Top 1200 Clever Woman Quotes & Sayings - Page 14

Modern invention has banished the spinning wheel, and the same law of progress makes the woman of today a different woman from her grandmother.

A brilliant mind was never as clever as three average minds sniffing after something of interest.

The Korean economic miracle was the result of a clever and pragmatic mixture of market incentives and state direction.

Nobody knows like a woman how to say things at the same time sweet and profound. Sweetness and depth, this is all of woman; this is all of Heaven.

City is a madhouse! Don't stay there too much or you get mad! Go to the nature, to the Temple of the Clever!

Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever.

A guy should find out what the woman likes. Every woman is different, so you can't just assume what works on one will work on another.

A clever, ugly man every now and then is successful with the ladies, but a handsome fool is irresistible.

A highly intelligent man should take a primitive woman. Imagine if on top of everything else, I had a woman who interfered with my work.

A woman I should like to think I know rather well and a woman I had always considered a mystery, are in fact the same person.

Ric Flair, you once called me a woman. Well, what I want to know is, how does it feel to get beat by a woman?

We must obviously be much more clever in using resources, regulate with tax and promote innovations.

I think it was Elisabeth Shue who said that if you start a movie with a woman seen through a man's eyes, that woman is objectified by him throughout.

If a woman could take care of herself, would she still need a man? Would she even want one? And if she didn't want a man, what kind of woman would she be? Would she even be a woman? Because it seemed if you were a woman, the only thing you were really supposed to want was a man.

Woman is a misbegotten man and has a faulty and defective nature in comparison to his. Therefore she is unsure in herself. What she cannot get, she seeks to obtain through lying and diabolical deceptions. And so, to put it briefly, one must be on one's guard with every woman, as if she were a poisonous snake and the horned devil. ... Thus in evil and perverse doings woman is cleverer, that is, slyer, than man. Her feelings drive woman toward every evil, just as reason impels man toward all good.

I think 'Rake' was a very clever crossover, actually, because it does lend itself to the city of L.A.

I don't believe makeup and the right hairstyle alone can make a woman beautiful. The most radiant woman in the room is the one full of life and experience.

I walk in the world as a woman because I am a woman, and people should take me as that. I'm not passing as anything that I'm not. I'm just being myself.

One woman is fair, yet I am well; another is wise, yet I am well; another virtuous, yet I am well; but till all graces be in one woman, one woman shall not come in my grace.

I used to think it was clever to confuse comedy with tragedy. Now I wish I could distinguish them.

Age to women is what kryptonite is to Superman. Inside every older woman is a younger woman screaming, 'Get me the hell outta here.'

Being a woman has always been a powerful thing, where history has sometimes dictated otherwise, but I believe that a woman can be compassionate, sensitive, soft, kind.

I wasn't necessarily the brightest in my family. I think my older sister was probably more clever, but I worked very hard.

I enjoy doing press for something that I like, and I think the movie is very fun and charming and clever.

One has the idea of a stupid man as perfectly healthy and ordinary, and of illness as making one refined and clever and unusual.

When you're high, it's easy to kid yourself about how clever certain mediocre pieces of material are.

I'm filled with awe, as I always am, as I watch her transform from a woman who calls me to kill a spider to a woman immune to fear.

Here is a good reply of a clever horse to the man who tries to ride and control it: Throwing him into the air!

I want my recipes to be clever examples of a bigger story, a celebration of resource responsibility and spending with purpose.

Up to now, men and women have not been living in relationship - because woman has never been thought equal. And relationship exists only between equal people; it cannot happen between unequal people. Unless woman is given total freedom, absolute equality, there will be no possibility to relate. Up to now, man has exploited woman, woman has exploited man; there has not been real relationship.

There are a lot of songs that would ostensibly be a good candidate for parody, yet I can't think of a clever enough idea.

Witticism. A sharp and clever remark, usually quoted and seldom noted; what the Philistine is pleased to call a joke.

Surround yourself with a really good group of friends that are true and honest and won't lead you astray and make you compromise who you are as a woman or a young woman.

