Clever man Quote by Richard Russo Download Open image ““You've become a clever man.”” — Richard Russo ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.3 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Clever man
“I'm afraid men are not always quite as clever as they think they are. You will learn that when you get a bit older,… — Roald Dahl Copy Share Image
“We think we’re so clever. And yet we’re always surprised to find ourselves entrapped or made fools of.” — Julie Anne Long Copy Share Image
“It is a great act of cleverness to conceal one's being clever.” — François de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
“We humans have been brilliantly clever... almost as clever as we think we are, though not, perhaps, as wise.” — Andrew Marr Copy Share Image
“Clever people are entertaining and stupid ones give me such a pleasant sense of superiority.” — Gwen Bristow Copy Share Image
“an intelligent man cannot become anything seriously, and it is only the fool who becomes anything.” — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“What is sometimes thought to be clever is, significantly often, merely an advanced form of foolishness.” — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
“I am sick to death of cleverness. Everybody is clever nowadays. You can’t go anywhere without meeting clever people. The thing has become an… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“I've been an idiot." "That's okay," I said. "You're still way cleverer than me".” — J.L. Merrow Copy Share Image
“The problem with the contemplative life was that there was no end to contemplation, no fixed time limit after which thought had to be… — Richard Russo Copy Share Image
“That, very simply, was what adulthood must be all about—acquiring the skill to bury things more deeply. Out of sight and, whenever possible, out… — Richard Russo Copy Share Image
“Miles couldn't help admiring women for their ability to dismiss the evidence of their senses. If that's what explained it. If it wasn't simply… — Richard Russo Copy Share Image
That afternoon I came to understand that one of the deepest purposes of intellectual sophistication is to provide distance between us and our most… — Richard Russo Copy Share Image
“Lucy, who apparently had no idea his girlfriend's father held him in such low regard, agreed with Noonan that he was pushing the envelope,… — Richard Russo Copy Share Image
Movies have to handle time very efficiently. They're about stringing scenes together in the present. Novels aren't necessarily about that. — Richard Russo Copy Share Image
When authors who write literary fiction begin to write screenplays, everybody assumes that's the end. Here's another who's never going to write well again. — Richard Russo Copy Share Image
“There was something about spending money they didn't really have that made him optimistic about more coming in.” — Richard Russo Copy Share Image
Some authors have a very hard time understanding that in order to be faithful to the spirit of the book, it's almost always impossible… — Richard Russo Copy Share Image
HBO is really famous for hiring good people and staying out of their way until they ask for help, or need it. And that… — Richard Russo Copy Share Image
I don't think there's a shortage of material in the world. Or in my head. I just pray for continued good health, because I've… — Richard Russo Copy Share Image
Where was the middle ground between a sense of adventure and just plain sense? — Richard Russo Copy Share Image
“As Hughes observed at first hand, the brothers were both serious men of similar temperament, always mischievous, for ever laughing, but where Larry was… — Douglas Botting Copy Share Image
A fool is a person who guesses and gets it wrong, a clever man is one who guesses, regardless of time period, and gets… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Clever men are impressed in their differences from their fellows. Wise men are conscious of their resemblance to them. — R. H. Tawney Copy Share Image
I have no great quickness of apprehension or wit which is so remarkable in some clever men, for instance Huxley — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
When I was 16, I played Macbeth at school and my English teacher said, 'I think you may have acting talent. Try to get… — David Suchet Copy Share Image
Passion often renders the most clever man a fool, and sometimes renders the most foolish man clever. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Credulity is always a ridiculous, often a dangerous failing: it has made of many a clever man, a fool; and of many a good… — Frances Wright Copy Share Image
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… — Eddie Vedder Copy Share Image
It is impossible for a dove to catch a swallow, for a clever man to catch a genius. — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
Meadowlark Lemon is one very clever man, unique and truly one of a kind. — Mickey Rooney Copy Share Image
“Only an ignorant man can see another ignorant as a clever man!” — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
“I confess, I do not understand what there is in her to make a clever man like you act such a fool.” “You might,… — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
