“His stories were not always new, but there was in the telling of them a special kind of magic. His voice could… — David Eddings Copy Share Image
I am sick to death of cleverness. Everybody is clever nowadays. You can't go anywhere without meeting clever people. The thing has… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I think that you are only obliged to be a humorist from the age of 18 until you turn 30. Past the… — Garrison Keillor Copy Share Image
I got into trouble a lot in school. They say you're a disturbance in class. You're a distraction, they're moving you around.… — Godfrey Copy Share Image
For the female of the species is more deadly than the male. A woman's guess is much more accurate than a man's… — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
If you're clever enough and creative enough to get a good film made, then you should be clever enough and creative enough… — Dana Brunetti Copy Share Image
My favorite artist was probably Jay-Z. He's the one who inspired me to start writing music. He's a wordsmith. He's very clever.… — Trip Lee Copy Share Image
“You need to be clever to best him. Are you clever, Rachel?” Oh God. She wants to know if I’m clever. I… — Kim Harrison Copy Share Image
I'm interested in such things as the difference between how we perceive the world and what the world turns out to be.… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
Read as little as possible of literary criticism - such things are either partisan opinions, which have become petrified and meaningless, hardened… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
My dad grew up in a mud hut and studied by candlelight. He was 14 when he got a scholarship to Russia.… — M.I.A Copy Share Image
Wall Street is littered with clever plans to use financial instruments to change behavior - carbon trading, for example. Some have changed… — Andrew Ross Sorkin Copy Share Image
Up until now, I believed the nuclear threat to the U.S. from Iran was limited to the ability of terrorists to penetrate… — Joseph Farah Copy Share Image
It has always seemed slightly uncomfortable, the idea of politicised musicians. Very few of them are clever enough to do it; if… — Robert Smith Copy Share Image
“They're not going to arrest you,' Skulduggery said as they walked through the door. 'They might glare at you and say angry… — Derek Landy Copy Share Image
And still I look for the men who will dare to be roses of England wild roses of England men who are… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
I was obsessed with country music when I was a kid, and it's definitely had a huge influence on the way I… — Teddy Thompson Copy Share Image
This is simple meditation, nothingness and everythingness, the color and the form, death and the void, the end and the beginning, a… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
At one time my only wish was to be a police official. It seemed to me to be an occupation for my… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
I can't hold it in any longer, I gasp for air and cough. The shit they're feeding us is enough to make… — Raghib Clitso Copy Share Image
Most people tire of a lecture in ten minutes; clever people can do it in five. Sensible people never go to lectures… — Stephen Leacock Copy Share Image
So much interviewing these days is about the presenter - I?m a clever boy, I?m going to be smart with people; or… — Michael Parkinson Copy Share Image
I think people really appreciate clever commercials, as do I. I think they're very entertaining. You just have to wade through all… — Kevin Nealon Copy Share Image
You drive me insane June. You're the scariest, most clever, bravest person I know, and sometimes I can't catch my breath because… — Marie Lu Copy Share Image
Starting probably with Janeane Garofalo and that era of stand-up ladies who were starting to be more brainy and strong and clever,… — Paula Pell Copy Share Image
I didn't like the way I looked, the way I dressed and moved, what I achieved and what I felt I was… — Bernhard Schlink Copy Share Image
It had long been true, and prisoners knew this better than anyone, that the poorer you were the more likely you were… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
Advisers who think that they are very clever while all around them are a bit thick, and that all the problems of… — Geoff Mulgan Copy Share Image
In some circles where very heavy people think they have very heavy brains, words like "charming" and "clever" and "pretty" are all… — Andy Warhol Copy Share Image
I was the subject of an experiment in love. I lived my life under her gaze, undergoing certain trials for her so… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
I love this. "Of course I trust the president." Two days ago, Nancy Pelosi hated Donald Trump! She's out there saying the… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
It is not for us to imagine that we can prove the truth of Christianity by our own arguments; nobody can prove… — J. I. Packer Copy Share Image
[Kay] was not at all an unpleasant person really, but clever, quick, proud, passionate and ambitious. He was one of those people… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There are panel shows that struggle to get women on, and that's because the women feel marginalised and stupid and in the… — Sandi Toksvig Copy Share Image
“He's a clever little thing, isn't he?" She leaned in to drop a kiss on the kitten's soft head, reaching to move… — Michelle Zink Copy Share Image
Violet said nothing, though big pearly tears, like a child's, trembled at her lashes. She suddenly missed John very much. Into him… — John Crowley Copy Share Image
Before I made 'Sweetback,' I had a three-picture deal with Columbia and enough juice, if I was real clever with it, to… — Melvin Van Peebles Copy Share Image
The new America, instead, is fast becoming a vast ghetto in which all of us, conservatives and progressives, are being bled dry… — Matt Taibbi Copy Share Image
“How are we going to get out of here?" "Oh, escape is easy once you have the right plan." " Do we… — Derek Landy Copy Share Image
Richard [Griffiths] was by my side during two of the most important moments of my career. In August 2000, before official production… — Daniel Radcliffe Copy Share Image