Quotes of: Cleverness Keyword

The key for me is movement. When the ball comes into the box, or when the wide players get it, that's where I have to be clever and make my runs. That's where I come alive.

Jermain Defoe

I understand that Republicans-running-against-Obamacare-in-order-to-save-Medicare is a clever jujitsu. But how long will they play out that argument before they get back to the economy?

Jennifer Granholm

Here we are, the most clever species ever to have lived. So how is it we can destroy the only planet we have?

Jane Goodall

Logan: [sees young Xavier for the first time] You can walk? Charles Xavier: Aren't you the clever one.

X-Men: Days of Future Past

Perhaps, if science is clever enough to see, it will realize that religion may not be too far off with its concrete imagery; and that relative to the supreme creator, we humans are much like the microorganisms we scrutinize under the microscope.

Robert Lanza

I've done five films directed by women. I did like it. They had qualities, particularly in the romantic tenderness of scenes. I felt sometimes they were a little bit soft, but maybe they were clever to get the guys working the way they wanted them to...

Jacqueline Bisset

I've definitely learned that if you want to have power as a woman in Shakespeare's time, and it's still relevant today, that you have to play a different game than men play, and you have to be a lot cleverer.

Samuel Barnett

I don't like being called 'macho.' Macho basically means stupid and a real Italian man is not macho, he's smart. That's smart in both senses: elegant and clever.

Andrea Bocelli

When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

Jack the Ripper – media myth arising when clever individual murderers concocted a monster so as to avoid suspicion.

Anthony North

There's a popular saying that the Internet interprets censorship as damage and routes around it. Desire and innovation will trump policy, the argument goes, as clever programmers circumvent controls.

Virginia Postrel

They were so clever finding ways to get me the ball. They had to do more than just give up open shots. They had to avoid fouls and pass me the ball in traffic.

Wilt Chamberlain

True contemplation is not a psychological trick but a theological grace. It can come to us ONLY as a gift, and not as a result of our own clever use of spiritual techniques.

Contemplative Prayer

Sometimes, sitting here in the dark, slowly slowly creating strategy, she wondered if she was only fooling herself to think her plans were clever.

The Children of the Sky

Many contemporary composers have been building walls of sounds following their own clever devices. But then, who lives inside those rooms?

Confronting Silence: Selected Writings

Richness and fat does need, In logic clever fine deeds, But paunches never do breed, Fine thoughts or sublime seeds. [45] - 2

Eddies of Life

You’re a clever strategist, but not all battles require tricks. Sometimes the simplest way to kill something is to swim up to it and bite it in half.

The Ghost And Its Shadow

You’re a grown woman, and a clever one. I believe you understand the situation. And I’m going to trust that you know your own mind.

Beauty and the Blacksmith

It is easy to be clever if you leave something important out.

The Black Goddess and the Unseen Real: Our Uncommon Senses and Their Common Sense

Will suspected Jem was in fact cleverer than he was himself - but he lacked Will's tendency to assume the absolute worst about people and proceed from there.

Clockwork Angel

I have learned that particularly clever ideas do not always stand up under close scrutiny.

The Hippopotamus Pool