Top 1200 Clever People Quotes & Sayings - Page 13

The clever thing about the designs on 'Strictly' is that the razzle-dazzle comes from the materials used in making the dresses rather than because the cut or style is plunging or revealing.

I have never been clever enough - or egotistical enough to spend 300 pages dipping into the sludge of my own subconscious.

Marketing is not the art of finding clever ways to dispose of what you make. It is the art of creating genuine customer value.

The clever men of Oxford, know all that there is to be knowed but they none of them know one half as much as intelligent Mr. Toad.

let's get away from all the clever humans who put words in our mouth let's only say what our hearts desire.

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.

Not everyone can be strong or clever. Not everyone can be beautiful. But we can ALL be brave!

What clever man has ever needed to commit a crime? Crime is the last resort of political half-wits.

A professor can never better distinguish himself in his work than by encouraging a clever pupil, for the true discovers are among them, as comets amongst the stars.

Fear is the destructive energy in man. It withers the mind, it distorts thought, it leads to all kinds of extraordinarily clever and subtle theories, absurd superstitions, dogmas, and beliefs.

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?

A clever man can see the world from a cave much better than a stupid man can from the top of a mountain!

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.

If two smart, intelligent, clever guys sit together on a table, and you both want the same, where can be the problem? We all want to be successful.

There's been so many different types of musicals, and it's a funny genre because there's a fine line between clever and stupid. It really takes a genius to know how to do it.

I think very few people do find a relationship where, every moment of every day, everything they do comes together. That's why, in a nutshell, everyone loved Barbara in 'The Good Life.' She was the perfect partner. It was a formula. She wasn't glamorous. She wasn't clever. But she was a good partner. That's too easy, too perfect.

There's been so many different types of musicals and it's a funny genre because there's a fine line between clever and stupid. It really takes a genius to know how to do it.

I was born and brought up in Liverpool with my clever little sister Jemma, who is 14 and wants to be a vet. My mum Jane is an administrator and my dad Peter is a taxi driver.

I can sit and write clever things, but that never quite works as well as when I'm just chatting about stupid things in the moment.

There is no such thing as too much swearing. Swearing is just a piece of linguistic mechanics. The words in-between are the clever ones.

He who knows others is clever; He who knows himself has discernment.

Eugenics asserts that all men must be so stupid that they cannot manage their own affairs; and also so clever that they can manage each other's.

You don't have to be too clever to know that if Barcelona loaned me to another team, it's because they have little interest in me.

From the self-confidence with which he spoke no one could tell whether what he said was very clever or very stupid.

Everyone is different but I love to watch that type of football: the clever players, the technical players. The beautiful game.

When I try to get clever I fail, so I stick with the basic issues of human life on earth - sex, death, relationships, discovering who you are, being hurt and confused.

Will you be clever at the expense of others, or will you be kind?

He was magnificent; very clever with outstanding technique. He could pass the ball over five yards or fifty; he could see things to set up other people; he could shoot and he could score goals. If you gave me Paul Scholes and ten others, I would be happy. I would tell them to give him the ball and then we would have a good team.

It always seemed to me a sort of clever stupidity only to have one sort of talent - like a carrier pigeon.

The turtle lives 'twixt plated decks Which practically conceal its sex I think it clever of the turtle In such a fix to be so fertile.

The biggest problem of all is that it's very difficult to tell my daughter, 'Swearing is not clever or funny,' because I earn a living by swearing.

The most powerful weapon known is the weapon of blessing. Therefore, a clever person relies on it. He wins with peace, not with war.

Cleverness, after all, has its limitations. Its mechanical judgments and clever remarks tend to prove inaccurate with passing time, because it doesn't look very deeply into things to begin with.

The clever men at Oxford, know all that there is to be knowed. But they none of them know one half as much, as intelligent Mr. Toad.

I was pre-med at Glasgow University. I was from a family who were of the mind that if you were clever enough to be a doctor or a lawyer, why wouldn't you be?

A just cause needs no interpreting. It carries its own case. But the unjust argument since it is sick, needs clever medicine.

The clever, albeit fragile, coalition against terrorism brought together by the U.S. government might be able to advance the transition from classical international law to a cosmopolitan order.

As is so often the case with pieces that appear in the 'Onion,' I honestly could not decide whether this was a clever hoax or not - the arguments were almost exactly as stupid as the real thing.

A stupid man's report of what a clever man says can never be accurate, because he unconsciously translates what he hears into something he can understand.

In some remote corner of the universe, poured out and glittering among innumerable solar systems, there once was a star on which clever animals invented knowledge.

Faith is a very clever concept. We invented God from our imagination and we use faith to justify His absence from reality.

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.

If you look at Adele, the reason she did so well was she created great music. It wasn't about a clever marketing trick.

The clever reader who is capable or reading between these lines what does not stand written in them but is nevertheless implied will be able to form some conception.

When one thinks profusely and cleverly, not only his face but his body too takes on a clever appearance.

Take from a man his reputation for probity, and the more shrewd and clever he is, the more hated and mistrusted he becomes.

Against the beautiful and the clever and the successful, one can wage a pitiless war, but not against the unattractive: then the millstone weighs on the breast.

If we only knew how many times our seemingly clever comment cut straight into the heart of the person with whom we have just spoken, it is we who would bleed.

Eve was still frowning at the pasta like she suspected it was going to do something clever, like try to escape from the pot.

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

Girls! Girls! Those of you who have hearts, and therefore a wish for happiness, homes and husbands by and by, never develop a reputation for being clever.

[Hermes addresses Prometheus :] To you, the clever and crafty, bitter beyond all bitterness, who has sinned against the gods in bestowing honors upon creatures of a day--to you, thief of fire, I speak.

For the task assigned them Men aren't smart enough or sly Any rogue can blind them With a clever lie.

From the port of ideas, not only the most clever ones put out to sea and conquer the world but also the most stupid ones do!

Our great democracies still tend to think that a stupid man is more likely to be honest than a clever man.

If cleverness has often been a sign of decadence throughout history, the attempt to be too clever by half is an even more reliable marker of cultural decline.

Ancient astronauts didn't build the pyramids. Human beings built the pyramids, because they're clever and they work hard.

The worst part of an eminent man's conversation is, nine times out of ten, to be found in that part by which he means to be clever.

Unless it's something very clever like 'Memento,' most independent films have a very tough life out there.

Petruchio is a very clever guy and clearly has a lot of bravado and confidence. My feeling is that he's broke at the beginning of the play and needs a dowry to save face back home.