Clever Quotes

I . . . am always half afraid of finding a clever novel too clever--& of finding my own story & my own people all forestalled.

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

No guy in the history of America has ordered a Smirnoff Ice at a bar without hating himself a little.

You Cannot Live as I Have Lived and Not End Up Like This: The Thoroughly Disgraceful Life & Times of Willie Donaldson.

A man has made great progress in cunning when he does not seem too clever to others.

I understand that Republicans-running-against-Obamacare-in-order-to-save-Medicare is a clever jujitsu. But how long will they play out that argument before they get back to the economy?

I'm accused of cleverness as if it were a sin. She is merely clever, they say.

The most foolish of all errors is for clever young men to believe that they forfeit their originality in recognizing a truth which has already been recognized by others.

Messi is much more than being clever. He is a genius who reserves all his expressiveness for football.

Barack Obama is the New Generation and the hot light of a dawn that goes way beyond clever talk of morning in America.

A culture in which guilt is automatically assumed to be neurotic and unhealthy has devised a remarkably clever way of protecting its self-interest.

Passionate investment leaves us vulnerable to loss. And sometimes, no matter how clever we are, we must lose.

You are not going to waltz in here and distract me with a clever phrase and a beguiling smile." "You think my smile is beguiling?

If you’re that clever you can argue yourself into anything.

I'm a really huge John Prine fan; I love his clever conversationalist songs.

Pickup lines never work...I think someone clever, witty and funny is very attractive.

I'm such a clever Toad.

You don't have to dumb down - you just have to find a clever, good, secure man. I've found a couple - I've been lucky - but it's probably hard for everybody to find that true love of a good man.

How embarrassing to be human.

When it turned out that he could, Karou dropped to her knees to genuflect. "Gods of math and physics," she intoned, "I accept your gift of this clever fair-haired boy

If you're trying to hide something, you wouldn't keep getting away with it for 10 years. Nobody is that clever.

The most powerful weapon known is the weapon of blessing. Therefore, a clever person relies on it. He wins with peace, not with war.

Clever's not enough to hold me - I want characters who are more than devices to be moved about for Effect.

I love Twitter. It's like having a closet full of clever friends that you can visit twice a day, then shove back into the darkness when you're tired of them.

The myth of objectivity made nonfiction increasingly unread. In feature articles, we could be playful in the opening and clever in the end but in the middle it was back to the boring basics.

That was when the Spanish came in and conquered the Aztecs. I thought that was a clever thing.

To be rude is as good as being clever.

Beware of the clever ones; the dumb ones are safer.

With all the clever brains in America it would be great to see more investment and focus on this essential research!

My idea of the perfect man would be someone intelligent and clever enough, but also kind and compassionate enough to stand up to me - to stand up to me with compassion.

Good morning. You have a moment?" It's clever the way she says it, not as a question. I would have to contradict her in order to have my moment back. I make a note to use the method in the future.

We liked to be known as the clever girls. When we decorated our hands with henna for holidays and weddings, we drew calculus and chemical formulae instead of flowers and butterflies.

Sephora's business is really smart and clever - I'm all for anything that gets people up and out and into the social experience of shopping.

People more easily tolerate opposition than a contradiction

Being clever was when you looked at how things were and used the evidence to work out something new.

Ms. Merkel's attempt to present herself as a Social Democrat was a clever move. But it's not working anymore. The divisions between the CDU and CSU have simply become too great for that.

Lots of us when we're children believe 'oh well, if the world knew us as we really are, they'd know what wonderful, clever, brilliant, charming people we really are.'

Some fool aims to go to heaven; some clever knows that there isn't any; and some intelligent tries to create one with his own effort! Be intelligent!

Peace is not a dream; peace is an option! You either choose peace and prove that you are clever and angelic, or choose war proving that you are stupid and devilish!

City is a madhouse! Don't stay there too much or you get mad! Go to the nature, to the Temple of the Clever!

Be clever and do not build walls, because in the future they will bring only shame to you!

From the port of ideas, not only the most clever ones put out to sea and conquer the world but also the most stupid ones do!

Here is a good reply of a clever horse to the man who tries to ride and control it: Throwing him into the air!

In the land of genius, the sun always shines; in the land of clever, there are many clouds!

Let us not compare the genius with the clever; ocean with the lake!

The clever cannot catch the genius; such an attempt is just an act of trying to catch the shadow of a flying bird!

To get fruits from the tree branches, shake them with hands; to get fruits from men, shake them with clever ideas!

To reach the future, man needs to be clever and more important than this he must be lucky!

I want my recipes to be clever examples of a bigger story, a celebration of resource responsibility and spending with purpose.

There's been so many different types of musicals and it's a funny genre because there's a fine line between clever and stupid. It really takes a genius to know how to do it.