Quotes and Sayings About Clever
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Your fingertips across my skin, the palm trees swaying in the wind - images. You sang me Spanish lullabies, the sweetest sadness in your eyes - clever trick. / I cannot go to the ocean, I cannot drive the streets at night, I cannot wake up in the morning without you on my mind, so you're gone and I'm haunted, and I bet you are just - fine. Did I make it that easy to walk right in and out of my life?
-- A Fine Frenzy -
The really clever people now want to be lawyers or journalists.
-- A. N. Wilson -
I would love for people to think that I am as quick, clever, smart and heroic as the characters that I write, but those characters are characters.
-- Aaron Sorkin -
When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people.
-- Abraham Joshua Heschel -
The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
All progress has resulted from people who took unpopular positions.
-- Adlai E. Stevenson -
Through clever and constant application of propaganda, people can be made to see paradise as hell, and also the other way round, to consider the most wretched sort of life as paradise.
-- Adolf Hitler -
This land is a monopoly of erroneous ideas.
-- Adriano Celentano -
They tried to be too clever---and that was their undoing.
-- Agatha Christie -
I'm all alone. There has been no man in my life for several months now and although it would be nice to have a boyfriend, I can't just settle for anybody. The fact is I'm choosy, but mainly about a man's character. He has to be interesting, funny and clever. I don't even mind if he's not very good-looking.
-- Agyness Deyn -
Yet, isn't it strange, isn't it weird, how we can KNOW that someone is not behaving in the way we imagine, and at the same time we can be totally convinced that he is! How clever the human mind is, that it can accept two contradictory things as 'facts.' Yes, I know that in this case one 'fact' was untrue. But the human mind can KNOW something is untrue and still accept it as a 'fact,' and act on it as if it were true.
-- Aidan Chambers -
In the long run, no matter how good or successful you are or how clever or crafty, your business and its future are in the hands of the people you hire.
-- Akio Morita -
There's a lot of different ways that a song would be a challenge to parody. There are a lot of songs that would ostensibly be a good candidate for parody, yet I can't think of a clever enough idea. Some songs are too repetitive for me to be able to fashion a humorous set of lyrics around. Some songs flat-out just don't work creatively for me.
-- Al Yankovic -
I discovered that the most dangerous mask is the one worn by intelligent people because they are clever at their disguise.
-- Ala Bashir -
I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
-- Albert Einstein -
I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
-- Albert Einstein -
Man is a clever animal who behaves like an imbecile.
-- Albert Schweitzer -
Here we stand in the middle of this new world with our primitive brain, attuned to the simple cave life, with terrific forces at our disposal, which we are clever enough to release, but whose consequences we cannot comprehend.
-- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi -
War has become an affair of machines...and soldiers are little more than clever mechanics.
-- Alberto Moravia -
Alpha children wear grey. They work much harder than we do, because they're so frightfully clever. I'm awfully glad I'm a Beta, because I don't work so hard. And then we are much better than the Gammas and Deltas. Gammas are stupid. They all wear green, and Delta children wear khaki. Oh no, I don't want to play with Delta children. And Epsilons are still worse. They're too stupid to be able to read or write. Besides they wear black, which is such a beastly color. I'm so glad I'm a Beta.
-- Aldous Huxley -
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 -
The clever way death cuts us down, but makes it look like just a thinning-out. Generations never fall with one blow - that would be too sad and too obvious. Death prefers to do it piecemeal. The meadow is attacked from several sides at the same time. One of us goes one day; another some time afterwards; you have to stand back and look around you to take in what's missing, to grasp the vast slaughter of your generation...
-- Alphonse Daudet -
The hardest tumble a man can make is to fall over his own bluff.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
It so depends on each script, because you can say... I always thought I wouldn't have wanted to do something that was kind of like as big and commercial as 'The Dark is Rising,' but I really liked the script. I thought it was really clever.
-- Amelia Warner -
You are so terribly nimble, so clever. I distrust your cleverness. You make a wonderful pattern, everything is in its place, it looks convincingly clear, too clear. And meanwhile, where are you? Not on the clear surface of your ideas, but you have already sunk deeper, into darker regions, so that one only thinks one has been given all your thoughts, one only imagines you have emptied yourself in that clarity. But there are layers and layers -- you're bottomless, unfathomable. Your clearness is deceptive. You are the thinker who arouses most confusion in me, most doubt, most disturbance.
-- Anais Nin -
I don't like being called 'macho.' Macho basically means stupid and a real Italian man is not macho, he's smart. That's smart in both senses: elegant and clever.
-- Andrea Bocelli -
And I love Jane Austen's use of language too--the way she takes her time to develop a phrase and gives it room to grow, so that these clever, complex statements form slowly and then bloom in my mind. Beethoven does the same thing with his cadence and phrasing and structure. It's a fact: Jane Austen is musical. And so's Yeats. And Wordsworth. All the great writers are musical.
-- Andrew Clements -
The great background question about the Labour governments of the sixties is whether with a stronger leader they could have gripped the country's big problems and dealt with them. How did it happen that a cabinet of such brilliant, such clever and self-confident people achieved so little? In part, it was the effect of the whirling court politics demonstrated by 'In Place of Strife'.
-- Andrew Marr
