Clever Quotes · Page 40

I've been composing music all my life and if I'd been clever enough at school I would like to have gone to…

— Anthony Hopkins

If beauty is in the eye of the beholder, how long will you continue to stand there?

— Raghib Clitso

All people have a photographic memory, some just don't have the film. I do, but it never develops quite right.

— Anonymous

Clever, witty and absorbing, Amortality is a much-needed anatomy of our profound malaise about ageing. Its charms will never fade.

— David Baddiel

If you fail it doesn't mean you are stupid, but it means you are clever enough to discover things that won't work.

— Anonymous

How ironic, when chasing your dreams.. You appreciate dream time but you'll enjoy life chasing it while awake even more.

— Raghib Clitso

And out of a desire essentially to imitate what I was reading, I began to write, like a clever monkey.

— Russell Banks

We must obviously be much more clever in using resources, regulate with tax and promote innovations.

— Hans Rosling

I was already in a band, and the teachers called my mum in and said: 'Abbey's so clever, it's a total waste…

— Abbey Clancy

I think my favorite is Honor Blackman because she is classy and she is British. With Bond, I love how British it…

— Gemma Arterton

I grew up in a little village in Kerala. It was a nightmare for me. All I wanted to do was to…

— Arundhati Roy

I am so stupid that I cannot understand philosophy; the antithesis of this is that philosophy is so clever that it cannot…

— Soren Kierkegaard

It was Martin O'Neill who said, 'You're a central midfielder.' He put faith into players. He was very clever at getting into…

— Gareth Barry

Writers feel that they can't afford to wait. They must do it now, and they are so clever, and there is so…

— Robert Dessaix

The newspapers! Sir, they are the most villainous - licentious -abominable - infernal - Not that I ever read them - No…

— Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Our [American] money system is structurally brittle. It doesn't matter if you put a very clever guy or a stupid guy at…

— Bernard Lietaer

I thought I was clever enough to write as well as these people and I didn't realize that there is something called…

— Amy Tan

“He was too clever. If you’re that clever you can argue yourself into anything. You just leave common sense behind.”

— Julian Barnes

Men pass in front of our eyes like butterflies, creatures of a brief season. We love them; they are brave, proud, beautiful,…

— Philip Pullman

We often feel that a clever aphorism captures a truth that would require pages to defend in any other way.

— Steven Pinker

Instead of seeking wisdom, liberals desire to be seen as clever by being counterintuitive, crazy, and outre.

— Ann Coulter

Knowing others is to be clever. Knowing yourself is to be enlightened. Overcoming others requires force. Overcoming yourself requires strength.

— Laozi

A clever man should handle his interests so that each will fall in suitable order of their value.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Relationships should take note of our great country with the saying United We Stand, Divided We Fall.

— Raghib Clitso

Tim Minchin and Daniel Kitson are the two people that when I see them, I think I could never be that funny…

— Richard Herring

A clever man reaps some benefit from the worst catastrophe, and a fool can turn even good luck to his disadvantage.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

In general, even when I'm not doing political comedy, I want to be clever and find the least confrontational way to say…

— Varun Grover

As a writer, you get to play, you get alter time, you get to come up with the smart lines and the…

— Iain Banks

“He was always clever, even as a boy, but it is one thing to be clever and another to be wise.”

— George R.R. Martin

Maybe I'm a little biased, but shows like 'Dexter' and 'Southland,' I'm just enthralled by that sort of storytelling, kind of clever…

— Shawn Hatosy

Nine-tenths of the existing books are nonsense and the clever books are the refutation of that nonsense.

— Benjamin Disraeli

Reductionism and elimination make one feel clever, but what happens when the meditator drops her fixation on feeling clever?

— Timothy Morton

I had very clever producers, who scheduled it brilliantly, but scheduling it was a nightmare.

— John Crowley

I enjoy doing press for something that I like, and I think the movie is very fun and charming and clever.

— Thomas Haden Church

I'll give you my heart and anything else you desire, I look into your eyes and see the fire.

— Raghib Clitso

TV - a clever contraction derived from the words Terrible Vaudeville. However, it is our latest medium - we call it a…

— Goodman Ace

I loved Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. I thought the subject matter was incredibly clever.

— Giuliana Rancic

“Yesterday I was clever, That is why I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, That is why I am…

— Sri Chinmoy

In the next few years I'd love to play a female version of Doctor Who. I know exactly how I would play…

— Billie Piper

Be good, sweet maid, and don't forget that this involves being as clever as you can.

— C. S. Lewis