It is difficult enough to be a woman in this industry. And to be a woman with a point of view, you get slotted. They expect you to be a bimbette and if you have an opinion, only God can help you.

Pickup lines never work...I think someone clever, witty and funny is very attractive.

When I die, I want to be remembered as a woman who lived in the twentieth century and who dared to be a catalyst of change. I don't want to be remembered as the first black woman who went to Congress. And I don't even want to be remembered as the first woman who happened to be black to make a bid for the Presidency I want to be remembered as a woman who fought for change in the twentieth century. That's what I want.

Certainly in North Korea, man is always superior to woman. Even the government treats women horribly. What is the slogan? Woman is a flower.

My mother was a very difficult woman to please. She was the sort of woman who thought that if I were praised I would get above myself.

When they make a woman's picture, they treat it like a 'woman's picture.' In the '40s, they didn't treat Joan Crawford movies like that, but as the big movies of their year. I'm upset that there's no 'Terminator' with a woman in Arnold Schwarzenegger's role. Because that would make just as much money.

How the woman movement has elevated woman's work, since it has raised the standard of qualification in many fields and increased the feeling of responsibility in all!

I've never been interested in dressing one woman. What's interested me was to have a philosophy. It hasn't been important to put a woman in a blue dress. I wanted to dress women who wanted to look at themselves. To stand out. To be women who were not part of the crowd. A woman who fights and advances.

No man who respects his mother or loves his sister, can speak disparagingly of any woman; however low she may seem to have sunk, she is still a woman. I want every man to remember this. Every woman is, or, at some time, has been a sister or daughter.

I can think of nothing in the world like the utter littleness, the paltriness, the contemptibleness, the degradation, of the woman who is tied down under a roof with a man who is really nothing to her; who wears the man’s name, who bears the man’s children — who plays the virtuous woman. . . . May I never, I say, become that abnormal merciless animal, that deformed monstrosity — a virtuous woman.

All my life I've wanted, just once, to say something clever without losing my train of thought

Which would you rather be if you had the choice--divinely beautiful or dazzlingly clever or angelically good?

Any clever person can make plans for winning a war if he has no responsibility for carrying them out.

I joined the Indian Police Service as a tough woman, a woman with indefatigable stamina, because I used to run for my tennis titles, etc.

I always say 'thriller;' if they see you're a woman - and you're a blond woman - people assume you're writing about cats and romances where somebody has died.

I think more than being a woman is the fact that i'm an introvert. In the environment I work in people forget that i'm a woman which is wonderful it just shows what a wonderful environment i work in, no one treats me differently. They don't think that because i'm a woman i'll make decisions differently.

Messi is much more than being clever. He is a genius who reserves all his expressiveness for football.

There was a time when I first started that there was such a thing called 'a woman's film' and there were certain scripts that women would make. But I think that's changed a lot now. I think that if a woman director walks into a room with a script, it doesn't really matter what the subject matter is, or the genre is, so long as the financers feel that the woman has the skills to make the film.

With whom do you argue? With a woman, of course. Not with a friend, because he accepted all your defects the moment he found you. Besides, woman is mother-have we forgotten?

I used to think I was a gay man with this idea of a muse in my head, like a woman that I thought was inspirational or aspirational. But the woman was actually me.

My parents are both pastors. In the '80s and '90s in the mainstream Christian world, it was not really common for a woman - especially a married woman and a mother - to be a pastor.

The woman most in need of liberation is the woman in every man and the man in every woman.

With all the clever brains in America it would be great to see more investment and focus on this essential research!

Tiptoeing on a tightrope past insider trading laws may be deft and clever, but it doesn't make it right.

A woman is a woman. A woman has male problems, has job problems, and I think funny is funny.

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.

Gay guys like a certain kind of woman. They like a flamboyant woman that's broken. They like a balls-to-the-wall woman, motherly but not; sexual but not. Gay guys are like this: they either love you or they don't even know you're on the planet. Once you have them, you have them.