Clever Quotes

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.

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.

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.

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.

Appeasement was never a very clever policy, and it should not be our option today.

If you're not very clever you should be conciliatory.

Tell me I'm clever, Tell me I'm kind, Tell me I'm talented, Tell me I'm cute, Tell me I'm sensitive, Graceful and wise, Tell me I'm perfect - But tell me the truth.

But I don't sit down at dinner and have clever ideas.

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.

Clever people will recognize and tolerate nothing but cleverness.

I think Douglas was a real one-off. He was so clever and so intelligent and so well read in real science that he could make science fiction work as well as it did. And just such fun to have around, he was just such a lovely man.

A lot of the tabloid stories are written so well, they're very clever and very funny. But you have to focus on what's really important and not read them - don't dive into it and don't get caught up in it.

I mean, I do love clever and witty, but I think that the 'Three Stooges' were geniuses. They'd have to be for their appeal to have lasted this long.

The interesting thing about Hain is that he's not a very interesting character. He's not fabulously clever. He's not a great policeman. He's not hugely charismatic. I'd describe him as a kind-of Chekhovian character. He's an ordinary bloke, to whom extraordinary things have happened. Which is quite hard to play, I have to say.