Clever Quotes
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No convention gets to be a convention at all except by grace of a lot of clever and powerful people first inventing it, and then imposing it on others. You can be pretty sure, if you are strictly conventional, that you are following genius--a long way off. And unless you are a genius yourself, that is a good thing to do.
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I don't want clever conversationI never want to work that hard.
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She has her gown nicely in place tonight, doesn't she? Black velvet and sparkles, not a thread left hanging. Clever girl, this city. Even the sky is her friend.
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If you could stop every atom in its position and direction, and if your mind could comprehend all the actions thus suspended, then if you were really, really good at algebra you could write the formula for all the future; and although nobody can be so clever as to do it, the formula must exist just as if one could.
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If they are just, they are better than clever.
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The interior of a teenager’s mind is an endless war between Stupid and Clever.
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I wish I were one of those terribly clever people who, when they write their autobiographies, always say, when I was fifteen months old I distinctly remember my Aunt Fanny saying to me, etc.
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The proper motto is not Be good, sweet maid, and let who can be clever, but Be good sweet maid, and don't forget that this involves being as clever as you can. God is no fonder of intellectual slackers than any other slackers.
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A man likes his wife to be just clever enough to appreciate his cleverness, and just stupid enough to admire it.
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My dad is a great manager. He's not just competent - he's very clever.
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She was sensible and clever, but eager in everything; her sorrows, her joys, could have no moderation.
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Novels are sweets. All people with healthy literary appetites love them-almost all women; a vast number of clever, hardheaded men.
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I don't really wanna talk about politics, I'm not clever enough.
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I read the paper every day. There are certain subjects that will catch my attention. I have an entire file of articles. Of course I make up the story, especially since most criminals are not very smart and fictional crime must be clever. I have to make sure the story I am telling is interesting and realistic. In this book I went on line and found out the manners of codes. I thought it interesting to use them as a jumping off point.
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If we keep demanding that God yield up His answers, perhaps some day we will understand them. And then we will be something more than clever apes, and we shall dance with God.
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The aboriginal peoples of Australia illustrate the conflict between technology and the natural world succinctly, by asking, 'What will you do when the clever men destroy your water?' That, in truth, is what the world is coming to.
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A clever person is never bored, and a bored person is never clever.
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When I was young, I was clever enough to know that if I got married or had children, I would be eaten.
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People think you can't be clever if you have breasts.
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I . . . am always half afraid of finding a clever novel too clever--& of finding my own story & my own people all forestalled.
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Be subtle, various, ornamental, clever, And do not listen to those critics ever Whose crude provincial gullets crave in books Plain cooking made still plainer by plain cooks.
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Things that would have made fame of a less clever man seemed tricks in his hands. It is a mistake to do things too easily.
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But sometimes it isn't the spells themselves that are important. It is the clever ways you use them.
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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.
