Quotes of: Clever-people Keyword

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

Mehmet Murat ildan

You'll make bundle of blunders if you consider yourself too clever to look at anothers work.

Michael Bassey Johnson

Clever modern man is so witless that he thinks moral silence and empty conscience are an advantage.

Michael Leunig

Justice fails because victims used to be too kind and criminals too clever.

M.F. Moonzajer

The notion of a universality of human experience is a confidence trick and the notion of a universality of female experience is a clever confidence trick.

Angela Carter

George Carlin is brilliant with words, and Johnny Winters is very creative. It's taking something common and drawing out the humor, being clever with words.

Bill Cosby

Natural selection, as it has operated in human history, favors not only the clever but the murderous.

Barbara Ehrenreich

The great Chinese classics have always said that it's better not to fight; that the clever man achieves his ends without violence; that a battle delayed is better than a battle fought.

John Keegan

The fact is I'm choosy, but mainly about a man's character. He has to be interesting, funny and clever. I don't even mind if he's not very good-looking.

Agyness Deyn

Comedians who are 22 years old can certainly be funny and clever, and be capable of telling jokes - but are they talking about their favorite TV shows, or a particular brand of shampoo?

Rob Delaney

I'm just so comfortable talking about my private life: I just think because I'm not that clever.

Josh Thomas

I love Sara Bareilles. She's just so clever. I wish I were her. She's so awesome.

David Archuleta

Foursquare's adoption of a game dynamic when it launched is a particularly clever implementation of a social hook.

Fred Wilson

No Jew was ever fool enough to turn Christian unless he was a clever man.

Israel Zangwill

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