Quotes of: Cleverness Keyword

Sweet Ghost Girl: Be clever, Miss. Even if you win, she'll never let you go!

Coraline

In older science fiction stories, they had to rely on storytelling as opposed to spectacle. The old run of the 'Twilight Zone,' the star was the writing and the storytelling, and the characters and the twists and the cleverness in the setup and payof...

Josh Trank

Take male strategies for success in the world. If you've got all the advantages, if you're attractive and clever and all of that, you will generally go for very high quality females.

Susan Blackmore

I mean, I do love clever and witty, but I think that the 'Three Stooges' were geniuses. They'd have to be for their appeal to have lasted this long.

Paula Poundstone

I don't like this idea of division: that if you're a clever woman then you've got to be a particular way. Because men don't. Men please themselves.

Marian Keyes

Charles: That Isaac Newton fellow was right. Nash: He was on to something. Charles: Clever boy.

A Beautiful Mind

Witticism. A sharp and clever remark, usually quoted and seldom noted; what the Philistine is pleased to call a joke.

Ambrose Bierce

The thing about working at Pixar is that everyone around you is smarter and funnier and cleverer than you and they all think the same about everyone else. It's a nice problem to have.

Andrew Stanton

The pun exists in a social and political void, caring nothing for the issues of its day, content merely to display itself in its small cleverness.

Arthur Smith

I thought I was clever enough to write as well as these people and I didn't realize that there is something called originality and your own voice.

Amy Tan

I write my own quotes. Except this one. I obviously stole this from somebody really clever.

Brian Celio

Lots of people working in cryptography have no deep concern with real application issues. They are trying to discover things clever enough to write papers about.

Whitfield Diffie

A shy smile, strong arms, clever fingers, and two sure swords. What more could any woman want?

A Dance with Dragons

A clever general, therefore, avoids an army when its spirit is keen, but attacks it when it is sluggish and inclined to return.

The Art of War

Science is always discovering odd scraps of magical wisdom and making a tremendous fuss about its cleverness.

The Confessions of Aleister Crowley: An Autohagiography

I was always behind in class. There was people in my class who was amazing at art, amazing at maths, amazing at English, but I wasn't clever with anything, even though I tried my hardest.

Amy Childs

The real art is not to come up with extraordinary clever words but to make ordinary simple words do extraordinary things. To use the language that we all use and to make amazing things occur.

Graham Swift

In contemporary art culture, where good looks and clever strategic planning of art careers have become a feature, professional practice may be taught in art schools like a branch of public relations or political science.

Michael Leunig

Entropy shakes its angry fist at you for being clever enough to organize the world. (p 2)

Alcatraz Versus the Knights of Crystallia

Cleverness is like rouge - liberal application makes a woman look common and desperate. Wit is knowing how to apply it.

Any Duchess Will Do

America didn’t bypass or escape civilization. It did something far more profound, far cleverer: it simply changed what civilization could be.

To America with Love