D. Harlan Wilson Quotes

It's good to be clever but cleverness should be muted and buried in the sand. Nobody should be able to detect it but me.

D. Harlan Wilson

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• When I was a little girl, I told everyone I was going to marry a very clever scientist and have ten children. I would always draw the children, and they included blond-haired twin boys whom I named Theodore and Frederick: Teddy and Freddy for short.

  

  Talulah Riley
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• I get tired of comedies where there are a bunch of funny guys and a beautiful woman who doesn't do anything funny. And I don't like books where there's a rough-and-tumble boy and a really clever, snotty girl. That's just not my experience with teenagers.

  

  Patrick Ness
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• You put anyone in the outfit, and they look like Gandalf. Not that clever.

  

  Ian Mckellen
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• When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people.

  

  Abraham Joshua Heschel
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• I got tired of books where the boy is a bit thick and the girl's very clever. Why does it have to such an opposition? Why can't they be like the girls and boys that I know personally, who are equally funny and equally cross? Who get things equally wrong and are equally brave? And make the same mistakes?

  

  Patrick Ness
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• Audiences aren't going to get rid of me. One thing I can say, with absolute certainty, is that my shows will still be performed when I'm dead, buried and forgotten. They're going to absolutely outlive me, which is a wonderful thing to think about.

  

  Cameron Mackintosh
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• DNA is a code of four letters; proteins are made up of amino acids which come in 20 forms. So the ribosome is a very clever machine that reads one language and operates in another.

  

  Ada Yonath
  • Up
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• I'll only retire in the day I should be dead and they have me buried, and some idiot spell over my casket some stupid gospel stuff.

  

  Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath
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• There are plenty of clever young writers. But there is too much genius, not enough talent.

  

  J. B. Priestley
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• My dad's a very shrewd, clever guy.

  

  C. Thomas Howell
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• It is very natural that clever young men should be rather odious. They are conscious of gifts that they do not know how to use. They are exasperated with the world that will not recognize their merit. They have something to give, and no hand is stretched out to receive it. They are impatient for the fame they regard as their due.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • World
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• The disease having been caused by allowing cleverness to displace wisdom, no amount of clever research is likely to produce a cure.

  

  E. F. Schumacher
  • Wisdom
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• I sit in one of the dives On Fifty-second Street Uncertain and afraid As the clever hopes expire Of a low dishonest decade: Waves of anger and fear Circulate over the bright And darkened lands of the earth, Obsessing our private lives; The unmentionable odour of death Offends the September night.

  

  W. H. Auden
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• He is not mad in the least. He's a very astute person, a clever person.

  

  Edward Heath
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• A stupid man's report of what a clever man says is never accurate, because he unconsciously translates what he hears into something that he can understand.

  

  Bertrand Russell
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• What beats me - it always does - is how a man can be so clever and yet be such a perfect fool.

  

  Agatha Christie
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• Roman military tactics were much over-rated. All the clever ones had the same idea, which was to go round the back.

  

  Mary Beard
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• The concept of Shwopping is so clever, I think. The idea is that every time someone goes shopping, they can take an unwanted item of clothing and pop it in the recycling bin in their M&S store for Oxfam.

  

  Joanna Lumley
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• Ultimately, I want a peak experience in reading, and that is sometimes difficult to find in contemporary fiction. I'm not interested in books that are just clever and well executed; polish doesn't impress me, and I don't care about a merely capable sentence. Life is short; I want a confrontation with high art. I want soul.

  

  C.E. Morgan
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• What fiction offers us is an intimacy shorn of the messy contingencies of human existence - gender, race, class or age. Those moments of transcendence when we exclaim "You know exactly what I mean!" depend for much of their force on the anonymous character of the intimacy between writer and reader.

  

  Will Self
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• So I said to myself, you know, nobody’s ever going to know unless I run, because I’m really proud of my success.

  

  Donald Trump
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• I don't think that jazz, as any kind of an art form, has any permanence attached to it, apart from the practitioners of it.

  

  Norman Granz
  • Thinking
  • Art
  • Kind

• Worrying about next, tomorrow cripples our ability to think, act and exercise faith in the present and the present only is ours.

  

  T. B. Joshua
  • Faith
  • Present
  • Exercise

• It's good to be clever but cleverness should be muted and buried in the sand. Nobody should be able to detect it but me.

  

  D. Harlan Wilson
  • Clever
  • Buried
  • Cleverness