Clever Quotes

• Calvin was very clever. We did the pictures and made the commercial, and that really worked.

  

  Kate Moss
  • Made
  • Clever
  • Pictures

• I write my own quotes. Except this one. I obviously stole this from somebody really clever.

  

  Brian Celio
  • Clever

• Daisy was a consciously happy young woman without any of the usual endowments that make for conscious happiness, money apart. She was not pretty, she was not clever, she had no friends, no talents, nor even an imagination to make her think she was happy when she was really miserable. As she was never miserable, she had no need of an imagination.

  

  Laura Riding
  • Money
  • She
  • Friends

• When it turned out that he could, Karou dropped to her knees to genuflect. "Gods of math and physics," she intoned, "I accept your gift of this clever fair-haired boy

  

  Laini Taylor
  • She
  • Boy
  • Boys

• The key for me is movement. When the ball comes into the box, or when the wide players get it, that's where I have to be clever and make my runs. That's where I come alive.

  

  Jermain Defoe
  • Clever

• To pronounce something clever and honest is not such a big deal, lots of them have been said and written. For a statement of truth to be effective and for it to make people wiser, it has to be filtered through the soul of a highest quality, the soul of an artist.

  

  Alexander Ostrovsky
  • People
  • Soul
  • Quality

• A clever, imaginative, humorous request can open closed doors and closed minds.

  

  Percy Ross
  • Clever
  • Humorous

• Lightning is like an elementary spirit, eccentric or rational, clever or silly, passing from one extreme to the other.

  

  Camille Flammarion
  • Spirit
  • Silly
  • Rational

• Is it not, then, better to be ridiculous and friendly than clever and hostile?

  

  Socrates
  • Better
  • Ridiculous
  • Friendly

• The government may be made up of clever, sensible people. But if they do not believe in basic human values, the more clever or shrewd they are the greater the tragedy they will create.

  

  Ai Weiwei
  • People
  • Up
  • Believe

• Most people think that 'I don't recall' is a clever answer. But it isn't that clever. You might not recall that you had bacon and eggs for breakfast- but if you killed your mother, you'll remember it.

  

  F. Lee Bailey
  • People
  • Remember
  • Mother

• I think people really appreciate clever commercials, as do I. I think they're very entertaining. You just have to wade through all the garbage. That's one of the reasons people watch the Super Bowl. A lot of them watch it to see the commercials and not the actual game.

  

  Kevin Nealon
  • People
  • Game
  • Clever

• Clever people seem not to feel the natural pleasure of bewilderment, and are always answering questions when the chief relish of a life is to go on asking them.

  

  Frank Moore Colby
  • People
  • Life
  • Clever

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

  

  Edward Heath
  • Mad
  • Clever

• You can persuade a man to believe almost anything provided he is clever enough, but it is much more difficult to persuade someone less clever.

  

  Tom Stoppard
  • Believe
  • Men
  • Enough

• A graceful taunt is worth a thousand insults.

  

  Louis Nizer
  • Thousand
  • Insult
  • Taunting

• All I know is that I'm tired of being clever Everybody's clever these days Take a win Take a fall I never wanted your love But I needed it all…

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Fall
  • Tired
  • Clever

• Whatever your work and whatever its worth, No matter how strong or clever, Some one will sneer if you pause to hear, And scoff at your best endeavor. For the target art has a broad expanse, And wherever you chance to hit it, Though close be your aim to the bull's-eye fame, There are those who will never admit it.

  

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox
  • Work
  • Art
  • Strong

• Because Johnny was especially clever I think we should make him monitor for the whole week. Don't you?

  

  James Clavell
  • Clever

• 'Aha? You have been very clever, madame.' 'No, I haven’t really. It was a pure accident. I mean, I walked into a small café place and there the girl was, just sitting there.' 'Ah. You had the good fortune then. That is just as important.'

  

  Agatha Christie
  • Good
  • Important
  • Girl

• 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
  • Buried
  • Cleverness
  • Muted

• I'd rather get a good clean laugh with good material, than an easy laugh by swearing or shocking. That's not clever or comedic, anybody can get a laugh that way, it's too easy.

  

  Jim Dale
  • Good
  • Clever

• The stability of what's called the Standard Model of particle physics and its ability to make so many clever predictions with immense precision suggests that we may just be stuck with it, and there may never be an overthrow of that.

  

  Ian Hacking
  • May
  • Model
  • Physics

• Obama spoke so slowly because he, a clever and cultured man, had constantly to be on his guard against sounding it.

  

  James Hawes
  • Clever

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