Famous Quotes & Sayings

Adrian Rogers

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

Alexis de Tocqueville

I have always thought it rather interesting to follow the involuntary movements of fear in clever people. Fools coarsely display their cowardice in all its nakedness, but the others are able to cover it with a veil so delicate, so daintily woven with small plausible lies, that there is some pleasure to be found in contemplating this ingenious work of the human intelligence.

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.

Aaron Sorkin

I would love for people to think that I am as quick, clever, smart and heroic as the characters that I write, but those characters are characters.

Alan Thicke

I've always felt that improv looks and feels more clever when you're there to experience it live than when you have the degree of separation that television creates. Television raises expectations.

She made me feel so uncomfortable because she's very clever, very smart player. She knows exactly where to put the ball. It's like I had no rhythm.

Bill Cosby

George Carlin is brilliant with words, and Johnny Winters is very creative. It's taking something common and drawing out the humor, being clever with words.

Antonia Fraser

I love hearing details of writers' craft, as cannibals eat the brains of clever men to get cleverer.

Bertrand Russell

Man is a rational animal—so at least I have been told. … Aristotle, so far as I know, was the first man to proclaim explicitly that man is a rational animal. His reason for this view was … that some people can do sums. … It is in virtue of the intellect that man is a rational animal. The intellect is shown in various ways, but most emphatically by mastery of arithmetic. The Greek system of numerals was very bad, so that the multiplication table was quite difficult, and complicated calculations could only be made by very clever people.

Geoff Ogilvy

That wasn't very smart. It's not the first time (Woods) has been motivated by something someone said to the press. That probably wasn't the most clever thing. Any motivation for 18 holes can help.

Sergei Bubka

It is not enough to be strong, you must work with your mind and be a clever person who can calculate. It's like having a small computer in your head.

It seems I'm kind of a depressing person, ... Life's been rough. No really, I don't pick the stories that come to me. I'm not clever enough to decide where the story is going to go. The voice of the narrator comes to me and then the setting comes and then the time.

Mahmoud Abbas

That made sense, but maybe in hindsight it doesn't look so clever.

Witold Walczak

This clever tactical repackaging of creationism does not merit consideration. Intelligent design admits that it is not science unless science is redefined to include the supernatural.

George Eliot

If I could only fancy myself clever, it would be better, but to be a failure of Nature and to know it is not a comfortable lot. It is the last lesson one learns, to be contented with one's inferiority -- but it must be learned.

a very clever pick, because nobody knows anything about her.

Terry Gilliam

If you're going to be one of the sheep, that our clever marketing technique lures into the theater, you're going to be in trouble. I want people to love it or hate it. I don't want people to say, 'Oh, that was OK, not so bad.' We want to get responses from people, see if they are alive.

I have not heard anything definite. But something will have to be sorted out. We know the market is there for mobile TV and DVH-B is a very clever and powerful system.

Oscar Wilde

Society produces rogues, and education makes one rogue cleverer than another.

Kary Mullis

A lot of people studying this disease are looking for clever little pathways they can piece together that will show how this works.

It was a lucky win. We weren't very clever in our play but we took our chance.

Michael Leunig

Clever modern man is so witless that he thinks moral silence and empty conscience are an advantage.

Before you criticize someone, you should walk a mile in their shoes. That way when you criticize them, you are a mile away from them and you have their shoes.

Eva Longoria

That's typical Gabrielle, ... Marc has a very clever plan for this pregnancy. It's going to turn her world upside down

Henry Moore

Clever people can copy the handwriting of an artist - it's like forging a person's signature.

Henri Frederic Amiel

Cleverness is serviceable for everything, sufficient for nothing.

Henri Frederic Amiel

Clever people will recognize and tolerate nothing but cleverness.

Cassandra Clare

But am I clever and right or clever and wrong?

Cassandra Clare

Medium clever,” Simon acknowledged. “Like a cross between George Clooney in Ocean’s Eleven and those MythBusters guys, but, you know, better-looking.” “I’m always so glad I have no idea what you’re vacantly chattering about,” said Jace. “It fills me with a sense of peace and well-being.

Eoin Colfer

I have to tell you, Arty, a screw up this early in the proceedings doesn’t exactly fill me with confidence. I hope you’re as clever as you keep telling everyone you are.” “I never tell anybody exactly how clever I am. They would be too scared...

Eoin Colfer

I never tell anyone exactly how clever I am. They would be too scared.