Clever Sayings And Quotes

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“Men pass in front of our eyes like butterflies, creatures of a brief season. We love them; they are brave, proud, beautiful, clever; and they die almost at once. They die so soon that our hearts are continually racked with pain.”
– Philip Pullman

“They were so clever finding ways to get me the ball. They had to do more than just give up open shots. They had to avoid fouls and pass me the ball in traffic.”
– Wilt Chamberlain

“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.”
– Kenneth Grahame

“When you argue with your inferiors, you convince them of only one thing: they are as clever as you.”
– Irving Layton

“We tend to think of politicians as time-servers and slackers. But on those committees they usually have an interest in the subject. And they’re quite clever. I’ve seen them pick people apart.”
– Mark Thomas

“She felt like a chess player who, by the clever handling of his pieces, sees the game taking the course intended. Her eyes were bright and tender with a smile as they glanced up into his; and her lips looked hungry for the kiss which they invited.”
– Kate Chopin

“TV – a clever contraction derived from the words Terrible Vaudeville. However, it is our latest medium – we call it a medium because nothing’s well done.”
– Goodman Ace

“But I don’t sit down at dinner and have clever ideas.”
– Mark Rylance

“In the next few years I’d love to play a female version of Doctor Who. I know exactly how I would play her – she would be crafty in a clever kind of way.”
– Billie Piper

“A clever, imagination, humorous request can open closed doors and closed minds.”
– Percy Ross

“It is never wise to try to appear to be more clever than you are. It is sometimes wise to appear slightly less so.”
– William Whitelaw

“Because of the nature of Moore’s law, anything that an extremely clever graphics programmer can do at one point can be replicated by a merely competent programmer some number of years later.”
– John Carmack

“Lord Birkenhead is very clever but sometimes his brains go to his head.”
– Margot Asquith

“He’s very clever, but sometimes his brains go to his head.”
– Margot Asquith

“I think Douglas was a real one-off. He was so clever and so intelligent and so well read in real science that he could make science fiction work as well as it did. And just such fun to have around, he was just such a lovely man.”
– Lalla Ward

“Lots of us when we’re children believe ‘oh well, if the world knew us as we really are, they’d know what wonderful, clever, brilliant, charming people we really are.’”
– Max Hastings

“No Jew was ever fool enough to turn Christian unless he was a clever man.”
– Israel Zangwill

“I think clever people think that poor people are stupid.”
– Norm MacDonald

“A lot of modern comedies are difficult to watch too, because they’re so ironic and so detached and so quote-unquote clever. They kind of keep you at arm’s length. They can be really funny, but they’re not really nourishing.”
– Ty Burrell

“The interesting thing about Hain is that he’s not a very interesting character. He’s not fabulously clever. He’s not a great policeman. He’s not hugely charismatic. I’d describe him as a kind-of Chekhovian character. He’s an ordinary bloke, to whom extraordinary things have happened. Which is quite hard to play, I have to say.”
– Robbie Coltraine

“I’ve driven all through America and I know there are a lot of clever people between the coasts. But they have a slightly old-fashioned view of the world. Whereas New York is one of the most multicultural, multiracial, tolerant places on Earth.”
– Robbie Coltraine

“It is not the purpose of the ad or commercial to make the reader or listener say, ‘My what a clever ad.’ It is the purpose of advertising to make the reader say, ‘I believe I’ll buy one when I’m shopping tomorrow’.”
– Morris Hite

“I don’t really wanna talk about politics, I’m not clever enough.”
– Paul Weller

“It’s quite similar to guitar solos, only with programming you have to use your brain. The most important thing is that it should have some emotional effect on me, rather than just, ‘Oh, that’s really clever.’”
– Richard D. James

“Pol Pot – he rounded up anybody he thought was intellectual and had them executed. And how he told someone was intellectual or not was whether they wore glasses. If they’re that clever, take them off when they see him coming!”
– Ricky Gervais

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