Clever Quotes

A fool tries to look different: a clever man looks the same and is different.

But it is a pipe." "No, it's not," I said. It's a drawing of a pipe. Get it? All representations of a thing are inherently abstract. It's very clever.

beware the clever man that makes the wrong look right

I don't like this idea of division: that if you're a clever woman then you've got to be a particular way. Because men don't. Men please themselves.

I think Hillary Clinton's a very clever politician but she would be too easy to stereotype the way John Kerry was.

Put a very clever man next to a genius, his brightness will immediately turn to dullness!

In a stupid society, a clever man can come into the power; but in a clever society no stupid can come into the power!

Only the clever men can be flexible; others are condemned to remain as rigid!

When you hear a word, think about it, no matter how dull it sounds! Because on the second thought, it may sound very clever!

Wise man is a lake full with fishes; clever man is a fisherman who often visits this lake!

Meadowlark Lemon is one very clever man, unique and truly one of a kind.

My dad is a great manager. He's not just competent - he's very clever.

If a film is very clever and well-written, that's what gives you freedom as a director.

The Paris attack was highly sophisticated, well-planned, very clever, took months in the making, very much like 9/11. And there is a 9/11-style attack coming to America.

Now Einstein was a very clever man, with us all his philosophies he shared, He gave us the theory of relativity, which is E equals M C squared.

["John F. Kennedy" movie] was just really clever storytelling.

I was very precocious. I was pleased with myself. I thought I was very good-looking and I thought I was very clever - and I was.

People may say that what I do is very clever, but it's not really at all. It's not Swift.

Mark Jones is mad as a hatter. But, he's great. He's really, really into music. I know he's married and he's got two wonderful children, but his life is music. And he's very clever with it.

And she’s very clever, Peeta. Well, she was. Until you outfoxed her

But don't worry; as I've been saying - and this has been very clever of me, I'm sure you'll agree - if you put enough pressure on coal, it'll turn to pearls!

You are very clever," said the old man shyly. "I would like to eat your brains, one day.

I never heard tell of any clever man that came of entirely stupid people.

I love Woody Allen. He's very clever, always thinking, and he's great with actors. He lets actors do what they want to do and occasionally he'll give them a specific kind of direction.

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.

They tried to be too clever---and that was their undoing.

There are a lot of songs that would ostensibly be a good candidate for parody, yet I can't think of a clever enough idea.

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.

When President Nixon said that the American people don't want their foreign policy dictated from the street, unfortunately, he said the most clever political statement I think he's ever said.

Man is extraordinarily clever in preventing himself from being happy; it would seem that the less able he is to endure misfortune the more apt he is to attach himself to it.

I can't quite see the point of poems like "Wittgenstein Goes for a Walk with A Hawk in Sherwood Forest." I know they're trying to be clever, but they're not.

Instead of seeking wisdom, liberals desire to be seen as clever by being counterintuitive, crazy, and outre.

What would you think if all your thoughts reached heaven?

Creating new paths requires moving old obstacles.

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.

Seeking to know is too often learning to doubt

Going to Oxford didn't necessarily make a person clever.

Nature's kind of clever, because it figured out millions of years ago that if you grow these fibers below a critical size, even if you have flaws in the material, it doesn't affect the strength.

Is this true or only clever?

Injustice towards others is a threat to everybody

Life doesn't reward the naturally clever or strong but those who can learn to fight and work hard and never quit.

The songwriting of Hall & Oates is deceptively complex. There are a number of key changes that pass you by as you're listening to the song because they're so seamless and clever.

In the next few years I'd love to play a female version of Doctor Who. I know exactly how I would play her - she would be crafty in a clever kind of way.

I don't want clever conversation, I never want to work that hard, I just want someone I can talk to, I want you just the way you are.

However a man who was honest and clever was always, ALWAYS more difficult to scam than someone who was both dishonest and clever. Sincerity. It was so difficult , by definition, to fake.

What I strive to do with songwriting is be really honest, authentic and try to be open and share that with people. I choose that over trying to be clever, poetic, or lyrical.

His face had become very red and his mouth and fingers were sticky. He did not look either clever or handsome, whatever the Queen might say.

Lightning is like an elementary spirit, eccentric or rational, clever or silly, passing from one extreme to the other.

But am I clever and right or clever and wrong?

But if you must be clever, then be clever. Be brave. Sleep with fists closed and shoot straight.