Clever Quotes · Page 26

I think I'm pretty smart. I think I'm pretty clever. But there's a lot that you hone in on when you finish…

— Michelle Obama

Don't love what you can't truest, Don't say what you can't back up, don't judge what you don't know. just do whatever's…

— Simpleman

Barack Obama is the New Generation and the hot light of a dawn that goes way beyond clever talk of morning in…

— John Ridley

It used to be that painters were crazy and sculptors clever. Today it's the other way around.

— Giorgio de Chirico

I discovered that the most dangerous mask is the one worn by intelligent people because they are clever at their disguise.

— Ala Bashir

If men had wings and bore black feathers, Few of them would be clever enough to be crows.

— Henry Ward Beecher

Sometimes all it takes is an understanding ear, lips with an opinion, and the embrace of open arms.

— Raghib Clitso

I came up with new leads for game stories by being observant and clever, by using the many gifts of the English…

— Dick Schaap

Athens' biggest worry was the sheer recklessness of its own democratic government. A simple majority of the citizenry, urged on and incensed…

— Thucydides

I don't think I see the world in terms of stupid or clever, but in terms of being able to get irony.…

— Douglas Coupland

The Americans are clever. They thoroughly understand things that have to do with money, war, death, sickness. And there is also a…

— Gore Vidal

The inspiration comes from everywhere, from what I grew up with. There's so much silliness and nonsense in the world that we…

— Jasper Fforde

I have always been very fond of them (drama critics) . . . I think it is so frightfully clever of them…

— Noel Coward

In the end, the thing that really stays with you is not that you were clever enough to connect a sketch to…

— Bob Odenkirk

You may be a well-educated, clever and virtuous person, but those qualities will not necessarily make you a successful businessman. You must…

— Konosuke Matsushita

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,…

— Aldous Huxley

To show a longing for anything that one cannot have, for instance, is not a clever position.

— Elizabeth Gilbert

It i impossible to foresee the consequences of being clever, so you try to avoid it whenever you can.

— Christopher Strachey

“He forced himself forward trying to seem innocent without acting like someone who was guilty who was trying to act innocent.”

— James Dashner

We didn't die,' she said. Of course not. I'm too clever to die, and you're too pretty.' I am pretty,' Valkryie said,…

— Derek Landy

[Chess] is a foolish expedient for making idle people believe they are doing something very clever, when they are only wasting their…

— George Bernard Shaw

Ronnie is a very clever winner. He will make sure that he does everything in his power to win the tournament. He…

— Jimmy White

I sit in one of the dives On Fifty-second Street Uncertain and afraid As the clever hopes expire Of a low dishonest…

— W. H. Auden

One always has the idea of a stupid man as perfectly healthy and ordinary, and of illness as making one refined and…

— Thomas Mann

You fought for what you believe even when others didn't want to listen. Gave a little piece of you but nothin' is…

— Raghib Clitso

The most effective way to build a brand is not by spending millions in advertising, but by finding a clever way to…

— Barbara Corcoran

You have an amazing, beautiful vibe.. And I can feel it from two light years away.

— Raghib Clitso

The turtle lives 'twixt plated decks Which practically conceal its sex I think it clever of the turtle In such a fix…

— Ogden Nash

My valour is certainly going! - it is sneaking off! - I feel it oozing out as it were at the palms…

— Richard Brinsley Sheridan

She does what she can to portray perfect. Broken on the inside but smiling on the surface.

— Raghib Clitso

Find enough clever things to say, and you're a Prime Minister; write them down and you're a Shakespeare.

— George Bernard Shaw

Am I not sensitive, clever, well-mannered, considerate, passionate, charming, as kind as I'm handsome and heir to a throne?

— Stephen Sondheim

I can sit and write clever things, but that never quite works as well as when I'm just chatting about stupid things…

— Michael McIntyre

Let's talk, let's converse, let's both disperse thoughts and dreams before time can reclaim two careless teens..

— Raghib Clitso

The types of ideas protected by intellectual-property law typically don't include a clever catchphrase on a Vine or a film idea in…

— Jenna Wortham

Beauty beyond words, her imperfections she shields her true self with the eyeliner clashing like swords.

— Raghib Clitso

American girls are as clever at concealing their parents as English women are at concealing their past.

— Oscar Wilde

From the self-confidence with which he spoke no one could tell whether what he said was very clever or very stupid.

— Leo Tolstoy

Rule of thumb: if you think something is clever and sophisticated beware-it is probably self-indulgence.

— Donald A. Norman

[Eve] sees through Satan's disquise of clever hypocrisy, identifies him, and exposes him for what he is...[ever since Satan has] had it…

— Hugh Nibley