Clever Quotes
1299 Clever quotes by 763 unique authors
-
You know, the mark of intelligence is realizing when you're making the same mistake over and over and over again, and not hitting your head…
— Linus Torvalds
-
Try to be original in your play and as clever as possible; but don't be afraid to show yourself foolish; we must have freedom of…
— Anton Chekhov
-
So, deadpan I think just means not acknowledging for one second that you think that this is funny and clever.
— Patrick Warburton
-
People may say that what I do is very clever, but it's not really at all. It's not Swift.
— Rory Bremner
-
And out of a desire essentially to imitate what I was reading, I began to write, like a clever monkey.
— Russell Banks
-
A lot of modern comedies are difficult to watch too, because they're so ironic and so detached and so quote-unquote clever. They kind of keep…
— Ty Burrell
-
Comedians who are 22 years old can certainly be funny and clever, and be capable of telling jokes - but are they talking about their…
— Rob Delaney
-
I get really upset seeing my friends who are mums crying because they feel like they're not good enough. Clever, confident, kind young women all…
— Daisy Donovan
-
I'm not clever enough to be in machinations and real politics.
— Natalie Dormer
-
I do wish I could write like some of the American women, who can be clever and heartfelt and hopeful; people like Lorrie Moore and…
— Anne Enright
-
While writing 'Cold Mountain,' I held maps of two geographies, two worlds, in my mind as I wrote. One was an early map of North…
— Charles Frazier
-
The songwriting of Hall & Oates is deceptively complex. There are a number of key changes that pass you by as you're listening to the…
— Ben Gibbard
-
I like to believe my suspense novels marry the strong characters from my romance writing past, with the twisty, clever plots of my mystery writing…
— Lisa Gardner
-
Honestly, I just assume that whatever is going to happen to me is going to happen. There it goes: someone is there, someone isn't there.…
— Kevin Ayers
-
My dad's a very shrewd, clever guy.
— C. Thomas Howell
-
I really like clever men who challenge you.
— E. L. James
-
The great Chinese classics have always said that it's better not to fight; that the clever man achieves his ends without violence; that a battle…
— John Keegan
-
I don't like this idea of division: that if you're a clever woman then you've got to be a particular way. Because men don't. Men…
— Marian Keyes
-
More data beats clever algorithms, butĀ better data beats more data.
— Peter Norvig
-
My dad is a great manager. He's not just competent - he's very clever.
— Unknown Author
-
Oh, nice one, honey. Yes. Clever. That's becoming quite a familiar quotation in its own right, isn't it? Maybe I should just add it to…
— John Bartlett
-
I like clever songs. I like songs that make people think and I try to have substance in all my records, even with 'Sweet Dreams'…
— Rico Love
-
Haagen-Dazs (a clever Scandi-sounding name invented by Americans in 1961) was bought for its Euro-sounding sophistication by the kind of Americans who first bought those…
— Peter York
-
Now Einstein was a very clever man, with us all his philosophies he shared, He gave us the theory of relativity, which is E equals…
— Richard Digance
-
I went to school, and I remember that you had to do these tests to find out what set you're in - how clever you…
— Kit Harington
Who Wrote These Clever Quotes
763 authors contributed a total of 1,299 Clever Quotes, led by these top contributors: