Top 1200 Clever Man Quotes & Sayings - Page 5

We live in a day of slick, quiet and clever sins.

How clever you are, to know something of which you are ignorant.

It is impossible to forsee the consequences of being clever.

I don't like names that are clever or made-up sounding.

Sex is the invention of a very clever venereal disease.

My dad's a very shrewd, clever guy.

Those who are clever, who have a brain, never understand anything.

I'm not clever enough to write. It's as basic and tragic as that.

Fools lie, clever men stick to the truth.

Here's a good rule of thumb; too clever is dumb.

I wish I could say I was wise and clever, but I'm really not.

Everybody is clever, just in their own ways

Mourinho is a fantastic manager, intelligent, clever. He is OK.

Clever policy consists in making nations believe they are free.

Awards sell tickets, and they're a clever publicity stunt.

I'm constantly pitching one episode where we see life through Castle's eyes. I think Castle's just a little off as far as his perception goes. A very, very clever man, but I want to see the world as Castle sees it - kind of a rose-colored glasses, all the women find him irresistible, all the guys find him super cool and do whatever he says.

Some people think that I haven't got the brains to be that clever.

Jorginho is a very good player, clever, fast.

Girls are much too clever to fall out of their prams

I like a clever guy, a real gent.

I always see my wife as the clever one, as the wise one in the family.

The idea that if you are very clever you shouldn't be an actor would be laughable in Russia.

Be good, sweet maid, and let who will be clever.

This is very clever. They have created a system to cheat.

What a grand thing it is to be clever and have common sense.

One genius has made many clever artists.

I was quite a clever child, I don't know what happened later on.

for in the absence of God he had found Man. Man killing man, man helping man, both of them anonymous: the scourge and the blessing.

I really like clever men who challenge you.

I think there is a basic comfort in clever people who know things.

By the time the clever reaches the clouds, the genius is already on the stars.

I can resist anything but the temptation to make a clever witticism.

To be clever in the afternoon argues that one is dining nowhere in the evening.

Going to Oxford didn't necessarily make a person clever.

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

You put anyone in the outfit, and they look like Gandalf. Not that clever.

A charming fellow, and so clever: he models himself on me.

Everyone can write jokes and makes things clever.

I would never create an image for myself; I'm not that clever.

Sometimes there is simply no need to be either clever or original.

The really clever people now want to be lawyers or journalists.

The desire of appearing clever often prevents our becoming so.

I like my villains clever, deep, and driven by pure evil.

I'm not clever enough to be in machinations and real politics.

It's such a fine line between stupid and clever.

It is not that I am so clever; it is that everyone else is so stupid.

Let us not compare the genius with the clever; ocean with the lake!

I have my opinions but to go into politics you have to be very clever, which I'm not!

When you meditate you have to try to quiet and calm the mind. There should be no thought within the mind. Right now you feel that if you can cherish twenty ideas at a time, then you are the wisest man on earth. The more thoughts that enter into our minds, the more clever we feel we are. But in the spiritual life it is not like that. If consciously we can make the mind calm and quiet, we feel that a new creation dawns inside us.

But I don't sit down at dinner and have clever ideas.

There are many other little refinements too, Mr. Bohlen. You'll see them all when you study the plans carefully. For example, there's a trick that nearly every writer uses, of inserting at least one long, obscure word into each story. This makes the reader think that the man is very wise and clever. So I have the machine do the same thing. There'll be a whole stack of long words stored away just for this purpose." Where?" In the 'word-memory' section," he said, epexegetically.

The wicked are always surprised to find that the good can be clever.

You want to make an impression. Being clever helps.

If you're as clever as you can be when you write it, how will you ever debug it?

I, the man of color, want only this: That the tool never possess the man. That the enslavement of man by man cease forever. That is, of one by another. That it be possible for me to discover and to love man, wherever he may be.

I learned from both my parents that you had to be clever.

There is nothing Clever about not being Happy

Shaq is not the man. He's the man because the NBA wants him to be the man, but before you can be the man, you've got to be the man.

How DARE the villainous cads be as clever as the heroes.

Clever people are always the best conversations lexicon.