Clever Quotes
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Because Johnny was especially clever I think we should make him monitor for the whole week. Don't you?
James Clavell -
Advisers who think that they are very clever while all around them are a bit thick, and that all the problems of the world would be solved if the thick listened to the clever, are liable to be disappointed.
Geoff Mulgan
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We are obliged to regard many of our original minds as crazy at least until we have become as clever as they are.
Georg C. Lichtenberg -
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.
H. G. Wells -
The fact is, the Time Traveller was one of those men who are too clever to be believed: you never felt that you saw all round him; you always suspected some subtle reserve, some ingenuity in ambush, behind his lucid frankness.
H. G. Wells -
Whenever I've chosen a song because it's clever, it's always turned out to be a mistake.
Alison Krauss -
Either Angel Maria Villar was very clever or very stupid if Angel Maria Villar did not notice anything, it worries me that the RFEF president did not notice anything that was going on.
Javier Tebas -
I always see my wife as the clever one, as the wise one in the family.
Sayed Kashua
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She was sensible and clever, but eager in everything; her sorrows, her joys, could have no moderation.
Jane Austen -
But if you must be clever, then be clever. Be brave. Sleep with fists closed and shoot straight.
Catherynne M. Valente -
Two kinds of people are good at foreseeing danger: those who have learned at their own expense, and the clever people who learn a great deal at the expense of others.
Baltasar Gracian -
I love books that rhyme. And I love books that are clever and have little lines in them that are meant to amuse the parents who will no doubt be reading the book over and over and over again.
Savannah Guthrie -
And out of a desire essentially to imitate what I was reading, I began to write, like a clever monkey.
Russell Banks -
His face had become very red and his mouth and fingers were sticky. He did not look either clever or handsome, whatever the Queen might say.
C. S. Lewis
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I don't want clever conversationI never want to work that hard.
Billy Joel -
Everyone can write jokes and makes things clever.
David Walton -
The types of ideas protected by intellectual-property law typically don't include a clever catchphrase on a Vine or a film idea in a tweet.
Jenna Wortham -
There was an attraction at first that Mr Baldwin should not be clever. But when he forever sentimentalises about his own stupidity, the charm is broken.
John Maynard Keynes -
I began to see, again and again, stories that were first confusing and second where the emotional impact was muted because the big scene came before the explanation of what was going on. There was a reverse chronological order as well as a concealment of what exactly was going on. I think often that comes out of the fear of being boring, and sometimes I think it's just an attempt to seem clever.
Alice Mattison -
Our American money system is structurally brittle. It doesn't matter if you put a very clever guy or a stupid guy at the wheel. The clever guy will take a half hour to have an accident, and the stupid guy will take ten minutes.
Bernard Lietaer
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Every system that we build will surprise us with new kinds of flaws until those machines become clever enough to conceal their faults from us.
Marvin Minsky -
I don't like this idea of division: that if you're a clever woman then you've got to be a particular way. Because men don't. Men please themselves.
Marian Keyes -
This woman is beautiful and clever: but how much cleverer she would have become if she were not beautiful!
Friedrich Nietzsche -
The shell game that we play ... is technically called 'renormalization'. But no matter how clever the word, it is still what I would call a dippy process! Having to resort to such hocus-pocus has prevented us from proving that the theory of quantum electrodynamics is mathematically self-consistent. It's surprising that the theory still hasn't been proved self-consistent one way or the other by now; I suspect that renormalization is not mathematically legitimate.
Richard Feynman