Clever Quotes

It's quite similar to guitar solos, only with programming you have to use your brain. The most important thing is that it should have some emotional effect on me, rather than just, 'Oh, that's really clever.'

No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does.

Too clever is dumb.

I once used henna to dye my hair brown for an audition, thinking I was being clever as it's all natural.

As a writer, you get to play, you get alter time, you get to come up with the smart lines and the clever comebacks you wish you'd thought of.

I enjoy doing press for something that I like, and I think the movie is very fun and charming and clever.

We are obliged to regard many of our original minds as crazy at least until we have become as clever as they are.

There is no essential difference between the material of comedy and tragedy. All depends on the point of view of the dramatist, which, by clever emphasis, he tries to make the point of view of his audience.

I think I have an inner confidence that my tastes are pretty simple, that what I find funny finds a wide audience. I'm not particularly intellectual or clever or minority-focused in my creative instincts. And I'm certainly not aware of suppressing more sophisticated ambitions.

The notion of a universality of human experience is a confidence trick and the notion of a universality of female experience is a clever confidence trick.

I wish I were one of those terribly clever people who, when they write their autobiographies, always say, when I was fifteen months old I distinctly remember my Aunt Fanny saying to me, etc.

I loved nearly all my teachers; but it was not till I went home to live at Oxford, in 1867, that I awoke intellectually to a hundred interests and influences that begin much earlier nowadays to affect any clever child.

To succeed in the world, it is much more necessary to possess the penetration to discern who is a fool, than to discover who is a clever man.

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 going, 'I'm ruining my child's life.'

When you argue with your inferiors, you convince them of only one thing: they are as clever as you.

Calvin was very clever. We did the pictures and made the commercial, and that really worked.

It is a great act of cleverness to be able to conceal one's being clever.

Clever people seem not to feel the natural pleasure of bewilderment, and are always answering questions when the chief relish of a life is to go on asking them.

I used to believe, like many people who come from poor backgrounds, that it gave me an edge, but I think that's just something we have to tell ourselves to get by sometimes. I don't believe that anymore. Children of privilege can be just as talented and clever as anybody else.

In the next few years I'd love to play a female version of Doctor Who. I know exactly how I would play her - she would be crafty in a clever kind of way.

People often get the wrong impression of Mick. The clever businessman is just one side of Mick. The other side is the same as the rest of us, a true rocker!

The silliest woman can manage a clever man; but it needs a very clever woman to manage a fool.

Passion makes idiots of the cleverest men, and makes the biggest idiots clever.

I was one of five very clever kids, the other kids were cleverer than I was and still are and are very achieving. The girls were always first at everything and I was always 101st!

I think clever people think that poor people are stupid.

An inefficient virus kills its host. A clever virus stays with it.

Find enough clever things to say, and you're a Prime Minister; write them down and you're a Shakespeare.

I write my own quotes. Except this one. I obviously stole this from somebody really clever.

I have a fantastic husband. Here's the honeymoon part: I still think he's the funniest, wittiest, most clever man I've ever known.

Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.