Clever Quotes · Page 38

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

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

— Raghib Clitso

[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

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

[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 understand that Republicans-running-against-Obamacare-in-order-to-save-Medicare is a clever jujitsu. But how long will they play out that argument before they get back to…

— Jennifer Granholm

I shall never forget what I saw at the Museum of Modern Art: in a spotless schoolroom, fifty little girls painting away…

— Jean Cocteau

I cannot see the war as historians see it. Those clever fellows study all the facts and they see the war as…

— William Saroyan

He wanted to be loved for being just what he was. In this community of Yskalnari there was harmony, but no love.…

— Michael Ende

Nowadays, to say that we are clever animals is not to say something philosophical and pessimistic but something political and hopeful -…

— Richard Rorty

I wish I were one of those terribly clever people who, when they write their autobiographies, always say, when I was fifteen…

— George Seaton

As is so often the case with pieces that appear in the 'Onion,' I honestly could not decide whether this was a…

— Christopher Hitchens

Because it is a monopoly, government brings inefficiency and stagnation to most things it runs; government agencies pursue the inflation of their…

— Matt Ridley

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

— Raghib Clitso

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

— Elizabeth Gilbert

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

— Dick Schaap

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

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

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

— 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

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

— Ogden Nash

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

For the task assigned them Men aren't smart enough or sly Any rogue can blind them With a clever lie.

— Bertolt Brecht

The Kit Kat candy bar has the name Kit Kat imprinted into the chocolate. That robs you of chocolate! That's a clever…

— Mitch Hedberg

Foolish, ignorant people indulge in careless lives, whereas a clever man guards his attention as his most precious possession.

— Gautama Buddha

“I don't write like this in order to show how clever and well read I am--though I am rather clever and well…

— John Heath-Stubbs

I'd been painting rats for three years before someone said 'that's clever it's an anagram of art' and I had to pretend…

— Banksy

Very clever people are often very clever at creating rationalisations for insane beliefs.

— PZ Myers

If you're as clever as you can be when you write it, how will you ever debug it?

— Brian Kernighan

It's difficult to be clean and clever at the same time, but a lot of our stuff was.

— Ronnie Corbett

The problem with being clever, Serene thought with a sigh, is that everyone assumes you're always planning something.

— Brandon Sanderson

Whenever I've chosen a song because it's clever, it's always turned out to be a mistake.

— Alison Krauss

No guy in the history of America has ordered a Smirnoff Ice at a bar without hating himself a little.

— Jay Black

“In his experience, ‘trust me’ was just a polite way of saying ‘brace yourself.”

— Janus Lucky