Simplicity, not cleverness, can be the source of happiness.
The failure mode of clever is “asshole.
Making clever speeches takes a lot of work and a lot of time.
In the Blue Room, Cora Cash was trying to concentrate on her book. Cora found most novels hard to sympathise with -- all those plain governesses -- but this one had much to recommend it. The heroine was 'handsome, clever, and rich', rather like Cora ...
I heard this story once," she said, "where this bloke got locked up for years and years and he learned amazin' stuff about the universe and everythin' from another prisoner who was incredibly clever, and then he escaped and got his revenge." "What in...
Patience and tenacity are worth more than twice their weight of cleverness.
Awards sell tickets, and they're a clever publicity stunt.
All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few.
This is very clever. They have created a system to cheat.
An inefficient virus kills its host. A clever virus stays with it.
A dream is a strange thing. Pictures appear with terrifying clarity, the minutest details engraved like pieces of jewelry, and yet we leap unawares through huge abysses of time and space. Dreams seem to be controlled by wish rather than reason, the h...
Here then are the choices we all face moment by moment: Will we aim to be impressive? Will we expect to be in complete control? Will we ensure that we always come out on top as winners? Or will we be happy for the power of Christ to rest upon us in o...
Only now, when it is too late, do I long for Dearth. I was a misbegotten child of bad blood and bile, and I mistook my own orneriness for cleverness. I presumed to know what happiness was - something I could possess, like a marble, or a man. Somethin...
there's a bluebird in my heart that wants to get out but I'm too clever, I only let him out at night sometimes when everybody's asleep. I say, I know that you're there, so don't be sad. then I put him back, but he's singing a little in there, I haven...
I write because writing is power. Writing is creation. When you write, you are as a god, a deity wielding his pen like some Harry Potter staff, making whatever you want to happen, happen. By sheer force of will and some clever word placement, I can a...
People think you can't be clever if you have breasts.
That was when the Spanish came in and conquered the Aztecs. I thought that was a clever thing.
The bold are helpless without cleverness.
Cleverness is serviceable for everything, sufficient for nothing.
Mother is far too clever to understand anything she does not like.
My mind is so clever, but it does me no favors.
