Top 1200 Very Clever Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

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

Appeasement was never a very clever policy, and it should not be our option today.

Most companies, 97 percent or more, put all their focus on clever advertising and clever taglines to get people to buy average or mediocre products. You need to back off and offer a really good product or service.

I . . . am always half afraid of finding a clever novel too clever--& of finding my own story & my own people all forestalled.

If you want to be clever in your picture, don't let anybody catch you at it. If they catch you, you're not clever.

Show me a clever nation; then I will show you a clever government!

I would've loved to dress Diana Vreeland. I just loved her work as a creative woman and as a business woman - unpredictable, exciting, fun, and very, very clever.

Mr. [Aldous] Huxley has been the alarming young man for a long time, a sort of perpetual clever nephew who can be relied on to flutter the lunch party. Whatever will he say next? How does he think of those things? He has been deplored once or twice, but feeling is in his favor: he is steadily read. He is at once the truly clever person and the stupid person's idea of the clever person; he is expected to be relentless, to administer intellectual shocks.

I had been proud of my awareness, aware of my pride, and proud of that awareness again. It went on like this: How clever I am that I know I am so stupid, how stupid I am to think that I am clever, and how clever I am that I am aware of my stupidity, etc.

There are still an awful lot of intelligent, clever constructive Americans and they are still doing clever constructive things.

He's extremely clever and I learn always so much when I fight with Lewis. He always knows exactly what you are going to do next with his experience, and that's what makes him so good on track with the battles. He's not very aggressive, always very correct, but always very good to anticipate what you are going to do.

There are but very few men clever enough to know all the mischief they do.

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

Seen from a monocultural perspective, manipulating objects is very, very clever. But seen from a multidimensional perspective, from a perspective of diversity, this is extremely crude because what we have lost out on is a cow that serves as a source of sustainable energy.

Put a very clever man next to a genius, his brightness will immediately turn to dullness!

Meadowlark Lemon is one very clever man, unique and truly one of a kind.

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

I think some authors suffer from a need to try to prove that they're clever and educated. I try not to suffer from that. I would rather sacrifice my own narrative in the exercise of writing a biography. So I'm not worried about whether I'm clever.

I was one of five very clever kids, the other kids were cleverer than I was and still are and are very achieving. The girls were always first at everything and I was always 101st!

I had very clever producers, who scheduled it brilliantly, but scheduling it was a nightmare.

In a very unscientific statement, I feel that there's been a disconnect between this clever brain and the heart.

I think Hillary Clinton's a very clever politician but she would be too easy to stereotype the way John Kerry was.

My dad is a great manager. He's not just competent - he's very clever.

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

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

It's no use trying to be clever-we are all clever here; just try to be kind-a little kind.

Sometimes the very learned and clever can be brilliantly foolish, especially when seized by an apparently good cause.

A man who stops at nothing short of the law is very clever indeed!

It's not very hard to be clever. It's far harder to be simple, obvious, and meaningful.

[Chess] is a foolish expedient for making idle people believe they are doing something very clever, when they are only wasting their time.

not all clever words are true. ... And inversely most things that are true are not clever.

Calvin was very clever. We did the pictures and made the commercial, and that really worked.

Yes, Vajpayee and Advani are very clever speakers, but that does not mean everything they say is true.

Social media is a giant distraction to the ultimate aim, which is honing your craft as a songwriter. There are people who are exceptional at it, however, and if you can do both things, then that's fantastic, but if you are a writer, the time is better spent on a clever lyric than a clever tweet.

Louis CK is so brilliant and smart and clever and funny and also very bizarre.

Lars von Trier is very, very, very clever about women. He gives the woman a space that I don't know any filmmaker does. Because in Breaking The Waves, protagonist Emily Watson is the Christ. Which man is doing that? I don't know any man giving that space to a woman. No one.

The Paris attack was highly sophisticated, well-planned, very clever, took months in the making, very much like 9/11. And there is a 9/11-style attack coming to America.

What's that one that people seem to like so much? 'Fleabag.' I watched that and it was that sort of Oxbridge 'Oh, I'm so clever and witty, aren't I?' I don't like that stuff. But then I don't like 'Mrs Brown's Boys' either. I like things that are clever but hide it.

I've been very lucky to work in a newsroom where there are lots of strong, funny, clever women in senior positions.

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

I love characters who are clever and smart, and you have to run to catch up with. I think there's something very appealing and rather heroic in that.

The fact is I'm choosy, but mainly about a man's character. He has to be interesting, funny and clever. I don't even mind if he's not very good-looking.

That's typical Gabrielle, ... Marc has a very clever plan for this pregnancy. It's going to turn her world upside down

Remember that anybody who is clever enough to set you free is clever enough to enslave you.

What I've found over the years working on various projects is, you can have a clever book or clever tagline, but there has to be a story to go along with it that leads to something bigger. Something with a little more texture to it.

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

However a man who was honest and clever was always, ALWAYS more difficult to scam than someone who was both dishonest and clever. Sincerity. It was so difficult , by definition, to fake.

My wife is a very clever woman. She knows when to say something and when to bite her tongue.

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.

I think my older sister was probably more clever, but I worked very hard.

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.

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

There are people who try to figure things out. Often, magic is presented in a way that sets up a challenge that I actually find kind of appalling. You know, "I'm clever, I can do something, and you don't know what it is." And that instills in the audience the idea that, "Yes, I do. You're not that clever."

There are so many people who are clever. There are 8000 people at Princeton who are more clever than the three of us at this table. BUT, we have the ability to give something that they don't have...which is us.

Clever is as clever does.

It takes a clever man to turn cynic and a wise man to be clever enough not to.

If a film is very clever and well-written, that's what gives you freedom as a director.

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.

do you think it is better to be clever than to be good?” “Good for what?” asked the Doctor. “You are good for nothing unless you are clever.

You are very clever," said the old man shyly. "I would like to eat your brains, one day.