As a model, we come in the room, and we are casted just on our looks. I think I'm funny; I think… — Coco Rocha Copy Share Image
Miss Prism: Do not speak slightingly of the three-volume novel, Cecily. I wrote one myself in earlier days. Cecily: Did you really,… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I don't mind people putting us down, because if everybody really liked us, it would be a bore. You've got to have… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
The necessity for struggle is one of the clever devices through which nature forces individuals to expand, develop, progress, and become strong… — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
Political journalists love graduate student intelligence, the ability to make clever allusions in seminars, and in 1999-2000 they hassled George W. Bush… — Marvin Olasky Copy Share Image
One of the most extraordinary examples in recent decades [of unitary visions of constitutional enterprise] is found in a book called "Takings"...… — Laurence Tribe Copy Share Image
What are the hallmarks of a competent writer of fiction? The first, it seems to me, is that he should be immensely… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Our great democracies still tend to think that a stupid man is more likely to be honest than a clever man, and… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I haven't had a cramp since '99. That was my only time, in Davis Cup, when I was panicky. I was young.… — Roger Federer Copy Share Image
More than anything I have learned that we are all frail people, vulnerable and wounded; it is just that some of us… — Sheila Cassidy Copy Share Image
In this country, unfortunately, as all over the world, we care so little, we have no deep feeling about anything. Most of… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
There was an advert I rather liked. Devastated woman: "I've just seen the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse!" Husband: "Never mind, love,… — Simon Barnes Copy Share Image
We live in this world like a child who enters a room where a clever person is speaking. The child did not… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Snarky should never be confused with clever... (Snarky just showcases immaturity and a need to make other feel small in order to… — Marianne Morea Copy Share Image
People of all ages, including children, have been exposed to clever and eye-catching advertising material, .. All that will now change. Tobacco… — Frank Dobson Copy Share Image
There are many foolish people in the world and when a man in a rather high position puts on no frills, slaps… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
I had been proud of my awareness, aware of my pride, and proud of that awareness again. It went on like this:… — Janwillem van de Wetering Copy Share Image
One way to think of the tax system is as a massive Swiss cheese. Each hole is an exemption created by a… — Daniel Hannan Copy Share Image
You don't have to dumb down - you just have to find a clever, good, secure man. I've found a couple -… — Kimora Lee Simmons Copy Share Image
Two kinds of people are good at foreseeing danger: those who have learned at their own expense, and the clever people who… — Baltasar Gracian Copy Share Image
You just have to be clever about who you work with. Had I done Gap or H&M, there's no way Louis Vuitton… — Ben Eine Copy Share Image
Man is a rational animal—so at least I have been told. … Aristotle, so far as I know, was the first man… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The worst storyline Ive ever been involved in I wasnt involved in, because I was clever enough to get pregnant with my… — Erika Slezak Copy Share Image
There is no good talking to him," said a Dragon-fly, who was sitting on the top of a large brown bulrush; "no… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
It wasn't that Microsoft was so brilliant or clever in copying the Mac, it's that the Mac was a sitting duck for… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
How baffling it was that even the most cunning and clever people would frequently see only what they wanted to see, and… — James Clavell Copy Share Image
The gender prism is just descending upon us. For instance, when we're girls of nine or 10 we may be climbing trees… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Oh yes, children often commit murders. And quite clever ones, too. Some murderers, particularly the distinguished ones who are going to make… — John Lee Mahin Copy Share Image
Lots of us when we're children believe 'oh well, if the world knew us as we really are, they'd know what wonderful,… — Max Hastings Copy Share Image
More than his exterior hit me. I felt warm and safe just being with him. He brought comfort after my terrible day.… — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
The moment in the account of Adam and Eve in the book of Genesis is when they realize they're naked and try… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
I think there are different kinds of comedians, and I prefer the clowns who are going: 'I'm an idiot, aren't we all… — Miranda Hart Copy Share Image
The most common self-inflicted put-down is 'I am not a pastor-I am just a layperson.' This is all part of a clever… — Ed Silvoso Copy Share Image
Comedians who are 22 years old can certainly be funny and clever, and be capable of telling jokes - but are they… — Rob Delaney Copy Share Image
I am trying to write novels for properly clever people, but I also want them to be proper novels that also stick… — Sophie Hannah Copy Share Image
I used to hangout with her, that became spending time. I used to be the friend, we became closer. I used to… — Raghib Clitso Copy Share Image
SOLIDAO, LONELINESS. What is it that we call loneliness. It can't simply be the absence of others, you can be alone and… — Pascal Mercier Copy Share Image
I would proclaim that the vast majority of what [say, Scientific American] is true-yet my ability to defend such a claim is… — Douglas Hofstadter Copy Share Image
Beauty is something that is hard to debate. Every man thinks his ideal the best. But the wittiest woman rise to the… — Anne Mallory Copy Share Image
Life is an admirable arrangement, isn't it, little mother. It is so clever of it to have June in every year and… — Elizabeth von Arnim Copy Share Image