Quotes of: Clever-man Keyword

I had very clever producers, who scheduled it brilliantly, but scheduling it was a nightmare.

John Crowley

I made it to Oxford, but it is not that I am particularly clever, much more that I am a worker bee.

Emilia Fox

The art of chess is akin to the art of war itself; full of strategy and cunning, yet clever placements.

Jennifer Megan Varnadore

Muldoon: [Just before he gets attacked by a raptor] Clever girl.

Jurassic Park

Because of the nature of Moore's law, anything that an extremely clever graphics programmer can do at one point can be replicated by a merely competent programmer some number of years later.

John Carmack

I tend to like simple music. And clever, succinct lyrics. Songs that don't try to be more than they need to to be effective, to stir up something emotionally within you.

Zooey Deschanel

Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever.

Aristophanes

It is never wise to try to appear to be more clever than you are. It is sometimes wise to appear slightly less so.

William Whitelaw

In today's world, we all live with the burden of feeling that anything is possible if we're only clever enough, smart enough, work hard enough.

Elizabeth McGovern

Against the beautiful and the clever and the successful, one can wage a pitiless war, but not against the unattractive: then the millstone weighs on the breast.

Graham Greene

CHAPTER VI Concerning New Principalities Which Are Acquired By One's Own Arms And Ability LET no one be surprised if, in speaking of entirely new principalities as I shall do, I adduce the highest examples both of prince and of state; because men, wa...

The Prince

Think of music as being a great snarl of a city [...]. In the years I spent living there, I came to know its streets. Not just the main streets. Not just the alleys. I knew shortcuts and rooftops and parts of the sewers. Because of this, I could move...

The Wise Man's Fear

Therefore the clever combatant imposes his will on the enemy, but does not allow the enemy's will to be imposed on him.

The Art of War

Pious” is a sword that the clever always use it to eliminate the truth.

The Third World; Country or People

If you aren't cute, you may as well be clever.

Me Talk Pretty One Day

What is sometimes thought to be clever is, significantly often, merely an advanced form of foolishness.

Reflections

And out of a desire essentially to imitate what I was reading, I began to write, like a clever monkey.

Russell Banks

Never stay up on the barren heights of cleverness, but come down into the green valleys of silliness.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

If you are much cleverer than your enemy, you can even help your enemy to stay alive and not to harm himself!

Mehmet Murat ildan

Women are not stupid, but they were not clever enough to realise that feminism did not bring freedom, but the opposite. That's why I'm glad feminism is dead.

Michel Houellebecq

Wall Street is littered with clever plans to use financial instruments to change behavior - carbon trading, for example. Some have changed the world, and others failed miserably.

Andrew Ross Sorkin