Clever Quotes

I am not suggesting that all those missionary organizations working in Haiti should pack up and go home, but I am urging them to understand that Haiti does not need clever Americans with newly contrived schemes for saving their country.

Men pass in front of our eyes like butterflies, creatures of a brief season. We love them; they are brave, proud, beautiful, clever; and they die almost at once. They die so soon that our hearts are continually racked with pain.

It's clever, but is it Art?

Natural selection, as it has operated in human history, favors not only the clever but the murderous.

Clever people master life; the wise illuminate it and create fresh difficulties.

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 delayed is better than a battle fought.

No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him first.

Clever gimmicks of mass distraction yield a cheap soulcraft of addicted and self-medicated narcissists.

Through clever and constant application of propaganda, people can be made to see paradise as hell, and also the other way round, to consider the most wretched sort of life as paradise.

Lots of people working in cryptography have no deep concern with real application issues. They are trying to discover things clever enough to write papers about.

Don't be too clever for an audience. Make it obvious. Make the subtleties obvious also.

It cannot be said often enough that science fiction as a genre is incredibly educational - and I'm speaking the written science fiction, not 'Star Trek.' Science fiction writers tend to fill their books if they're clever with little bits of interesting stuff and real stuff.

I think people really appreciate clever commercials, as do I. I think they're very entertaining. You just have to wade through all the garbage. That's one of the reasons people watch the Super Bowl. A lot of them watch it to see the commercials and not the actual game.

Man is a clever animal who behaves like an imbecile.

You may think me crude, and probably I am crude, but I am not so crude as I was, for I am clever enough to see that the girl of nineteen who thought herself a genius was only an unusual girl writing her heart out.

Obviously people want social calm, but if you do not let clever and ingenious people to participate, obviously there must be some dormant volcano that will erupt, sooner or later.

My mother was a terrific force in my life. Wartime-generation woman, hadn't gone to university but should have done. Was very funny, very verbal, very clever, very witty.

The young women in my classes are feisty and clever and believe, often with the passion of youthful optimism, that feminism is a battle already won. I worry for them - and for my daughters, too.

I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry; that is, prose = words in their best order; - poetry = the best words in the best order.

It is never wise to try to appear to be more clever than you are. It is sometimes wise to appear slightly less so.

A man likes his wife to be just clever enough to appreciate his cleverness, and just stupid enough to admire it.

Whenever I've chosen a song because it's clever, it's always turned out to be a mistake.

My idea of good company is the company of clever, well-informed people who have a great deal of conversation; that is what I call good company.

That was when the Spanish came in and conquered the Aztecs. I thought that was a clever thing.

I understand that Republicans-running-against-Obamacare-in-order-to-save-Medicare is a clever jujitsu. But how long will they play out that argument before they get back to the economy?

If a film is very clever and well-written, that's what gives you freedom as a director.

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

If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.

Mother is far too clever to understand anything she does not like.

One has the idea of a stupid man as perfectly healthy and ordinary, and of illness as making one refined and clever and unusual.