Quotes of: Clever-people Keyword

Don't be too clever for an audience. Make it obvious. Make the subtleties obvious also.

Billy Wilder

Don't believe what the spiritual sharks and clever carnival hustlers tell you about fearless living - they lie.

Guy Finley

There are plenty of clever young writers. But there is too much genius, not enough talent.

J. B. Priestley

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

John Ridley

Clever and attractive women do not want to vote; they are willing to let men govern as long as they govern men.

George Bernard Shaw

Men are only clever at shifting blame from their own shoulders to those of others.

Livy

A clever, ugly man every now and then is successful with the ladies, but a handsome fool is irresistible.

William Makepeace Thackeray

You need to be clever to best him. Are you clever, Rachel?” I glanced at Al, and he stared at me, then shrugged. Licking my lips, I said, “It’s the shiny pot that puts a hole in the sky.” Al’s mouth dropped open, but Newt thought about it, ...

Pale Demon

Pooh hasn't much Brain, but he never comes to any harm. He does silly things and they turn out right. There's Owl. Owl hasn't exactly got Brain, but he Knows Things. He would know the Right Thing to Do when Surrounded by Water. There's Rabbit. He has...

Winnie-the-Pooh

One of the secrets to life, Epiphany, is to find your gifts and focus on those. Leave your liabilities in the dust of the road not taken. The world is an imperfect place. Everyone struggles. Successful people see trials as growth experiences, rather ...

Dandelion Summer

But I am inclined to think a Christian would be wise to avoid, where he decently can, any meeting with people who are bullies, lascivious, cruel, dishonest, spiteful and so forth. Not because we are "too good" for them. In a sense because we are not ...

Reflections on the Psalms

Is magic not enough to live for?" Widget asks. "Magic," the man in the grey suit repeats, turning the word into a laugh. "This is not magic. This is the way the world is, only very few people take the time to stop and note it. Look around you," he sa...

The Night Circus

Thought is so cunning, so clever, that it distorts everything for its own convenience.

Freedom from the Known

There are so many different kinds of stupidity, and cleverness is one of the worst.

The Magic Mountain

Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment.

Masnavi i Man'avi, the spiritual couplets of Maula

There is always a way out for those clever enough to find it.

The Titan's Curse

So long as victory can be attained,  stupid haste is preferable to clever dilatoriness.

The Art of War

There is no such thing as too much swearing. Swearing is just a piece of linguistic mechanics. The words in-between are the clever ones.

Peter Capaldi

Maybe I'm a little biased, but shows like 'Dexter' and 'Southland,' I'm just enthralled by that sort of storytelling, kind of clever and patient.

Shawn Hatosy

I once used henna to dye my hair brown for an audition, thinking I was being clever as it's all natural.

Sienna Miller

I enjoy doing press for something that I like, and I think the movie is very fun and charming and clever.

Thomas Haden Church