Top 1200 Clever Girl Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

I go to auditions even now and people say, 'Oh, she's too pretty,' or 'She doesn't look like a small-town girl or a girl in high school who would get bullied.' But that's the whole point of being an actress - you can look glamorous when you're on the red carpet, and then bring it all down and be raw onscreen.

Half the American population no longer reads newspapers: plainly, they are the clever half.

I'm not crazy about country-western music. But the lyrics are good. "I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy" is pretty clever.

Finding new ways, more clever ways to interrupt people doesn't work.

Every nation determines its own destiny; the clever the nation, the better the fate!

ABOYNE (vb.) To beat an expert at a game of skill by playing so appallingly that none of his clever tactics or strategies are of any use to him.

A clever, imaginative, humorous request can open closed doors and closed minds.

I don't think we're yet evolved to the point where we're clever enough to handle a complex a situation as climate change. The inertia of humans is so huge that you can't really do anything meaningful.

If I had one wish I'd wish for a million wishes because I am clever.

He's very clever, but sometimes his brains go to his head.

Sean Young is such a sweetheart and just absolutely lovely. From day one, she was just very easy to be around. She's definitely a 'mom' and very much a girl's girl. She likes talking about makeup and the business and just being a woman.

Men pass in front of our eyes like butterflies, creatures of a brief season. We love them; they are brave, proud, beautiful, and clever.

I think being nice is more important than being clever.

Lord Birkenhead is very clever but sometimes his brains go to his head.

I never make stupid mistakes. Only very, very clever ones.

A lot of people I guess, well, some people change when they get in spotlights and everything, but you can take the girl out of Mississippi, but you can't take Mississippi out the girl!

If you are creative enough to imagine a problem, you're clever enough to discover a solution.

It is impossible for a dove to catch a swallow, for a clever man to catch a genius.

I was never a girl that dreamt of being a princess and I never dreamt about my wedding day. I hated pink and I hated fairies. I only liked hanging out with boys. I remember throwing a tantrum if my mum put me in pink. I wasn't a particularly girly girl.

Without wanting to sound pompous or clever it is down to me to make decisions on behalf of the side to give it the best chance of being successful.

A clever man without wisdom is like a beautiful flower without fragrance.

Women who are clever actresses have longevity because they're amazing actors, not because the camera loves them.

Everybody has a capacity for a happy life. All these talks about how difficult times we live in, that's just a clever way to justify fear and laziness.

Clever people seem not to feel the natural pleasure of bewilderment, and are always answering questions when the chief relish of a life is to go on asking them.

[We assume] that the self is an actual living thing, but it's not. It's a projection which our clever brains create in order to cheat ourselves from the reality of death.

If you feel that you can follow a few little rules or some clever gimmicks to make you a mature Christian, then you have fallen into a subtle trap of legalism.

American girls are as clever at concealing their parents as English women are at concealing their past.

I am so tired of the girl in the infirmary, I am so sick of the girl who cries wolf all the time - even though not one of those cries was ever a false alarm. Not one of my pleas was ever less than truly urgent because when it's all in your mind, there always IS a wolf.

Before I made 'Sweetback,' I had a three-picture deal with Columbia and enough juice, if I was real clever with it, to proclaim that I wanted to do an independent film.

He’d actually hit me! It didn’t matter that hitting me wasn’t really like hitting a regular girl and I’d be completely healed in a matter of hours. I was still a freaking girl, and he damned well knew it. I’d just have to hit him back. With a lead pipe. Or an eighteen-wheeler.

I want to date Cheryl Cole. She is a looker, she's the one. I love her accent, its so sexy. She's free and I'm still a bachelor. That girl is so beautiful, Ill treat her well. I'm thinking weddings one day, why not? Just think of the kids. I'm getting ahead of myself here, I haven't even met the girl.

So, deadpan I think just means not acknowledging for one second that you think that this is funny and clever.

I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.

And she’s very clever, Peeta. Well, she was. Until you outfoxed her

In the quest to be clever, I completely forgot about the people that I love and that love me.

I want 'Scars to Your Beautiful' to reach different types of women. The girl I am talking about, it's me, it's you - it's every girl who has struggled with feeling not good enough. I want to talk about all the different extremes that girls go through to feel beautiful.

Part of the racialized sexism wants everyone to think that a 15-year old Mexican is not a girl, she’s a woman. We know she’s a girl. We can never emphasize this enough, because this is the fate of colored girls globally right now: the denial of their girlhood, the denial of their childhood, and the constant state of risk and danger they are living in.

I'm more of the girl who's always in the friend zone, and I try to help if my other friend wants to get with someone. I can be a bit cheeky and say stuff that embarrasses my friends, but I'm normally the girl who guys like to be friends with, so I become friendly with the guy and then go, 'Oh, this is my other friend.'

Clever men are impressed in their differences from their fellows. Wise men are conscious of their resemblance to them.

Making clever speeches takes a lot of work and a lot of time.

To be a head boy, you have to be very clever, you have to be a scholar, and I was never a scholar in any shape or form.

What's wrong with you? I asked myself. You are a happy person. You are an upbeat sort of person. Men smile at you on the subway, women ask you what shampoo you use. Cheer up for Christ's sake, I told myself, relax, you're fine, be happy, Girl. When I talk to myself I call myself Girl.

I don't feel embarrassed by any of the music that I like. I think it's all genuinely clever, good music.

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.

Clever, witty and absorbing, Amortality is a much-needed anatomy of our profound malaise about ageing. Its charms will never fade.

The differences between the top teams in Euro 2000 are so minimal that I think you have to be very clever in defence and stop your opponents getting opportunities.

In the land of genius, the sun always shines; in the land of clever, there are many clouds!

In dark days, your best shelter is your clever thoughts!

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

The young women in my classes are feisty and clever and believe, often with the passion of youthful optimism, that feminism is a battle already won. I worry for them - and for my daughters, too.

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

To be clever enough to get all that money, one must be stupid enough to want it.

Words from the past: "It's a clever idea, Mr. Bell, but don't wire us, we'll wire you.

Sometimes I'll jot a clever turn of phrase down. Sometimes I'll just remember it.

One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.

If something looks like a tax avoidance scheme, then that's probably what it is - and there's lots of clever people working day and night to close them down.

Dempsey himself said you only spend so much time in the spotlight before they change the bulb. He had a very clever way with words.

I made it to Oxford, but it is not that I am particularly clever, much more that I am a worker bee.

A fool tries to look different: a clever man looks the same and is different.

Ridicule is also a weapon against forces of evil. Really clever, intelligent ridicule.