games with your life.

Orson Scott Card

How clever of me. I have found such a pathway into hell that I can never get back out.

Orson Scott Card

From now on the enemy is more clever than you. From now on the enemy is stronger than you. From now on you are always about to lose.

You, for example, clever to a fault, / The rough and ready man that write apace, / Read somewhat seldomer, think perhaps even less.

Bill Cosby

Is the glass half full, or half empty?It depends on whether you're pouring, or drinking.

I should think it's pretty sophisticated. Any judge with a sense of humor and a very clever man, which Peter Smith is, is going to do pretty well.

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 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.

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

Peter McWilliams

People who want to appear clever rely on memory. People who want to get things done make lists.

Orson Scott Card

I need you to be clever, Bean. I need you to think of solutions to problems we haven't seen yet. I want you to try things that no one has ever tried because they're absolutely stupid.

David Archuleta

I love Sara Bareilles. She's just so clever. I wish I were her. She's so awesome.

David Attenborough

I don't think we are going to become extinct. We're very clever and extremely resourceful - and we will find ways of preserving ourselves, of that I'm sure. But whether our lives will be as rich as they are now is another question.

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.

Kurt Vonnegut

How embarrassing to be human.

Vandana Shiva

Seen from a monocultural perspective, manipulating objects is very, very clever. But seen from a multidimensional perspective, from a perspective of diversity, this is extremely crude because what we have lost out on is a cow that serves as a source of sustainable energy.

Daniel Kahneman

I don't try to be clever at all. The idea that I could see what no one else can is an illusion.

D. H. Lawrence

And still I look for the men who will dare to be roses of England wild roses of England men who are wild roses of England with metal thorns, beware! but still more brave and still more rare the courage of rosiness in a cabbage world fragrance of roses in a stale stink of lies rose-leaves to bewilder the clever fools and rose-briars to strangle the machine.

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.