Cleverly Quotes
54 quotes by 50 authors
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From first to last it is a dish of rank materialism cleverly cooked up ... . And why is this done? For no other reason,…
— Adam Sedgwick
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Apostolic and missionary fruitfulness is not principally due to programmes and pastoral methods that are cleverly drawn up and "efficient", but is the result of…
— Pope Benedict XVI
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One of the grotesqueries of present-day American life is the amount of reasoning that goes into displaying the wisdom secreted in bad movies while proving…
— Harold Rosenberg
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[People] want me to finish things. But I see them in such a way and paint them accordingly. ... Nothing is simpler than to complete…
— Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
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A person who speaks cleverly is witty; one who asks questions is smart.
— Terry Carr
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Will urban sprawl spread so far that most people lose all touch with nature? Will the day come when the only bird a typical American…
— Frank N. Ikard
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There is no question that [Dan] Quayle is an uneducated idiot. But someone, somewhere cleverly realized that the best diversion from Bush is to put…
— Tim Robbins
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The American People are witnessing the greatest lie that is cleverly orchestrated by President Obama and his whole administration. President Obama feeds people poison, giving…
— Jon Voight
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If I know the answer I'll tell you the answer, and if I don't, I'll just respond, cleverly.
— Donald Rumsfeld
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Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are,…
— Brian Kernighan
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I testify that wickedness is rapidly expanding in every segment of our society. It is more highly organized, more cleverly disguised, and more powerfully promoted…
— Ezra Taft Benson
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Have it compose a poem -- a poem about a haircut! But lofty, noble, tragic, timeless, full of love, treachery, retribution, quiet heroism in the…
— Stanislaw Lem
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Debt is a cleverly managed reconquest of Africa
— Thomas Sankara
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Under its current form, that is imperialism-controlled, debt is a cleverly managed re-conquest of Africa, aiming at subjugating its growth and development through foreign rules.…
— Thomas Sankara
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Conversation! Supple sentences, with first and second meanings and overtones beyond, outrageous challenges with cleverly planned slip-points, rebuttals of elegant brevity; deceptions and guiles, patient…
— Jack Vance
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All of man’s work is a bloody business. That fact, today, is considered foolish, affairs are finished cleverly with words alone, and jobs that require…
— Yamamoto Tsunetomo
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Writing is learning to say nothing, more cleverly every day.
— William Allingham
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Dastardly devious, cleverly conceived, and just a whole lot of fun to read, DEATH PERCEPTION is Lee Allen Howard on fire and at his finest.…
— Michael Arnzen
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Personalizatio n wasn't supposed to be a cleverly veiled way to chase prospects around the web, showing them the same spammy ad for the same…
— Seth Godin
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The cleverly expressed opposite of any generally accepted idea is worth a fortune to somebody.
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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