Clever Sayings And Quotes

by allinspiration.com

“What a grand thing it is to be clever and have common sense.”
– Terence

“I’ve been composing music all my life and if I’d been clever enough at school I would like to have gone to music college.”
– Anthony Hopkins

“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.”
– Bryan Adams

“Don’t be too clever for an audience. Make it obvious. Make the subtleties obvious also.”
– Billy Wilder

“In the battle of existence, Talent is the punch; Tact is the clever footwork.”
– Wilson Mizner

“I think I have an inner confidence that my tastes are pretty simple, that what I find funny finds a wide audience. I’m not particularly intellectual or clever or minority-focused in my creative instincts. And I’m certainly not aware of suppressing more sophisticated ambitions.”
– Rowan Atkinson

“The competent programmer is fully aware of the limited size of his own skull. He therefore approaches his task with full humility, and avoids clever tricks like the plague.”
– Edsger Dijkstra

“An inefficient virus kills its host. A clever virus stays with it.”
– James Lovelock

“I think that Obama is very cool. And I think he’s clever, and I think he can be witty. But I don’t think he’s funny in either the way that Reagan was funny – or John McCain and Dick Cheney are both funny in that ruthless, kind of mean way.”
– Mo Rocca

“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.”
– Graham Greene

“In today’s world, we all live with the burden of feeling that anything is possible if we’re only clever enough, smart enough, work hard enough.”
– Elizabeth McGovern

“What clever man has ever needed to commit a crime? Crime is the last resort of political half-wits.”
– Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

“It has always seemed slightly uncomfortable, the idea of politicised musicians. Very few of them are clever enough to do it; if they’re good at the political side, the music side suffers, and vice versa.”
– Robert Smith

“I hate people who think it’s clever to take drugs… like custom officers.”
– Jack Dee

“I thought I was clever enough to write as well as these people and I didn’t realize that there is something called originality and your own voice.”
– Amy Tan

“No one wants to know how clever you are. They don’t want an insight into your mind, thrilling as it might be. They want an insight into their own.”
– Mark Haddon

“And out of a desire essentially to imitate what I was reading, I began to write, like a clever monkey.”
– Russell Banks

“No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him first.”
– Cesare Pavese

“I mean, I do love clever and witty, but I think that the ‘Three Stooges’ were geniuses. They’d have to be for their appeal to have lasted this long.”
– Paula Poundstone

“Awards sell tickets, and they’re a clever publicity stunt.”
– Tony Randall

“To be a head boy, you have to be very clever, you have to be a scholar, and I was never a scholar in any shape or form.”
– Hugh Laurie

“The notion of a universality of human experience is a confidence trick and the notion of a universality of female experience is a clever confidence trick.”
– Angela Carter

“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.”
– Jennifer Ellison

“Whenever I’ve chosen a song because it’s clever, it’s always turned out to be a mistake.”
– Alison Krauss

“People often get the wrong impression of Mick. The clever businessman is just one side of Mick. The other side is the same as the rest of us, a true rocker!”
– Ron Wood

“There are plenty of clever young writers. But there is too much genius, not enough talent.”
– J. B. Priestley

“I enjoy doing press for something that I like, and I think the movie is very fun and charming and clever.”
– Thomas Haden Church

“You may think me crude, and probably I am crude, but I am not so crude as I was, for I am clever enough to see that the girl of nineteen who thought herself a genius was only an unusual girl writing her heart out.”
– Mary MacLane

“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.”
– Jurgen Habermas

“Clever people seem not to feel the natural pleasure of bewilderment, and are always answering questions when the chief relish of a life is to go on asking them.”
– Frank Moore Colby

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