J_K_Bharavi Quotes
The undertaking of a careless man succeeds not, though he use the right expedients: a clever hunter, though well placed in ambush, kills not his quarry if he falls asleep.J_K_Bharavi
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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 -
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 -
You put anyone in the outfit, and they look like Gandalf. Not that clever.
Ian Mckellen -
When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people.
Abraham Joshua Heschel -
I had the taste of the alcohol since I was 11. It allowed me to be clever, charming and to behave outrageously. Acting also allowed me not to be me. So I could indulge every fantasy in this paradise of America.
Malachy McCourt -
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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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 -
I never think in terms of gold, currency, diamonds. I'm not clever enough for that.
Lars Larsen -
There are plenty of clever young writers. But there is too much genius, not enough talent.
J. B. Priestley -
My dad's a very shrewd, clever guy.
C. Thomas Howell -
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 -
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
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You are a particularly clever girl: almost as clever as you are appealing to the eye.
Jack Vance -
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 -
God was a clever idea … The human race came up with a winner there.
J. G. Ballard -
He is not mad in the least. He's a very astute person, a clever person.
Edward Heath -
He's very clever, but sometimes his brains go to his head.
Emma Alice Margaret Asquith -
I know no place at which an Englishman may drop down suddenly among a pleasanter circle of acquaintance, or find himself with a more clever set of men, than he can do at Boston.
Anthony Trollope
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Clever people master life; the wise illuminate it and create fresh difficulties.
Emil Nolde -
It can safely be said that no one has touched more lives, more deeply, than Death. Through this devastating memoir, it is hoped he will touch many, many more.
George Pendle -
Lamachus: Ah! the Generals! they are numerous, but not good for much! (tr. Athen. 1912, vol. 1, Perseus)
Aristophanes -
When I run in the morning, my body spends the first 20 minutes trying to figure out what's happening to it.
Danny Pudi -
The undertaking of a careless man succeeds not, though he use the right expedients: a clever hunter, though well placed in ambush, kills not his quarry if he falls asleep.
J_K_Bharavi