Clever Quotes
1299 quotes by 763 authors
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You may be a well-educated, clever and virtuous person, but those qualities will not necessarily make you a successful businessman. You must give your best…
— Konosuke Matsushita
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In preaching you cannot produce at the same time the impression that you are clever and that Christ is wonderful.
— James Denney
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Come in, Bean. Come in Julian Delphiki, longed-for child of good and loving parents. Come in, kidnapped child, hostage of fate. Come and talk to…
— Orson Scott Card
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Life is an admirable arrangement, isn't it, little mother. It is so clever of it to have June in every year and a morning in…
— Elizabeth von Arnim
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The wise man is but a clever infant, spelling letters from a hieroglyphical prophetic book, the lexicon of which lies in eternity.
— Thomas Carlyle
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When you're out in the desert, you can't believe the amount of stars. Are you busy as a bee? Do not even have time for…
— Eddie Vedder
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I sang 'American Pie' a lot in my stage set. It had a knack of uniting an audience in a sing-along. It's a clever song…
— Johnny Vegas
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TV—a clever contraction, derived from the words Terrible Vaudeville. We call it a medium, because nothing's well done.
— Goodman Ace
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I would never create an image for myself; I'm not that clever.
— Ellie Goulding
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Indeed it is generally the case that men are readier to call rogues clever than simpletons honest, and are ashamed of being the second as…
— Thucydides
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It's so easy to persecute an older, overweight, unwise, crude, ignorant woman who may very well be a good person at heart who has achieved…
— Anne Rice
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Be good, sweet maid, and don't forget that this involves being as clever as you can.
— C.S. Lewis
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We scientists are clever — too clever — are you not satisfied? Is four square miles in one bomb not enough? Men are still thinking.…
— Richard P. Feynman
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With QE3, we are essentially being bought out with our own money...and unemployment is being used to facilitate this process in a very clever manner.…
— Catherine Austin Fitts
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The students in your youth ministry don’t need your clever ideas and great programming skills. They need a living model—a man or woman of God…
— Doug Fields
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Age is a clever thief. It takes a little from you each day, so you're not aware of your loss until it'd irreversible.
— James Lee Burke
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There's been so many different types of musicals, and it's a funny genre because there's a fine line between clever and stupid. It really takes…
— Melissa Etheridge
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Everybody has a capacity for a happy life. All these talks about how difficult times we live in, that's just a clever way to justify…
— Lev Landau
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More than anything I have learned that we are all frail people, vulnerable and wounded; it is just that some of us are more clever…
— Sheila Cassidy
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Any legend, any creature, any symbol we ever stumble on, already exists in a vast cosmic reservoir where archetypes wait. Shapes looming outside our Platonic…
— Guillermo del Toro
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