Top 1200 Clever People Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

There are no circumstances, however unfortunate, that clever people do not extract some advantage from.

People may say that what I do is very clever, but it's not really at all. It's not Swift.

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

One must search diligently to find laudatory comments on education (other than those pious platitudes which are fodder for commencement speeches). It appears that most persons who have achieved fame and success in the world of ideas are cynical about formal education. These people are a select few, who often achieved success in spite of their education, or even without it. As has been said, the clever largely educate themselves, those less able aren't sufficiently clever or imaginative to benefit much from education.

Clever people will recognize and tolerate nothing but cleverness.

The silliest woman can manage a clever man; but it needs a very clever woman to manage a fool.

Perhaps to be able to learn things quickly isn't everything. To be kind is worth a great deal to other people...Lots of clever people have done harm and have been wicked.

I am clever enough to know that I am clever.

I hate people who think it's clever to take drugs... like custom officers.

Clever people can copy the handwriting of an artist - it's like forging a person's signature.

The proper motto is not Be good, sweet maid, and let who can be clever, but Be good sweet maid, and don't forget that this involves being as clever as you can. God is no fonder of intellectual slackers than any other slackers.

Drake, I'd like to collaborate with. He's a phenomenal lyricist. Probably the best rapper in the world at the moment. I love Kanye but there's something about Drake; he's more straight up, really clever and really poetic and metaphorical - I love that. He's just clever.

Most people tire of a lecture in ten minutes; clever people can do it in five. Sensible people never go to lectures at all. But the people who do go to a lecture and who get tired of it, presently hold it as a sort of grudge against the lecturer personally. In reality his sufferings are worse than theirs.

If I write a paragraph and I don't get a certain lift from it, if I don't feel connected to it emotionally, then it's dead to me. When I'm reading other fiction writers, if I don't get any emotional investment from the writer, if it's just intellectual or clever - you know, most writing that passes as deep is just clever - I don't feel any connection.

People like abstract art because it makes them feel clever.

I realized that so many clever people respect fashion so much.

People think I'm clever, which is hilarious. I'm like, 'When did this happen? People used to think I couldn't string a sentence together.'

Clever people master life; the wise illuminate it and create fresh difficulties.

Our [American] money system is structurally brittle. It doesn't matter if you put a very clever guy or a stupid guy at the wheel. The clever guy will take a half hour to have an accident, and the stupid guy will take ten minutes.

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

If you're clever enough and creative enough to get a good film made, then you should be clever enough and creative enough to find ways to get it out there, one being something like Jameson First Shot.

It's difficult to differentiate between a story that's humorous and clever and one that actually makes people laugh out loud.

Alafair Burke understands the criminal mind. Long Gone is both an education and an entertainment of the first order. This is a very clever and very smart novel by a very clever and smart writer. The dialogue crackles, the plot is intriguing, and the pacing is perfect.

People think you can't be clever if you have breasts.

Good people are found not changed. Recently I read a headline that said, 'We don't teach people to be nice. We simply hire nice people.' Wow! What a clever short cut.

Winning a Nobel Prize isn't about being clever at all. It's about making... at least in physiology or medicine, it's about making discoveries, and you don't have to be clever to make a discovery, I don't think; it just comes up and punches you on the nose.

Clever people are never credited with their follies: what a deprivation of human rights!

No, I'm not clever. I've always cared more for people than for ideas.

A lot of people don't know that Dad was quite a scientist, and he was so clever.

I'm not a boy-writer, I've never been. I wanted to be a boy-writer when I was young, and I think that held me back. I wanted to be very clever, and funny, but I'm not very clever and not terribly funny. I've finally accepted my limits, and I do what I can do.

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

One begins to mistrust very clever people when they become embarrassed.

The world doesn't come to the clever folks, it comes to the stubborn, obstinate, one-idea-at-a-time people.

Truth and fact are old-fashioned and out-of-date, my friends, fit only for the dull and vulgar to live by. Appearance, not reality, is what the clever dog grasps at in these clever days. We spurn the dull-brown solid earth; we build our lives and homes in the fair-seeming rainbow-land of shadow and chimera.

A lot of clever people have got everything except judgement

Sometimes all you need to do to win clever people over to a principle is to present it in the form of a shocking paradox.

I'm not as clever as J.J. Abrams and those guys who fill it with all of these things for people to find.

When I was One, I had just begun. When I was Two, I was nearly new. When I was Three I was hardly me. When I was Four, I was not much more. When I was Five, I was just alive. But now I am Six, I'm as clever as clever, So I think I'll be six now for ever and ever.

The world is full of people who are very clever at seeming much smarter than they really are.

Passion often renders the most clever man a fool, and sometimes renders the most foolish man clever.

He's clever,' thought Ivan,' I must admit there are some smart people even among the intelligentsia

Gerrard is quiet; if he speaks people listen. If he has something to say, it's important and clever. He's a hard worker, disciplined.

The great thing about the Internet is, it has made it easier for people who are clever and resourceful to promote themselves.

Clever is as clever does.

All great events hang by a single thread. The clever man takes advantage of everything, neglects nothing that may give him some added opportunity; the less clever man, by neglecting one thing, sometimes misses everything.

People always fall in love with the most perfect aspects of each other's personalities. Who wouldn't? Anybody can love the most wonderful parts of another person. But that's not the clever trick. The really clever trick is this: Can you accept the flaws? Can you look at your partner's faults honestly and say, 'I can work around that. I can make something out of it.'? Because the good stuff is always going to be there, and it's always going to pretty and sparkly, but the crap underneath can ruin you.

Ryan Stout, a straight-arrow-looking kind of guy, shocks the crowd into laughter with his inventive interplay between innocence and a jarringly twisted point of view. He goes from loony to weirdly logical. With him, it’s more than clever writing; his comedy is based on clear and clever thinking.

Throughout history, people have enjoyed playing both silly and clever games.

I never heard tell of any clever man that came of entirely stupid people.

The most dangerous people are always clever, compelling, and charismatic.

I discovered that the most dangerous mask is the one worn by intelligent people because they are clever at their disguise.

People who want to appear clever rely on memory. People who want to get things done make lists.

But now I am six. And I'm clever as clever. And now I think I'll stay six now forever and ever.

When clever people ask me where I get a poem, I despair.

Obviously people want social calm, but if you do not let clever and ingenious people to participate, obviously there must be some dormant volcano that will erupt, sooner or later.

I have to tell you, Arty, a screw up this early in the proceedings doesn't exactly fill me with confidence. I hope you're as clever as you keep telling everyone you are." "I never tell anybody exactly how clever I am. They would be too scared.

Clever people are always the best conversations lexicon.

People say 'teenage girls aren't so clever. Your characters should be less articulate to reflect our youth.' People who say that aren't spending time with teenagers.

The more clever and cunning people are, the stranger the events will be.

Two kinds of people are good at foreseeing danger: those who have learned at their own expense, and the clever people who learn a great deal at the expense of others.